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SPARK Pride: Dorchester Neighborhood Social

Get ready to SPARK some joy at SPARK Pride: Dorchester Neighborhood Social! ✨🌈

June 18, 2025
  • 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Dorchester Brewing Company
    1250 Massachusetts Ave
    Boston, MA 02125
  • Contact:
    Aidan McDonough
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Dorchester
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2025-06-18T18:00:00 - 2025-06-18T20:00:01

Celebrate Pride Month the Dorchester way — with community, connection, and a whole lot of love 💕 Meet your neighbors, mingle with local leaders, and champion causes that make our city shine. We will have live entertainment with a performance by Lilly Rose Vallore 💃 and food provided by M&M BBQ 🍔



Hosted by SPARK Boston — Mayor Michelle Wu’s 20-35 civic crew 💪

Proudly sponsored by GW&K Investments 💖



📍 Dorchester Brewing Company, 1250 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA 02125

📅 June 18th, 6pm-8pm (21+ event)

🤝Come for the vibes, stay for the community



Because being neighborly is what? FUNDAMENTAL!!! 💅

June 18, 2025
  • 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Dorchester Brewing Company
    1250 Massachusetts Ave
    Boston, MA 02125
  • Contact:
    Aidan McDonough
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Dorchester
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2025-06-18T18:00:00 - 2025-06-18T20:00:01
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Echoes of Freedom

June 18, 2025
  • 6:30pm - 8:30pm
  • The Strand Theatre
    543 Columbia Road
    Boston, MA 02125
  • Contact:
    Susan McCollin
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Dorchester
  • Posted:
2025-06-18T18:30:16 - 2025-06-18T20:30:16

Join us for Echoes of Freedom, an evening of music, history, and celebration featuring the Howard University Gospel Choir, in honor of Juneteenth.

Founded at the legendary Howard University, one of the nation’s premier Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), the Howard Gospel Choir has inspired audiences around the world with their soul-stirring harmonies and commitment to preserving the rich traditions of gospel music.

This special performance will uplift, reflect, and celebrate Black resilience and liberation, filling the historic Strand Theatre with songs of hope, struggle, and triumph.

Come early, bring your loved ones, and experience a night where music meets movement—where history echoes into the present.

This event is free and open to all.

Register

June 18, 2025
  • 6:30pm - 8:30pm
  • The Strand Theatre
    543 Columbia Road
    Boston, MA 02125
  • Contact:
    Susan McCollin
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Dorchester
  • Posted:
2025-06-18T18:30:16 - 2025-06-18T20:30:16
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Belonging in Boston: MOIA x SoFar Community Concert

The Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement (MOIA) launched the annual City of Belonging Festival on March 21, 2025, in observance of Immigrant Heritage Month. This event is part of the City of Belonging Festival's official MOIA events.

June 12, 2025
2025-06-12T17:30:07 - 2025-06-12T19:00:07

Join us for a special community concert in partnership with SoFar Sounds. We’re celebrating Immigrant Heritage Month. The artists for this special concert will be diverse, and food is included with your ticket. Guests can also sign up to participate in an Open Mic portion of the program.

Refreshments and food will be provided. Everyone is welcome to attend, registration is requested. Free tickets are limited, if you are unable to attend, please notify us as soon as possible so we can offer your spot to others who wish to join. 

 

 

June 12, 2025
2025-06-12T17:30:07 - 2025-06-12T19:00:07
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Eden Street Park Night - Charlestown’s Got Talent

Enjoy a showcase of local talent and a DJ or Band, while indulging in Ice Cream and Pizza!

June 12, 2025
  • 6:00pm - 10:00pm
  • Eden Street Park
    10 Eden St
    Boston, MA 02129
  • Contact:
    Bunker Hill Associates
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Charlestown
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2025-06-12T18:00:19 - 2025-06-12T22:00:19
June 12, 2025
  • 6:00pm - 10:00pm
  • Eden Street Park
    10 Eden St
    Boston, MA 02129
  • Contact:
    Bunker Hill Associates
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Charlestown
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2025-06-12T18:00:19 - 2025-06-12T22:00:19
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Celebrate! with Benkadi Drum and Dance

The multicultural Benkadi Drum and Dance group returns to perform new dances showcasing traditional West African rhythms and movements. With vivid costumes, interpretive dance, and audience participation, join us in honor of Juneteenth!

