Entertainment

Celebrate the Spring Equinox With the Annual Revels Spring Sing

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The following announcement was provided by the Revels:

Announcing Revels Spring Sing: A Free Family Celebration of the Vernal Equinox, Sunday, March 21 at 5:00pm ET on Facebook Live! Spring is in the air! That means Revels is gearing up for our annual celebration of the Vernal Equinox! This year’s Spring Sing, part of our 2021 #RevelsConnects performance series, will take place on Sunday, March 21 at 5:00 pm ET on Revels Facebook Live page: www.facebook.com/therevels/live. Revels launched Spring Sing more than 25 years ago to celebrate the spring equinox in song and poetry. This year’s theme is “Renewal” and includes song and poetry with uplifting and hopeful energy and excellent singalong potential. In addition, two young poets will be reciting their own poems, written expressly for this year’s Spring Sing.

Entertainment

The Team Gets New Jerseys in This Week’s Small Saves Cartoon

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James DeMarco grew up in Watertown and became a goaltender at age 5. It’s his life’s passion to stand between the pipes and keep the puck out of the net. Combining this with the love of cartooning Small Saves emerged in 1991 and took on a life of his own. “To play goal–then come home and draw Small Saves — is my ideal definition of a good day.”

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New Rep Theatre Putting on Video Production of One-Woman Play, “Unveiled”

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The following announcement was provided by New Rep Theatre:

New Repertory Theatre presents a professional recording of Unveiled, a provocative one-woman show written, preformed, and recorded by Rohina Malik, to be shared digitally with New Rep audiences for a limited time only. Previously produced in cooperation with the Greater Boston Stage Company in New Rep’s Blackbox Theater in 2018, this beloved and important production can be viewed from the comfort and safety of your home between April 2-18, 2021. Tickets for this digital production will be on sale in mid-March. More information about Unveiled can be foundat https://www.newrep.org/productions/unveiled-digital/. “We are so thrilled to bring back the critically acclaimed New Rep favorite, Unveiled in arevived digital platform,” shares New Rep’s Communications Director, Jaclyn Dentino.

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Watertown Cultural Council’s Grant to Help Business Coalition Create Arts Market

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The following announcement was provided by the Watertown Business Coalition:

The Watertown Business Coalition is thrilled to announce that they have received funding through the Watertown Cultural Council. These funds will be used to help support the first ever Watertown Arts Market, to take place in Summer 2021. The Watertown Arts Market will be a free, outdoor celebration of the arts and culture created in the Watertown community. As currently planned, the event will feature local artists and arts organizations across all mediums, live performances/artists demonstrations, hands-on/community-created art, and food from local restaurants. The Watertown Cultural Council has continued to award grants throughout the challenges brought upon cultural organizations by COVID-19.

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See Small Saves All Grown Up in This Week’s Cartoon

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James DeMarco grew up in Watertown and became a goaltender at age 5. It’s his life’s passion to stand between the pipes and keep the puck out of the net. Combining this with the love of cartooning Small Saves emerged in 1991 and took on a life of his own. “To play goal–then come home and draw Small Saves — is my ideal definition of a good day.”

Anti-Bias Coalition

Upcoming One-Man Performance Part of Watertown Youth Coalition’s Diversity & Equity Series

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The Watertown Anti-Bias Coalition will host An Evening With Mykee Fowlin on Monday, March 15 from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

The performance is called “You Don’t Know Me Until You Know Me,” and will be held remotely over Zoom. It is part of a series of the Watertown Anti-Bias Coalition’s series addressing diversity and equity in the Watertown Schools. Fowlin describes it as:

“To varying degrees, we all wear masks. We are conditioned to hide our true selves, out of fear of being rejected and/or judged. We are taught to devalue or ignore our pain as if its utility is better served hidden than exposed.

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Small Saves Has Hockey on the Brain in This Week’s Cartoon

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James DeMarco grew up in Watertown and became a goaltender at age 5. It’s his life’s passion to stand between the pipes and keep the puck out of the net. Combining this with the love of cartooning Small Saves emerged in 1991 and took on a life of his own. “To play goal–then come home and draw Small Saves — is my ideal definition of a good day.”

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New Rep’s Virtual Interactive Play Focuses on Indigenous History

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“Moving Play” Playwright, Mwalim Morgan J. Peters (Mashpee Wampanoag), and Director Jaime Carrillo (Aymara). The following announcement was provided by New Rep Theatre:

On March 18, New Repertory Theatre, the Pigsgusset Initiative, and the Watertown Free Public Library invite you to a dynamic community conversation about local Indigenous history and the role of Indigenous culture keepers in challenging narratives that attempt to erase them. In May 2021, New Repertory Theatre will premiere their second Moving Play, centering on local Indigenous history. This virtual, interactive event affords members of the community an opportunity to speak with the Moving Play Playwright, Mwalim Morgan J. Peters (Mashpee Wampanoag), and Director, Jaime Carrillo (Aymara). Dr. Mishy Lesser, of the Upstander Project and the Pigsgusset Initiative, will moderate this inspired dialogue, which includes participation from the audience.