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  • Saturday, September 22, 9:00 am – 3:45 pm – Take a Shot: A Digital Photography Symposium

    The Boston Center for Adult Education (BCAE) will hold its second annual Take a Shot: Digital Photography Symposium, an educational opportunity for all those with an interest in what goes on behind the camera, on Saturday, September 22 beginning at 9 am.

    Open to students of all levels, the symposium is designed to provide information and technique sharing through various interactive and intensive workshops taught by some of the most recognized photographers in New England including:

    Chris Padgett, Landscape and Event Photographer, Contributor to Stuff Magazine; Diallo Ferguson, Owner of Visual Affects Studios and Producer of A Passion 4 Fashion TV; Mitch Weiss, Artist; Jason Rich, Author of How To Do Everything Digital Photography; Conor Doherty, Photographer; and Joel Veak, Professional Lifestyle and Commercial Photographer, Contributor to Stuff Magazine.

    The day-long symposium, sponsored by Hunt’s Photo and Video, New England’s largest photography retailer, will offer workshops of varying concentrations including: How To Figure Out Your Digital Camera, Digital Photography 101, Picture Process: Photography As Fine Art, Eye Catching Vacation Photos, Professional Lighting Tips And Tricks and About Face: Perfect Portraits.

    Whether students have been shaping their photography skills for years or have just purchased their first camera, this symposium offers something beneficial and exciting for everyone.

    The cost of the symposium is a one-time fee of $125.00 and includes three unique classes, lunch and hand-outs and take-homes from the instructors.  The event will take place at 122 Arlington Street, and you may register online at www.bcae.org.

  • Wednesday, September 30, 2:00 – 3:30 pm – Food, Inc.

    Harvard Pilgrim Health Care has teamed up with the Museum of Science to present a free screening of the critically acclaimed film FOOD, INC., by noted documentarian Robert Kenner.  Narrated by experts Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto), and featuring interviews with forward-thinking entrepreneurs such as Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Farm and Joel Salatin of Pollyface, Inc,, FOOD, INC. reveals surprising, shocking truths about what we eat, how it is produced, who we become as a nation, and where we go from here.  The screening will be at the Museum of Science’s Cahners Theater, and the doors will open at 1:15 pm.  A panel discussion will follow with Gary Hirshberg, Chairman, President, and CEO of Stonyfield Farm, Jody Adams, James Beard award-winning Chef/Owner of Rialto, and Jessie Banhazl, Owner and Co-Founder of Green City Growers. This discussion will be moderated by Louisa Kasdon, writer and food editor of Stuff Magazine.  Registration is available through the Museum of Science , or you may email David Sittenfeld at forumrsvp@mos.org, or call 617-589-4258.

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