Annual Marianopolis Arts Trip, Fall 2009
Boston and Cambridge: Itinerary


(J. Holly Wheatcroft)

Friday October 9
6:30 a.m. Departure from Marianopolis College
about 1:30 p.m. Arrival at Le Méridien Cambridge
2:30-4:45 p.m. Tour of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
5:15-6:30 p.m. Group dinner at The Elephant Walk on Beacon Street
6:30–7 p.m. Walk to the Museum of Fine Arts through the Back Bay Fens
7-9:45 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts
9:45-10:30 p.m. Scenic walk back to the hotel (optional)
Saturday October 10
10 a.m.-noon Tour of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
noon–about 1p.m.

Harborwalk to Faneuil Hall /Quincy Market

(weather permitting; we will travel by bus if it's raining)

1 p.m. onwards Lunch and free time. You could:
• walk the Freedom Trail
• visit Boston Common and the Public Garden (audio guide )
• tour Copley Square (including the Boston Public Library, Trinity Church and Hancock Place)
• explore the MIT Museum (free passes for Le Méridien guests)
• visit the List Visual Arts Center at MIT (free admission)
• tour Harvard University with a student guide (free)
• return to the Museum of Fine Arts, if you want to see more
evening

Optional performance:

Sleep No More, 7:30 pm (will meet at about 7 pm to get to the venue)

British theater company Punchdrunk presents "an immersive production inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth, told through the lens of a Hitchcock thriller."

You could also:
• see a different performance: visit the Bostix booth at Faneuil Hall or at Copley Square (both open until 6 p.m.) for half off same-day tickets (cash only), or check listings provided by Arts Boston, the Boston Phoenix, the Weekly Dig or the Boston Globe for news about what’s on to plan your evening before you leave Montreal
• catch a film at the Harvard Film Archive in the Carpenter Center (Swiss architect Le Corbusier’s only North American building)
• view Boston from the Prudential Center’s Skywalk Observatory (last elevator at 9:30 p.m.)
Sunday October 11
9-9:45 a.m. Check out of hotel and load bus
10 a.m.–noon

MIT Public Sculpture Tour
12:15–12:45 p.m. Quick lunch near Harvard Square
1:15–3:15 p.m.

Harvard Art Museum and Carpenter Center

3:15–5:45 p.m

 Bus to Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH with screening of the film Orozco:  Man of Fire
5:45-6:30 p.m.

View “The Epic of American Civilization” fresco cycle by José Clemente Orozco in the Baker Library reserve reading room. (We cannot offer tours in the library because of noise restrictions, so we suggest you download an audio guide by art historian Mary Coffey, anthropologist John Watanabe, a Q&A session on the frescoes led by scholar and curator Jacquelynn Baas or all three. Bring them along on your mp3 player to make the most of the experience.)
6:30-7:30 p.m. Dinner in Hanover
7:30-11:30 p.m. Trip home