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National Poetry Month with Alondra Bobadilla

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Alondra Bobadilla, the first ever Boston Youth Poet Laureate.

April 19, 2025
2025-04-19T15:00:35 - 2025-04-19T16:00:35

Alondra will lead a poetry-writing workshop for teens, ages 13-19 years old.

April 19, 2025
2025-04-19T15:00:35 - 2025-04-19T16:00:35
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National Poetry Month with Alondra Bobadilla

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Alondra Bobadilla, the first ever Boston Youth Poet Laureate.

April 12, 2025
2025-04-12T15:00:00 - 2025-04-12T16:00:00

Alondra will lead a poetry-writing workshop for teens, ages 13-19 years old.

April 12, 2025
2025-04-12T15:00:00 - 2025-04-12T16:00:00
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Mayor's Poetry Program Reading

Celebrate the selected poets from the 2025 Mayor's Poetry Program as part of National Poetry Month!

April 25, 2025
  • 2:00pm - 4:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    Speakers Corner
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Tom Johnston
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Citywide
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
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2025-04-25T14:00:31 - 2025-04-25T16:00:31

Join us at the Speaker’s Corner on City Hall Plaza (near the flag poles, across from the Government Center T station) to hear readings from the poets whose work was selected for this year’s Mayor’s Poetry Program! Starting this month, their poems will be on display at Boston City Hall through April 2026.

April 25, 2025
  • 2:00pm - 4:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    Speakers Corner
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Tom Johnston
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Citywide
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2025-04-25T14:00:31 - 2025-04-25T16:00:31
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The Lot Next Door

 The Un-monument | Re-monument | De-monument: Transforming Boston Programming

August 2, 2025
2025-08-02T14:00:53 - 2025-08-02T16:00:53

The Lot Next Door

Join us for a new play by the Dorchester Weather Theatre Collective!

Produced and devised in collaboration with a community of local neighborhood artists and activists, The Lot Next Door explores issues and dynamics at the intersection of community development, environmental justice, and social resilience through the retelling of a true story in which residents fight a proposed development lot on the corner of Woodrow Ave and Norfolk St in Dorchester.

August 2, 2025
2025-08-02T14:00:53 - 2025-08-02T16:00:53
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Boston Chinatown: Stories on Our Streets

 The Un-monument | Re-monument | De-monument: Transforming Boston Programming

June 21, 2025
  • 2:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Chinatown Gate
    John F. Fitzgerald Surface Road and Beach Street
    Boston, MA 02111
  • Contact:
    Event Organizer
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Chinatown/Leather District
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2025-06-21T14:00:53 - 2025-06-21T16:00:53

Boston Chinatown: Stories on Our Streets

Join us for Boston Chinatown: Stories on Our Streets produced by CHUANG Stage in partnership with Company One Theatre.

Based on the community engagement and oral history work done by C1’s artists, PlayLab alumni, and frequent collaborators of the 2021 Boston Chinatown Musical, this new musical uplifts Chinatown’s history, vibrancy, and perseverance in the face of gentrification and racial violence.

June 21, 2025
  • 2:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Chinatown Gate
    John F. Fitzgerald Surface Road and Beach Street
    Boston, MA 02111
  • Contact:
    Event Organizer
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Chinatown/Leather District
  • Posted:
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2025-06-21T14:00:53 - 2025-06-21T16:00:53
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Sprouts of Resilience: A Tofu Making Workshop

 The Un-monument | Re-monument | De-monument: Transforming Boston Programming

June 7, 2025
  • 1:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Pao Arts Center
    99 Albany Street
    Boston, MA 02111
  • Contact:
    Maia Erslev
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Chinatown/Leather District
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2025-06-07T13:00:53 - 2025-06-07T16:00:53

Sprouts of Resilience: A Tofu Making Workshop

Join artist Ying Ye in this final activation, a communal gathering where participants will collectively transform soybeans into tofu through their labor symbolizing, acts of cultural healing.

Sprouts of Resilience: A Journey from Seed to Tofu, brings Chinese traditional aesthetics of gardening, street food tricycles, and collective food-making gatherings to activate Chinatown’s public spaces and foster cultural resilience and belonging.

Programmed in conjunction with the exhibit Celebrations of Perseverance: Public Art in Chinatown, 2024-2025 on view March 20 - June 20, 2025.

