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10 September 2008, Wednesday An Exhibit ~ New Acquisitions at the USS Constitution Museum Time: 10:00am Location: USS Constitution Museum Presented by the USS Constitution Museum. An exhibit of new acquisition: Four paintings by George Ropes, Jr. from 1813 of battle between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere during the War of 1812. May 14 – November 14, 2008. Museum hours: 9am-6 pm April 15 - October 15; 10am - 5 pm October 16 - April 14 http://www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org/ Cirque du Soleil - KOOZA, Under the Grand Chapiteau at Bayside Expo Center, Boston Location: Under the Grand Chapiteau at Bayside Expo Center, 200 Mount Vernon St., Boston Cirque du Soleil will return to Boston at a new location with its latest big top touring production KOOZA, set to open on Friday, September 5, 2008. KOOZA will perform at Bayside Expo Center under the trademark blue-and-yellow Grand Chapiteau (Big Top) for a limited engagement. KOOZA is a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil that combines two circus traditions - acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. The show highlights the physical demands of human performance in all its splendor and fragility, presented in a colorful mélange that emphasizes bold slapstick humor. Performance Schedule: • Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. • Thursdays thru Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. • Sundays at 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. To purchase tickets: 1-800-678-5440 or www.cirquedusoleil.com Crossed Country Location: Sherman Gallery The group exhibition Crossed Country reinterprets the often romanticized notions of the American road trip as reflected through such contemporary experiences as the necessity of mobiolity, the significance of road travel, and driving as a form of escape. Sculpture Transformed: The Work of Marjorie Schick Location: Fuller Craft Museum 455 Oak Street For decades, Marjorie Schick has been a pioneering force in the craft field. Her vibrant, energetic pieces break through traditional barriers of form, texture and color while sparking the human imagination. Sculpture Transformed incorporates 67 “body sculpture” objects that exemplify 40 years of Schick’s experimentation with form, texture, and color. Sculpture Transformed: The Work of Marjorie Schick and its tour are organized by International Arts and Artists, Washington, DC in cooperation with the curator, Tacey A. Rosolowski, and Marjorie Schick. http://www.fullercraft.org/exhibitions.html The Machinery of Heaven: glass sculpture by Steven Easton Location: Fuller Craft Museum 455 Oak Street Glass artist Steven Easton will use Fuller Craft's Merton Tarlow gallery as an environment to explore his ideas about portraits, classical antiquity, religion, science and the natural world. This exhibition has challenged Easton to take his ideas–which up to this point have been manifested in individual objects—to a larger, more inclusive, and ultimately more compelling scope and scale. As Easton explains, “Nature and its beauty is the foundation of my work – energy and matter, in myriad forms, whirl in a complicated dance that is a celebration of life. Celestial bodies, moving inexorably through the heavens, hum in rhythm with the beating of our own hearts. Everything is connected and has meaning. This belief is infinitely reassuring as we humans move through time.” http://www.fullercraft.org/exhibitions.html#Easton We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! The Nora Theatre Company speaks to the times with Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo’s work of politics and hilarity, We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, playing at Central Square Theater Thursday, September 4 through Sunday, September 28. In the side-splitting satire written in 1974, the housewives have had enough… prices are high and getting higher and it’s time for them to take matters into their own hands, but the challenge is how to keep their husbands from finding out that they’ve stormed the supermarket! With stolen olives, bird seed, and pasta, this farcical comedy about a housewives’ revolt against out of control inflation looks at hypocrisy, injustice, and liberation with a healthy dose of hysterics thrown in for good measure. We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! is translated by Ron Jenkins and directed by The Nora’s Associate Director, Daniel Gidron (IRNE Award nominee - Best Director, Small Theater for The Nora’s production of Buried Child). Peniel Josep Time: 4:00pm “Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America” is a history of the Black Power movement, and includes the storied group of men and women who would become American icons for the struggle for racial equality. The discussions will be held at Brandeis University, 415 South St., Waltham, Mass. Admission is free. For more information, call (781) 736-4205. Peniel Josep Time: 4:00pm “Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America” is a history of the Black Power movement, and includes the storied group of men and women who would become American icons for the struggle for racial equality. The discussions will be held at Brandeis University, 415 South St., Waltham, Mass. Admission is free. For more information, call (781) 736-4205. Art Opening: Pictures not Paintings by David J. Stokle Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Eastern Standard Location: French Library Alliance Francaise David J. Stokle’s exhibit Pictures not Paintings examines how our conditioned visual perception sometimes allows us to see pictures as paintings. Depending on the subject matter, composition, sharpness of lens, and printing materials, photographs can be made to appear as if they are paintings. The exhibit features color as well as black and white images printed on papers and canvases using various chemical processes. Included in the exhibit are two rare photographs of Paris taken in 1881 by James Schuyler, the grandson of Samuel Schuyler. Can't make the opening? Exhibit runs from September 3rd to September 30th. Gallery Hours: