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Friday, Oct. 2
9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Various locations at MIT
MIT Future Fest
$149 for a day pass. At this inaugural event, speakers share what’s next across AI, engineering, technology, architecture, art, design, and more. Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu, Dataland founder Refik Anadol, Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess, inventor of the iPod Tony Fadell, MIT Quantum Initiative faculty director Danna Freedman, AI researchers Asu Ozdaglar, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Daniela Rus, Sherry Turkle, and Pat Pataranutaporn are among those presenting. Runs through Sunday, Oct. 4.
7 p.m.
Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave., Spring Hill.
Boston Fuzzstival
$20 to $40. This two-day music festival runs Friday, Oct. 2, and Saturday, Oct. 3 and features 18 local and regional bands including Dino Gala, Spirit Ghost, Pew Pew and others.
Saturday, Oct. 3
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Joan Lorentz Park at Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge.
Credit: Courtesy of City of Somerville
Celebrating Disability Pride
Free. Celebrating Disability Pride is a gathering for the whole community, presenting arts and crafts, silent disco, power lifting with Special Olympics medalists REM and Sebi, giveaways and more.
1 to 4 p.m.
Founders Memorial Rink, 8 Garden Court.
Fall Festival
Free. Celebrate the beginning of fall by enjoying bounce houses, pumpkin decorating, music, a magician, face painting and more.
Sunday, Oct. 4
Noon to 4 p.m.
Kendall/MIT Open Space at 292 Main St., Kendall Square.
Cambridge Science Carnival
Free. This family-friendly science extravaganza features more than 100 activity booths, live demonstrations and musical performances. The carnival is STEAM-themed for all ages.
Monday, Oct. 5
5 to 7 p.m.
Gallery 344 is on the second floor of City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge.
Reception: See How Playground Structures Are Hand-Crafted By Cambridge Artist Mitch Ryerson
Free. See how play spaces take shape, from first sketch to finished structures, in a hands-on exhibition, called “Joyful Anarchy: Mitch Ryerson – Playgrounds,” of playground design by Cambridge artist Mitch Ryerson.
6 p.m.
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square.
New Yorker cartoonists Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein
$40, includes book. Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein introduce their new graphic novel, “The Two Saddest Kitchens: A Comics Conversation,” a look at what’s really going on in our kitchens from Tupperware Drawer Tetris to the cabinet over the fridge where the forgotten yard-sale ice bucket sits. Northeastern University’s Hillary Chute joins.
Tuesday, Oct. 6
5:30 to 11 p.m.
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square.
An Evening with Alice Hoffman: “Practical Magic” on Screen and in Print
$50 to $100. Lovestruck Books presents author of “Practical Magic” Alice Hoffman in conversation with actress and debut author of “Grimoire Girl,” Hilarie Burton Morgan. General admission tickets include pre-signed copies of both “Practical Magic 2” and “Grimoire Girl.”
6 to 7:30 p.m.
Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge.
Theaster Gates and Henry Louis Gates Jr. give us “Another View”
$5 donation. Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Theaster Gates, award-winning artist and professor at the University of Chicago, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, for a discussion of their new book “Another View: The Vibrant World of Contemporary Black Artists.”
Wednesday, Oct. 7
7:30 p.m.
Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St., East Cambridge.
Yarumi González: Artist in Residence Showcase
$35 to $45. The Artist in Residence Showcase showcases the Multicultural Arts Center’s residency program, highlighting works developed through sustained artistic exploration and experimentation. During Yarumi González’s residency, she has been developing a multidisciplinary, autobiographical work exploring identity, migration and the American Dream through poetic and ritual-inspired storytelling, movement, video, photography, installation and performance.
Thursday, Oct. 8
5 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., near Harvard Square.
Hutchins Center Honors presents The W. E. B. Du Bois Medal Ceremony
Free. The W. E. B. Du Bois Medal is Harvard’s highest honor in the field of African and African American studies, awarded to individuals in the U.S. and across the globe in recognition of their contributions to African and African American culture. Honorees this year include Angela Bassett, actress; Didier Drogba, professional soccer player; Theaster Gates, visual artist; Reed Hastings, business executive and philanthropist; James Manyika, technologist; Mavis Staples, singer and Civil Rights activist; Lena Waithe, writer, actor and producer; and Fletcher Wiley, attorney and civic leader (awarded posthumously).
