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Dudley’s 20^th Anniversary Gala

Join us on October 27, 5–7 p.m., as Dudley House celebrates its 20th Anniversary as the graduate student center at GSAS! Harvard is marking the anniversary with a swanky cocktail party in the House — and we want you there to mix and mingle!

Intellectual/Cultural Events

Senior Common Room Reception and Dinner
Monday, October 3, Reception: 5:30 p.m., Graduate Student Lounge; Dinner: 6 p.m., Common Room. Please join us for the October Senior Common Room Reception and Dinner, featuring Tom Conley, the Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures, on "The Mapping Impulse of Cinema." Open to Dudley House members only; tickets are limited and available from the Dudley House office, 3rd Floor, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Longwood students may call 617-495-2255 during office hours to arrange for tickets. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. at for more information.

Food Literacy Program

Harvard Farmers’ Market Tour
Tuesday, October 4, 4:30 p.m. Meet in front of Dudley House to take a tour of the Harvard Farmers' Market, where you can find fresh and organic food from local farms and bakeries.

Culinary Class with Dudley Chef: Learn to Cook Mediterranean Cuisine
Thursday, October 20, 5:00 p.m., Meet in front of Dudley. Tickets available at Dudley House 3rd Floor.  Dudley Chef Matthew Pierce will teach participants how to cook Mediterranean cuisine. The class will be hands-on and students will learn to cook 4 to 5 dishes. The class will take place at 80 JFK St and last 2 to 3 hours. Please sign up with $5 at Dudley House 3rd floor. This is a Dudley member only event.

Outings

Franconia Ridge Day Hike
Saturday, October 1, 6:30 a.m., Widely considered a can’t-miss hike in the Northeast, this intensive 9 mile (9 hour) trek has nearly 4000 feet of elevation and summits at least two peaks (Mt Lafayette and Mt Lincoln). Depart at dawn on Oct 1st (6:30 a.m.). Tickets will be on sale starting September 19th at 9 a.m. in the Dudley House office and cost $25 ($30 for guests). Appropriate gear is required (see dudley.harvard.edu/outings). Dudley members may bring up to one guest. 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. .

Apple and Pumpkin Picking
Sunday, October 2, 10 a.m., Indulge in a traditional New England pastime: picking your own apples and pumpkins! We will head to Smolak Farms in North Andover, MA, departing from Harvard at 10 a.m. Smolak Farms also has a petting zoo with baby llamas, alpacas, sheep, and other animals! Drivers are needed and will be reimbursed. $5 per person, tickets on sale starting Sept 19 on the 3rd floor of Dudley house. Dudley members may bring a guest.

Tour of Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Saturday, October 22, Meet at Dudley House at 1 p.m. to go with a group to take the bus to the Mt. Auburn Cemetery or meet at the cemetery inside the main gateway at 1:15 p.m.  Join Dudley House Administrator and Mt. Auburn Cemetery Docent Susan Zawalich on a two-hour walk through the beautiful and historic Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Consecrated in 1831, the Mt. Auburn Cemetery predates public parks in America and is a world-class arboretum, bird, and wildlife sanctuary.  The cemetery is the final resting place for over 90,000 people including such historic figures as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edwin Booth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Isabella Stewart Gardner. Please bring bus fare if you are coming from Harvard Square (#71 or #73 bus).

Dudley Arts

Dudley Drawing Class
Saturdays, 2-4 p.m., September 17-October 29, The first six-week session of the Dudley arts class will continue to meet on Saturdays in the Dudley Private Dining Room through Oct. 29. The class is currently full, but contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to be placed on a waiting list for our next session on drawing and painting, which will meet on Saturdays from Nov. 5-Dec. 3.

