Shop Over Weekend 2023

Purchase a gift card for $100 or more at The Hourly Oyster House, Grafton Street Pub & Grill, Russell House Tavern and receive an additional 10% free!

For gift card purchases of $500 or more receive 20% added to your card. This offer is also available on each restaurant’s website and gift cards can be used at all Grafton Group restaurants.

Buy $50 in gift cards and receive a $10 bonus card. 

This promotion is available in person at all Life Alive Cafes or online at www.lifealive.com.

Maccabee Bar is meant for anyone who wants to experience a different side of the holidays, whether you grew up celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanza or anything else. While hosting Maccabee Bar, Noir at the Charles Hotel will be transformed into a Hanukkah wonderland with special decor, Hanukkah themed cocktails, and traditional bites, including latkes, hummus, and more. Monday and Tuesday 4pm to 12am and Wednesday through Saturday 4pm to 1am.
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Based on the play by Josefina López that inspired the iconic hit film, Real Women Have Curves: The Musical is an empowering new show that explores life’s unexpected curves. Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Sergio Trujillo (Arrabal, Ain’t Too Proud, Jersey Boys), this world-premiere musical features a book by award-winning playwright Lisa Loomer (Roe; The Waiting Room; Girl, Interrupted) with an original score by Grammy-winning recording artist Joy Huerta (from world-renowned Mexican pop duo Jesse&Joy) and Fred Ebb Award winner Benjamin Velez (Kiss My Aztec).
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Join us as we welcome back SOLSTICE: Reflections on Winter Light to Mount Auburn Cemetery in December 2023! The three outdoor light and sound artworks return with renewed approaches and integrations. A new feature this year is the interactive Hortus Gateway; four imprinted towers that will welcome visitors to enter the landscape through symmetrical illumination. We have also added an extended pathway on Central Ave which will give guests the opportunity to slow down, contemplate, and enjoy the night sky.

CHRISTMAS IN HARVARD SQUARE celebrates the old and the new this Christmas season, featuring music by composers such as Benjamin Britten, Franz Biebl, Herbert Howells, and more. The evening will include Theodore Marier’s beloved setting of “Silent Night,” plus beloved carols, sung by the Boys and Schola of Saint Paul’s Choir, the Music Scholars of Saint Paul’s Boys Choir, and the Pre-Choristers of Saint Paul’s Boys Choir.
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Guests of all ages are invited to celebrate children’s joy around the holidays, and to embrace the playful spirit of the season amid the decked historic halls of the Longfellow House. Enjoy a luminaria display on the grounds and stroll the halls of the Longfellow House, decorated in period style and featuring live harp music and special seasonal objects from the site’s museum collection that celebrate childhood and play.

Winter Solstice concert performed by students of the Keyboard Studies Department.

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Our program offers a selection of music for the Christmas season—plainchant, carols, and polyphonic antiphons and settings of the Mass—that might have been heard in England in the 1440s, when the most modern of the works on the program were composed. The carols, drawn from several manuscripts, are written in a robust popular style with graceful melody and simple harmonies, while the polyphony dazzles with complex cross-rhythms, dashing melodies, and clangorous harmonies, all in celebration of one of the most glorious seasons of the Christian year.

A Holiday Tradition! Jimmy Stewart plays George Bailey, a forlorn small-town banker who, while considering suicide, meets Clarence, an angel in training. Clarence shows George what life would be like if he had never been born, and through this George is able to realize how valuable one person’s life can be. Forget about watching this classic film at home on TV, we’re showing it the way it was meant to be seen: on the Big Screen on real-live 35mm film!
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One of the oldest and most popular fairs in the Boston area. Held in Harvard Square for 8 or 9 days with free admission. Juried, with a mix of craftspeople from the region and world traveling importers. A great selection of beautiful, original, affordable gifts. Talking with the artist gives us a connection to what we are buying. A high energy marketplace with a great soundtrack. See old friends and make new ones.

Hours: Thurs./Fridays 12-7, Saturdays 11-7, Sundays 12-6.

Our 53rd Midwinter Revels drops us into the colorful medieval Feast of Fools, where everything is topsy-turvy by design. The status quo quickly becomes the status disruptus as the body politic officially lets off steam. Rulers are temporarily deposed by servants, wit triumphs over power, and a fool finds himself steering the ship of state. This musical feast will feature vibrant processionals, lively carols, delicate harmonies, vigorous dances, and a full ritual serving of the wild and the holy.

Join the Harvard Square Business Association as we present the Santa Claus Jazz Band performing from 1pm – 3pm in the “pit” in the center of the Square. Bask in the glow of the sights, smells and sounds of the season! Plenty of hot chocolate and cookies will be available to give you that extra energy boost as you holiday shop!

Reserve your spot on a free, 30-minute guided tour of the Longfellow House first floor, decked out for the holidays! Space is limited and reservations are required.
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Ms. Harrison will be performing songs from her Jazzweek, Top 20 album release, Let Them Talk, along with other holiday treats. 
Lezlie is her own personal renaissance. Her constant state of evolution and growth brings with it, gifts for those paying attention. As a vocalist both bold and subtle, her vulnerability attends to the fragile matters of our collective human affairs while her optimistic momentum inspires us to rise above any tribulation to rejoice. Be it Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Soul, The American Song Form, original compositions, or any song in ANY form, Ms. Harrison imbues it with her distinctive stamp and makes a very personal delivery.
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