With an aim to battle the “danger of a single story,” we strive for ALTARS, The Live Experience to contribute nuanced, compelling, and deeply personal perspectives as we reimagine the future, while acknowledging and honoring the past.

We are thrilled to feature exceptional Boston-based artists, including Krump champion and Season 6 winner of "So You Think You Can Dance” Russell Gutta Fergusson, Boston Ballet dancer and US Presidential Scholar in the Arts My’Kal Stromile, Boston’s first Youth Poet Laureate Alondra Bobadilla, GRAMMY-Nominated multi-instrumentalist Phillip Young, and Brazilian dance ensemble SambaViva. We will also screen Mariona Lloreta's short film ALTARS, followed by a Q&A with the evening's performers and short film cast.

Program will be followed by a reception with food by Palestinian Chef Abdulla Awad of Yafa Cafe, Mexican-owned Travelmug Cafe, and non-alcoholic drinks by Curious Elixirs. Ashton Lites will wrap the event with an energizing DJ set.

Films at the Gate, an event organized and run by ACDC youth, revives the tradition of the Chinatown movie house. The festival enlivens Chinatown, bringing together people of all backgrounds and ages, while also introducing kung fu films to a new generation and restoring a tradition of shared, public experience of Chinese-language films in Chinatown. 

Films at the Gate is a FREE event, open to all! Since 2006, Films at the Gate has been a grassroots event attracting over 700 attendees annually to Chinatown’s under utilized spaces.

📍Where: The Chinatown Gate in Boston along the John F. Fitzgerald Surface Road

📅 When: Friday, August 23 - Sunday, August 25, from 5:30 - 9:30 p.m. 

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Join the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture for an evening of Slam Theatre centered on themes of American culture and values and Afrocentricity.

Free with RSVP at vbsseniorcenter@boston.gov or 617-635-6120

Free with RSVP at vbsseniorcenter@boston.gov or 617-635-6120

Please join us for a film screening of and panel discussion about an epic story about artist and activist Nan Goldin, told through her groundbreaking photography and rare footage of her fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the opioid crisis.

Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022 | Not Rated | 1 hour 57 minutes) is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.

Panelists

• Mike S. Quinn: Partner, Eisenberg & Baum, LLP, New York; founding member of Nan Goldin’s P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now)
• Mario Chaparro: Program Director of Caspar Men’s Residence, Bay Cove
• Joanne Peterson: Founder and Executive Director, Learn to Cope, Inc.
• Tania Del Rio: Senior Advisor, Coordinated Response Team, City of Boston

Join us for a memorable movie night at City Hall Plaza, where we will present two Latino films that will captivate your senses.

The City of Boston, along with American Repertory Theatre (ART) at Harvard University, ArtsEmerson, Company One Theatre, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Lars Jan, Boston University Center on Forced Displacement, Boston University Arts Initiative, Extinction Rebellion Boston, Foxborough Public Schools, RefugePoint, and The Puppet Free Library, will welcome Little Amal to the City of Boston September 7 - 9, 2023.