Join us at the Scollay Square Gallery on the third floor of Boston City Hall for the opening reception of Learning with Trees, an exhibition guest curated by Martina Tanga in collaboration with Tree Boston.

Showcased in two locations—Boston City Hall and HallSpace in Dorchester—this exhibition presents the work of fourteen New England-based artists who center trees as collaborators and teachers in their practice. Here in City Hall, photographer Bruce Myren, painter Joel Janowitz, and the collaborative just practice (Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Weston Chien) consider the urban tree canopy and how the trees among our cities are rooted, living neighbors. They invite us to explore the relationship between our local built space and the trees that inhabit it.

Celebrate Pride and the start of Summer with The House of Glitter at Multicultural Arts Center’s first 2026 Summer Series event Echoes! Warm up workout and Haus of Glitter’s Glitter Revolution Dance Party (featuring drag performance and electrifying disco house set)

Move the City is an interactive workshop exploring how artists and city government can collaborate through cultural expression, creativity, and community participation.

Influenced by Boston’s Caribbean and Latin American communities, participants respond to civic questions through music, movement, gesture, and making to prototype more dynamic approaches to community engagement and civic dialogue.

A generative workshop and shared meal where Boston artists, residents, and creative organizers will imagine how artists and City government can collaborate to build a more thriving, well-resourced, and culturally rooted Boston.

Together, we will map artistic life across the city, identify what artists need to stay and work here, and create future scenarios for a Boston Artists-in-Residence program grounded in memory, belonging, civic imagination, and community care.

Join a co-facilitated experience of making and ideating with local arts consultants and DS4SI with food, space to play, and dream up ideas together. What does it look like for art and government to work together? How can we design and ideate for a creative future? What’s possible when arts and government combine?

An evening of chatting, eating, and crafting with local Allston-Brighton artists interested in learning about creative civic engagement at the City of Boston. This event includes a design intensive where artists use “artistic thinking” to solve hypothetical City issues.

We will talk with Allston-Brighton artists and former Boston Artists-in-Residence to understand how artists contribute to civic problem-solving. Following the panel, breakout room activities will re-imagine an artist-made City Hall where creative practitioners are embedded across departments.

Panelists:

• “Prophet PM” Prophet Paker-McWhorter

• Golden

• Wayne Strattman

• Melissa Q. Teng