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Harvard Square Business Association Newsletter - March 2023
Arts and Entertainment
March 11, 2023
From: Harvard Square Business Association
Please join us in welcoming our new members!
Effective Ventures Foundation USA
Sunday, May 7th
Rain Date: Sunday, May 21st
Interested in being a vendor at MayFair, one of Harvard Square's largest events?
Visit harvardsquare.com for applications and information.
Cambridge Artists' Cooperative
CAC is celebrating it's 35th anniversary and running specials all year long!
Come in & see us ~ new work & new artists arrive monthly.
Thank you to all our customers, patrons & supporters! We couldn't have done it without you!
Harvard Men’s Ice Hockey - ECAC Quarterfinals
Offer: 50% Off Tickets
Game 1 Date: March 10, 7pm
Game 2 Date: March 11, 7pm
The #5 Harvard Crimson Men's Hockey team continues its incredible season and is now ranked in the NCAA Top 5 for the first time since 2017!
The #5 Crimson will return to the ice at Bright-Landry one final time this season when they host the quarterfinals of the ECAC Playoffs on March 10-12. Don't miss your last chance to cheer on the Crimson on our home ice this season!
Harvard Men’s Lacrosse vs. Michigan
Offer: 50% Off Tickets
March 11,12pm
Bring the whole family to Jordan Field on Saturday, March 11, as the #20 Harvard Men’s Lacrosse team takes on the Michigan Wolverines! Through this special offer, fans can get 50% off tickets to the event.
Event: Harvard Women’s Lacrosse vs. Penn
Offer: 50% Off Tickets
March 18, 12pm
Join us LIVE at Jordan Field for our annual Youth Game on Saturday, March 18! The Harvard Women’s Lacrosse team will take on Ivy League foe Penn, and fans can use this special offer to get 50% off tickets to the event.
March 15th-21st Only!
0% Interest 18-Month Financing*
Offer valid on ALL Photo Gear & Photo Adventures over $300, when purchased within the promo period. For more information on financing your new gear, call or stop by our Cambridge store.
Hunt's Cambridge is having a Canon Demo Day on March 16th from 2-5 PM. Stop by and check out the latest gear or just stop in to say hi!
Subject to credit approval. Minimum monthly payments are required. Applications are in-person only. Pick up gear in person only. $300 purchase minimum.
Off the Beaten Path Food Tours
Fridays, Saturdays and private tours are available.
Calling all chocoholics! Join us for a delectable adventure through historic Harvard Square. You'll hear interesting stories about the Square, learn fun facts about chocolate and sample the best and most interesting chocolaty treats around. Harvard Square has a flourishing food scene with some of the best and most unique food in the city. Each tour is a fun 90 minutes and includes 4 stops with plenty of treats and less than a mile of walking. We can't wait to take you on a unique, chocolate adventure!
This tour is suitable for all ages. $40/pp. Guests must purchase tickets in advance. Use code HARVARDSQUARE and enjoy 10% off!
Haven't been to Harvard Square lately? Do you know we have a new tiki bar?
Revisit Harvard Square on our new FOOD TOUR!
Booking Saturdays at 11:30am, this memorable experience is offered weekly. You'll eat a satisfying array of yummy eats, from Greek to Latin to the best pizza in the world. Tour also includes a Mai Tai or yummy mocktail.
March 12th - 21st
Skin Care Giveaway: Spend $65 and receive FREE 5-piece kit ($87 Value) with 30ml Checks & Balances™, Drink Up™ Intensive & GinZing™ Gel, 15ml Plantscription™ Serum, and 5ml GinZing™ Eye.
STEP UP: Spend $95 and choose a Full-Size High-Potency Night-A-Mins™ Cream or A Perfect World™ SPF40.
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
In-Person Special Event: Science Spotlights
Saturdays: March 11, April 8, May 13, June 10, 2:00–3:30 pm. Ages 10–Adults. Free with regular museum admission.
