Free Events At HubWeek Boston

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>>Check out what's on our radar for the best free events happening at HUBweek:

 
The Female Entrepreneur's Experience in Boston
Wednesday, Oct. 11 starting at 5pm 
Boston has become a city known for welcoming and nurturing startup companies and big ideas. Hear from female founders, venture capitalists and journalists who have built their teams here in the Hub and the successes and challenges they have encountered along the way. (click here for more)

Fall Cafe Night: District Hall's 4th Birthday Party
Wednesday, Oct. 11 starting at 5:30pm  
Head to District Hall for a night of engaging and interactive workshops, panels, office hours, and networking designed to create connections, share knowledge, and make great ideas happen. Innovation is happening all around us in every sector: in technology, in education, in arts, in healthcare, in government and in the nonprofit world. (click here for more)
 
Fact/Fiction: Driving Truth Into Policy Debates
Wednesday, Oct. 11 starting at 6pm 
An incisive and practical panel discussion that uses the example of EconoFact.org to directly address what can be done today in news and social media to combat the corrosive effects of glib and highly partisan policy debates that are affecting our country’s future. If in such discussions, society can’t agree on the relevant facts, then the nation itself loses a common base for constructive debate and policy will suffer. (click here for more)
 
Stories Under The Stars
Friday, Oct. 13 thru Sunday, Oct. 15 (Times available here) 
Through the use of live storytelling, radio, and music you will experience true stories, both personal and inspired by science, that explore the theme of ‘Light in the Dark,’ all unfolding beneath the canopy of our cosmos. Search for light during the earliest moments of your life, and from the outer reaches of our universe to the inner reaches of the human heart. (click here for more)
 
De-Stress Boston
Saturday, Oct. 14 starting at 10am 
If headlines and online chatter are stressing you and your family out, HUBweek can help. De-Stress Boston will teach you how to calm the body, unplug and relax. De-Stress Boston is a community-wide experiential education session about the power of stress reduction techniques to improve health and build resiliency. (click here for more)
 
Making A Live Storytelling Show For A Planetarium
Saturday, Oct. 14 starting at 3:45pm 
A group of scientists, artists, and musicians produce a show at the Charles Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science, Boston, called “Stories under the Stars.” They will share on the development of the show, perform excerpts, and discuss how to create moments of tenderness, learning, and awe. (click here for more)
 
Intergalactic Yoga
Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 14- Oct. 15 (Times available here) 
Yoga from another planet, surrounded by stars with Krista, your yoga instructor. Bring your own mat! (click here for more)
 
Robot Block Party
Sunday, Oct. 15 starting at 11am 
On Sunday, October 15, more than 20 robots will descend on The HUB. Robot Block Party will showcase the latest in robotics and provide exciting demos of products to come, highlighting the Massachusetts robotics ecosystem. (click here for more)