Harvard Square Business Association
February 2022 Newsletter
Deals/Events/News
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Please join us in welcoming our new members!
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It's the season of love and Harvard Square has thoughtful and sweet Valentine's Day choices for all of those who hold a special place in your heart!
Whether you're searching for a romantic dinner, indulgent desserts and cocktails, a concert, a trip to a museum, in-person or online, we have options to delight even the most discerning people on your love list! Full details available here.
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Kick off the BIG GAME with .... Food! Drinks! Noise! Laughter! Wings! Beer! Commercials! Epic Half-Time Show! Rivalry and Revelry!
Click here for all the fabulous details!
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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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Friends and Family - February 7th - 13th, 25% off EVERYTHING and receive a Fabulous 8 pc. gift with your purchase of $75! Visit us at 8 Brattle Street or call us at 617.868.8090 to place your order and receive free shipping.
Scratch and Win! February 20th - March 5th
Visit Origins at 8 Brattle Street for your complimentary scratch card, scratch your card and claim your prize! No purchase necessary; while supplies last.
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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. Special President's Day Brunch - Monday, February 21st.
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11th Hour Calling
Ring Bells, Make Music and Stand Up
for Climate Justice!
Friday, February 11th, 6pm
Ocean River Conservancy, long-time member of the Harvard Square Business Association, is bringing awareness to climate change legislation. On Friday, February 11th at 6pm, please join them as they ring church bells at the First Parish Church and make music on the steps of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church while encouraging our elected officials in Massachusetts to pass the 100% Clean Energy Act.
Strike the bell! Sound the alarm! Join others who care about the climate emergency, environmental justice, and municipal/state planning. BABAM, the Boston Area Battalion Activist Musicians, will be performing on the steps of the OCBC and we encourage you to bring your own instruments and play along!
The recent “code red” report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an alarm call for us all. We’ll ring, clang, drum, and trumpet for eleven minutes on the eleventh day of each month as a symbol of warning.
Now is the eleventh hour for action. It is also a time of hope and opportunity to tread more gently, emit less greenhouse gasses, drawdown and store more greenhouse gasses, restore our water cycles, and care more for those already adversely affected by climate change, especially in the economically poorest neighborhoods.
The Clean Energy Act will require the governor to allocate 50% of climate spending directly to environmental justice communities; undertake restructuring to reform utilities and modernize the grid; and will maximize the economic benefits of increased funding of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Council.
For more information, to stand and be heard, and to spread the word, please contact Rob Moir at rob@oceanriver.org
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Concert Series
February 12th, March 18th & 19th and April 22nd & 23rd
February 12th
March 18th & 19th
April 22nd & 23rd
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Online Class
February 14th
5:30pm - 6:30pm
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Goodrich Family Concert
February 14th, 21st, & 28th
Odds Bodkin Series
February 27th, March 20th, April 3rd & 17th
GoodRich Family Concert
Free residency with folk and Americana band, Goodrich Family on Monday nights in February from 8pm - 10pm.
February 27th 5pm - 8pm
March 20th 5pm - 8:30pm
April 3rd 5pm - 8:30pm
April 17th 5pm - 8pm
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26th Annual Bugs Bunny Film Festival
February 18th – February 27th
Showtimes, tickets, and general info available here.
Our annual celebration of everyone’s favorite Looney rabbit returns to the big screen after sitting out 2021. Join us for an all-35mm film program featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Taz, Tweety, Yosemite Sam, the Roadrunner, and so many more!
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February 18th, 23rd & March 3rd
Friday, February 18th
Togara Muzanenhamo and Tsitsi Ella Jaji
In-person registration, here.
Virtual registration, here.
Wednesday, February 23rd
Gloria Mindock and Denise Provost
In-person registration, here.
Virtual registration, here.
Thursday, March 3rd
George Kalogeris and Richard Fein (rescheduled due to Covid)
In-person registration, here.
Virtual registration, here.
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Guest Speaker Event
February, 20th
5pm - 6:30pm
Love - what a wonderful topic to think about, listen to, and be inspired by!
It is such a tremendous sustaining force in our lives.
On February 20th, we will touch on three kinds of love: love for the self, love for others, and love for God.
Come and be inspired to keep yourself full of love!
Guest Speaker - Dorothy Steinfeld, Director of Programs at Peace Village
Dorothy has been practicing various types of meditation for over fifty years. Her professional life started in the field of education followed by being an account executive in radio, and finally a successful business entrepreneur. Over thirty-six years ago she became interested in the teachings of Raja yoga and short after started teaching and got involved in the various projects and activities of the Brahma Kumaris. Doing so, her early career skills were put to work in the service of humanity. When Peace Village opened, she became a resident and over the years helped to assemble an experienced faculty of spiritual educators for spiritual seekers at all levels.