Meet up-and-coming scientists and learn about questions at the forefront of research today in this series of short talks. Perhaps you'll discuss how studying dog reactions help us learn about the evolution of social behavior? Maybe you’ll consider the regrowth of a microscopic worm after injury and what that can teach us about any animal cell. Will you look at how trees manage the tradeoffs of building woody tissue or look for geological evidence of Earth’s first billion years? Each Science Spotlight in the series will include several short research talks.
In-Person Special Event: Let’s Draw: HMSC Sketching Weekend
Saturday, March 18 and Sunday, March 19, 1:00–4:00 pm
The Harvard Museums of Science & Culture provide inspiration for all levels of artists and curious visitors. Elevate your own creative process by trying your hand at sketching this weekend. Meet HMSC Volunteer Sketching Facilitators in the galleries and learn what motivates them to draw in the museums. Then take time to explore, slow down, and sketch an object in the galleries of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museum, and Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (Sunday only) with your own sketchbook or drawing materials from the museum. Share your favorite museum-inspired drawing for everyone to admire.
Free with regular museum admission. Free event parking starting at noon at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Special In-Person All-Ages Event: Amazing Archaeology Fair at Harvard
Sunday, March 26, 1:00–4:00 pm
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue
Find out how archaeology expands upon written historical records and helps to diversify our understanding of human behavior. Explore North American, South American, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian archaeology across the exhibit halls of two museums. Experience human history and prehistory through exhibits, hands-on opportunities (indoors and outdoors), and discussions with student archaeologists. Activities include ancient DNA analysis, animal mummies, King Tut’s throne, spear throwing, flintknapping, and other surprises during this popular annual event.
Free with regular museum admission. Free event parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Exploring Erika's Wine Cellar - Women Winemakers
March 18th
6pm - 8pm
As a wine educator, enthusiast and explorer, Erika Frey is always looking out for an interesting bottle of wine to try. Over the years, she has collected hundreds of bottles, and, fortunately for all of us, she wants to share them with the Commonwealth Wine School community. In this session, Erika will present a variety of wines made by women winemakers to celebrate Women’s History Month! Erika can't wait to share these bottles and her knowledge with you. $55
Harvard Art Museums
March 22nd, 23rd, 28th, 30th
March 22nd, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Art & Krimes by Krimes Join us for a film screening and panel discussion focused on art as a tool for surviving prison and for critiquing mass incarceration. Free admission, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
March 23rd, 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Busch-Reisinger Museum Lecture—Black Expression: From “Milli” to Nelly Natasha A. Kelly will discuss and present her recent multimedia projects, which explore German Expressionism from a Black feminist perspective. Free admission, but seating is limited and reservations are required. Reservations may be arranged by clicking on the event on this form beginning Monday, March 13, after 10am.
March 28th, 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Research and Excavations at Sardis Join us for the Sardis Biennial Lecture, with field director Nicholas D. Cahill sharing recent excavations and discoveries. Free admission, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
March 30th, 5:00pm – 9:00pm
Harvard Art Museums at Night Join us for an evening of art, fun, food, and more! This event is free and open to everyone.
This month’s gathering is extra special because we’ll be celebrating the opening of our exhibition From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire. The evening will feature exhibition-related activities. Tours will be available in the galleries throughout the night.
Advance reservations are encouraged, but walk-in visitors are always welcome.
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Frenchmen at the Siege of Boston
March 23rd
6:30pm - 7:30pm
With J.L. Bell
105 Brattle St. or livestreaming here
Presented in partnership with the Friends of the Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters.
Histories of the French government’s support for the American Revolution usually begin with Lafayette, the secret supply chain organized by Beaumarchais, and the formal alliance in 1778. But French gentlemen were actually at the siege of Boston in 1775—observing the armies, meeting Gen. George Washington at his headquarters, and even briefly overseeing the provincial artillery force. Washington and his generals were also trying to win over the francophone subjects of Canada. In this talk, author J.L. Bell will explore the first secret and tentative steps toward French-American friendship in Cambridge in 1775.
