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Spring 2013 Programs at Brookline Music School January 29 – June 17, 2013

Brookline Music School’s Term II (Spring) programs begin January 29, 2013, offering a variety of classes and private instruction for all ages and abilities. Term II runs for 15 weeks. Brookline Music School (BMS) welcomes students ages 4 years to adult to study private music lessons on a number of instruments. The school introduced a folk music program that offers group classes for adults and family jams. Music for iPad classes include Garageband for iPad and iPad Band! Jazz/Rock, and Chamber Ensembles are offered year-round for kids, teens and adults. Ensembles provide a unique opportunity to experience the joys of music making with others. Brookline Music School has a wide array of ensembles for all ages and abilities – with multiple performance opportunities – catering to a variety of musical abilities and interests.

Brookline Music School is located at 25 Kennard Road, Brookline, MA 02445 and offers private instruction in the Brookline Public Schools. For more information about Brookline Music School’s Term II (Spring) January 29-June 17, 2013 programs, classes, private instruction, workshops, policies, tuition, faculty, scholarship program, or for a schedule of recitals, concerts, community outreach events, school calendar, registration forms and more visit www.bmsmusic.org or call (617) 277-4593.

Newton Community Ed Winter Term – Registration is Open

High school kids, sign up for SAT prep or Driver’s Ed classes through Newton Community Ed this winter. New ACT prep classes are coming this spring, in addition to more SAT prep classes and prep for the Chemistry and Biology SAT subject tests too. NCE has classes for the whole family: for younger kids we offer enrichment classes in all areas, from art to technology; from science to poetry. We have some great winter family classes, including Ductivities, Glass Mosaic, and more. Adults looking to learn something new should check out our complete online catalog at www.newtoncommunityed.org, where you’ll find classes in every category from computers to crafts. Call our office at 617-559-6999 for more information. Newton Community Ed is part of the Newton Public Schools; when you support our program, you support our schools.

Champlain College Young Writers’ Conference, May 24-26

Calling All Intrepid Troubadours of the Word Road: we have released the hounds and are shouting out from the mountaintops. You are once again cordially invited to attend a weekend of writing workshops, craft sessions, and open mic at the Champlain College Young Writers’ Conference, May 24-26. Now in our thirteenth year, our doors are open to high school students who wish to share their passion for story, drama, and song with their writerly brothers and sisters – and with celebrated New England authors. We offer three days of readings, improv, Moth storytelling, poetry slams, literary jazz/blues fusion, and extended friendship on the hillside campus of Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. The postmark DEADLINE OF FEBRUARY 15 is fast approaching and our search lights are on. If you have a tale to spin, or a story to share, please download an application (or cover letter & brochure) from our website. 

OUR 2013 KEYNOTE SPEAKER, POET AND ESSAYIST, WESLEY MCNAIR, is the Poet Laureate of Maine and the author of nineteen books, including poetry, nonfiction, and edited anthologies. Often featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, McNair has received numerous honors including two Rockefeller Fellowships, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim, the Theodore Roethke Prize, and the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry.

 

Next Level Up: in-home tutoring & music lessons

Next Level Up provides a unique service that offers many choices for the parents and students of local communities. Next Level Up has highly qualified, compassionate, dedicated tutors to assist students of all ages in a wide ranging array of subjects from Writing to Math to Foreign Languages.

We also believe that music education can increase students’ levels of confidence throughout school. That’s why we also have music teachers from Berklee College of Music, Longy School of Music, and New England Conservatory of Music who offer in-home music lessons in piano, guitar, voice, violin, and many other instruments.

For more information, visit our website, call us at (781) 540-1123, or send an email.

Open mic night & flute workshop from Brookline Music School

Brookline Music School faculty Scott Pittman hosts a weekly Open Mic Night at Café Nicholas, 1632 Beacon Street, Brookline in Washington Square from 7:00 to 9:00pm for FREE. Brookline Music School provides a full drum set, amplifiers for bass, guitar and keyboard, and two microphones for the evening. All ages and skill levels are welcome to attend and perform. This is a great opportunity to showcase your talent without the intimidating atmosphere.

