Harvard Square Business Association
March 2022 Newsletter
Deals/Events/News
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Please join us in welcoming our new members!
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The Harvard Square Business Association welcomes you to celebrate
St. Patrick’s Day in the square. On March 17th, we’re all Irish!
More information available here.
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A LOAN FOR WHATEVER
YOU NEED
Need cash now? HUECU personal loans are a great low-cost option for making a big purchase, funding your next adventure or covering unplanned expenses. Borrow up to $25,000 for up to 60 months and enjoy rates as low as 4.99% APR.1
Annual Percentage Rate. Rates advertised are the lowest rates available and include APR minus .25% discount with automatic payment from an HUECU Crimson or Smart Rewards Checking account. Rates will be determined by individual credit worthiness. Your rate may vary from rate shown. Certain restrictions may apply. Subject to Credit Approval.
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Fridays, Saturdays and private tours are available.
Calling all chocoholics! Join us for a delectable adventure through historic Harvard Square. You'll hear interesting stories about the Square, learn fun facts about chocolate and sample the best and most interesting chocolaty treats around. Harvard Square has a flourishing food scene with some of the best and most unique food in the city. Each tour is a fun 90 minutes and includes 4 stops with plenty of treats and less than a mile of walking. We can't wait to take you on a unique, chocolate adventure!
This tour is suitable for all ages. $40/pp. Guests must purchase tickets in advance. Use code HARVARDSQUARE and enjoy 10% off!
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March 13th - 26th
Spend $55 and receive FREE Origins favorites in a cosmetic bag ($39 value). Cleanse, Hydrate, and Treat with Checks & Balances™ 30ml, Plantscription™ Serum 15ml, and Mega-Mushroom™ Treatment Lotion 30ml.
Spend $85 and choose between 2 FREE FULL SIZE night creams (up to $67 value) - Plantscription™ Youth-Renewing Power Night Cream OR High-Potency Night-A-Mins™ Oil-Free Resurfacing Cream with Fruit-Derived AHAs. While supplies last.
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Ray-Ban now offers an exclusive 15% off student discount with any college ID presented at checkout.
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Lunch Special
Calzone & Salad $17
Turn any house pizza into a calzone and pair it with a 1/2 portion of our favorite house salad. Available for dine-in / take-out & delivery. Monday thru Friday 12pm - 3pm
Brunch
Served Saturday & Sunday from 11:00am until 3:00pm. Reservations recommended.
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Special
$240 for 24/7 Monthly parking for April. Limited to 20 parkers. New Customer’s Only.
For more information call 617-491-1277
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Brunch to Benefit Ukrainian Families
March 12th - March 13th
10:30AM - 2:30PM
This weekend, 35% of Alden & Harlow’s brunch sales will be donated to World Central Kitchen, Jose Andres’ organization that is serving thousands of fresh meals to Ukrainian families. Additionally, Chef/Owner Michael Scelfo will be personally matching the total donation up to $5,000.
Served on both Saturday and Sunday, Alden & Harlow’s brunch staples include the notorious Secret Burger, Sweet Corn Pancakes, topped with roasted blueberries, ricotta and honey, as well as the NY Strip Steak & Eggs Benedict. And of course no brunch is complete without cocktails. Try the Avernal Equinox, Aria gin, Averna amaro, lemon and mint or go with the classic A&H Bloody Mary, spicy, savory and necessary.
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Dance Saturdays
March 12th, 19th, 26th
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March 13th - 26th
Many Harvard Square restaurants are participating in this much anticipated Boston winter tradition. Please click here for full details.
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TUESDAY TASTINGS
March 15th, 22nd & 29th
March is Women’s History Month. Each Tuesday evening (7:00pm - 8:30pm), you're invited to join the team at Bonde as they enjoy light food paired with wine flights from the following female American winemakers who will join virtually. $50/pp
March 15th
Julia Bailey Gulstine - Vintner, Owner, Loop de Loop Wines
March 22nd
Wynne Peterson-Nedry - Winemaker, RR Winery,
00 Winery
March 29th
Corrine Rich & Katie Rouse - Winemakers, Co-Founders Birdhorse Wines
More information and tickets available here.
