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31st Annual BPS Youth Art Month Gallery Reception

Celebrate the 300+ students who are featured in this year's Youth Art Month exhibition by Boston Public Schools!

March 8, 2025
  • 12:00pm - 2:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Citywide
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2025-03-08T12:00:17 - 2025-03-08T14:00:17

This March, Boston Public Schools students are taking over our art galleries for the annual Youth Art Month exhibition. The works on display reflect the quality instruction of our teachers and the dedication, skill development, and creativity of our students. We encourage you to explore the exhibit and be inspired by their vision. Featuring works of art from more than 300 BPS students!

2025 BPS Youth Art Month Flyer

March 8, 2025
  • 12:00pm - 2:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Citywide
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2025-03-08T12:00:17 - 2025-03-08T14:00:17
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Phillips Square Community Open House

The Phillips Square team will be joined by the Reconnecting Chinatown team for a Community Open House at the Josiah Quincy Upper School in Chinatown.

March 1, 2025
  • 1:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Josiah Quincy Upper School
    900 Washington Street
    Boston, MA 02111
  • Contact:
    Wenzheng Wang, Transportation Planner
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Chinatown/Leather District
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2025-03-01T13:00:02 - 2025-03-01T16:00:02

Chat with us about your hopes and concerns for Phillips Square and enjoy snacks, activities, and artists performances!

Community Open House

March 1, 2025
  • 1:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Josiah Quincy Upper School
    900 Washington Street
    Boston, MA 02111
  • Contact:
    Wenzheng Wang, Transportation Planner
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Chinatown/Leather District
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2025-03-01T13:00:02 - 2025-03-01T16:00:02
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WVBS Radio Presents "A Return to the Airwaves"

March 13, 2025
  • 6:30pm - 8:30pm
  • Veronica B. Smith Senior Center
    20 Chestnut Hill Avenue
    Brighton,
  • Contact:
    Lauren Basler
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Brighton
  • Event Type:
    Art
  • Posted:
2025-03-13T18:30:06 - 2025-03-13T20:30:06

Set your dial to WVBS and join your favorite radio players from the “Very Best Station” for a throwback to 1950's radio plays with live music and sound effects!

Wed. March 12, 2 p.m.

Thurs. March 13, 6:30 p.m.

RSVP by March 10 to vbsseniorcenter@boston.gov or 617-635-6120

March 13, 2025
  • 6:30pm - 8:30pm
  • Veronica B. Smith Senior Center
    20 Chestnut Hill Avenue
    Brighton,
  • Contact:
    Lauren Basler
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Brighton
  • Event Type:
    Art
  • Posted:
2025-03-13T18:30:06 - 2025-03-13T20:30:06
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WVBS Radio Presents "A Return to the Airwaves"

March 12, 2025
  • 2:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Veronica B. Smith Senior Center
    20 Chestnut Hill Avenue
    Brighton,
  • Contact:
    Lauren Basler
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Brighton
  • Event Type:
    Art
  • Posted:
2025-03-12T14:00:06 - 2025-03-12T16:00:06

Set your dial to WVBS and  join your favorite radio players from the “Very Best Station” for a throwback to 1950's radio plays with live music and sound effects!

Wed. March 12, 2 p.m.

Thurs. March 13, 6:30 p.m.

RSVP by March 10 to vbsseniorcenter@boston.gov or 617-635-6120

March 12, 2025
  • 2:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Veronica B. Smith Senior Center
    20 Chestnut Hill Avenue
    Brighton,
  • Contact:
    Lauren Basler
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Brighton
  • Event Type:
    Art
  • Posted:
2025-03-12T14:00:06 - 2025-03-12T16:00:06
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Snowshoeing Safari

Explore! Learn! Preserve! with the Boston Park Rangers. We offer FREE guided tours and nature-based programs for ALL AGES. 

March 2, 2025
2025-03-02T13:00:00 - 2025-03-02T14:00:00

Join the Boston Park Rangers for a snowshoeing tour around Boston’s historic Franklin Park. Snowshoeing is a fun and healthy way to enjoy the outdoors and further explore The Emerald Necklace in the winter. Park Rangers will demonstrate and instruct all the snowshoeing basics. Then, you'll be led on an hour-long guided tour, where we will uncover some of the plants and wildlife that thrive in the wintry New England environment.

