Please see the Dudley House calendar for the most up-to-date information! Or sign up for Dudley’s program-specific mailing lists to follow your interests! For Yard access for non-Harvard ID holders, call the House at 617-495-2255. 

Social Events

Winter Formal
Saturday, December 3, 8 p.m., Dudley House. Celebrate the end of the year at the Winter Formal at Dudley House. See the House transformed into a decadent winter wonderland, and your fellow grad students dressed-to-impress and dancing the night away. Live music by the Dudley House Orchestra. Hors d'oeuvres, desserts, and drinks included in ticket price. Tickets are $10 at Dudley House Office starting November 22; or $15 at the door, if any remain. Open to Dudley House members and their guests. Proper ID required for alcohol. Contact the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Music at Dudley

What Cheer! A Holiday Concert of Carols and Classics
Sunday, December 4, 7 p.m., Dudley House Main Dining Room. Come hear the Dudley House Choir.  Free admission, so bring your friends! For more information, click here or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Dudley House Jazz Band in Concert
Saturday, December 10, 8 p.m., Dudley House Main Dining Room. The Jazz Band is proud to present the musicHorace Tapscott and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. Read more about this historic concert! Contact

Dudley Classic Films

Movie Screening: The Sound of Music
Friday, December 9, 6 p.m., Dudley House Graduate Student Lounge. Come watch this classic musical film with crisp apple strudel and warm apple cider.

My Fair Lady
Friday, January 13, 6:30 p.m., Dudley House Graduate Student Lounge. A beautiful adaptation of one of the great musical theatre creations. Professor Higgins transforms a flower girl into a duchess through the power of language. Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison and a wonderful supporting cast bring this delightful story to life. Gorgeous sets and costumes, wonderful tunes. Fun for everyone. (170 min.)

The Princess Bride
Thursday, January 19, 6:30 p.m., Dudley House Graduate Student Lounge. “Inconceivable!” “As You Wish!” “My name is Inigo Montoya…” All the classic lines, plus a visit to the fire swamp, screaming eels, dastardly villains, and Dread Pirate Roberts and Buttercup! (98 min.)

Dudley Arts

Drawing into Painting
The last two sessions of the current Dudley art session, Drawing into Painting, will meet December 3rd and 4th.  We will offer the art class again in the spring; contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to be placed on a waiting list for the next 10-week session.

WPR Recording Session: Anna Rabinowitz
Wednesday, December 7, 5 p.m., Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library, Room 330. In our first recording session of the season, Anna Rabinowitz (author of the recently published Present Tense and editor emerita of American Letters & Commentary) records poems from her latest collection, which has been hailed as "one of the best poetry books of 2010" by the Huffington Post. A Q&A with the audience will follow. We will meet at 4:45pm on the Dudley House steps and walk over to Lamont. RSVP to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you plan on attending.

MFA Outing to “The Clock”
Wednesday, December 14, 6:30 p.m., “A compelling new work created by world-renowned artist Christian Marclay, The Clock (2010), an ode to time and cinema, comprises thousands of fragments from a range of films that create a 24-hour, looped, single-channel video. The Clock tells the accurate time at any given moment, and wherever it is screened it is synchronized to the local time zone, so that it is literally a working time piece.” We will meet on the steps of Dudley House at 6:30pm to travel to the museum on the M2 (Harvard ID required to ride). Museum admission is free to the general public on Wednesday evening. Please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

MFA Outing to “Degas and the Nude”
Wednesday, January 18th, 2 p.m., The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas from the beginning of his career in the 1850s until the end of his working life, but the subject has never before been explored in a Museum exhibition. “Degas and the Nude,” co-organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, features paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and sculpture, and calls attention to the evolution of the treatment of the nude from Degas’s early years, through his triumphant offerings from the 1880s and 1890s, to the last decades of his working career. Free for Harvard Students with ID. We will meet in the Dudley House lobby at 2pm. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Submissions for Landscape Photography and Poetry Exhibit in the Gato Rojo
Dudley Arts is now accepting submissions for an interdisciplinary landscape photography and poetry exhibit! Photographs and digital paintings which involve landscape are welcome. The exhibit will pair photographs with poems that will be in dialogue with the visual art.  The art opening and reception will be on Friday, Feb. 3rd at 6:30pm in the Gato Rojo. Please submit your work electronically to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Outing to the Boston Symphony Chamber Players
Sunday, January 22, 3 p.m., Jordan Hall. Join us for an afternoon of chamber music with serenades by Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms performed by the chamber players of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. We will leave at 2pm from the Dudley House steps. Tickets on sale at the Dudley House office beginning the second week in January; price TBD. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Dudley Arts Chamber Music Initiative
After an auspicious debut at the Lily Pad this past fall, the Dudley Arts Chamber Music Initiative will continue throughout the spring semester. Its ongoing mission is to connect GSAS musicians with professionals throughout the Boston/Cambridge area for interesting collaborations at unusual venues. If you’re interested in performing at the spring concert and have a chamber group already formed, or if you are looking for fellow musicians to form an ensemble, then write this month to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The spring concert will be held in April at a venue TBD; rehearsals, individually arranged, will begin in late January and run throughout winter and spring.

