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Thanks New Hampshire

Even escaping Boston just ahead of rush hour traffic, the trek to Manchester was relatively painless and we played our first set for an overflowing room at the Currier Museum. We dusted off some rusty oldies for the second set, and clacked away to the delight of the audience. Seems like there was enough interest that we’ll have to find our way back north sometime soon.

-previous info-

March 6th, 2014 – Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
http://www.currier.org/calendar/currier-after-hours-boston-typewriter-orchestra/
Join us for speciality cocktails, a food demonstration, and unusual sounds! The Boston Typewriter Orchestra is a group that combines the insistent rhythm of typewriters with elements of performance, comedy and satire. During intermission, enjoy food, art making and discussions in the galleries. A cash bar and full menu are available at the Winter Garden Café.

Thursday March 6, 2014
Currier After Hours, 6pm
Currier Museum, Manchester, NH

(Previous) Upcoming Performances

**This post now contains revised links and actual set times. We aren’t playing a nightclub where set times are an approximation, these gigs are at museums so when it says that’s when we’re playing, the typical variance is rarely more than 10 minutes.
**Also included in the information for these performances is a directions link. Do we know the best way to get from your house to where we’ll be? Not likely. So the directions link will opens a google maps page with the particular museum preset as the destination.

The road was long and hard but usually paved pretty well so it didn’t take long. Now we’re back for April’s cruise across the campuses. At Providence’s Rhode Island School of Design and Waltham’s Brandeis University, we will be plopped in the midst of their respective art museums. The thing at Boston University isn’t open to the public, heck not even the students, we think, it’s a just conference for journalists. But if you really want to see us that bad, don’t worry, we’ll be around soon.

Thursday April 17, 2014
Design the Night
RISD Museum  6pm and 7:30pm (2 sets)
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
directions

Saturday April 26, 2014
Society of Professional Journalists Conference
Trustee Ballroom  noon
Boston University, Boston, MA

Sunday April 27, 2014
Leonard Bernstein Festival of Creative Arts
Rose Art Museum  2:30pm
Brandeis University, Waltham MA
directions

BTO plays IDEAS festival

width= The Boston Typewriter Orchestra plays the IDEAS Boston conference October 20, 2011.

IDEAS Boston’s mission is to promote innovation and contribute to the economic vitality and competitiveness of the region. Through a unique conference, dissemination of new ideas after the event, and connecting cutting-edge thinkers across sectors, IDEAS Boston serves as an important resource to individual innovators throughout the community, and from a civic perspective helps to build the region’s brand as a hub of innovation attractive to businesses, college students, and workers.

For more information, go to http://www.umb.edu/ideasboston/entry/about“

BTO plays Visual art installation created by Peter Schumann

Visual art installation created by Peter Schumann

Monday, Jan 24 – Sunday, Jan 30

Free and open to all

Bread and Puppet Theater Artistic Director Peter Schumann’s most recent visual art exploration, ranging from very large paintings to very small string booklets, which depict matters that concern us all.

Exhibit details:

Monday, Jan 24 | 6 – 9pm: opening reception, with refreshments, an art talk given by Schumann, short skits performed by the touring company, and live music performed by the Boston Typewriter Orchestra and the Dirty Water Brass Band

Tuesday, Jan 25 through Friday, Jan 28 | 9am to 5pm

Thursday and Friday hours extended up to and after the evening performance and Saturday and Sunday the exhibit will be open one hour before and after each matinee and evening performance.

Link to BCA Website

BTO Plays Bread and Puppet Art Opening Jan 24 at the Cyclorama

Visual art installation created by Peter Schumann

Monday, Jan 24 – Sunday, Jan 30

Free and open to all

Bread and Puppet Theater Artistic Director Peter Schumann’s most recent visual art exploration, ranging from very large paintings to very small string booklets, which depict matters that concern us all.

Exhibit details:

Monday, Jan 24 | 6 – 9pm: opening reception, with refreshments, an art talk given by Schumann, short skits performed by the touring company, and live music performed by the Boston Typewriter Orchestra and the Dirty Water Brass Band

Tuesday, Jan 25 through Friday, Jan 28 | 9am to 5pm

Thursday and Friday hours extended up to and after the evening performance and Saturday and Sunday the exhibit will be open one hour before and after each matinee and evening performance.

For more information go to the Boston Center for the Arts Website

BTO plays Charlestown Library December 6, 7:30 p.m.

From

From:Mysecretboston.com
The Boston Typewriter Orchestra holds a holiday concert at the Charlestown branch library, with “rhythmic typewriter manipulation combined with elements of performance, comedy and satire.” The orchestra was founded in 2004 by Tim Devin, whose girlfriend surprised him with the gift of a children’s typewriter that he began to play along to music. It’s since opened for Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls and appeared on the Today show. (Monday, December 6, 7:30 p.m., Charlestown Branch Library, 179 Main St., free and followed by a reception. Find more information here. Find more information about, and listen to, the Boston Typewriter Orchestra here.)