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X-WR-CALNAME:Boston · free · Monday · CalDiscovery BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Free Gift Time at Macy’s Estée Lauder! DTSTART:20260905T120000Z DTEND:20260928T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260910T183428Z UID:10005739-1788595200-1790542800@www.downtownboston.org CATEGORIES:community,free DESCRIPTION:Synergy and BUILD617 are partnering to provide rent-free space for at least a year. Build617 will select the early-stage AI startups\, g iving founders a place to work together and build their companies in Bosto n.\nThe bigger picture: Downtown has the space. Boston has the talent. And Synergy isn’t the only Downtown property owner making room for AI start ups.\n\nThe Massachusetts AI Coalition and people like Cory Munchbach and Ryan Durkin are working to build on that momentum.\n\nThe pieces are alrea dy coming together. This could be just the start of a vibrant and thriving new tech ecosystem in the heart of Downtown.\n\nRead the full article! \n \n \n \n \n \n PrevPreviousAdapting Together: Landlords and Small Businesses LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T183428Z LOCATION:Macy’s Boston\, 450 Washington st\, Boston\, M\, 02111\, United States URL:https://www.downtownboston.org/event/free-gift-time-at-macys-estee-lau der/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=boston-ma X-SOURCE-NAME:Downtown Boston Alliance X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.downtownboston.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:September Happenings at 65 Water Street\, Newburyport! DTSTART:20260916T150000Z DTEND:20261003T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260917T061206Z UID:10024856-1789556400-1791046800@massbytrain.com CATEGORIES:civic,free DESCRIPTION:Newburyport Art (NAA): see what’s happening at 65 Water Stre et in September. It’s the month to start learning more! Details and regi strations are found at Newburyportart.org/classes-and-workshops \nArt Mark et behind 65 Water Street\, Sunday\, September 13th\, 11am-3pm\nJoin NAA m embers for the final arts market in the outdoor sculpture garden. Particip ating artists: Kallyn Lavallee\, Patrick Cleary\, Lisa Pilorz\, Lynda Hart well\, Elizabeth Wiltshire\nDaylight Drawing: Sunday\, September 13th\, 1p m-2:30pm\nCome & draw fellow artists\, plus take turns posing for the grou p! All skill levels are welcome\, and you’ll need to bring your own mate rials. FREE of charge! \nWednesday Night Live Drawing Sessions: September 16th\, 23rd & 30th\, 6:30-8:30pm\nOur weekly Life Drawing Sessions offer a rtists the opportunity to draw from a live model in non-instructionals ses sions facilitated by Claudia Mathews. The model will pose in several posit ions for both short and long poses. Artists should bring their own materia ls. Sessions are in the Hartson Gallery\, which is only accessible by stai rs. Register online or walk-in. $12 for NAA Members/$15 for Non-Members \n Intro to Spoon Carving with Eric Goodson: Saturday\, September 19th\, 9am- 4pm\nLearn about wood selection\, grain orientation\, spoon design\, ergon omics and a wide variety of knife grips that make carving fast\, efficient & safe. Eric will discuss finishing oils\, paint & decorative techniques. Loaner tools will be available\, or students can bring their own carving tools. No experience necessary. $95 for NAA Members/$125 for Non-Members \ nArtist Talk: The Unlaunched Cartooning Career of John Updike\, September 26th\, 6-8pm\nJoin Michael Updike to talk about his father’s cartoons an d him becoming a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. FREE to NAA Mem bers/$10 for Non-Members. Registration required. \nGallery Hours: Wednesda y through Sunday from 11am-5pm. The gallery is handicap accessible. More i nformation\, as well as an online gallery is available at newburyportart.o rg. Founded in 1948\, Newburyport Art is dedicated to promoting and exhibi ting members’ work and to providing art education and access to the visu al arts for the entire community. LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T061206Z LOCATION:Newburyport Art Association\, 65 Water St\, Newburyport\, MA\, 01 950\, United States URL:https://massbytrain.com/event/september-happenings-at-65-water-street- newburyport/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=boston-ma X-SOURCE-NAME:Keolis Commuter Services X-SOURCE-URL:https://massbytrain.