Tango Argentino @ Dudley House
Argentine Tango will continue throughout the spring semester! Two series of tango lessons, beginner and intermediate, and an open, guided practica will run from early February till late April. Registration in the Dudley House office will open in the second week of January; open to Dudley House members and their guests. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Dudley Literary Program

Writers’ Workshop
Thursday, December 1, 7-9 p.m., Fireside Room. Before you leave for that long winter break, get geared up for a creative writing project! Join fellow writers for our last workshop of the semester. Bring copies of your work for the group to discuss, whatever phase it’s in. Questions? This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Writing and Study Bootcamp
Saturday and Sunday, December 3-4, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Gato Rojo. Need a weekend dedicated to your academic work? We provide a quiet, informal setting, two days of breakfast and lunch, plenty of caffeine, and access to the graduate writing tutor. The cost of the event is $20, and to ensure your commitment, no portion of this fee will be refunded if you do not attend. Please sign up and pay in advance in the Graduate Office on the third floor of Dudley House no later than Thursday, December 1 (open to Dudley House members only). Students at the Longwood Campus may register by contacting the House at 617-495-2255. Limited to 12 attendees, so sign up now! Please note that this is not an instructional class. Questions? This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Literary Movie Screening: Bridget Jones’s Diary
Friday, January 20, 4 p.m., Graduate Student Lounge. Start your spring semester with this playful, irreverent updating of the Jane Austen classic, Pride and Prejudice. Colin Firth reprises his turn as Mr. Darcy, Hugh Grant acts roguish, and Renée Zellweger musters a British accent. Treats and beverages will be served.

Dudley Review Prize Competition
The Dudley Review announces its seventh non-annual writing competition. Entries in poetry, short fiction (or excerpts from longer fiction), creative non-fiction/science-writing, and visual art are welcomed. First and second place entries in each of the four categories (provided a category receives at least three submissions), as selected by outside judges, will receive top billing in the 2012 issue, alongside other accepted submissions. First place winners will each receive a check for $50. Contest entries should not bear the writer’s or artist’s name but should be accompanied by a cover sheet including the entrant’s name and contact information. Visit the Dudley Literary Arts Program page for detailed submission guidelines (deadline: January 10).

Dudley Public Service

Science Day for Kids
Monday, December 5, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Interested in getting kids excited about science? Dudley Public Service is helping out with Science Day – a science demo day for kids, hosted by the Harvard ExperiMentors. The theme this year is "Myth Busters," and we've been planning experiments and demonstrations reaching across several disciplines. Come help us make "elephant toothpaste," learn about color, and think about the size of the universe. The event will run from 8:30 am-2 pm on, but you can sign up for shifts. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if interested.

WinterFest for Kids
Wednesday, January 18, 2–5 p.m. Bring the whole family to Dudley House for an afternoon of magical winter fun with the House transformed into a wonderland. We will have games, food, music, storytelling, and arts & crafts among many other activities and forms of entertainment. This event is open to the entire Harvard community and is specially designed for families with children two to twelve years old.

Pine Street Inn January Orientation
The City of Boston has over 7,000 homeless individuals on any given night. Founded in 1969, the Pine Street Inn serves more than 1,300 homeless individuals daily (10,000 annually) and is the largest resource for homeless individuals in New England. Volunteers are needed in many areas, including serving meals and acting as receptionists. We're planning to attend at least one of their January orientation events to see how we can become involved next semester.  At the orientation, we'll learn about Pine Street, take a tour, and find out about volunteer policies and opportunities. If you're interested in joining, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. this fall, as paperwork needs to be completed and submitted before we can attend the orientation.

Outings

The Nutcracker Ballet
Tuesday, December 13, 6:30 p.m., Experience the enchantment of this classic holiday story about being lost in a winter wonderland, while taking in the beauty of Tchaikovsky’s music and the grace of the Boston Ballet. Tickets ($36) will be on sale starting on Thursday, November 17 at 9 am. Dudley members may bring one guest. Meet at Dudley House at 6:30 pm to go to the Boston Opera House together for the 7:30 pm performance. For more information, click here or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

2012 Dudley House Ski Trips
January 16-19 and January 19-22, Get out into the powder and catch some vertical motion with Dudley this January! Come out to Sugarloaf Resort, Maine, on one of two 3-day trips: January 16-19 or January 19-22. Enjoy more than skiing - luxury condos, hot tub & pool access, snow-shoeing & ice-skating, and dinners are all included too! Sign-up begins Tuesday, November 8, at 9 am on the 3rd floor of Dudley House. Tickets sell out quickly, so get there early! For more information, including prices, click here. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .