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  Democracy Now: A Panel Discussion

  6:30pm Tue, Feb 11, 2025

  Humanities Workshop and Revolutionary Spaces invite you to The panel--Democracy Now--. It is an opportunity to hear from humanists whose daily work considers and shapes the state of our local and global democracies. Questions the conversation may explore include: What does active citizenship in a democracy look like? How do we prepare ourselves for the challenges that our democracy will face? How do we reform our democracy so that it serves all of its constituents?
  
  The goal is for our panelists to help the audience interpret the current political moment and discover new pathways to citizen leadership.
  Moderated by Simón Rios, WBUR reporter.
  
  The Humanities Workshop—a consortium of public, private, and charter secondary school communities—believes in the critical importance of the humanities in addressing urgent social issues. The humanities educate our students to understand historical context, engage in perspective taking, hone critical thinking, and generate narrative. They believe a humanistic approach to social issues develops empathy in their students, inspiring them to engage deeply in the world around them, now and in the future, with their whole selves.

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  Wine Tasting with Rick Steves 2025

  8:00pm Tue, Feb 11, 2025

  TICKET SALES HAVE ENDED
  
  Join renowned world traveler, Rick Steves for a flight of Italian wine! Whether you're a seasoned wine connoisseur or just starting your wine journey, you won't want to miss this unforgettable evening of wine education. Rick and a sommelier will guide you through a handpicked selection of exceptional wines from Italy. Immerse yourself in the culture and flavors of each bottle as you sip, savor and laugh alongside Rick.
  
  Expand your knowledge of the art of wine tasting with the fundamental five S's: see, swirl, sniff, sip, and savor. Don’t miss this evening of discovery and indulgence, where you're sure to learn something new about the wonderful world of Italian wine- and perhaps about Rick too!
  
  
  Ticket Includes: 
  

  • Access to the Zoom Webinar 
  • 2 hours of wine education and Q&A lead by our sommelier who will be joined by Rick Steves
  • 6 mini bottles of wine (enough for two to taste) include two Whites, a Rose, and Three Reds, all from Italy. They will be shipped directly to your door. (Varietals include Fiano, Grecanico, Rosato (Rosé Wine), Nerello Cappuccio, Nerello Mascalese, and Rosso di Italia (Red Wine)).

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  •  Kits cannot be shipped to Canada and the following states: Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Mississippi, Rhode Island, and Utah
  • Guests must be at least 21 years old to participate in alcohol related events
  •  Ticket sales end 5pm ET, January 27, 2025 to allow for time to ship the wine tasting kits

  
  Share the experience! You can add an additional kit (for an additional cost) and ship it to a separate address! Just purchase an additional kit and enter the shipping address for that person.
  
  Don’t delay! Tickets are limited and registration will only be open until 5pm ET, January 27, 2025 to allow for timely shipment of wine tasting kits.
  
  
  
  Shipping Details:
  

  • Ticket sales end 5pm ET, January 27, 2025
  • Make sure that your address is submitted correctly (no typos!) Failure to type your address correctly will result in a shipping delay or even the possibility that your ticket will not be fulfilled. 
  • Ticket holders will receive their wine tasting kits in the days before the event on February 11, 2025. 
  •  Kits cannot be shipped to Canada and the following states: Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Mississippi, Rhode Island, and Utah
  • Kits cannot be shipped to a P.O. Box
  • Ticket holders will need to be home to show identification and sign upon delivery to prove they are 21+ years of age. Wine will not be delivered without this.
  • Please open your kit when it arrives to ensure you are ready to sip along on February 11!  If you have any questions regarding your kit, please let us know. 
    

  Ticket purchases for this event support GBH programming.

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  Bookstore Romance: How Independent Bookstores Create Community and Inspire Love!

  6:00pm Wed, Feb 12, 2025

  From proposals to “I do.” Book-lovers find their perfect match at bookstores they love.
  
  What is the most romantic place to get engaged? A bookstore, of course. The perfect wedding venue? A bookstore! Book-loving couples from all over America agree, and Bookstore Romance celebrates not only a couple’s love for each other, but also their love of books and bookstores.
  
  In this talk, author Judith Rosen will join a panel of Boston-area booksellers, booksellers, including Trident Booksellers & Café co-owner Courtney Flynn; More Than Words Retail Business Manager Annie Sandoli; and Christina Pascucci-Ciampa, owner of All She Wrote Books, to discuss this swoon-worthy book and answer your questions about bookselling, book marketing, creating community, and love!
  
  In Bookstore Romance: Love Speaks Volumes, former Publishers Weekly journalist Judith Rosen tells the stories of 24 couples who were engaged or married in their favorite independent bookstores. This irresistible book gives us an opportunity to celebrate love in its many forms, the love these couples share with one another, the love they share for their local indie bookstores, and the love these bookstores and booksellers pour into their communities every single day as they cultivate these special spaces - third spaces - where people of all sorts gather together and feel at home.
  
  Presented with Brandeis University Press.
  