Monday - Thursday, 10 am - 8 pm Friday & Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm Closed Sunday Admission: Free, donation suggested. Open to public. RSVP required, please call 617-912-0400. The French Library Alliance Francaise of Boston is located at: 53 Marlborough Street Boston, MA 02116 Arlington T stop on the Green Line Boston Landmarks Orchestra will finish its summer season with Verdi's Requiem Time: 7:00pm Eastern Location: The Hatch Shell on Boston’s Esplanade The Boston Landmarks Orchestra and Charles Ansbacher, Conductor and Artistic Director, are proud to end their second season of The Landmarks Festival At The Shell with a performance of Verdi’s Requiem. The concert, which is free, open to the public and suitable for all ages, will take place on September 10 at 7pm. It will feature some of the world’s most talented vocal soloists, from a soprano to a baritone. Barbara Quintiliani, a soprano and a Quincy, MA native, Mary Westbrook-Geha, a highly sought after mezzo-soprano who has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Yeghishe Manucharyan, a young tenor who has performed with the likes of the New York City Opera, and finally, Robert Honeysucker, an internationally recognized baritone who has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra will all be featured in the program. The rain location for this concert will be Tremont Temple at 88 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02108. For more information, please visit www.landmarksorchestra.org or call 617-520-2200 About Boston Landmarks Orchestra: The Boston Landmarks Orchestra presents exceptional orchestral music performances in significant architectural, historical, and geographical settings throughout the Boston area, always free to the public. We aim to help our diverse audiences grow in their appreciation both of the fine music that we offer and the special places where we perform. Through its Concerts for Children, the Orchestra is one of the few performing arts institutions in the country to commission new works for young people that both teach a history lesson and introduce youngsters to the orchestra. The Orchestra also performs Neighborhood Concerts in parks and other distinguished community settings. About Charles Ansbacher: Charles Ansbacher is the conductor and founder of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and the Artistic Director of the Landmarks Festival at the Shell. In addition to his recent appointment as the Principal Guest Conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, he has conducted all over the world with organizations such as the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and in cities including Bishkek, Budapest, Jerusalem, London, Quito, Salzburg, Seoul, and Warsaw. OPERA BOSTON PRESENTS SEMELE WITH BOSTON BAROQUE Time: 7:30pm Eastern Location: Cutler Majestic Theater, 219 Tremont Street, Boston Opera Boston presents Handel’s Semele with Martin Pearlman conducting Boston Baroque for three performances on Feb. 1, 3, 5, 2008 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St., Boston. Tickets are available through Telecharge.com or 1-800-233-3123, or at the Cutler Majestic Theatre box office. After the success of 2005’s sold-out and internationally acclaimed performances of Gluck’s Alceste, Opera Boston again collaborates with Martin Pearlman and the Boston Baroque period instrument orchestra and chorus to present Handel’s Semele starring Lisa Saffer, whose roles are as varied as Handel's Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare with Boston Baroque) and Berg’s Lulu (English National Opera: Olivier Award nominee). Mezzo-Soprano Margaret Lattimore makes her Opera Boston debut in the role of Juno; she has appeared locally in recital with the Celebrity Series and in Harbison’s Requiem with the BSO. Tenor Scott Ramsay makes his company debut as Jupiter opposite Ms. Saffer’s Semele; the two previously teamed to sing the roles of this ill-fated couple in a 2005-06 Arizona Opera production of Semele. Conductor Martin Pearlman will lead the Boston Baroque period instrument orchestra and chorus in this production. He previously conducted Semele in his Kennedy Center debut with the Washington National Opera. Stage Director Sam Helfrich, who directed The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny for Opera Boston, returns to stage this all-new production. Carole Charnow, General Director of Opera Boston, said, “We are looking forward to working with Boston Baroque and Martin Pearlman for this production." Sam Helfrich will give this classical myth a contemporary setting to emphasize “the simple human stories—how complicated and imperfect human emotions are.” Founded in 1980, Opera Boston presents adventurous repertoire and rarely-heard works. Over twenty-six seasons, Opera Boston has presented more than 70 concerts and staged 34 regional and two world premieres. In the past five years, Opera Boston has received favorable notices for the Boston premiere of Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar, Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Adams’ Nixon in China, and Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia. Opera Boston's unique approach to programming and staging has earned the organization its reputation as Boston's most innovative opera company. A Man Of No Importance Time: 7:30pm Location: CFA TheatreLab @ 855 The story of an Oscar Wilde obsessed bus driver who attempts to stage Salome at his church in 1960's Dublin. The 2003 Outer Circle Award Winner for Best Off-broadway Musical. Brickbottom District Open Studios 2007 Time: 12:00am - 6:00pm est Location: Brickbottom District , Somerville, MA Featuring art work by members of the Brickbottom Artists Association and the Joy Street Artists. Free and open to the public. Located in the historic Brickbottom District of Somerville, with plenty of free on street parking and within walking distance of bus routes in Union Sq., Somerville. Specific studio locations: Brickbottom Artists Association at 1 Fitchburg St. and Joy Street Artists at 86 Joy St. For further information call 617-776-3410 or log onto www.brickbottomartists.com and www.joystreetartists.org.