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February 23rd, 24th & 28th
February 23rd, 6pm - 7pm
Plants are essential to humans and the environment. In Lessons from Plants (Harvard University Press, 2021), Professor Beronda Montgomery, invites us to appreciate the many lessons that can be gained from a better understanding of the ways in which plants grow, adapt, and thrive. In this conversation with Brenda Tindal, Executive Director, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Montgomery will address what plants can teach us about relating to one another, building diverse communities, and being resilient.
February 24th, 6pm - 7pm
The “code” to decipher the hieroglyphic writing system was cracked two hundred years ago in 1822 by the brilliant French linguist Jean-François Champollion. In this lecture, Professor Dimitri Laboury will address the question “was every ancient Egyptian artist capable of reading and writing hieroglyphs, and who were the real experts in hieroglyphic writing?”
February 28th, 6pm - 7pm
Located in the Kasaï Oriental Province along the Sankuru River in the central part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Kuba identify themselves as the children of Woot and the tale of their origins is often reenacted in masquerades for the royal Kuba court. The focus of this Black History Month Behind-the-Screens is a conversation with Peabody Curator of African Collections, Sarah Clunis, about three royal Kuba masks—housed at Harvard’s Peabody Museum—that as a triad re-enact the founding of the Kuba kingdom and highlight the significance of gender and status in Kuba political systems and Kuba life.
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Saturday, February 26
10:00am -11:00am
Bring your coffee and cake and join us virtually for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 215th birthday! This virtual program will feature a talk on the connections between Longfellow and sculptor Edmonia Lewis by Sirpa Salenius, PhD, followed by a wreath-laying and poetry reading with Longfellow descendants.
Salenius is a lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland. Her research focuses on issues related to race, gender, and sexuality from the nineteenth century to the present. She has an MA degree from Italy, Ph.D. and title of ‘Dosentti’ from Finland, and the qualification of ‘habilité à diriger des recherches (HDR)’ from France. Salenius has been a longtime researcher at Longfellow House- Washington’s Headquarters and we are pleased to feature her work at this special event. In addition to Zoom, the event will be live-streamed here. Free; register here.
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Tropical State of Mind
March 3rd
Support this year's Tutoring Plus event!
Instead of celebrating in person at our annual Tropical Party, we will again be hosting a virtual Tropical State of Mind on March 3, 2022. Please support our year of Resilience and Growth along with our dedicated and essential community partners. Raise a glass from the comfort of your own home and visit our website or social media to watch our celebratory video!
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Dance Saturdays
March 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
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Of Course! 2022
April 24th
Save the Date
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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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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Human services agency, Cambridge Family & Children's Service, has big news this month: we're changing our name and launching a brand-new website! Our new name and brand will represent who we are today as a modern social services agency and our vision for a progressive, innovative future.
To participate in our big announcement day on February 22, visit www.helpfamilies.org and sign up for our email newsletter!
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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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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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Porter Square Safety Improvement Project Survey
The City of Cambridge is seeking your input on the Porter Square Safety Improvement Project…
Please participate:
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An Important Message from Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon
The City of Cambridge has launched a coUrbanize webpage dedicated to the City Manager search and gathering feedback.
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Pronouns: She, Her, Hers
Cambridge Vice-Mayor
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City of Cambridge -
FREE Face Masks and COVID Test Kits
There are still some free test kits available and free masks will continue to be available. Since Saturday, February 5, the City has distributed approximately 8,000 test kits and 16,000 high-quality KF94 masks via our pickup sites at the Main Library, City Hall, and neighborhood fire stations.
Some sites have exhausted their supplies, and the following is an updated list of locations where test kits and masks can continue to be picked up through tomorrow, Friday, February 11, or while supplies last:
· City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
· Lafayette Square Firehouse, 378 Mass. Ave, 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
· East Cambridge Firehouse, 175 Cambridge St., 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
· Taylor Square Firehouse, 113 Garden St., 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Test kits and masks will be available at the above locations until supplies run out.
In addition to the above locations, the City, in partnership with the Cambridge Office for Tourism and the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, will be making masks available for free to employees of restaurants, hotels & inns, and local, non-chain/franchise retail and small grocer establishments.
Interested businesses should fill out the form linked here to request free, individually wrapped KF94 masks. For this round of distribution, each establishment will be given 2 masks per employee.
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50 years in business! We've been feeding the Harvard Square community and the surrounding area since 1966!
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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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