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Concert Series
March 18th & 19th and April 22nd & 23rd
March 18th & 19th
Blue Heron’s traversal of the complete works of Johannes Ockeghem continues with a program featuring the Missa sine nomine for five voices. The cycle, a Missa brevis consisting of just three movements, all based on plainchant, is brief indeed, yet (in typical Ockeghemian fashion) packed full of complexity, surprise, and wit. The program also includes a stand-alone, virtuosic Credo sine nomine, the plangent Salve regina, and a several songs by Ockeghem, as well as motets by Heinrich Isaac and Jacob Obrecht and the gorgeous song Quant j’ay au cueur by Antoine Busnoys.
April 22nd & 23rd
MANY VOICES is a celebration of diverse voices and styles. European music before 1600 is represented by the Salve regina for six voices by the 15th-century Flemish composer Jacob Obrecht and a pair of madrigals by one of the few published female composers of the 16th century, Vittoria Aleotti. Leaping forward to the 20th century, Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur’s Le Cantique des cantiques (1952) sets poetry from the Song of Songs, translated into French, in a rich texture of twelve solo voices. Boston’s own Grammy-nominated composer Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol brings us into the present day with Devran, a polyphonic work that marries Sufi Muslim texts, Renaissance counterpoint, and elements of traditional Middle Eastern music. Finally, we will perform a motet by Kevin Allen, from whom we commissioned a new piece for Christmas 2020.
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United Minds for Peace
March, 20th
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Join us as we unite our minds in peaceful thoughts to help serve all of humanity during these challenging times. Peaceful thoughts not only create beautiful energy of healing for the world but also prepare a wonderful foundation of peace in each of our minds for the week ahead. World meditation hour is observed by Brahma Kumaris Centers worldwide on the third Sunday of the month. Zoom Link here.
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Odds Bodkin Series
March 20th, April 3rd & 17th
Odds Bodkin's latest epic tale, told with 12-string guitar music, is rugged, bloody and true to the original poem. Grateful to a Danish king for saving his father, a fearless Beowulf sails to Denmark to kill Grendel, a raiding demon. With Celtic harp extemporizations, Bodkin fills in the tale with some Viking history, including the Medieval Climate Optimum, even how Viking dragon ships were water-proofed.
April 3rd 5pm - 8:30pm
Two epic Viking myths wrapped in little-known lore told by Master Storyteller and Musician Odds Bodkin. First, a tale of magic and illusion as Thor and Loki journey to Utgard, capital city of their enemies, the Frost Giants. Then, the Mead of Poetry, the long tale of Odin's search for the blood of his best friend who's been murdered, his blood brewed into a wisdom-bestowing elixir. Told with 12-string guitar scores and Celtic harp musings, with character voices and vocal effects.
April 17th 5pm - 8pm
If you love Greek mythology, this is where it all starts—with the Titans. With Gaia, the first of them all, who, with her sky-lover, spawns a crew of perfect giants who build the earth. The happy family falls apart, however, when Gaia gives birth to hideous monsters who threaten them all. Soon betrayal, castration and the strange births of hated grandchildren drive this epic tale. Grandchildren, it turns out in the end, are the Titans' most dangerous enemy--the Gods of Olympus.
In addition to the Odds Bodkin Series, Grendel's will be hosting free live music every Monday in March from 8-10 with Goodrich Family Band.
Eleanor Elektra, Max Ridley, Taylor Holland, and Zoe-Rose Depaz are each well-established performing artists in a diverse range of musical worlds. In the Goodrich Family Band, these four roommates and chosen family members unite backgrounds in jazz, folk-punk, americana, indie, and singer-songwriter to forge a tradition-steeped yet entirely contemporary new sound.
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March 27th,
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Special In-Person Family Event
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Avenue
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue
Experience an epic day of archaeological events with the family! Activities are scattered across two museums so explore Native North American, Central American, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Mediterranean archaeology. Throw a spear with a spear thrower. Talk to student archaeologists who excavate in locations around the world.
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Of Course! 2022
Save the Date
April 24th
CCAE's major fundraiser is a celebration of all that is best about CCAE!
We will feature irresistible mini-classes at CCAE on topics that have appealed to our most passionate CCAE instructors and members of the community. Then a brass band parade will escort us to The Charles Hotel ballroom, where the best restaurants, vintners, and beer-makers in Cambridge will provide us with intoxicating small bites and delicious beverages. Best of all, we will engage in spirited conversation about the sense of community that CCAE is famous for!
Stay tuned for more information! Tickets will go on sale in the spring.