  • Meeting Location: William J. Devine Golf Course parking lot --1 Circuit Dr. Boston, MA 02121
  • A limited supply of snowshoes will be available for use during the event. 
  • Please dress accordingly and be prepared for winter weather conditions
  • For ages 12+
  • In the event that we are unable to snowshoe, the program will be conducted as a walking tour

For more information visit the Boston Park Rangers homepage.

March 2, 2025
2025-03-02T13:00:00 - 2025-03-02T14:00:00
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Snowshoeing Safari

Explore! Learn! Preserve! with the Boston Park Rangers. We offer FREE guided tours and nature-based programs for ALL AGES. 

February 23, 2025
2025-02-23T13:00:00 - 2025-02-23T14:00:00

Join the Boston Park Rangers for a snowshoeing tour around Boston’s historic Franklin Park. Snowshoeing is a fun and healthy way to enjoy the outdoors and further explore The Emerald Necklace in the winter. Park Rangers will demonstrate and instruct all the snowshoeing basics. Then, you'll be led on an hour-long guided tour, where we will uncover some of the plants and wildlife that thrive in the wintry New England environment.

  • Meeting Location: William J. Devine Golf Course parking lot --1 Circuit Dr. Boston, MA 02121
  • A limited supply of snowshoes will be available for use during the event. 
  • Please dress accordingly and be prepared for winter weather conditions
  • For ages 12+
  • In the event that we are unable to snowshoe, the program will be conducted as a walking tour

For more information visit the Boston Park Rangers homepage.

February 23, 2025
2025-02-23T13:00:00 - 2025-02-23T14:00:00
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Lift Every Voice

The 2025 Black History Month theme, "African Americans and Labor," is a powerful reflection on the pivotal role that the hard work of African Americans has played in shaping our country’s history.

February 23, 2025
2025-02-23T15:00:13 - 2025-02-23T18:00:13

Lift Every Voice event image

“Lift Every Voice” Is collaboration of various city agencies, cabinets and the IATSE union to provide the community with an intergenerational Black History Month celebration through music, dance and spoken word, while recognizing the importance of labor in the Black experience.

Register for the event

February 23, 2025
2025-02-23T15:00:13 - 2025-02-23T18:00:13
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Reclaiming Folk

Join us for a celebration of Women’s History month with Reclaiming Folk: Celebrating People of Color in Folk Music at The Boston Public Library, featuring Naomi Westwater, Pamela Means, and Adeline Um, and a special guest!

March 22, 2025
2025-03-22T13:00:04 - 2025-03-22T15:00:04

Reclaiming Folk is an event series celebrating people of color in folk music, created by singer-songwriter Naomi Westwater. Folk music is traditional music, folk music is storytelling, folk music is the music of the people, and folk music is a voice for what’s happening in the world today. In our society, there is often no space for marginalized people to tell their stories. Reclaiming Folk seeks to make space for musicians of color to tell their stories and share the stories of our past, so that our future can be a more inclusive place for all.

We are “reclaiming” folk because history has forgotten that people of color have always been at the root of American folk music. From field calls to Blues and Gospel to Indigenous traditions, the origin of American folk music is connected to people of color.

Founded in 2024, Reclaiming Folk achieved immediate success and support from the community, featuring performances by 15+ artists and traveling to over 10 locations in Massachusetts. The event includes original music from folk musicians singing in the round, cover songs that honor the musicians who came before us, short interviews with the musicians about folk music, and a Q&A from the audience.

Reclaiming Folk Flyer

March 22, 2025
2025-03-22T13:00:04 - 2025-03-22T15:00:04
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Concert: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe and Natalie Epstein-Hogue

Non-Event and the Mayor’s Office of Arts + Culture, are pleased to present a free concert of live electronic music by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe and Natalie Epstein-Hogue inside Boston’s iconic City Hall.

