Apr 23-May 1, 2012: Rockets, Catapults, Telescopes, Ben Folds giveaway, Civil War, Powwow, Nat’l Puppet Day!

04/23/12 by
This Week in ReviewJohnny Monsarrat

Don’t just sit at home! The Cambridge Science Festival just gets better this week and if you read just the first 10 items you are really missing out. There’s a metal detector hobbyist weekend, two flash mobs, a literary festival in Harvard Square, and free sailing around Boston Hahbah!

Now that Spring is here, it’s time to ramp up outreach again. The more readers I have, the more free tickets I can attract! Please visit http://bostonevents.org/s/ and tell your friends! As a thank you, I’ll send you my Events INSIDER 2012 New England Guide!

I hope you are having an awesome week. Now get out there and do something fun!

-Johnny

A Cappella Palooza w/Ben Folds - tix giveaway at Boston Events INSIDER

A Cappella Palooza w/Ben Folds – tix giveaway…

Do you love a capella music? Come see NBC’s acclaimed music show “The Sing-Off” hosted by Ben Folds. And I have a pair of tickets to give away! Email johnny@eventsinsider.com to win. 7pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)Do you love a capella music? Come see NBC’s acclaime…
Agganis Arena Boston, MA

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National Astronomy Day & Kite Fly at Boston Events INSIDER

National Astronomy Day & Kite Fly

With rockets, kites, solar telescopes, and viewings of the full moon and Saturn, I am thrilled to make this event in Brookline my pick of the week! 4-10pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)With rockets, kites, solar telescopes, and viewings of the f…
Clay Center Observatory 20 Newton Street Brookline, MA

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Rocket Day and Solar Salvo! at Boston Events INSIDER

Rocket Day and Solar Salvo!

I love you, Science Festival. Come run away with me and let’s be happy forever. They’ll also have rockets in Cambridge! 10am-4pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)I love you, Science Festival. Come run away with me and let’s be happy…
Danehy Park 99 Sherman Street Cambridge, MA

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Trebuchet Design Challenge at Boston Events INSIDER

Trebuchet Design Challenge

Build a catapult and then see them launch projectiles! Build all week and then the launch competition is on Cambridge Common on Sun 4/29 at 4pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)Build a catapult and then see them launch projectiles! Build all week …
Artisan’s Asylum 10 Tyler St Somerville, MA

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Living History Day with a Civil War Regiment at Boston Events INSIDER

Living History Day with a Civil War Regiment

There’s no better way to learn history than a re-enactment, because the hobbyists who do it are enormously welcoming and knowledgeable. Here’s a Civil War re-enactment at the historic home of a famous poet. 11am-4pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)There’s no better way to learn history than a re-enactm…
280 Main Street Amherst, MA

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Confederate Civil War Encampment at Boston Events INSIDER

Confederate Civil War Encampment

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And here’s an encampment — a lot of tents with re-enactors and they’ll most likely have musket firing — dedicated to the confederates. What, no union army? (Click ‘more’ for details)And here’s an encampment — a lot of tents with re-enactors and the…
Chase Farm 669 Great Road Lincoln, RI

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Haru Matsuri Japanese Spring Festival at Boston Events INSIDER

Haru Matsuri Japanese Spring Festival

They say it’s the first big Japanese festival in Boston and I believe it! With 80 vendors, live music, and activities for kids, don’t miss this! 11am-4pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)They say it’s the first big Japanese festival in Boston and I b…
Copley Square Park Boston, MA

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Harvard University Native American Pow Wow at Boston Events INSIDER

Harvard University Native American Pow Wow

There are dozens of powwows every year in New England, but here’s one of only two that are accesible by Boston’s public transportation. Are they serving fry bread? I hope so! (Click ‘more’ for details)There are dozens of powwows every year in New England, …
Radcliffe Yard 10 Garden St. Cambridge, MA

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Musketaquid Earth Day Parade at Boston Events INSIDER

Musketaquid Earth Day Parade

Is that a squid with a musket? Concord also has a belated Earth Day celebration with a parade, an environmental festival, workshops, and a river ceremony with floats. There will be plenty of activities for children, to teach them that the #1 thing you can do to use less energy is to not have children. 10am-2pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)Is that a squid with a musket? Concord also has a belated Earth Day cel…
Concord Center Concord, MA

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Puppet Karaoke Party at Boston Events INSIDER

Puppet Karaoke Party

Adults can join in! I confirmed this. To celebrate National Puppetry Day, you sing karaoke while WEARING A PUPPET. That is the most awesome thing I think I have ever heard. 5:30-8pm, but kids come earlier, adults come later. (Click ‘more’ for details)Adults can join in! I confirmed this. To celebrate National Puppetry Day, you…
32 Station Street Brookline, MA

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This week’s top items are below, or see the complete Boston Events Insider.

 

And a lot more this week at Boston Events Insider, the most popular events blog in New England, including:

BONE (Best of North East) Metal Detection Fest
Pathway of the Patriots
Harvard Humanist Lifetime Achievement Award
Cambridge Science Festival
Science Trivia Challenge
Biology Flash Mob at MIT
Group Intelligence
Arts First Festival (Harvard)
Boston College Arts Festival
The Harvard Square Bookish Ball
Cambridge Dulcimer Festival
West Medford Open Studios
Big Ideas for Busy People
Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival
Spring Fair at Gilbert Stuart Birthplace & Museum
Swordsmanship Conference at UMass
Man Food Fire: The Evolution of Barbecue
Remembrance of the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War
Anderson Cooper lecture at Salem State
JiffyCon Game Day
Open House at Courageous Sailing Center
Boston Sailing Center – Open House
Run of the Charles Canoe and Kayak Race
Stars, Moons and the Rings of Saturn
An Introduction to the Moon
Dangerous Encounters: The Hunt for Asteroids
Paul Revere on The Prado
All Aboard for the Titanic!
BOSE Mountain Kite Fly
Daffodil Day
Nantucket Daffodil Festival
Blithewold Gardens Fairy Festival
Derry Carnival
Manchester Carnival
Somersworth Spring Fest
Extravaganja
Newburyport Literary Festival
Brewster in Bloom
Art in Bloom at MFA
Night Hayrides at Smolak Farms
Preventing Bullying Begins with Us
Walk the Walk for Autism
Keeping The Beat For Kids Run/Walk/Kites
Walk Like MADD
Annual Pawcatuck River Duck Race
Independent Film Festival
Jas’ Elsner: Dionysus at the Gardner
Blacksmith Poetry Readings: Franz Wright (Pulitzer winner)
Canobie Lake Park – Opening Weekend
Statewide Volunteer Day
MIT Earth Day Bash
Earth Day Clean Up at Wachusett Mountain
Mystic Community Earth Day – Malden
Mystic Community Earth Day – Medford
Mystic Community Earth Day – Medford
Mystic Community Earth Day – Chelsea
SoundScience Fun! With Chris & Meredith Thompson
Pirate Lives! The Musical! — our review
Boston Derby Dames — Roller Derby
Boston Poetry Slam Team Finals
Banned in Boston
Geek Week & Roleplaying at Improv Boston
JazzBoston Jazz Week
Mystic Pirate Party
Meriden Daffodil Festival
Milford Living Annual Kite Fly
Belltown Gas and Steam Engine Show
Connecticut Storytelling Festival
University of Hartford’s Community Day
Quinni-Con
Connecticut and Western Massachusetts Kidney Walk
Connecticut Film Festival
Rokakku Fly
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