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Aga Khan Program Fall 2026: An Evening With Lecture Series: Vale ntina Grasso DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260921 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260922 DTSTAMP:20260915T003134Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53763818140256 CATEGORIES:education,free DESCRIPTION:Aga Khan Program Fall 2026 An Evening With Lecture Series\n\nM onday September 21st\n\n6 pm in MIT Room 3-133 \nFree and open to the publ ic\n\nA Red Sea Pan-Culture from Almaqah to Allah: Pagan Temples\, Christi an Churches\, and the Great Mosque of Sana’a\n\nValentina Grasso\n\nBio\ n\nValentina is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at Bard College. S he previously taught at The Catholic University of America in the Departme nt of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures and at New York Unive rsity’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. She was also an af filiate member of the European Research Council (ERC) project “The Qur ’an as a Source for Late Antiquity”\, and participated in archaeologic al projects in Iraqi Kurdistan\, Sicily\, Ethiopia\, and Jordan.Her doctor al dissertation at the University of Cambridge was published as a monograp h\, Pre-Islamic Arabia: Societies\, Politics\, Cults\, and Identities duri ng Late Antiquity (Cambridge University Press\, 2023). Her work on the Red Sea\, Central Asia and Sicily in the ancient and medieval period has been featured in The Journal of Near Eastern Studies\, The Journal of Late Ant iquity\, Millennium\, The Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History and The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures among others. She is currently edit ing Moving (Indian) Images in the First Millennium: papers from “Indian Ocean Figures that Sailed Away” an ISAW workshop series\, spring 2022(Br epols) and finishing her second monograph on a Red Sea pan-culture encompa ssing aesthetic and religious practices.\n\nAbstract\n\nThe emergence of I slam in South Arabia called for new communal gathering spaces. Instead of seeking fresh quarries\, the masons salvaged columns from the ruined Churc h of Abraha—a sixth-century cathedral constructed specifically to rival Mecca—and integrated them into the structure of what would later become the Great Mosque of Sana’a. Excavations at Beta Samati in Ethiopia confi rm a similar palimpsest two centuries earlier\, during the spread of Chris tianity in the Horn of Africa. There\, Christian basilicas adapted pagan p redecessors\, thereby re-adapting ancient carving techniques\, plans\, and motifs traceable to South Arabia. This presentation is structured in two parts. The first examines the historical context of late antique South Ara bia: early contacts with the Horn of Africa\, the emergence of a unified p olitical entity under Himyar\, the Aksumite conquest at the time of the so -called Massacre of Najran\, and\, eventually\, Caliphal rule. The second part turns to the region’s visual culture and religious architecture\, r anging from pagan temples and synagogues to churches and mosques. Drawing on my forthcoming monograph on cross-cultural interaction across the Red S ea\, I argue for the existence of a Red Sea pan-culture encompassing both aesthetic and religious practices\, demonstrating that the rise of Islam d id not abruptly terminate South Arabia’s ancient aesthetic traditions. I n the Great Mosque of Sana’a\, for instance\, the reuse of pre-Islamic s tructural and decorative elements and masonry techniques points to a desir e to amalgamate rather than erase the past. Moreover\, the plans of some e arly mosques bear a striking resemblance to ancient South Arabian pagan te mples\, such as the temple of Sirwah\, dedicated to Almaqah. LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T003134Z LOCATION:Building 3\, 133 URL:https://calendar.mit.edu/event/aga-khan-program-fall-2026-an-evening-w ithlectureseries-valentina-grasso?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&u tm_campaign=boston-ma X-SOURCE-NAME:Events Calendar Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lyrik Back Bay Watercolor Workshops DTSTART:20260921T200000Z DTEND:20260921T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260917T063751Z UID:10011746-1790006400-1790017200@secretboston.co CATEGORIES:arts,education,free DESCRIPTION:Watercolor Workshops are officially back for the summer in par tnership with Ashley Eisenman Art! Supplies are provided and the workshops are free to attend. Online registration begins via Eventbrite the prior T hursday at 5:00pm on a first-come\, first-served basis. In-person sign-ups will be available on-site starting at 3:30pm on class days for all three sessions – 4:00pm\, 5:00pm\, and 6:00pm. LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T063751Z LOCATION:Lyrik Back Bay\, 400 Newbury Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02115\, Unite d States URL:https://secretboston.co/event/lyrik-back-bay-watercolor-workshops/2026 -09-21/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=boston-ma X-SOURCE-NAME:Secret Boston | Events\, Food and Culture X-SOURCE-URL:https://secretboston.co/boston-gaming-spots END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR