Boston Events: Friday, May 7, 2010

Billy Connolly Live
Thursday, May 6 & Friday, May 7, 2010
8:00pm
Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre,270 Tremont St. Boston, 02116
(617) 482-9393
$53-$63

After four weeks of sold out shows in London, British Comedian Billy Connolly will bring his latest, BILLY CONNOLLY LIVE! to Boston. Connolly, who you might recognize from the hit 80s sitcom "Head of the Class", has been called Britains greatest living comedian by critics. Both comic performances will take place at the Shubert Theatre in Downtown Boston. Tickets start at $53 and are for sale at Citicenter.org or by phone at 866-348-9738.


Boston Premiere of Human Centipede Horror Flick
Friday May 7 & Saturday, May 8, 2010
@ Midnight
Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline 02446
617.734.2500

Come to the Coolidge Corner Theatre After Midnite Event to see this biological (and some say medically accurate) horror film about a crazy scientist's mission to connect two innocent girls' bodies by their respective gastric systems in hopes of creating the first human centipede. Rumor has it this movie is not for the squeamish.



MOMIX Dance Company Presents Botanica
Friday, May 7 & Saturday, May 8, 2010 @ 8pm
Sunday, May 9, 2010 @ 3pm
Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116-4717
(617) 824-8000

The MOMIX Dance Company presents the Boston Premiere of "Botanica", a performing arts experience by Director Moses Pendleton. MOMIX is self defined as "a company of dancer-illusionists with the ability to conjure up a world of surrealist images using props, light, shadow, humor and the human body". The company is 20 years old. For more information or to buy tickets, click here.



Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School
Friday, May 7, 2010
7pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave, Harvard Square, Cambridge
617.661.1515
FREE

Author, Comedian and Molecular Biologist, Adam Ruben will be at Harvard Book Store promoting his new book and to give you humorous advice on . The event is free and does not require tickets.




Get Your Freak on @ Space 242
Friday, May 7
6pm to 8pm
Space 242, 242 E. Berkeley St., 2nd Floor, South End, Boston
617.797.3191
FREE (RSVP Required)

Space 242 art gallery in the South End, aka "Boston's Low Brow Destination", will hold two opening receptions to introduce the latest show, "Get Your Freak On". The show will feature work from 100 artists and will run from April 20-may 21. Visit the gallery on Fridays between 6:30pm and 8pm or schedule an appointment to view the work. Or plan to check it out on April 30 or May 7 and you will get to take part in the opening reception. Even better, visit the gallery on May 21 from 7-8pm and enjoy a private Artist Talk. Note that both receptions as well as the artist talk require an RSVP.



Food, Glorious Food: Our Palate Vs. Our Planet
Friday, May 7, 2010
7pm
Museum of Science, Cahners Theater, 1 Science Park, Boston 02114
617-723-2500
FREE

Joanne Chang, Corby Kummer and National Food Sustainability Expert, Helene York will discuss the relationship between our love for food and our desire to protect the planet, as part of the Museum of Science ongoing DIY Series. Learn about ways to eat that will satisfy both of these seemingly conflicting needs. The event is free; a limited number of passes will be handed out on a first come first served bases in the Museum Lobby beginning at 5:45pm. There will be a book signing immediately after the discussion.


Film: The Rose Seller (La vendedora de rosas) w/
Special Appearance by Director, Victor Gaviria
Friday, May 7, 2010
8pm
Carpenter Center for the Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, 02138
(617) 495-4700
$12

The Harvard Film Archive presents The Rose Seller (La vendedora de rosas), a story about Colombian street children, poverty, violence and drugs modeled after The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen. The Director, Victor Manuel Gaviria, is especially recognized for his use of nonprofessional actors and his "eclectic" visual style. His "ability to blend registers and styles lends Gaviria’s work a complexity often lacking in the Colombian films of previous decades that had sought to address the country’s poverty and ended up seeming to exploit it..." (Harvard Film Archive) Gaviria will be present at the screening of The Rose Seller (La vendedora de rosas) on May 7th.