J.L. Bell is the author of The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War and of Gen. George Washington’s Home and Headquarters, Cambridge, Mass., a historic resource study for the National Park Service. He shares new research and old stories at Boston 1775.
March 23rd
Industrious is excited to announce our newest location - Industrious Harvard Square! To mark the opening of Industrious Harvard Square, join them on Thursday, March 23rd for an all day celebration and open house beginning with bagels and mimosas at 9AM and followed by a special ribbon cutting ceremony at 11AM.
RSVPs are encouraged. Click here if you're interested in attending!
BRINGING HEALING TO THE HOMELESS
March 28th
5pm
Cambridge Forum, in partnership with the
Harvard Square Business Association, invites you to join us for an in-person discussion with “Rough Sleepers” author Tracy Kidder.
First Parish, 3 Church Street or on Zoom.
In-person RSVP or Zoom Registration
Tracy Kidder’s, “ROUGH SLEEPERS” centers around one dedicated doctor and his mission to provide medical care to the homeless. The book is a powerful account of the dedicated work of “Dr. Jim” O’Connell, a physician who founded Boston Health Care for the Homeless in 1985. When O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency, the Chief of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital asked him if he would defer a prestigious fellowship to spend a year helping create an organization to bring health care to the homeless. Dr. Jim took the job because he felt he couldn’t refuse, but that one year was to turn into a lifetime working with the homeless on the streets of Boston and in his Thursday Street Clinic at MGH. Now in his 70s, Dr Jim is still captain of the “Street Team” who provide care for the city’s unhoused population - the people who sleep rough.
April 1st
9am - 12pm
Saint Paul’s Harvard Square is participating in “Central Suburban Catholic School Education Expo”! Attendance is free and parking is available!
A collective of 8 Metro Boston Catholic schools, including Harvard Square's Saint Paul's Choir School, have collaboratively organized an opportunity to peruse programs, meet faculty and staff, and compare educational curriculum for their students in faith-based learning. Families are invited to attend.
More informational available here.
April 7, 7:00pm (free, online)
You are invited to journey with us as we learn about some of the greatest visionary minds of the New Church lineage. The influence of Swedenborgian ideas and spirituality has been one of enormous diversity and dynamism. This free lecture series is offered by the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Center, an initiative of the Cambridge Society of the New Jerusalem at Swedenborg Chapel, with generous financial support from the Massachusetts New Church Union
The third lecture of the series will be delivered by Rev. Robert E. McCluskey, who will be discussing Ralph Waldo Emerson, a leader in the creation of the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-19th century. In 1826, Emerson was introduced to Emanuel Swedenborg through Sampson Reed's Growth of the Mind. Much like William Blake before him, Emerson maintained an abiding, if ambiguous, relation to Swedenborg's ideas for the remainder of his life. Rev. McCluskey's lecture will briefly examine Emerson's life and consider his philosophy and works. He will then turn to Emerson's connection to Swedenborg and the concepts of correspondence, influx, freedom of thought, and the primacy of personal experience over doctrine.
The Reverend Robert E. McCluskey holds two degrees in philosophy, with a focus on Greek philosophy, modern idealism, existentialism, and hermeneutics. He is a graduate of the Swedenborg School of Religion and was ordained into the Swedenborgian Church of North America in 1984. He has pastored churches in Portland, Maine, and New York City, and served on the denomination's Social Justice Committee. He currently administers rites and sacraments at Wayfarers Chapel near Los Angeles.
Schedule of future lectures:
April 7: Rev. Robert McCluskey, on Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 5: Dr. Devin Zuber, on Ivan Aguéli
May 19: Dr. Carl von Essen, on William James
June 2: Rev. Dr. James Lawrence, on John Chapman
July 7: Dr. Rebecca Esterson, on Immanuel Kant
Candlelight Taizé Service of Prayer
April 7, 7:30–8:30pm (free, in-person)
Join us on the first Tuesday of the month at 7:30 pm for a Taizé service led by Stephanie Hollenberg (cantor) and Luke Concannon (guitar), and hosted by the Swedenborg Chapel community. These monthly services are contemplative, rooted in sung chants, prayer, and meditation – a quiet pause amid the busyness of daily life. We look forward to welcoming you.
