“Dance Caliente Brings the World to Your Feet” is a new virtual interactive ballroom dance show, created by choreographers/performers Eileen Herman-Haase and Raul  Nieves.  Watch them bring to life romantic dances from all over the world while bringing their delightful sense of humor and charismatic charm to every step they take. Each dance was filmed, in costume, in front of a live audience at six area senior centers that commissioned this production. The list includes the Medford Senior Center, where…

“Dance Caliente Brings the World to Your Feet” is a new virtual interactive ballroom dance show, created by choreographers/performers Eileen Herman-Haase and Raul  Nieves. Attend this in-person screening to watch them bring to life romantic dances from all over the world while bringing their delightful sense of humor and charismatic charm to every step they take. Each dance was filmed, in costume, in front of a live audience at six area senior centers that commissioned this production. The list includes…

Join the Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford's Social Justice Committee on Zoom to view the powerful 2014 film "Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity," by Dr. Shakti Butler. The film asks America to talk about the causes and consequences of systemic inequity. Designed for dialogue, the film works to disentangle internal beliefs, attitudes and pre-judgments within, and it builds skills to address the structural drivers of social and economic inequities. There will be time for discussion after the…

The Tufts University Social Collective (TUSC) invites neighbors to the President's Lawn on Professor's Row for a free outdoor movie featuring "Jurassic Park." This annual Spring Fling Weekend event starts at sundown (approximately 8 p.m.); the movie runs 2 hours, 7 minutes. Grab a blanket or a chair and walk to campus to join the fun. Please email communityrelations@tufts.edu by Wednesday, April 27 at 5 p.m. to request free parking.  

As part of its monthlong multimedia exhibition "A Lasting Look," the Gallery at Sanctuary UCC presents a Faith & Film screening and discussion of the 2021 film "Don't Look Up." In the apocolyptic comedy, two low-level astronomers, upon discovering that a meteor will strike Earth in six months, go on a media tour to try to warn the world but find an unreceptive and unbelieving populace. The film will be shown from 5:15 to 7:45 p.m., followed by a discussion…

The Medford Recreation Department kicks off its summer outdoor movie series with a showing of "Field of Dreams" at Tufts Park. The movie will begin at 8:30 p.m., but come an hour earlier as the Rec Department will have music and lawn games set up in the field, along with free popcorn. Please bring a blanket, drinks, and bug spray. Other films in the series will be "Space Jam" on Friday, July 15, at the Condon Shell and "Hook" on…

Out of an abundance of caution, Tufts University has canceled tonight Tufts Community Drive-In movie ("Encanto") due to thunderstorms and gusty winds forecasted for Friday afternoon when significant equipment set-up would be required. The university hopes to reschedule the event for later this summer.  

Medford resident Darya Mangeym has organized a fundraiser for the people of Ukraine: a showing of the film "The Longest Breakup" at the Condon Shell, followed by a discussion with the movie's director, Katya Soldak. The documentary recounts Ukraine’s struggle to escape Russia’s embrace, leave its Soviet past behind and become a truly independent nation. Soldak, a Ukrainian-American journalist of Forbes Magazine now living in New York City, tells the story of her home country as it exits the USSR,…