March 1, 2025
  • 7:00pm - 9:30pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    Mezzanine (3rd Floor)
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Citywide
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Art
  • Posted:
2025-03-01T19:00:06 - 2025-03-01T21:30:06
About the artists

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe is a multifaceted artist, curator, and composer renowned for his innovative work with voice and modular synthesizer in the realm of experimental music. With a focus on performance and installation/exhibition, Lowe’s combination of synthesis creates a heightened physicality, often inducing trancelike states in his compositions. He has also recorded and performed under the moniker Lichens, as well as being a member of the bands Om and Singer. 

In recent years, Robert has focused on composing music for film, and has worked with filmmakers such as Ben Owen, Yance Ford, Nia DaCosta, Daniel McCabe, Mariama Diallo, and more. He has composed soundtracks for the films Candyman (2021), Master (2022), and Telemarketers (2023).

Natalie Epstein-Hogue is an interdisciplinary musician, artist, and technologist. Her work engages with urbanism, domesticity, and humanism within tech. Through electronic media, Natalie seeks to reflect the human experience. She works with expressive control and programming bespoke digital instruments, building up a deeply personal sound-space from first principles.

Her 2024 Album Comfort Objects is a synthesis-driven work, seeking to cultivate a soundscape of comfort and healing, in spite of a tumultuous and traumatizing reality. Dealing with themes of grief, PTSD and marginalization, and squaring them with a desire to create beautiful things, to love deeply, and to cultivate peace as a radical act.

March 1, 2025
  • 7:00pm - 9:30pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    Mezzanine (3rd Floor)
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Citywide
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Art
  • Posted:
2025-03-01T19:00:06 - 2025-03-01T21:30:06
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“Patterns on Concrete” Gallery Reception

Please join us at Boston City Hall for a gallery reception to celebrate the start of Women’s History Month and the exhibiting members of the Boston Modern Quilt Guild.

March 6, 2025
  • 5:00pm - 7:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    3rd Floor Mezzanine
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2025-03-06T17:00:32 - 2025-03-06T19:00:32

Patrice Denault, Venus on a Monday Afternoon, Quilt, 54 x 43 in.
Patrice Denault, Venus on a Monday Afternoon, Quilt, 54 x 43 in.

This event is free and open to all. Please RSVP at the link below.

RSVP

Directions: Please use the entrance located on Congress St, across from Faneuil Hall. Pass security and take the elevators to the 3rd floor. The Mezzanine Gallery is located behind the information desk.

Patterns on Concrete

Group show by the Boston Modern Quilt Guild

Artists: Christina Ackmann, Jo Artz, Patrice Denault, Alexis Deise, Judith Flynn, Juliet Harbage, Joyce Husseini, Stephanie Jurgensen, Amy Kidd, Rebecca Loren, Michele MacDonald, Susan McKinney, Kristine Millette, Monday Night Quilters, Jean Penta, Fran Sharp, Leneigh White, Emily Williams and Louisa Williams.

About the Show

A quilt is made by sewing multiple blocks of fabric together. Small fragments shine as they become something bigger, a tapestry of rhythm and repetition. This exhibition presents a selection of quilts done by members of the Boston Modern Quilt Guild, some working collectively, to address a range of personal narratives, social issues, and formal explorations. Many of these pieces were created during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring both personal and social tension, change and a slower pace to explore the world. 

These pieces build on the long tradition of quilting in New England, reinterpreting patterns and designs passed down through generations bringing a powerful dialogue between tradition and contemporary narratives. 

Within the context of Boston City Hall, with its bold architectural forms and geometric patterns, these quilts invite viewers to zoom in and out and perceive the lines of the building through a new bright lens. Just as the building itself is composed of numerous concrete blocks, these quilts are composed of countless individual pieces, each contributing to a larger, more complex whole.

The Boston Modern Quilt Guild was founded in 2010 with members hailing from Boston, MetroWest, and beyond. They are dedicated to providing inspiration, fellowship, and support to quilters of all skill levels and types. They are a chapter of the national Modern Quilt Guild.

To learn more about this exhibition please visit bostonmqg.org

March 6, 2025
  • 5:00pm - 7:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    3rd Floor Mezzanine
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2025-03-06T17:00:32 - 2025-03-06T19:00:32
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