June 14, 2025
2025-06-14T10:30:52 - 2025-06-14T11:30:52

Children are seated on a carpeted floor with their caretakers and space is available on a first come, first served basis. Additional seats are available for people with disabilities, seniors, and others unable to sit on the floor. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

This is an inclusive program and both people with and without disabilities are always welcomed. A Flexible Calming Space (Quiet Room) is available for anyone who needs a break from the program at any time, especially those who are experiencing sensory overload. Parking is free at the JFK Library.

The JFK Library takes the safety and security of all guests, staff, and visitors seriously. To make your experience safe and enjoyable, upon entry to this federal building, all visitors must pass through a security check with a metal detector. All bags will also be inspected by Security Officers. Visit our website for more details.

The Celebrate! series, appropriate for family audiences and children ages 5 and up, highlights America’s rich cultural diversity through the arts. This program is tied directly to President and Mrs. Kennedy's concern for and support of the arts and culture in a democratic society.

Thanks to generous support from the Martin Richard Foundation and the Mass Cultural Council all performances are free.

June 14, 2025
2025-06-14T10:30:52 - 2025-06-14T11:30:52
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Patriot Fife and Drum

Enjoy a lively concert of music that accompanied colonists as they marched, danced, wooed their beloveds, and waged war. David Vose and Sue Walko provide fascinating insight into each selection they perform.

May 31, 2025
2025-05-31T13:00:43 - 2025-05-31T15:00:43
May 31, 2025
2025-05-31T13:00:43 - 2025-05-31T15:00:43
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Arts Action Consortium Launch Party

The official launch party for the Arts Action Consortium, a transformative collaboration for Boston artists offering free consultations, workshops, cohort opportunities, performance space, and more for Boston artists.

April 29, 2025
  • 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • CROMA @ ASC
    Public Alley 438
    Boston, MA 02116
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Back Bay
    Citywide
  • Posted:
2025-04-29T18:00:54 - 2025-04-29T20:00:54

Join us at the official launch party for the Arts Action Consortium, a transformative collaboration for Boston artists supported by the City of Boston in partnership with six leading cultural organizations to offer free consultations, workshops, cohort opportunities, performance space, and more for Boston artists!

This event will include:
  • Live performances

  • Dinner and non-alcoholic drinks

  • Cash bar serving wine and beer

  • Speakers from the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture and AAC

  • Networking with artists and arts leaders

  • Opportunities to learn more about the Artist Pathways Project

This event is your chance to connect, learn, and celebrate the vibrant artistic community that makes Boston thrive. Whether you're an emerging artist, and established artist, or a passionate supporter of the arts, this is a night you won't want to miss.

April 29, 2025
  • 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • CROMA @ ASC
    Public Alley 438
    Boston, MA 02116
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Back Bay
    Citywide
  • Posted:
2025-04-29T18:00:54 - 2025-04-29T20:00:54
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States of Emergence

Join us for an evening of performance art and spatial interventions happening throughout Boston’s City Hall, presented by Mobius Artists Group.

March 29, 2025
2025-03-29T17:30:02 - 2025-03-29T20:30:02

Like many fellow Americans, it is not the first time that Mobius Artists Group has felt the weight of political anxieties and emerging culture wars that aim to target the diverse, the queer, the foreign, or the unconforming. Yet–with a flood of recent assaults on scientific research, the tenets of democracy, and basic civil rights– this moment, more than ever, feels like a state of emergency for many of us. How do we care for ourselves and for our neighbors during this state of emergency? How can we ensure the safety of our communities and honor the humanity of our being? And perhaps most importantly, how do we emerge from this moment? Not just in body or spirit, but as a society? 

Mobius Artists Group invites you to contemplate these questions with us at States of Emergence, an evening of performance art and spatial interventions presented throughout Boston’s City Hall. Featuring participatory and experimental movement, light, time, and audio-based works, States of Emergence is an artistic response to recent threats towards American democracy, society, and culture. By coming together to be grounded in our bodies, embrace complex emotions, listen to diverse stories, and share concerns with one another, we hope this evening of experiential dialogue will be a moment of catharsis and collective imagination toward a better future. 

This event is supported by the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture.

Header photo by Peter Gumaskas.

March 29, 2025
2025-03-29T17:30:02 - 2025-03-29T20:30:02
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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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