June 7, 2025
  • 1:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Pao Arts Center
    99 Albany Street
    Boston, MA 02111
  • Contact:
    Maia Erslev
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Chinatown/Leather District
  • Posted:
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2025-06-07T13:00:53 - 2025-06-07T16:00:53
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abundance among us: puppetry workshop

 The Un-monument | Re-monument | De-monument: Transforming Boston Programming

April 12, 2025
  • 11:00am - 1:00pm
  • Pao Arts Center
    99 Albany Street
    Boston, MA 02111
  • Contact:
    Maia Erslev
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Chinatown/Leather District
  • Posted:
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2025-04-12T11:00:53 - 2025-04-12T13:00:53
abundance among us: puppetry workshop

abundance among us, Sheila Novak and Cass Li, 2021 Photo Credit: Christopher Rucinski, 2021

Join the abundance among us: dragon and friends team for an interactive workshop!

Rain date: Sunday, April 13 | 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Mythological creatures are quite imaginative yet are built on the real world - many of them combine features of different animals from our daily life. Through games and drawing, registered participants will construct articulating puppets, creating a mythological creature of their own. The workshop will culminate in the co-creation of a collective puppet which added to the Celebrations of Perseverance: Public Art in Chinatown, 2024-2025 exhibit, on view through June 20, 2025. 

Registration is limited to 20 people and lunch will be provided to registered participants only.  Lunch will be banh mi sandwiches—please note in your registration if you would like a vegetarian option. We cannot accommodate for all food allergies.

April 12, 2025
  • 11:00am - 1:00pm
  • Pao Arts Center
    99 Albany Street
    Boston, MA 02111
  • Contact:
    Maia Erslev
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Chinatown/Leather District
  • Posted:
  • Downloads:
2025-04-12T11:00:53 - 2025-04-12T13:00:53
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South Boston Movie Night: Despicable Me 4

Park's Movie Nights give residents and visitors the opportunity to enjoy popular films under the night skies in City parks in August.

August 28, 2025
2025-08-28T19:45:39 - 2025-08-28T22:00:39

Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina, and the family is forced to go on the run. (Year: 2024; Rating: PG)

The series is hosted by the Boston Parks and Recreation Department and title sponsor Bank of America with additional support from the Mayor’s Office of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment.

No pre-registration needed to attend.

Free popcorn will be provided while supplies last.

August 28, 2025
2025-08-28T19:45:39 - 2025-08-28T22:00:39
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Revolution’s Edge

A costumed reading of the hit play

April 18, 2025
2025-04-18T18:30:00 - 2025-04-18T19:30:00

To kick off Boston’s Patriots’ Day weekend celebrations in partnership with the City of Boston, Old North Illuminated will stage a free reading of the hit play Revolution’s Edge behind Old North Church on Paul Revere Mall. Mayor Michelle Wu and other local officials and guests will give remarks to commemorate this historic anniversary.

Written by Patrick Gabridge and produced by Plays in Place, Revolution’s Edge is a gripping 45-minute historical drama that ran at Old North Church in the summers of 2023 and 2024. Guests will be greeted with live music before brief speaking remarks welcome the crowd and introduce the 45-minute costumed read of the play. Old North’s lanterns will light up soon after the play’s conclusion, at the beginning of the reenactment of Revere’s row across the Charles River.

ASL interpretation offered.

Revolutions Edge

April 18, 2025
2025-04-18T18:30:00 - 2025-04-18T19:30:00
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Weaving Indigenous Stories Symposium (Online)

May 30, 2025
2025-05-30T11:00:14 - 2025-05-30T17:00:14

Indigenous peoples, histories, stories, and culture have been erased from the City of Boston and Massachusetts. You rarely see the mention of our peoples across the City and if you do, it’s rarely from an Indigenous perspective. Due to the history of erasure in Massachusetts, you don’t see many events or convenings centering Indigenous knowledge. Our history in this city and state needs to reckon with that exclusion and erasure.

In partnership with the North American Indian Center of Boston and Northeastern University, we are hosting our second annual Indigenous symposium. These annual events will be led by Indigenous peoples, centering and platforming Indigenous knowledge. This year we’d like to focus on land and the work that Indigenous communities are doing to protect land and restore land. This will be a one day event, two panel discussions, and exhibition of art.

Proposed Schedule:

Panel Discussion

  • Land Back + Conservation + Environmental Justice
  • Cultural Preservation

Artist show + Artist Share Out

Our symposium is sponsored by: City of Boston, City of Boston Equity and Inclusion, North American Indian Center of Boston, and Mills College at Northeastern.

Accessibility, Health and Safety:

  • Our online event will include automated captions.

Register

May 30, 2025
2025-05-30T11:00:14 - 2025-05-30T17:00:14
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