Boston Events for the Week of 10/5
Saturday, October 6 - Sunday, October 7
Bring family and friends to the 4th Annual Cranberry Harvest Celebration in Wareham, MA. From 10 am - 4 pm, enjoy tours, games and crafts, cooking demonstrations, wagon and pony rides, and musical performances! It’s a steal at $2.00 admission with children under 12 free!
Saturday, October 6
Check out Kara Walker’s exhibit, Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War, at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge. Commemorating Drew Gilpin Faust as the first woman president of Harvard University, this exhibit tackles the topics of racism and gender in the United States and their relation to the Civil War.
Friday, October 5 (Preview Opening, 5-8 pm)
Saturday, October 6 (official pumpkin sale, 10 am - 3 pm)
Celebrate the arrival of autumn with a visit to The 2007 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch at MIT. The installation consists of 1,000 hand-blown glass pumpkins all made by the MIT Glass Lab displayed on Kresge Oval on campus. Take your favorite home during the official sale on Saturday!
Saturday, October 6 - Saturday, November 17
In the mood for some theatre? Head on over to the Boston Center for the Arts’ Plaza Black Box for a performance of The Kentucky Cycle, a 1992 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Robert Schenkkan. This series of nine plays, presented in two parts, is all portrayed by 23 actors. From the struggles of European immigrants to those of the coal mining unions, this drama is a true American epic.
Sunday, October 7
At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, you can also attend the Sunday Concert Series with a performance from the Amedeo Modigliani Quartet, part of the Young Artists Showcase. You’ll hear Haydn, Schumann, and Bach at 1:30 pm in this stunning museum.
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