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  GBH Jazz Nights Featuring Jesse Taitt

  5:30pm Thu, Feb 13, 2025

  GBH Music and JazzBoston are co-hosting a new series to showcase the breadth of incredible jazz talent of pianist and composer Jesse Taitt shares music that celebrates resilience, ancestry, and community. Tickets are free, but registration is encouraged. Please note that by registering for this event you agree to receive email communications from GBH Music. GBH Jazz Nights are made possible by the Goldstein Family Fund.

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  Valentine’s Day Soirée

  6:15pm Fri, Feb 14, 2025

  SOLD OUT
  
  Come celebrate love with GBH! Bring a date, friend, or your squad to a night of craft cocktails, local treats, and stories inspired by love on the theme of “What I did for Love”.
  
  Arrive at 6:15pm for a complimentary reception featuring artisan cocktails and New England treats and sweets. Then, take a seat on the set of Stories from the Stage and enjoy stories on the extraordinary—and sometimes ridiculous—things our tellers have done for love. Hear stories of the passion, folly, and profound lessons learned.
  
  Make this a Valentine’s Day to remember! Tickets support GBH.
  
  At Stories from the Stage, produced by GBH WORLD, ordinary people share extraordinary experiences that you will not soon forget. You’ll hear stories of love and loss, amazing adventures, incredible surprises and unexpected triumphs. In each taping, we get up-close and personal with storytellers about what inspires them and the craft of storytelling. Join us!
  
  6:15pm Doors open to GBH's Atrium for a complimentary reception 7:00pm Doors open to GBH's Calderwood Studio for seating
  
  Each ticket includes:
  

  • A seat on the set of Stories from the Stage: What I did for Love
  • Artisan cocktails 
  • Sweet and savory treats from local New England vendors  
  • Complimentary parking 

  Event registration is required. Seating is general admission.The maximum capacity of this event is 160.
  
  All guests must age 21 or older and have a valid ID.
  
  Special thanks to our amazing vendors.
  

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  DISASTER NATIONALISM: Is it the downfall of liberal civilization?

  5:00pm Tue, Feb 18, 2025

  Are we on the brink of a new and irreversible epoch; one that signals the end of democratic civilization as we have known it? Hard right political groups like Germany’s AfD party, which has roots in Nazi ideology, have celebrated Trump’s second term along with other extreme European politicians like Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban who announced that he had “downed vodka” in celebration of Trump’s win.
  
  Cambridge Forum has invited three experts to consider the current political situation, from a US and global perspective. Richard Seymour, a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland, has been watching the disturbing political developments in Europe and elsewhere; his latest book, Disaster Nationalism, analyzes the roots, influencers and threats that this global shift poses.
  Sasha Abramsky, political journalist and writing lecturer at UC Davis, is a correspondent for The Nation magazine. Last week, he summarized the chaotic situation in Washington for The Nation “Trump’s win is a boon to the far right in Europe and beyond. There are certain basic things that an administration is supposed to do in a constitutional democracy, first and foremost is abiding by the law, not physically endangering political opponents and funding government services.”
  Michelle Lynn Kahn is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Richmond where she examines post-1945 Germany and Europe in a global and transnational frame focusing on racism, far-right extremism, gender and migration.
  This week, Elon Musk and his “unelected, unvetted and without federal government clearance” team wreaked havoc in government offices in the Capitol, to obtain access to sensitive personal data of all U.S. citizens. Is this assault on our democratic system the beginning of the end?

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  Alice Rothchild with 'Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician'

  5:30pm Wed, Feb 19, 2025

  Join Our Bodies Ourselves Today and Ford Hall Forum for a book talk with author Alice Rothchild. Hear about the journey of a 1950s good girl to an irreverent, feisty, feminist physician.
  
  'Inspired and Outraged' is the intimate memoir of Alice Rothchild from her adolescence to her mid-40s and the experiences that contributed to her passion and power as a doctor, an activist, and a woman. Compiling stories of her life in verse, Rothchild explores the events of her childhood, her training as an obstetrician-gynecologist, and her discovery of feminism as a guiding force in her life.
  
  Rothchild’s voice encapsulates her perseverance in the face of the male-dominated medical world and the shifting sexual politics of the late twentieth century. This memoir is both a record of the past and an urgent call to action.
  
  She'll be in conversation with Amy Agigian, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Suffolk University (Boston), where she is the founding director of the Center for Women's Health and Human Rights. She also serves as executive director of Our Bodies Ourselves at Suffolk University. 
  

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  DVinci Soul live at the BPL

  3:30pm Thu, Feb 20, 2025

  Please come join us for an afternoon of great music that will have you dancing in your seats. Registration is encouraged for this free event.
  
  DVinci Soul is a 6 piece Motown, soul and classic R&B band that is most known for their soulful harmonies, lively horns, tight rhythm section, and for inspiring people of all ages to get up and dance. Playing in and around the Boston area for over 30 years, and together since 2016, DVinci Soul covers their own blend of danceable tunes from Stevie Wonder, Aretha, Marvin Gaye, Earth Wind and Fire, Tower of Power, and Chaka Khan, to newer bands like Lake Street Dive, Amy Winehouse and the California Honeydrops.
  
