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Good afternoon Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, February 15th - 18th

February 15, 2024

Enjoy your weekend Boston! If you ever have anything you’d like to see added, please feel free to reach out using the contact link at the bottom.

THURSDAY - FEBRUARY 15

Lunar New Year Celebration @ MFA @ 5PM Celebrate the Lunar New Year by exploring Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese art from the MFA collection and enjoy special traditional activities and live performances.

Dani & Debora Gurgel Quarteto @ Berklee Performance Center @ 8PM DDG4 brings a mix of traditional and modern rhythms, harmonies, and improvisations to their original songs and carefully arranged covers of Brazilian jazz and pop tunes.

Poolside @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Paco Versailles

FRIDAY - FEBRUARY 16

‘A Beautiful Resistance’ Live Performance @ MoS @ 8PM This special evening pays tribute to Black History Month and looks ahead to Women’s History Month with guest speaker talks on representation, resistance, and community.

Neck Deep @ Roadrunner @ 7PM With Drain, Bearings, & Higher Power

Night Bass Ten Year Tour @ Big Night Live @ 10PM Featuring AC Slater, Marten Hørger, Ootoro, Taiki Nulight

Militarie Gun @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Pool Kids, Spiritual Cramp, & Spaced

Ron Pope @ City Winery @ 8PM With Tayloe Bickett and Zach Berkman

SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 17

Beyond the Spectrum: Teens @ MFA @ 10:30AM In this art class, teens will embark on a journey of mindfulness and creativity through the medium of watercolor painting.

Cat Power Sings Bob Dylan @ Chevalier Theatre @ 8PM Cat Power’s performance is a song-for-song recreation of one of the most fabled and transformative live sets of all time - Bob Dylan’s 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert.

SUNDAY - FEBRUARY 18

Theresa Caputo Live Show @ Chevalier Theatre @ 7PM The beloved medium and TV star shares stories of her personal life and gift though an intimate and humorous live show.

ALL WEEKEND

FRIDAY & SATURDAY - Festival of Films from Iran @ MFA Enjoy a selection of the best of Iranian cinema from the past year.

All weekend - Plaza Winterfest @ Harvard Science Center Plaza Play seasonal games including curling, ice bowling, and ice shuffleboard or year-round favorites including ping-pong, illuminated cornhole, or giant chess!

All weekend - Curling @ The Liberty Hotel Enjoy a winter Curling experience in the Liberty's private patio, complete with seasonal cocktails and bites.

All weekend - 2024 Oscar-Nominated Short Films Screenings @ ICA ICA presents its annual selection of Oscar-nominated live-action, animated, and documentary shorts you always wish you’d seen come Oscar night.

All weekend - ‘Duel Reality’ Contemporary Circus Show @ Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre LAST CHANCE - See the triumphant return of The 7 Fingers circus troupe with an acrobatic tour-de-force inspired by the star-crossed tale of the Montagues and Capulets.

All weekend - Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in Concert @ Symphony Hall Acclaimed South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim joins the BSO to perform one of the greatest, most popular, and most virtuosic works in the repertoire: Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3.

All weekend - ‘The Book of Mormon’ Musical @ Citizens Bank Opera House With sold-out shows around the world, this musical comedy about the adventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, has become a true international sensation.

All weekend - ‘Evil Dead’ Musical @ BCA Plaza Theatre Join the gory, yet campy adventures of five college students on a weekend getaway in Michigan as they battle the demons and deadites.

All weekend - ‘Becoming A Man’ Play @ Loeb Drama Center American Repertory Theater’s newest production is an honest, passionate, and illuminating story of P. Carl’s courageous journey of gender transition and transformation.

All weekend - ‘My Fair Lady’ Musical @ The Hanover Theatre Thrilling, glorious, and refreshing, this revival of the beloved classic musical shows what great theater truly is.

