3/13 ARTY FUN OF NOTE

Hi from The Cambridgeport School Arts Committee. It's that random time of the week where I attempt to inspire you to add some arty fun to your family life.

Fort Point Art Sale

There is a studio sale this evening from 4-7pm at 369 Congress Street. The artists there are marking down their pottery, knitwear, and graphic designs tonight.

Adults: The Muppets as a Model Creative Business

Somerville resident Liz Steven's Community Benefit project for her Literary Arts Fellowship from the Somerville Arts Council and Massachusetts Cultural Council is a lecture tonight on how Jim Henson turned his art into a successful business. This will be a multimedia lecture with beverages available tonight at the Armory Café in Somerville at 191 Highland Ave from 7-9pm.

Holding Hands with the Sun

Olafur Eliasson is the 2014 recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT (which includes a $100,000 cash prize, a campus residency and a gala held in the winner's honor. It's one of the most generous cultural honors in the US.) The festivities for Eliasson will be tonight, Thursday, March 13 at 5pm at MIT Building 10, Lecture Hall 250 at 77 Mass Ave. It's free. Reservations are recommended.  He will address the question of where an idea begins and the process of an idea becoming embodied in the world. He believes creativity is the passage by which the choice becomes ethical and political. You may have heard of the Little Sun solar-powered light for use in areas of the world without access to electricity that he developed with engineer Frederik Ottesen, which was launched at the Tate Modern.

You can also catch him at the MIT Museum Friday night with Harald Quintus-Boasz, CTO of Cooper Perkins talking about the beauty, function, and technological potential of solar lights. Delve into research that will improve materials for capturing and storing solar energy for lighting use, and brainstorm ways of creating solar lighting with flexible materials such as textiles and paper:

5:30pm: Product design with Eliasson and Quintus-Boasz

6:15pm: Innovative materials with Evelyn Wang and Jeffrey Grossman

7:00pm: Inspired applications with Sheila Kennedy and Karen Gleason

See the Sound

Tomorrow, Friday the 14^th, The Remis Auditorium at the MFA will be bathed in color and light as the innovative Boston String Players perform works from C.P.E. Bach to Stravinsky to Florence and the Machine. 

Go with an MFA Member this Weekend

Check out Member Guest Days this weekend at the MFA

Sun 16^th includes a fine art of floral arranging at 11am.

Saturday the Member Family Day includes lots of fun bird related activities including a performance of music as beautiful as birdsong, prints of birds, wearable beak making, and creating cartouche inspired by bird hieroglyphs.

Shades of Yale

While visiting the Fuller Craft Museum to see the exhibits on The Stories We Tell, or Contemporary Kinetic Sculpture, check out one of Yale's premier a cappella groups, Shades, on Saturday the 15^th from 1-3pm.

Puccini's TOSCA

At the Kresge Auditorium at MIT (77 Mass Ave) on Sunday the 16^th at 4pm see this famous opera with the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, with special guests Cambridge Community Chorus and New England Conservatory Children’s Chorus.

Tickets: General $25.00; Student/Senior $20.00.