Outing to the ICA
Thursday, October 6, 6 p.m., Join us for an outing to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. On view are Eva Hesse’s “studioworks,” experimental works that offer insight into her creative process, and Leslie Hewitt’s “Riffs on Real Time,” a group of photographs that explores the role of photography in recapturing the past. Free with Harvard ID; open to all. We will meet on the Dudley steps at 6 p.m. to head over. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Outing to Huntington Theatre Company’s production of Before I Leave You
Friday, October 21, 8 p.m., Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, 527 Tremont St. Join us for a performance by Boston’s leading professional theatre company! The Huntington Theatre Company performs Before I Leave You, a play by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro set in Harvard Square. Emily’s world falls apart when husband Koji suddenly embraces his Asian roots and her friend Jeremy's work on his novel gets interrupted by a health scare. Four longtime friends face too much past and too little future in this moving new comedy. Tickets are $15, available to Dudley House members and their guests at the Dudley House office beginning on Oct. 1st. We will meet on the Dudley steps at 7 p.m. to head over. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Trip to Salem and the House of the Seven Gables
Saturday, October 15, 10:30 a.m., 115 Derby Street, Salem, MA. Join us for a trip to the historical town of Salem. We will leave from the Dudley House steps at 10:30 a.m. to take the 12 p.m. ferry from the Long Wharf North in Boston directly to Salem. After exploring the town and visiting Nathanial Hawthorne’s famous House of the Seven Gables, we will return to Cambridge by train later that evening. One-way ferry tickets cost $10.50 purchased individually at the wharf; train fare is approximately $10 purchased at the station. Open to Dudley House members and their guests. Sign up in the Dudley House office beginning October 1st. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Chamber Music @ Dudley
Are you interested in performing or listening to chamber music at unusual venues in Cambridge and Boston? Do you have a group already or are you interested in forming one? Then join us for the first upcoming concert in the series. Duets, trios, quartets, and larger ensembles are all welcome. Players rehearse individually then meet for a dress rehearsal and concert. If you wish to be included on future concerts in this series, send names of musicians, instruments, and ideas for repertoire to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Outing to Symphony Hall: Boston Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, October 1, 8:00 p.m., An outing to the Boston Symphony Orchestra for an all-Mozart program featuring violinist and conductor, Anne-Sophie Mutter, performing Violin Concerti No. 1, 2 and 4. 25 tickets are available to Dudley House members and their guests and on sale at Dudley House until they sell out. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to be placed on the waiting list and/or to express interest in future BSO outings. We will meet at 7:00 p.m. on the evening of the concert at the Dudley House steps to take the T together to Symphony Hall.

Tango Argentino @ Dudley
Thursday, September 15-November 17, 8-10 p.m., The ten-week series of beginner and advanced beginner Argentine tango lessons will continue on Thursday evenings from 8-9 p.m. and 9-10 p.m. until November 17. If you missed the first registration deadline, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to be placed on the waiting list for the next series of lessons. Class size is limited. For the beginner class, no partner or previous dance experience is required.

Watercolors: Perspective (with Practice!) at the Museum of Fine Arts
Date and Location TBD, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Join us for an afternoon of watercolors! We will begin by touring the Around the World in Watercolor, 1860-1920 exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, featuring work by Americans who “ventured across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and traversed the American continent” to find adventure and inspiration. We will pay special attention to use of colors and composition as we view the collection. We will then have a short studio art workshop to use fall colors as inspiration for watercolors of our own. Open to Dudley House members and their guests. Details on tickets (if required) to follow. Please indicate interest by contacting This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Dudley Literary Program

Movie Screening: Sherlock Holmes
Friday, October 7, 7:30 p.m., Dudley House Graduate Student Lounge. Join us for a night of cinematic entertainment when we screen Guy Richie’s Sherlock Holmes (2010), starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law. Whether you reverently worship at the altar of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or don’t know a deerstalker from a fedora, this film will give you plenty to talk about. Light refreshments provided.

