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Peace
Make Music Cambridge + -
Make Music Cambridge aims at being a new live, free musical celebration across the city of Cambridge, taking place each year on the first day of summer, June 21, starting in 2008.
The idea behind this festival is to showcase the musical richness our cities can offer by having local musicians, amateurs and professionals, of all styles, perform for free for their neighbors and fellow citizens.
With impromptu performances around the cities, passers-by and music enthusiasts alike will be engaged to stop, listen, and maybe sing along or take a few dancing steps.
Musicians, for their part, get a chance to show their art and to interact with a new public. Professional musicians will touch new audiences unplugging their headphones to hear new sounds. Amateur groups will have the chance, some for the first time, to play for their biggest audiences so far.
Combining culture and the enjoyment of community, this celebration of music thus creates a new urban social scene, made of new interactions. And everyone can celebrate the first day of the summer together.
Peace
BENEFIT CONCERT for VFP & THE DEMOCRACY CENTER & CODE PINK PARTY + -
Who: Chuck Williams, Beth DeSombre, Lenny Soloman Band, and Michael Troy
What: BENEFIT CONCERT for VETERANS FOR PEACE, Smedley D. Butler Brigade, Boston & THE DEMOCRACY CENTER
When: Saturday, February 9, 2008, 7:30pm – midnight
Where: The Democracy Center, 45 Mt. Auburn St. (Harvard Square), Cambridge, MA
Directions: http://www.democracycenter.org/directions...
Producer: Boston-area Musicians for Peace
Price: Sliding scale, $5-15 donation suggested, nobody turned away.
Beneficiary websites: http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
http://smedleyvfp.org
http://www.democracycenter.org/
BAM4P website: http://www.myspace.com/bam4p & http://www.myspace.com/bam4p2
Jeff
Geoff Bartley's open mic at Cantab + -
Please show your support and give it some love.
http://boston.going.com/event-209009
Jeff
knock knock + -
Anyone home?
robert
Cambridge’s first Poet Populist + -
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For Immediate Release
November 15, 2007
PETER PAYACK ELECTED CAMBRIDGE'S FIRST POET POPULIST
Cambridge, MA – Cambridge Arts Council is proud to announce that Peter Payack will be Cambridge’s first Poet Populist. Payack was elected by Cambridge residents on November 13, 2007 to represent poetry for the City of Cambridge. As the Poet Populist, Payack will work with the Cambridge Arts Council and Public Library to create programs and events that will engage the City in poetry.
“I am very excited about the energy and enthusiasm that Peter will bring to this position,” said Councillor Brian Murphy, who launched Cambridge’s Poet Populist program, modeling it on Seattle’s initiative. “Cambridge residents showed that this city loves poetry. For our first year out with this program, we were amazed by the number of residents, nearly 1,000, who showed their support for their favorite poets.”
“I am truly thrilled to be elected as Cambridge’s first Poet Populist! I have long seen myself as a populous, a community activist, who is also a poet,” said Peter Payack about being elected to this position. “I would like to change people’s traditional perceptions of poetry by bringing it out of books and libraries, and make it accessible to all people in fun, interesting, and innovative ways.”
Peter Payack is a longtime Cambridge resident and Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, UMass Lowell, and UMass Online. In 1976, he founded Phone-A-Poem which stills run with support from Emerson College. His poem, No Free Will in Tomatoes, was sandblasted into the floor of the Davis Square T station as part of the award-winning Arts on the Line art-in-transit project. Peter won the 1980 Rhysling Award for Best Poem in Science Fiction Poetry. He has also been published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, Asimov’s Science Fiction and his work was anthologized Knowing & Writing, New Perspectives on Classical Questions; Astronomy, from the Earth to the Universe; The Poets’ Encyclopedia; The Paris Review Anthology; The Alchemy of Stars; and Burning With a Vision. More recently, he has created Star Poems, which are poems written on an illuminated message board on the underside of a plane.
Peter Payack was one of the eight finalists nominated by the public and whose qualifications were reviewed by the Poet Populist Advisory Committee. The election followed a public reading by the nominees on November 1, 2007. In the week following the reading, nearly 1,000 residents of Cambridge cast ballots for the Poet Populist.
The Cambridge Poet Populist is an informal office for a local poet, chosen by the people to represent poetry for the City of Cambridge. Modeled after Seattle’s Poet Populist initiative, this program is sponsored by the City of Cambridge, the Cambridge Arts Council, and the Cambridge Public Library.
Press photo: http://www.cambridgema.gov/gallery/?Album...
Click “Download large photo” for 300 dpi photo of Peter Payack.
Cambridge Arts Council Mission Statement
The Cambridge Arts Council exists to ensure that the arts remain vital for people visiting, working and living in Cambridge.
www.cambridgeartscouncil.org or 617-349-4380.
Ofer
One Laptop Per Child + -
Ofer
Cambridge Peace Day photos: dancers, bands, booths... + -
http://boston.going.com/event-137199?...
... also, a bunch of photos of Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, who performed on the sidewalk in front of the senior center across the street, as part of the festivities:
http://boston.going.com/event-137231
Steven
Temple Bar + -
Toby
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tracy
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tracy
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Steven
RE: Temple Bar + -
Thanks for the info!
Steven
Best Afterwork Spot in Cambridge + -
I am throwing and Afterwork Mixer in Cambridge a few Thurs from now. Could you please help me decide on a venue. What is the best Afterwork Spot in Cambridge near Harvard or Central Square and that has a lively atmosphere?
Jonathan
RE: Best Afterwork Spot in Cambridge + -
Jonathan
RE: Best Afterwork Spot in Cambridge + -
I love that place!!
Toby
RE: Best Afterwork Spot in Cambridge + -
Good question. I enjoy: The Enormous Room, The Miracle of Science, All Asia, Green Street Grille, Plough and Stars, The Cellar, Shay's, Grafton Street, Temple Bar and B-SIDE LOUNGE
Cheers!
Toby
tracy
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Toby
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Angelina
Great raffle prizes on Saturday - including KISS 108FM Concert Tickets + -