All weekend - ‘John Proctor is the Villain’ Play @ The Huntington at the Calderwood Pavilion Alternately touching and bitingly funny, this new comedy inspired by Arthur Miller’s classic ‘The Crucible’ follows a group of teenagers as they navigate love, authenticity, and transformation.

All weekend - ‘A Case For the Existence of God’ Play @ The Huntington at the Calderwood Pavilion LAST CHANCE - Told with humor, empathy, and wrenching honesty, this award-winning play follows an unlikely pair of men as their lives entangle in a story that is both small and big at the same time.

All weekend - ‘Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight’ Play @ The Huntington Theatre After sold out runs in LA, Chicago, and Paris, this thoroughly unique, interactive theatrical experience from Olivier Award-nominated John Kolvenbach comes to Boston.

All weekend - ‘Sweat’ Play @ Footlight Club Filled with warm humor, ‘Sweat’ tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor.

ONGOING

Ongoing - ‘Orchid Adventure’ Botanical Exhibition @ Franklin Park Zoo From rare species to exotic hybrids, Orchid Adventure promises an immersive experience that combines the enchantment of the animal kingdom with the delicate beauty of orchids.

Ongoing - ‘Deep Sky’ IMAX Screening @ MoS Go on a journey to the beginning of time and space, to never-before-seen cosmic landscapes as captured by NASA’s Webb Telescope in this new IMAX documentary.

Ongoing - Immersive Disney Animation @ Boch Center Step into the art and legacy of Walt Disney Animation Studios and celebrate the music, artistry and animation from the creators of Frozen, The Little Mermaid, Big Hero 6 and many more.

Ongoing - Musical Shows @ MoS PlanetariumMuseum of Science puts on special experiences adapting the music of Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Lady Gaga, and The Divas to immersive visuals in the Charles Hayden Planetarium

Ongoing - ‘Wordplay’ Exhibition @ ICA Highlighting the rich interplay between imagery and text, the exhibition showcases how contemporary artists have played with words to animate and expand their art practices.

Ongoing - ‘Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s - Today’ Exhibition @ ICA Anchored in the concept of diaspora, the exhibition surveys the works of 28 artists of Caribbean descent and aims to challenge conventions and propose new ways of looking at and understanding the region.

Ongoing - ‘ Dinorá Justice: The Lay of the Land’ Exhibition @ MFA In her multidisciplinary works, Brazilian American artist Dinorá Justice uses a distinct visual vocabulary to examine intertwined histories of gender, landscape, and visual culture.

Ongoing - ‘Mondrian: Foundations’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition presents 28 paintings and works on paper, primarily from Mondrian’s early career, that trace the artist’s explorations as he progressed from realistic traditions to experimental abstractions.

Ongoing - ‘Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party’ Exhibition @ MFA This exhibition brings together 27 powerful photographs by Stephen Shames that feature the women of the Black Panther party and showcase their crucial work for the movement.

Ongoing - ‘Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale’ Exhibition @ MFA Featuring 15 intriguing objects from 17th-century Netherlands such as paintings, prints, silver medals, and books, this exhibition compels viewers to reconsider their relationship to the world around them.

Ongoing - ‘Marking Resilience: Indigenous North American Prints’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition features 30 newly acquired works by Indigenous artists from the United States and Canada who were inspired by the resilience and creativity of their cultures.

Ongoing - ‘Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution’ Exhibition @ Harvard Art Museums The exhibition explores the dictator Francisco Franco’s Spain, imagery of death, struggles of good and evil, political and artistic revolution, and issues of desire and capture.

Ongoing - ‘Our Time on Earth’ Exhibition @ Peabody Essex Museum NEW - This traveling exhibition from the Barbican Centre in London celebrates the power of global creativity to transform the conversation around the climate emergency.

Ongoing - ‘AI: Mind the Gap’ Exhibition @ MIT MuseumMIT Museum presents its latest riveting, interactive exhibit exploring the tremendous promise, unforeseen impacts, and everyday misconceptions of AI.

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