Friday, Oct. 9
7:15 p.m.
The Comedy Studio, 5 John F. Kennedy St., Harvard Square.
Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait
$39. Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait first appeared on the David Letterman Show at the age of 20 and has an ongoing career as a writer, director, actor, voice actor and stand-up. He has starred in numerous HBO/Showtime specials and is well-known for his roles in “Scrooged” with Bill Murray and as Zed in the “Police Academy” franchise. Also performing on Saturday, Oct. 10.
8 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Thomas Tull Concert Hall, 201 Amherst St.
Stone and Earth: Edward Cohen Memorial Concert
Free but register. The Edward Cohen Memorial concert celebrates the music of the distinguished MIT composer with a performance of his “Stone and Earth” for mezzo-soprano and string orchestra.
Saturday, Oct. 10
1 to 5 p.m.
Davis Square, Somerville.
ArtHONK!
Free. Part of HonkFest, Elm Street will be closed to cars and will be turned into a dynamic arena for interactive art making and activism.
3 to 8 p.m.
Somerville High School, 81 Highland Ave., Central Hill.
Arabic Heritage Celebration
Free. The Center for Arabic Culture and Somerville’s Office of Immigrant Affairs hosts CAC’s 12th annual festival and book fair featuring readings from Arabic authors while enjoying Arabic food, music and art.
Sunday, Oct. 11
Noon to 2 p.m.
Davis Square to Harvard Square, Somerville.
The HONK! Parade
Free. Part of HonkFest, the parade starts down Massachusetts Avenue. Performances on the Main Stage and other performance venues at Oktoberfest runs from 2 to 6 p.m.
Noon to 6 p.m.
2 Brattle Square.
Annual Oktoberfest & Honk Festival
Free. Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest features food from all over the world, arts, crafts, vintage goods, free samples as well as 25 HONK! bands from around the country will march from Davis Square to Harvard Square. New this year, Oktoberfest boasts beer gardens hosted by Alden & Harlow, El Jefe’s Taqueria, Charlie’s Kitchen, and a wine garden presented by Commonwealth Wine School and Schmitt Sohne & Relax.
Monday, Oct. 12
Noon
Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., near Harvard Square.
Half-Earth at Ten: Honoring a Legacy of Hope
$20. On Indigenous Peoples Day, the theme of “Half-Earth at Ten: Honoring a Legacy of Hope,” explores works of naturalists past and present and insights from art, literature, the humanities and Indigenous communities.
7 to 9 p.m.
Aeronaut Brewing, 14 Tyler St., near Union Square in Ward 2.
Millennial Speed-Dating (Monogamous)
$65. This event is centered on people ages 30-45 who want to get off the dating apps and meet someone in real life. There will be “big talk” conversation prompts to get you started and structure to make sure that you talk to people and that it’s not awkward.
Tuesday, Oct. 13
6 p.m.
Museum of Natural History’s Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Baldwin neighborhood.
The Tobacco Takers: Puritans, Pipes, and Bodily Care
Free. Diana DiPaolo Loren, deputy director for Curatorial Affairs and senior curator of Harvard’s Peabody Museum, discusses archaeological, archival and visual evidence that recasts tobacco and tobacco pipes, thought to be sinful in Puritan New England, as tools of bodily care for both physical and metaphysical ailments. Archaeologist Stephen W. Silliman joins.
6 p.m.
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square.
Anand Giridharadas and Junot Díaz talk about “Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City”
$45. Anand Giridharadas, New York Times bestselling author and a former foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times, discusses his story of two men: Jordan Neely, a homeless man known in better days for his Michael Jackson impersonations, and Daniel Penny, an ex-Marine who had moved to the big city seeking more than Long Island could offer. They collided in a New York subway car. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz joins.
Wednesday, Oct. 14
7 p.m.
Lou’s, 13 Brattle St.
Latin Dance Night
$15 to $20. Start the night with a beginner-friendly salsa dance lesson, then stick around for an evening of social dancing with DJ Condori. No partner required.
Thursday, Oct. 15
7 p.m.
Bonde Wine Shop & Wine Tasting Bar, 54 Church St.
Oktoberfest: Choucroute & American Wines – Wine Tasting & Class
$85. Explore how different styles of American wine interact with the richness of sausages and pork, the acidity of sauerkraut, mustard, spices and all the savory complexity of this classic dish, choucroute.
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