Area Developments

Poetry event featuring Nahid Mozaffari, editor of Strange Times, My Dear: The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature; Shahriar Mandanipour, critically acclaimed Iranian author; and Robin Linn, MFA candidate, Lesley's MFA in Creative Writing Program

Alumni Hall, 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
More information contact: Robin Linn at 617-349-8175 or rlinn@lesley.edu

Free & open to the public

Taking Back Childhood: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence-Filled World

Book talk, signing and reception celebrating publication by renowned early childhood development expert and Lesley University professor of the Center for Children, Families and Public Policy, Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige

University Hall, 2nd floor Amphitheater
1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
More information contact: Carol Krems at 617-349-8286 or ckrems@lesley.edu

Lesley University invites all interested neighbors of Porter Square to a Community Meeting to discuss the architectural design of a new arts center and facility for the Art Institute of Boston (AIB).

University Hall, 2nd floor Amphitheater
1815 Massachusetts Avenue

More information contact: Bill Doncaster at 617-349-8525 or wdoncast@lesley.edu

In honor of Black History Month, Lesley welcomes Dr. Peniel E. Joseph with a presentation entitled “From Black Power to Barack Obama”

University Hall, 2nd floor Amphitheater
1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

More information contact: Linda Pursley at 617-349-8563 or
lpursley@lesley.edu

Free & open to the public

A Panel Discussion of Current Issues regarding Women's Health: Susan Eisenberg, Lula Christopher & Rita Arditti.

University Hall, 2nd floor Amphitheater
1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

More information contact: Heather Shosho at 617-349-8364 or hshosho@lesley.edu

Free & open to the public

Paintings / Sculptures

Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 12:00–8:00pm
Saturday & Sunday, 12:00–5:00pm

Free & open to the public

The full title is "Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad."

Like her earlier work, Getting A Grip connects readers' personal passions with actions they can take, right now, to help create the world they want. Flouting tired Right-versus-Left thinking, she affirms readers' basic sanity--their intuition that it is possible to stop grasping at straws and grasp the real roots of our local-to-global crises. Writing with energy and heart, Lappe convinces us we really can go for it.

Seth Harwood's stories have been published in Post Road, Ecotone, Inkwell, Sojourn, and The Red Rock Review among others. His short story White was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He teaches writing and literature at the City College of San Francisco and Chabot College.

Nothing happens in a vacuum"...so begins Long Story Short, a collection of one hundred absorbing stories from clinical psychologist Dennis Upper's life. A vivid and thoughtful evocation of personal experiences, the tales in this engaging volume are long and short, funny and sad, trivial and profound.

On January 17, 1950, seven robbers in Halloween masks walked into a counting room of the Brink's armored car garage on Prince Street in Boston and walked out with $2.5 million in cash, checks, and securities. It was the largest robbery in U.S. history to date. Just before the statute of limitations ran out, one of the robbers, who believed he was cheated out of his share, ratted out his comrades. The subsequent trial captivated a city, as details of the caper finally came to light.