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Boston Public Library
Central Library in Copley Square
700 Boylston Street

Starting at 2:30pm-3:30pm
And it's FREE!

If you can't make the one today, there is one tomorrow that starts at 6pm!

(ähts) The 9th Annual Boston Arts Festival features the best of the Boston arts scene - both visual and performance. There are over 60 visual artists exhibiting and selling their original work and a performance program that will showcase over a dozen of Boston's best performing arts groups and performers, including Opera Boston, Makanda Project, the Orfeo Group, Sam Cornish and Miss Fairchild.

Where: Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park
When: Sunday, Sep 11 12:00p to 6:00p
Price: Free

YEAH! Get your roller derby fix on tonight!
Come join the Boston Derby Dames for the final game of the 2011 season!  If you have never seen roller derby in-person then it's never too late to start.  Doors open at 4:00pm and game begins at 5:00pm.  Double-header, how can you beat that?!  Make some friends, learn the game and enjoy the colorful banter of our announcers.  Don't be surprised if you lose your voice from all the excitement! Click here to get tickets or find out more information.

Bout #1: Cosmonaughties vs Maine (Expo Bout)
Bout #2: Nutcrackers vs Wicked Pissahs (Championship)

Where: Aleppo Shriners Auditorium | 99 Fordham Rd, Wilmington, MA
When: Saturday, September 10, 2011 4:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Price: $12.00 - $25.00

Get back into the swing of fall with National Yoga Month!

Give yoga a try with the One Week Free Yoga Program at studios across the country. Find yoga near you with our Yoga Studio Finder and Event Finder. Join our global community yoga practice during The Time for Yoga on September 30, 2011. Yoga studios and teachers: log on to list your studios and events... it's free! Find out who is participating here.

Photo by Brady: the Civil War through the Lens of Mathew Brady

Get out of the rain today and go check out the Civil War Exhibt at the Boston Public Library.

Photography was still in its infancy and Mathew Brady was a young photographer when the Civil War broke out. The first battle of the war, the Battle of Bull Run, galvanized Brady to document the war through his camera lens. After receiving permission from President Abraham Lincoln, Brady hired 35 teams of photographers to follow the Union troops and document the battles and the bloody aftermaths. Brady and his colleagues took thousands of photographs chronicling these ferocious conflicts with sorrowful scenes of corpse-strewn battlefields. Much of what we know about the Civil War comes from the pictorial archive that resulted from these photographs, all stamped “Photo by Brady.” The exhibition draws from the collection of about 375 Civil War photographs taken by Mathew Brady, his colleague Alexander Gardner, and others from the Brady studio. These are part of the Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment Collection that is the core of a large and important collection on the Civil War housed in the Boston Public Library’s Rare Books Department.

The exhibition area is open Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm and closed Saturday and Sunday.

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, which will feature a panel discussion, at 6pm in the Sackler Museum lecture hall, that introduces the main themes of the exhibition, followed by a reception in the Sackler Museum lobby.

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge examines how celebrated Northern Renaissance artists contributed to the scientific investigations of the 16th century. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue challenge the perception of artists as illustrators in the service of scientists. Artists’ printed images served as both instruments for research and agents in the dissemination of knowledge. The exhibition, displaying prints, books, maps, and such instruments as sundials, globes, astrolabes, and armillary spheres, looks at relationships between their producers and their production, as well as among the objects themselves. The story of 16th-century technology is enhanced by technology of the 21st, with interactive computers in the galleries, an interactive module on the website, and an iPhone/iPad application in iTunes (check back here soon for an update on availability).

Limited complimentary parking at Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street.

Where: 485 Broadway , Cambridge, MA | 5pm–8pm
What: Fun Historical Information about Print and what and how it formed the world and it's on-going until December 10th.
Price: Free

Lights, Camera, Boston! On Location Tours takes you on the ultimate tour of Beantown with the Boston TV & Movie Sites Tour. The tour includes multiple recognizable sites such as the Statehouse seen in The Verdict, the Boston Public Gardens spotted in Alex and Emma, the pub made famous by Cheers, the Leonard Zakim Bridge that appears in The Departed, the coffee shop used in The Town and many more! Tours are led by local actors who share inside industry information and behind-the-scenes scoop.

Get schedule information here and lots more!
http://www.screentours.com/tour.php/boston

The SoWa Artists Guild, 450 Harrison Ave, and the Boston Center for the Arts, Artist Studio Building, 551 Tremont St, will open their studios to the public from 5 to 9pm Friday, today!

Visitors can see the guild artists in their element and view their latest works. Artwork includes paintings, sculptures, jewelry design, ceramics, glass and furniture. Admission is free and parking is available!