Benjamin Gilman Scholarship Deadline

Thu · Oct 1·9:30 AM – 10:30 AM·Newton Free Library, Room B

We will learn vocabulary and do a variety of role-plays, focusing on English for daily life. We will also have conversations and practice problem-solving related to everyday situations. This class is for high beginner to intermediate English learners; it is not appropriate for total beginners. This class meets in perso…

Thu · Oct 1·10 AM · 11 AM·Newton Free Library, Children's Program Room

Drop in for storytimes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am or 11am. We will kick-start your day with stories, songs and rhymes led by Newton Free Library children’s librarians. This event is for kids ages 0-5 and their caregivers. No registration required, drop-ins welcome.

Thu · Oct 1·11 AM – 12 PM·Walsh Hall Function Room · Newton

Program description: Scams are everywhere, but we don't have to make it easy for scammers! In honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, join members of the Boston College ITS Security team to take a look at how scammers exploit human psychology and how working together makes everyone safer. In this interactive session, w…

Thu · Oct 1·12 PM – 1:15 PM·O'Neill Library, O'Neill Library, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 · Newton

This workshop expands on the backward design process introduced in this orientation module, with a focus on the first step of the process: determining what you want students to learn. By the end of the session, participants will be able to: describe, and distinguish between, learning goals and learning outcomesidentify…

Mon · Sep 21·10 AM – 5 PM·McMullen Museum of Art, 2101 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02135

Showcasing the most important collection of Belgian symbolist art in private hands—assembled by Charles Hack over more than four decades—the exhibition features over 150 major works by Belgian and other European artists in their orbit. Shadows and Light charts a world of dualities: dream and reality, modernism and trad…

Mon · Sep 21·12 PM – 1 PM·Devlin Hall, Boston College, 255 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 · Newton

Born in Spain, where ethnically Chinese residents comprise under 1% of the population, Quan Zhou Wu has become a prominent public figure in conversations concerning the local Chinese community as well as on more general questions of migration and identity. Zhou Wu rose to fame with the graphic novel Gazpazho Agridulce:…