{"id":4820,"date":"2017-12-29T04:18:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T09:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2017-12-29T07:52:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T12:52:06","slug":"to-do-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2017\/12\/29\/to-do-3\/","title":{"rendered":"To Do Dec. 29 to Jan 5.: First Night, Lemmyfest, Magic, Polar Bear Swim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, Dec. 29<\/strong>
\n9 p.m. \u201cLemmyfest 3.\u201d<\/a> Metal performed in honor of the life and music of Ian Fraser Kilmister, better known as Lemmy from Mot\u00f6rhead. Featuring Ironfisted, The Damnedsels, The Scrooges, Keith Bennett at Once, Somerville.<\/p>\n

10 p.m. \u201cGhost Town and School of Honk Mentors.\u201d<\/a> New Orleans street band vibe to dance to. At the Milky Way Lounge, Boston.<\/p>\n

Saturday, Dec. 30<\/strong>
\n7 p.m. Witching Hour: 2018 Planning<\/a>. Aims \u201cto help our community stay accountable for their activism.\u201d At HausWitch, Salem.<\/p>\n

Sunday, Dec. 31<\/strong>
\n10 a.m. Second Annual Hot Cocoa Bicycle Ride<\/a>. \u201cWe will visit 3 hot chocolate joints and celebrate the end of 2017 in style.\u201d Begins at Swissbakers in Boston\u2019s Allston neighborhood.<\/p>\n

10 a.m. New Year\u2019s Eve ice sculptures<\/a> at Faneuil Hall, Boston.<\/p>\n

11:50 a.m. First Night \/ First Day Boston New Year\u2019s Eve Celebration<\/a>. Around Copley Square and Back Bay.<\/p>\n

Noon. \u201c12th Annual First Night against the Wars\u201d protest<\/a> in front of Copley Square library, Boston.<\/p>\n

6 p.m. \u201cFrog Pond Skating Spectacular<\/a> At First Night Boston\u201d at Boston Common.<\/p>\n

6 p.m. \u201cNew Year’s Eve Peace Vigil<\/a>\u201d at Market Square, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

7 p.m. \u201cPractice: An assertion of sympathetic magic<\/a>\u201d opening reception. Art exhibition that \u201caims to reanimate the customs behind sympathetic magic by asking artists to inject a meaning, memory, or purpose into a physical object to reflect the ritualist power of correspondence, imitation, and heredity.\u201d At Distillery Gallery, Boston. Exhibit continues through Jan. 27.<\/p>\n

8 p.m. \u201cLow-Key New Year’s Eve<\/a>: Dessert + Bubbly With Singer-Songwriter Ruby Rose Fox.\u201d At Cambridge\u2019s Multicultural Arts Center.<\/p>\n

9 p.m. Speedy Ortiz and friends<\/a> play at Great Scott, Boston.<\/p>\n

Monday, Jan. 1<\/strong>
\n9 a.m. L Street Brownies New Year\u2019s Day Swim<\/a>. Plunge into a frigid Bowton Harbor with hundreds of other brave nuts. At BCYF Curley Community Center in Boston.<\/p>\n

8 p.m. New Year’s Day Super Moon!<\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday, Jan. 3<\/strong>
\nAngelica Maria will be the featured poet<\/a> at the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge, Cambridge. The Los Angeles-based author was a finalist at the 2017 National Poetry Slam in Denver, Colorado, with Boston\u2019s House Slam team.<\/p>\n

Thursday, Jan. 4<\/strong>
\n5:30 p.m. Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter<\/a> at First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain, Boston.<\/p>\n

6 p.m. \u201cDisplaced\u201d exhibition<\/a> reception at Aviary Gallery, Boston. Features works by Boston area artists \u201cwho have experienced and responded to displacement, dysphoria, dysmorphia, or erasure in various ways.\u201d Exhibition continues through Jan. 27.<\/p>\n

Friday, Jan. 5<\/strong>
\n5 p.m. \u201cStrategic Planning: Chantal Zakari\u201d opening reception<\/a>. Flags and banners referencing \u201cbusiness nomenclature which is widely being used by academic administrations.\u201d Exhibit continues through Jan. 28 at Kingston Gallery, Boston.<\/p>\n

6 p.m. \u201cCity of Salem’s 15th Annual Christmas Tree Bonfire<\/a>.\u201d They burn up just about all the trees they can get their hands on in the city. At Dead Horse Beach at Salem Willows.<\/p>\n

8 p.m. Talib Kweli<\/a> raps at City Winery Boston.<\/p>\n

8 p.m. The Suitcase Junket plays with Lula Wiles, Kate Lorenz, Julie Rhodes and Tim Gearan<\/a> at Sinclair, Cambridge.<\/p>\n

8 p.m. \u201cHappy Little Clouds Pool Party<\/a>: a video release show for trans rights\u201d at Once, Somerville.<\/p>\n

8 p.m. \u201cDo the Right Thing<\/a>.\u201d Screening of Spike Lee\u2019s classic 1989 film at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.<\/p>\n

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Friday, Dec. 29 9 p.m. \u201cLemmyfest 3.\u201d Metal performed in honor of the life and music of Ian Fraser Kilmister, better known as Lemmy from Mot\u00f6rhead. Featuring Ironfisted, The Damnedsels, The Scrooges, Keith Bennett at Once, Somerville. 10 p.m. \u201cGhost Town and School of Honk Mentors.\u201d New Orleans street band vibe to dance to. At […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,180,179],"tags":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4845,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions\/4845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}