BMS will hold its 9th Annual Suzuki Flute Workshop on Sunday, January 20 and Monday, January 21, from 9:00am to 5:00pm at 25 Kennard Road in Brookline. This two-day workshop features a master class, group class and ensemble or reading class each day, and ends with an informal concert. Non-Suzuki flute students are welcome to join in the fun but should be familiar with some of the repertoire from the Suzuki Method. Workshop tuition is $120, with additional class fees of $20. Info & registration available online.

New Year’s Open House at Newton City Hall, Dec. 31

Times Square isn’t the only fun place to spend New Year’s Eve…the New Year’s Open House at Newton City Hall has free live entertainment, face painting, refreshments and balloon animals!

From 1:30 to 3:30 on December 31st, there are four
different continuous live performances, so you can catch them all:
the Joanne Langione Dance Studio dancers, the ever-popular Newton Family Singers, the hilarious Big Joe the Storyteller, and
puppets and songs with Diana Kane.

Kids can get their faces painted and get a balloon animal to take home. The “price” of admission is a non-perishable food item for the Newton Food Pantries, or a child’s book or winter clothing item for Cradles to Crayons. Visit the Newton Community Pride website
for more information, or call 617-527-8283.

Winter Workshop Fest at Watertown Children’s Theatre, Jan. 21

The Watertown Children’s Theatre, arsenalARTS and New Repertory Theatre are teaming up to provide a fun-filled day of theatre, visual art and more at the Arsenal Center on January 21, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!

Students in grades K-5 can explore the worlds of both theatre and visual arts with WCT and the ACA, while students in grades 6-9 can experience intensive performance workshops with WCT and New Rep!

Register for the morning session (9:30 am – 12:45 pm) or the afternoon session (1:15 pm – 4:30 pm) or both! Students enrolled in both programs may bring a nut-free lunch and will be supervised during the lunch break.

More information is available on the WCT website.

Soccer Clinics with BC Lady Eagles, Dec. 27 – 30

We are glad to announce the return of our Boston College Lady Eagles Soccer Clinics, starting with our Winter Session. The camp will be held from December 27 – December 30, from 12pm – 5pm at Boston College Alumni Stadium.

Our program is designed to develop the players in a fun environment. Players, aged 6 – 14 years, are grouped by age and ability and the program is catered to both the beginner and elite club level player.

Our goal is to challenge each camper to leave our clinics with an increased enthusiasm for the game and ideas to further develop them as individual players. The cost for the camp is $295 and registration is available online.

 

Community Celebration of “Luke’s Light,” Dec. 21

Please come to a family dinner and great live music (Loose Change and others) at the Congregational Church, 54 Lincoln Street, in Newton Highlands on December 21, 6PM-12AM.

Luke’s Lights was was born of a wish by Luke Voss-Kernan’s friends and family to spread his light far and wide by buying solar lights for communities in the developing world who live off the electrical grid. Our fundraiser on December 21 will be a celebration of Luke’s shimmer and his lightness of being. All proceeds will go towards a project of Unite-to-Light to bring lights to communities around the globe that otherwise live in darkness.

Tickets $20 are available online

For your $20 ticket fee, two lights will be sent to someone who cannot yet imagine how his/her life will change. We will also be selling the actual LED lights there for $20 each. You get to keep one; and another one gets sent to someone in need.

Backpacks needed for Hurricane Sandy victims

When you’re shopping this week, please consider buying a a backpack and supplies (notebook, pens, pencils, markers, etc.) for a child whose home was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.

When children in New York’s Rockaways neighborhood lost their homes and belongings, they lost their school supplies.  Backpacks, school supplies, and warm socks, mittens, and winter hats are needed.

If you order from Amazon.com, please send the backpack & supplies to:
Church of St Luke & St Matthew
520 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238.

Or buy local and deliver the backpack and supplies in the box in the foyer at First Unitarian Society, 1326 Washington St, across from the Newton police station.

If you send a backpack via Amazon.com, please send an email to Margaret Z., volunteer coordinator, so she keep track of how many backpacks are sent and tell OccupySandy how many backpacks are coming!