April 16-24, 2012: Robin Hood, Pirates, Catapult Contest, Cambridge Science Festival, Meteors, and Longfellow!

04/16/12 by
This Week in ReviewJohnny Monsarrat

Don’t stop reading! Now that spring is finally here, there’s a LOT more to read about than the top 10 events that you get by email. You owe it to yourself to see the crazy ass stuff that I’ve found for you further down the list.

I hope you are having an awesome week. Now get out there and do something fun!

-Johnny

Pirate Lives! The Musical! tix giveaway at Boston Events INSIDER

Pirate Lives! The Musical! tix giveaway

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Will the pirate crew of The Coward prove themselves brave? I have 2 pairs of tickets to give away for the Tue 4/26 show of this swashbuckling fun musical! Email johnny@eventsINSIDER.com to win. (Click ‘more’ for details)Will the pirate crew of The Coward prove themselves brave?…
Arsenal Center for the Arts Black Box 321 Arsenal St Watertown, MA

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Cambridge Science Festival at Boston Events INSIDER

Cambridge Science Festival

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It’s the largest science festival in North America and it’s free! There’s so much happening this week, foremost an entire science carnival. Keep reading for my favorites of just click through to the website schedule. (Click ‘more’ for details)It’s the largest science festival in North America and it’s free! There…
Various venues Cambridge, MA

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Trebuchet Design Challenge at Boston Events INSIDER

Trebuchet Design Challenge

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Build a catapult and then see them launch projectiles! The build competition starts Sun 4/22 at 4pm and the launch competition is on Cambridge Common on Sun 4/29 at 4pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)Build a catapult and then see them launch projectiles! The build compe…
Artisan’s Asylum 10 Tyler St Somerville, MA

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Science Carnival at Boston Events INSIDER

Science Carnival

This truly fantastic free event now comes with a circus?? It now comes with a circus!! *happy dance* 12-4pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)This truly fantastic free event now comes with a circus?? It now comes with a cir…
Cambridge Public Library 449 Broadway Cambridge, MA

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Robin Hood Day at Boston Events INSIDER

Robin Hood Day

The Higgins Armory is a museum of medeival armor and swords and they are continually having fun events. It’s my favorite Worcester destination, and this week, it is dressed up like Nottingham Castle from the Robin Hood story for a swashbuckling festival. Come dressed in costume! 10am-4pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)The Higgins Armory is a museum of medeival armor and swords and they are continuall…
Higgins Armory Worcester, MA

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New England Folk Festival at Boston Events INSIDER

New England Folk Festival

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You can dance! You can sing! NEFFA is a sprawling weekend of participatory activities and performance that I’ve been to three times and recommend. While it doesn’t have the professional feel of many festivals, the people who go are creative and inclusive and you’re bound to feel right at home! (Click ‘more’ for details)You can dance! You can sing! NEFFA is a sprawling weekend of participato…
Mansfield High School Mansfield, MA

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Longfellow Visits the North End at Boston Events INSIDER

Longfellow Visits the North End

The poet who made Paul Revere famous is being re-enacted. What a creative way to learn youse some hist’ry! 1-4pm. It’s free and there are two performances: at 1pm and at 3:30pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)The poet who made Paul Revere famous is being re-enacted. What a crea…
The Paul Revere House 19 North Sq Boston, MA

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Dawn Salute & Arrival of the Sudbury Militia at Boston Events INSIDER

Dawn Salute & Arrival of the Sudbury Mili…

Did you miss the re-enactment of militia men for Patriot’s Day last week? Here’s a dawn event that I’m going to sleep through — thanks cannon and musket salute guys! — and a re-enactment that I would love to catch. 10:30am. (Click ‘more’ for details)Did you miss the re-enactment of militia men for Pa…
North Bridge Concord, MA

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Set a World Picnic Record with The Nature Conservancy at Boston Events INSIDER

Set a World Picnic Record with The Nature Con…

The best way to celebrate Earth Day? Join Radio 92.9 and hundreds of picnickers and try to set a world picnic record by Frog Pond on Boston Common! They’ll have vendors too. 12-3pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)The best way to celebrate Earth Day? Join Radio 92.9…
Boston Common near Frog Pond Boston, MA

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Lyrids Meteor Shower at Boston Events INSIDER

Lyrids Meteor Shower

Let’s watch the Earth get pummelled by rocks from space! You should be able to see 10-20 meteors per hour. Drive at night out to a pond or field where there aren’t any city lights, to watch the meteors. (The last time I tried this, I didn’t plan my destination and got stuck in an area with streetlights. Make sure to have a place to go in mind!) And see satellites fly by anytime through this list on the third website. 11pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)Let’s watch the Earth get pummelled by rocks from space! You should be able to see…
Anywhere Anywhere

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And a lot more this week at Boston Events Insider, the most popular events blog in New England, including:

Urban Astronomy: Bringing the Stars to the Street
What If? Alternative Histories of Science
Math and Origami (but mostly origami)
Greek Independence Day Parade & Expo
Boston Comic Con
Larpercalia: Festival of the LARPs
SCA May Day
Man Food Fire: The Evolution of Barbecue
Mrs. Paul Revere + Patriot Fife & Drum
Battle Road Heroes
See the 1812 Marines in Action
Longfellow: The Poet and His Songs
Cook Your Own Pickles!
Rock-paper-scissors Championship
Discover Mount Auburn: The Civil War
Anderson Cooper lecture at Salem State
Tommy Lee Jones & John Lithgow
Faneuil Hall Marketplace Street Performers Audition Performances
Earth Day at the Franklin Park Zoo
Earth Day Kite Fly at PJPII Park
Earth Day on the Greenway
Earth Day Charles River Cleanup
Earth Day 5K “Race Against Extinction”
Suffolk Green Film Fest for Earth Day
Terrific Tree Treasure Hunt
Earth Day at Garden in the Woods
Earth Week Festival at the EcoTarium
Heritage Museums & Gardens Earth Day
Monadnock Earth Day Festival
Party for the Planet at the Roger Williams Park Zoo
Hudson Elks Carnival
Weymouth Carnival
Free Day at the MIT Museum
Rivers of Ice: What’s Your Question?
Cambridge Water Department Tour
Foundations of the Fells
Signs of Life
The Undiscovered Country: Shakespeare and Mount Auburn
Red Sox Fenway Park Open House
Brand-Name Genes
Love, Fear and Greed: Why We Should Go to the Asteroids
Jorge Cham cartoonish of Piled Higher and Deeper
The International Human Rights Movement: A History
Opening Reception for TO EXTREMES
Victorian Egg Hunt
Fish Kite Fly
Kite Day at Hamilton/Wenham Library
Nerdnite Boston Nerdtacular
Aleppo Shriners’ Circus
Evening at the Beaver Ponds
Froggy Night Walk
Earth Day Celebration at Mystic Aquarium
Spring Nature Scavenger Hunt
NERF Night: The Replicated Wars
Red-tailed Hawks!
Boston International Film Festival
New England Regional Genealogical Conference
Massachusetts Poetry Festival
Uncommon Threads Quilt Show
New England Metal and Hardcore Festival
28 Seeds w/ Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys
Atwater-Donnelly Duo in Concert
Grammy Nominated Electric Harpist Deborah Henson-Conant
A Musician’s Take on Art: the Songs and Paintings of Karien de Waal
Juleps & Viragoes Ball of the Rebellion
Connecticut Poetry Party at the Hill-Stead Museum
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