About Taizé:
The Taizé Community is an ecumenical Christian brotherhood in Burgundy, France, composed of over 100 brothers from all over the world, from Catholic and Protestant traditions, a true “parable of community” that wants its life to be a sign of reconciliation between divided Christians and between separated peoples.
The brothers have opened their doors to the world, becoming a place of pilgrimage as they invite people to spend time with them and participate in their daily practices of prayer, sharing, and communal work. Learn more about the Taizé Community at https://www.taize.fr. (Johnny Appleseed)
CCAE offers a variety of upcoming classes to get you to springtime! March courses include Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People, Mushroom Walk: Fungi in the Wild, A Taste of Southern Spain, and more! See the full list of upcoming classes here: https://ccae.org/upcoming-classes
BE A SPRING VOLUNTEER. This month, CSV has openings for volunteers in our Reading Buddies Program, Upper School Learning Centers, Elementary Programs, High School STEM Tutoring at CRLS, and in our outdoor program, Art & Science in One (see photo)
SAVE THE DATE for CSV Now!
Cambridge School Volunteers' spring fundraiser is coming on Friday, May 12. Spring means Cambridge School Volunteers is looking forward to our spring fundraiser, CSV Now! Details will follow in the next newsletter.
Visit https://csvinc.org/volunteers
or email [email protected] to learn how to join as a volunteer in any CSV program.
City of Cambridge
Harvard Square Commercial District Study
The purpose of the Harvard Square Commercial District Assessment is to highlight the neighborhood’s existing business landscape and consumer characteristics. Understanding the current business landscape provides the City and local business associations with a better understanding of how Harvard Square visitors and residents utilize the district and how they would like the district to evolve in the future. Data in this report will also assist business owners seeking a location in Harvard Square, and help current business owners understand potential opportunities for growth. More information here.
Distressed Children & Infants International
VOLUNTEER/INTERNSHIP POSITIONS:
Interested in human development and protecting child rights & preventing child labor? Consider joining Distressed Children & Infants International (DCI) to help us manage our operational duties.
We strive to develop a plan for each volunteer/intern that both furthers our mission and helps them pursue their career goals. Work with us out of our Harvard Square office or remotely.
If interested, please visit https://distressedchildren.org/ and contact us by phone (857-292-9186) or email [email protected]
J.P. Licks introduced two new desserts which can be picked up with 2 hours notice in any store.
Try our NEW Cookie Dough Baby Cake (two layers of cookie dough ice cream with homemade fudge nestled in the center) or our Salted Caramel Cookies ’n’ Cream Pie (salted caramel cookies ’n’ cream ice cream in a homemade Oreo® crust with a layer of fudge and decorated with a fudge drizzle and caramel whipped cream). Perfect for every celebration!
Nubar welcomes back lunch and brunch service.
Beginning on Sunday March 26th, we will be offering our Sunday brunch buffet – with a carving station, eggs to order, and much more. The price is $45/adults, and $20 for kids 12 and under, and free for kids under 5, inluding coffee, tea, or soft drinks. We will also offer a la carte lunch daily, Monday – Saturday. Brunch and lunch hours are 11am – 2:30pm. On Easter this year, we will offer our Easter brunch buffet, from 11:30am – 4pm. The price is $55/adults, $30 for kids 12 and under, and free for kids 5 and under. This price includes coffee, juice, or soft drinks.
March Special
Lemon Chili Crunch Wings
Now - March 31st
Spicy, bright chicken wings with chili crunch oil, fresh rosemary, and lemon juice. Spice level: medium
Industrious
New to Harvard Square!
Thoroughly professional and thoughtfully designed, Industrious’ flexible workspaces support companies of all sizes and stages. We believe that the right workplace can move your business forward by giving your team members spaces to focus and collaborate in — spaces that make them proud to come to work.