Haunted Grade School, MIT Robot Wars, Snow Sculpture, 1892 Carnival, Breakdancing, Ren Faire, Birdwatching
Here are this week’s top items, and click to see the complete Johnny’s List of Weird Boston Events.
| Sleep No More | 10/8 – 2/7 | Boston Metro |
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| I finally went to see Sleep No More and you really MUST go. They’ve transformed over 40 rooms of a schoolhouse into a haunted house based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, complete with actors who dance, fight, and perform without speaking a word. It’s too weird to describe. JUST GO. Some School, Brookline, MA. see details on the complete Johnny’s List |
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| MIT 6.270 Robot Competition (physical robots) | 1/28 | Boston Metro |
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| 7pm. Also, it’s robot competition week at MIT, as different classes come to an end. This one’s the biggest and best, where students build physical robots and have them compete. MIT Room 26-100, Cambridge, MA. see details on the complete Johnny’s List see details on the complete Johnny’s List |
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| Market Day at Birka: Renaissance Faire | 1/29 – 1/30 | New Hampshire |
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| Perhaps you prefer the past to the future. This is the largest local event by the SCA, the Society for Creative Anachronism, as seen in the 2008 movie “Role Models”. They’ll have a medeival market place, food, costuming, fight tournaments, and you’ll learn something about history. Radish Hotel, 700 Elm Street, Manchester, NH.603-715-5523. see details on the complete Johnny’s List |
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| Annual Snow Sculpting Competition | 1/29 – 1/31 | New Hampshire |
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| Also in New Hampshire, watch artists make sculptures out of snow. Pretty neat! Black Mountain, Jackson, NH.603-383-9356. see details on the complete Johnny’s List |
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| Superbowl of Birding @ Joppa Flats | 1/30 | Northern Mass |
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| This week you can also go birdwatching and “compete” in teams to find the most birds. Everyone welcome. 5am to 5pm. Joppa Flats Education Center, Newburyport, MA.978-462-9998. see details on the complete Johnny’s List |
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| Carny Knowledge: A Sideshow Extravaganza of Original Plays and Extraordinary Oddities | 1/29 – 2/6 | Boston Metro |
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| This series of performances also comes with sideshow displays, like a real old-timey carnival. It seems strange and engaging! Cambridge YMCA, 820 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA. see details on the complete Johnny’s List see details on the complete Johnny’s List |
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| Amherst Railway Society – Big Railroad Hobby Show | 1/30 – 1/31 | Western Mass |
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| Way out west is a model train show. They hook together dozens of privately built tracks to create one huge railroad track system. They don’t actually say where it is to be held. But here’s the address from last year. Eastern States Exposition, 1305 Memorial Ave, West Springfield, MA.617-822-4046. see details on the complete Johnny’s List |
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And a lot more this week at the Complete Johnny’s List of Weird Boston Events, including:
Battles at the Buzzer (Breakdancing), Charm School @ MIT, Maslab Robotics Contest, MIT 6.370 Robot Competition (software “bots”), Annual Hummus Taste Off, Death By Chocolate 2010, Integration Bee, Winter Volunteer Day @ Franklin Park, Full-Moon Family Snowshoe Hike, Great Rotary Ice Fishing Derby, Instrument Petting Zoo, AIDS Action’s Dance Party, Rock-paper-scissors Championship, Cranapalooza, Winterfest Weekends @ Fruitlands Museum, Sleigh rides & smores at Point of View Farm, Kimball Farm Horse-Draw Sleigh Rides, Breakdance Classes, MIT IAP (Independent Activities Period), Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Bread and Puppet Theatre, Atwater-Donnelly, Annual A Cappella Fest in Brookline, and more.
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