Writers’ Workshops
Thursday, October 6 and Thursday, October 20, 7-9 p.m., Is academic writing just not satisfying your creative yearning? Then try our Writer’s Workshop, which meets the first and third Thursdays of the month in the Fireside Room. In addition to providing a forum in which participants may share their work, throughout the semester we will also discuss and try our hand at various literary genres. This month we will meet on Oct. 6 and Oct. 20 in the Fireside Room from 7-9 p.m. and discuss poetic forms. Bring copies of whatever you're currently working on (poetry, essay, fiction, drama, etc.) for the workshop to discuss, or feel free to simply join in the discussion and the in-session writing. Questions? This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

October Book Club
Wednesday, October 26, 6 p.m., To get you in the mood for Halloween, in October we’ll be reading Henry James’s short but spooky Turn of the Screw. The next week we’ll also screen John Clayton’s classic adaptation of this story, The Innocents. Our meeting this month will be in the Fireside Room (first floor of Dudley House). Please visit the Coop or Harvard Bookstore to pick up a copy of this book. Here is a link to the recommended edition. Questions? This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Writing and Study Bootcamp
Saturday and Sunday, October 22-23, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Need a weekend dedicated to your academic work? We provide a quiet setting, two days of breakfast and lunch, and plenty of caffeine. Dudley House students from all disciplines are welcome to join in this two-day period of silence and study. 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 the Thursday before the bootcamp. Students at the Longwood Campus may register by contacting the House at 617-495-2255. October’s bootcamp will take place in the Gato Rojo. Limited to 12 attendees, so sign up now! Questions? This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Classic Films

Classic Films of the 1920s: Classic Drama
Thursday, October 6, 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., Dudley House Graduate Student Lounge.  At 6 p.m.: Cinema Europe: The Unchained Camera. (60 min.) At 7 p.m.: Pandora’s Box (1929). A stunning dramatic version of the classic play Lulu starring one of the most intriguing actresses of the silent film era, Louise Brooks. (133 min.)

Classic Comedy
Friday, October 21, 6 p.m. and 7:45 p.m., Dudley House Graduate Student Lounge. At 6 p.m.: City Lights (1931). Charlie Chaplin stars in this astonishing, funny, sad, and beautiful masterpiece. (87 min.)
At 7:45 p.m.: The General (1926). One of the Great American Films. Buster Keaton is a train engineer caught up in the American Civil War. Fabulous comedy, story, photography, and performances. (107 min.)

Spooky Classics
Friday, October 28, 9 a.m.–5 p.m., Outside of the 3rd Floor Office we’ll be running Universal Studio Classics from the 1930s. Come see The Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Wolfman and relax with the great monsters of the past to prepare for Halloween.

Classic Romantic Comedies
Friday, November 4, 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., Dudley House Graduate Student Lounge. At 6 p.m.: Bringing Up Baby (1938). Cary Grant (professor) meets Katharine Hepburn (socialite). Other characters include two leopards, a dinosaur, a terrier, and other eccentrics. (102 min.). At 8 p.m.: The More the Merrier (1943). A housing shortage in Washington D.C. during World War II makes strange bedfellows.  An absolutely delightful film with Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea, two of the most wonderful Hollywood stars. (104 min.)

Public Service

Harvest Food Pantry
Saturday, October 1, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Come volunteer to distribute food and clothing to those in need!  This is a great opportunity to see how our community is working to combat poverty and homelessness.  The pantry is based out of Cambridgeport Baptist Church in Central Square, and we’ll meet on the steps of Dudley to head over together.  If you’re interested in coming, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Blood Drive
Thursday, October 13, Dudley House Graduate Student Lounge. Blood is always needed. Your donation will go directly to Mount Auburn Hospital to save up to three lives! Please sign up for blood donation. Bring your photo ID or you cannot donate. Drink plenty of water the day before and eat a good breakfast. There will be plenty of juice, snacks, and trinkets as a thank-you for your generosity.

Reverse Science Fair
Saturday, October 9, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Northeastern University (360 Huntington Ave) Curry Student Center Ballroom (2^nd floor). The Science Club for Girls is looking for presenters for their Show Me the Science Fair. This free reverse science fair event allows adults to present to girls from K-6th grade and their families. The girls get hands on experience with science through fun and engaging activities, ranging from the physics of paper airplanes to how bugs can help us create pharmaceuticals. We need several teams to present at our Dudley House booth. You and your teammates will be responsible for creating and displaying a 10-minute hands-on activity. This activity will be repeated several times during the day so make sure you bring enough supplies!  If you're interested in coming, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .