Past Events

IT’s a FUNDRAISER!  YOUR HELP COUNTS! Festival of Learning – a week of more than 30 online classes for just one price      March 22 to March 27, 2021  special guests, old favorite classes, new potential passions, and more…

Join in the Season’s celebrations and get inspired by the social connections and enrichment you can enjoy with family, friends, and yes, even strangers. BA&CE will start it’s winter term classes on January 11, 2021. Give the gift of learning…

Ken Feinberg is giving a talk on September 30 at 7pm! (Please note the date has changed.) Ken Feinberg: Can the Nation Expect a Coronavirus Victim’s Compensation Fund? The New York Times calls him “the essential man” to go to…

In this evening with an herbalist, we’ll learn about the most popular herbs to grow and use in our homes and for our health. Plants including calendula and comfrey may be easier to grow and utilize in our daily lives…

Co-producers Susan Hackley and Martha Jackson, two Brookline mothers whose sons went to war, will present their half-hour documentary film Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War, which premiered on Indiana Public Television last spring. The film features American children…

It takes courage and initiative to break out of a period of isolation and rebuild our support networks—in person. After a serious illness, a period of grieving, or relocating to a new area, we may find it difficult to “get…

Come find out about the nations of Eastern Europe and their tumultuous history. Historian and lecturer Patrick M. Leehey will draw on traditional stories and medieval chronicles to show how the modern nations of Eastern Europe (the Baltic States, Poland,…

The job of educators is to prepare young people to thrive intellectually, financially, and emotionally in the future. Brookline teachers do an outstanding job of preparing students—for a future that does not exist. The future of climate change has arrived…

As the United States was rising as an international superpower over the course of the 20th century, the world of classical music was exploding with innovative new styles and techniques the likes of which it had never seen before. This…