Tales from the Crips: Reimagining Fairy Tales with a Disabled Lens is Abilities Dance Boston's annual fall ballet. 

They will reimagine Grimm Tales and classic tales with more diverse identities to reflect greater Boston and our greater community. 

Join DJ TROY Frost and Rilla Force, along with aerialists, stilt walkers, acrobats, and other spooky circus performers from Commonwealth Circus Center for a Halloween party like no other!

Don your best costume and hit the dance floor at this FREE event, brought to you by Substation Community Supporters through a Wake Up the Night grant from the City of Boston. The Substation's bar will be open with a selection of craft beer, wine, cider, and Halloween-themed cocktails.

Substation Community Supporters is a non-profit established exclusively to support the historic preservation of the substation building and public-facing arts and cultural programming in the space.

RSVP REQUIRED

Dyke Alley wishes to create an inclusive space to celebrate members of the LGBTQ+ community, particularly lesbian and transgender communities within Boston. They collaborate with DJs in Boston and wish to employ other LGBTQ+ artists and performers that live local to Boston, as well as hiring an Audio/Visual Director to further the immersive experience of the event.

Community Sing! w/Ball in the House & Boston Children’s Chorus

Wednesday, October 23, 2024 @ 6:30 PM

Roxbury Community College Media Arts Center, 1234 Columbus Ave., Roxbury Crossing, MA 02120

Free and open to everyone of any age!

Do you love to sing?  Never sung before, but curious about singing in harmony? Join Ball in the House, Boston’s own R&B/Soul/Pop a cappella group, along with Boston Children’s Chorus, for an exciting a cappella concert full of fun, interactive, sing-alongs!  There’ll be instruction for harmony singing, a wild history ride through various genres of vocal music, and even demonstrations of riffing and beatboxing!

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Non-Event and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture present a free, site-responsive performance by Raven Chacon in the Great Engines Hall of Waterworks.

About the artist

Raven Chacon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Renaissance Society, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, REDCAT, Vancouver Art Gallery, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Borealis Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, and The Kennedy Center. As a member of Postcommodity from 2009-2018, he co-created artworks presented at the Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, Carnegie International 57, as well as the 2-mile long land art installation Repellent Fence.

A recording artist over the span of 22 years, Chacon has appeared on more than eighty releases on various national and international labels. His 2020 Manifest Destiny opera Sweet Land, co-composed with Du Yun, received critical acclaim from The LA Times, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, and was named 2021 Opera of the Year by the Music Critics Association of North America.

Note: the museum has limited parking, so please take public transportation or bike, if possible. The museum is a 10-minute walk from the Cleveland Circle stop on the C branch and the Reservoir stop on the D branch of the Green Line.

The museum is fully accessible to people with disabilities. If you have questions, call the museum at 617-277-0065 or email susanna@nonevent.org.

We are celebrating three vibrant new basketball court murals that pay tribute to Roxbury, the beauty of Malcolm X Park, and the lasting impact of Malcolm X.

Join us on Saturday, September 14, as we celebrate Central American Independence Day with a vibrant festival on City Hall Plaza! This event will honor the rich cultural heritage of Central America, featuring the ceremonial raising of flags from countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Belize.

The day will be filled with traditional music, dance, and delicious cuisine from across Central America. It's a wonderful opportunity to learn about and experience the pride and unity of the Central American community here in Boston. All are welcome to join in this joyous celebration of culture, history, and community!

Don’t miss it—let’s come together to show our support and appreciation for the Central American diaspora.

The Live Like a Local Tour Boston: Community Arts Showcase (CAS) aims to create a vibrant, inclusive event that brings together a diverse array of local arts organizations to perform for the public. This event will celebrate Boston's rich cultural heritage and artistic talent, providing a unique platform for artists to showcase their work, engage with the community, and support local businesses.

A Trike Called Funk’s Funk Fest is a free, family-friendly event that will feature local creatives who will put their own spin on what it means to “make it funky” in their respective mediums. A Trike Called Funk’s resident DJ EdWord plus Dorchester native DJ Safire will spin music throughout the event with Trike’s MC and Dance Lead A-A-Ron inviting people to jump in and get down on A Trike Called Funk’s large checkerboard dance floor.

The first hour will feature Funk music-inspired vegetarian wraps and patties from Rhythm and Wraps plus refreshing all natural juices by LymeLyfe–both black owned and operated local businesses–for free on a first-come, first serve basis. The first hour will also feature live painting on each side of A Trike Called Funk’s large-scale, free-standing frame. One side will be a wild-style “Funk Fest” piece by Sobek and the other side will be a piece by GoFive paying tribute to a dearly departed Popper, Domino, who passed away in 2018.

The live painting will run into the second hour, which will include Popping Showcase and dance battle featuring local dance leaders and their groups including Stiggity Stackz, MegaTron and members of SlaughterHouse Kingz, Beast Mode and members of The Flavor Continues, as well as Poppin’ Groove and members of the All City Rockers. And the third hour will feature a special live music performance of modern Funk performed live by keyboardist Yukihiro Kanesaka Carmichael aka U-Key.

Between the live painting, Popping showcase and dance battle, and the live Funk performance segments there will be generous amounts of open dance / community cypher time when all participants take turns dancing together to classic electro-Funk tracks, celebrating the legacy of Funk from the airwaves to the dance floor. In the spirit of James Brown’s “Funky Good Time” and George Clinton’s “One Nation Under a Groove,” A Trike Called Funk’s Funk Fest will unite nine local artists and 50+ community members to celebrate the past, present, and future of the Funk here in Boston.