  DVinci soulmates include:
  - Debra Vinci (vocals)
  - Chris Leadbetter (guitar and vocals)
  - David Fuller (drums and vocals)
  - Jeff Garmel (saxophone)
  - Bob Pilkington (trombone)
  - Richard Hale Shaw (bass)
  
  DVinci Soul's music and videos can be found here .
  

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  Mill Talk: Tariffs and Trade, Then and Now

  7:00pm Fri, Feb 21, 2025

  In 1816, Francis Cabot Lowell was in Washington DC lobbying Congress to pass the first protectionist tariff in American history. In the aftermath of the War of 1812, the burgeoning cotton textile industry he had fought so hard to build was imperiled by the cheap dumping of British imports. By building a coalition between Northern industrialists and Southern plantation owners, Lowell was successful in arguing that tariffs would ensure that American domestic manufacturing should be protected, and that the federal government’s trade policy had a duty to so.
  
  Now, tariffs are back in the political conversation, and the efforts around the Tariff of 1816 and its consequences are as relevant as ever. Join us as we engage in a dynamic conversation connecting the past, present, and future of tariffs and trade policy and their effects. Economist Bryan Snyder and historian Larry Peskin will draw lessons from American history to inform our understanding of economic policy today.

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  The Ulysses Quartet at Boston Public Library (February 2025)

  1:00pm Mon, Feb 24, 2025

  Join GBH Music's quartet in residence, the Ulysses Quartet, for a performance at the Boston Public Library!
  
  Tickets are free, but registration is encouraged. Please note that by registering for this event you agree to receive email communications from GBH and CRB Classical.
  
  Program:
  HAYDN String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2, “Joke”
  DANISH TRADITIONAL (arr. Danish String Quartet): Drømte Mig En Drøm
  DVORÁK String Quartet No. 14 in A-Flat Major, Op. 105
  
  About the Ulysses Quartet:
  The Ulysses Quartet has been praised for their “textural versatility,” “grave beauty” and “the kind of chemistry many quartets long for, but rarely achieve” (The Strad). Founded in 2015, the group won the grand prize and gold medal in the senior string division of the 2016 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and first prize in the 2018 Schoenfeld International String Competition. The quartet’s members hail from Canada, the United States and Taiwan. They have performed in such prestigious halls as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Jordan Hall, the Picasso Museum in Málaga and Washington’s National Gallery of Art among many others. At Juilliard from 2019 to 2022, they were the Lisa Arnhold Fellows, serving as the School’s Graduate Resident String Quartet for 3 years. The group’s name pays homage to Homer’s hero Odysseus and his 10-year voyage home. The members of Ulysses perform on instruments and bows on loan from the Maestro Foundation and private donors.
  

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  GBH Music Jazz Subscription Series

  5:00pm Tue, Feb 25, 2025

  Support GBH Music and get a front row seat to 4 immersive in-person jazz productions at our studios in Brighton. Guests who contribute $400 will receive a pair of tickets to 4 upcoming music events between February and May 2025.
  
  All events take place in the GBH studios in Brighton and include a dessert reception with light refreshments.
  
  
  These 4 jazz events from GBH Music include:
  
  

  • February 27, 2025 - GBH Music Presents JazzNOW with TRIAD in Fraser Performance Studio,  (7:15-9pm)
  • March 27, 2025 - GBH Music Presents JazzNOW featuring Farayi Malek  in Fraser Performance Studio, (7:15-9pm)
  • April 30, 2025  – GBH Music Presents JazzNOW Celebrating International Jazz Day with Walid Zairi & Talween in Fraser Performance Studio, (7:15-9pm)
  • May 29, 2025 - GBH Music Presents JazzNOW A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, featuring Gabrielle Goodman – in Calderwood Television Studio, (7:15-10pm)

   
  
  Your pair of tickets for these GBH Music Presents events will include:
  
  ● Priority seating for each performance. Reserved seats in the first 3 rows in GBH Performance Studio for the live musical performance with the featured jazz ensemble.
  
  ● Opportunity to speak with the musicians and GBH/CRB moderator/host after the performance concludes.
   
  
  **Please note there are NO substitutions for GBH Music subscriber's 4 event dates. ** If ticket holders can not attend these dates, or have other questions, please contact Audience and Member Services during regular business hours M-F, 9am-5pm at 617-300-3300 or via email: info@wgbh.org.

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  Great Decisions with Thomas Kenney | AI and American National Security

  6:00pm Tue, Feb 25, 2025

  Artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative AI, is often claimed as an emerging technology that will disrupt all facets of society.
  
  Join us for a timely discussion of this topic with Lt. Col. Thomas Kenney, outgoing commander of the 416th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne) on Camp Pendleton North, San Diego, CA and Fellow at the Belfer Center.
  
  This program will feature an expert presentation, live audience Q&A, and time for networking and discussion with other globally-oriented participants.
  
  

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