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Charles Hotel Farmers Market
Fridays 12:00pm - 6:00pm and Sundays 10:00am - 3:00pm. During the winter months, they are located in the red sheds on the Charles Hotel courtyard,
1 Bennett Street.
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Need a job? We can help!
The HSBA manages a job page on harvardsquare.com. Please take a look and see if you are the right fit for one of Harvard Square's favorite businesses.
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Sunday, May 15th | Raindate Sunday, May 22nd
Interested in being a vendor at MayFair, one of Harvard Square's largest events? Applications and more information available here.
If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities, please email Bill for more information.
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Brick Marketing, a Boston-based digital marketing agency, helps clients improve their content marketing by helping them create unique strategies that meet their business goals. Brick Marketing has added several additional writers to its team to improve the quality and volume of content creation.
Brick Marketing, a Boston-based digital marketing agency, helps clients improve their content marketing by helping them create unique strategies that meet their business goals. Brick Marketing has added several additional writers to its team to improve the quality and volume of content creation.
Brick Marketing works closely with its clients to develop a unique content marketing plan that can:
- Attract the best audience for their websites and businesses
- Improve a company’s unique branding
- Enhance social media profiles
- Increase their businesses
- Achieve better results in the search engines
Additional information about the content marketing solution from Brick Marketing can be found on the company website.
Brick Marketing is a client-centered and results-focused digital marketing agency that has been helping clients increase website visitors since 2005.
What makes Brick Marketing stand out from the rest is that the president and founder Nick Stamoulis, as well as the rest of the team, works directly with clients, ensuring that good service produces great results.
Current content development solutions include static website content writing, press release writing, article and company blog post writing.
More information about Brick Marketing can be found at the corporate website.
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VOLUNTEER/INTERNSHIP POSITIONS:
Interested in human development and protecting child rights & preventing child labor? Consider joining Distressed Children & Infants International (DCI) to help us manage our operational duties.
We strive to develop a plan for each volunteer/intern that both furthers our mission and helps them pursue their career goals. Work with us out of our Harvard Square office or remotely.
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History Cambridge recently received a grant from Cambridge Arts to install temporary public art on the front lawn of Hooper-Lee-Nichols House (HLN). We intend to work with a Massachusetts-based artist to raise awareness of the history of Black people on Brattle Street. We are in good company as Cambridge Arts awarded grants for 11 amazing social justice art projects including our own. Massachusetts was a center of slave trading in New England as early as 1688 when African people were kidnapped by Massachusetts ship owners and traders to be sold as slaves in the American colonies or on Caribbean plantations. Some Cambridge families, including those in West Cambridge and the residents of Brattle Street (historic “Tory Row”), made their wealth through enslaved labor in Jamaica and/or they enslaved people at their homes and estates in Cambridge. We are seeking an artist who works or lives in Massachusetts and is sensitive to the connected history of Massachusetts and plantations in the Caribbean to create this site-specific, temporary piece of installation art to be publicly displayed on the front lawn of the HLN House.
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Pizza
Roasted Chicken, with Caramelized Pear & Fontina ($1 from every sale will be donated to Cooking Matters).
Salad
Greek (Baby spinach, cucumber, red onion and kalamata olives, with red wine vinaigrette).
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Nine Tastes Thai Cuisine has been serving the community for almost 19 years and are the only Thai restaurant in Harvard Square. Impacted by a flood in 2021, they have struggled to make the necessary repairs.
They are grateful to participate in an exciting opportunity from Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation and will receive HALF the costs of their repairs IF they are able to raise the other half of the needed funds through a crowdfunding campaign.
Support Nine Tastes through their crowdfunding page and receive an exciting array of rewards.
- $25- Receive $25 gift certificate to Nine Tastes
- $50- Receive $60 gift certificate to Nine Tastes
- $100- Receive $120 gift certificate to Nine Tastes
- $250- Receive a Pad Thai party for TEN!
- $500- Receive a $500 gift certificate to Nine Tastes AND a free 3-course Prix Fixe menu for TWO!
- $1,000- Receive a $1,300 gift certificate to Nine Tastes!
If the goal of $11,337 is reached, every dollar raised will be DOUBLED by a Mass Growth Capital Corporation grant.
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Whitneys has been a staple of Harvard Square for locals and students since 1953. Come in for some hot dogs, a round of darts and a round of beers.
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Harvard Square Business Association
Two Brattle Square, Mezzanine
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 491-3434
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Need a Job? We can help!
Click here for a list of hiring businesses
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