Culture
One frequent guest has been busy at Harvard--Umberto Quattrocchi has been writing a book we could all use:
http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781420080445#.T609bDCEm_o.facebook
Umberto, we hope you enjoyed your time in Cambridge and that you found your accommodations with us to be both comfortable and inspiring for your work!
And of course, we hope to see you again--
We are trying some new ways to entice you to stay with us. Just now, with some open nights coming up this week, we are teaming up with Get Privy and the Harvard Square Business Association to offer coupons leading to discounts and goodies with us. We are also working on a calendar of local cultural events to help you plan your visit. Stay tuned!
When our friends at Yayla Rug recommended Irving House to the co-founder of Machik for her stay in Cambridge, she was given room 108 just by chance. It turns out that, in Tibetan tradition, 108 is the number of beads in the full mala, a circle of beads used in counting mantras. Tashi Rabgey was so pleased with her coincidental room assignment, she posed for picture taken by Zoia:
As many of our guests have happily discovered, we give books away. Most of the books in our guest rooms and throughout the house are hand picked from yard sales and the give and take centers. Some come from my own library as I make room for new favorites. Some come from our guests who either bring their own, or send them to us to be part of our large and diverse book sharing circle. But my favorite source just now is that I am buying (some times reading) and then putting in to the collection, books of authors who stay with us. Poets, historians, biographers, entomologists, philosophers, novelists, we are honored to host many fine writers here. You just never know what you will find on our book shelves, AND you can take books you like! Keep them moving around, keep reading! And thank you to our writing guests...
One of my favorite singer song writers, Mary Gauthier stayed with us recently, even gave us a shout out in her blog! And here she is in our very own parlor:
thank you, Mary!
We are honored to be accommodating Bruce Sunpie Barnes and Matt Hampsey as they are in town to perform at the Museum of African American History with songs of the Abolition Movement. We have so been enjoying the music Bruce and Matt play on our front porch on these sunny mornings!
Harvard Square is warming up for plenty of partying this year. Starting May 27, Patios In Bloom and continuing throughout the summer with The Dance For World Community (June 11), the fourth annual Fete de la Musique (June 18), into the heat of July with Bastille Day (July 10), and throughout July and August, Think Pink, Drink Pink, Shop Pink to benefit various breast cancer organizations.
And June 14, Fire and Ice is having a fund raiser for a special patron, Read here for more information.
We hope to see you in town for these fun events--
The Ninth Annual Independent Film Festival is happening in and around Our Fair City this weekend, through May 4. Once in a while, a film maker will stay at Irving House. We love this! Here is more information.
In particular, we hope you get to see God Willing on Sunday evening at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square.
Goddess of the Hip Harp, Deborah Henson-Conant has an offering to lovers of all kinds:
Here's a little story from Deborah~ Deblog
Thank You Deborah! I'll be there!
Holograms, robots, Rube Goldberg contraptions, one of the main sites for the Cambridge Science Festival in April, the MIT Museum is small, and worth the trip.
