Celebrate the opening of Timothy Hyunsoo Lee's solo exhibition, in which the artist explores the experience of existing between cultures, never fully here nor there. Drawing from his life as a queer immigrant who arrived in New York City as an undocumented child, Lee examines how gestures of invisibility and hypervisibility function as survival strategies for immigrant communities navigating layered identities within hostile environments.

Directions:

Please enter on Congress St (across from Faneuil Hall), pass security and take the elevators to the 5th floor.

Since 1960, Boston and Strasbourg have been sister cities, connected by shared values of democracy, education, and cultural exchange. Strasbourg, like Boston, is a center of government, economy, culture, education, and medicine. Strasbourg and Boston are known for their majestic churches and beautiful historic landmarks. Both cities place a great emphasis on historic preservation. In this exhibition, photographers from both cities turn their lenses on familiar streets, revealing what makes each location unique while discovering unexpected resonances across the Atlantic.

Join us to see the show, mingle with fellow art-lovers, and enjoy light refreshments at the opening reception of "2 Perspectives." 

Directions:

Please use the entrance located on Congress St, across from Faneuil Hall. Pass security and take the elevators to the 2nd floor. The Mayor's Neighborhood Gallery is located to the left of the elevator bank.

Boston Busing in Chinatown, 1975 is a photo exhibition highlighting the mothers, students, and teachers who organized for educational equity during Boston’s court-ordered school desegregation. In 1975, when Boston Public Schools began busing elementary students to other neighborhoods, Chinese immigrant families faced a critical challenge: while desegregation aimed to provide equal access to quality education, the district had not addressed concerns about safety, communication barriers, and representation for Chinese children being bused into predominantly white neighborhoods.

In response, Chinese immigrant mothers organized to demand safety and educational rights for their children, culminating in a highly successful school boycott that brought the Boston School Committee to the negotiating table. Their victory was an early example of working-class immigrant women wielding collective power within Chinatown and at the city level—a story that has been largely absent from mainstream narratives about Boston’s busing crisis.

In July 2025, the Immigrant History Trail team gathered former teachers, parents, and students involved in this historic moment for a reunion picnic at Posner Hall, where Chinese parents issued their nine demands fifty years earlier. The gathering created a living, photographic “un-monument”—an opportunity for reflection, conversation, and intergenerational connection.

Boston Busing in Chinatown, 1975 juxtaposes photographs from the July 2025 reunion with rare archival images from 1975, celebrating the resilience of this community while inviting broader reconsideration of busing’s legacies across Boston

Join the Mayor's Office of Women’s Advancement and LGBTQIA2S+ Advancement for Culture Class: A Seat at the table, a mixer that blends academic insight with community celebration. The program features a lecture series designed to be accessible and engaging. To bridge the gap between the academy and the community, the space will be transformed into a vibrant marketplace featuring l, DJ Troy Frost, and curated food and beverage pairings The event will take place on Wednesday, February 11th, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., at The Substation in Roslindale.

Doors open at 7:00 PM | Program starts at 7:15 PM

Please email bostonwomen@boston.gov if you need ADA seating, translation, interpretation or other accommodations.

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Truths Our Bodies Tell is an evening where movement carries memory. In this company concert, Danza Orgánica presents six original dance works drawing from our origins, our embodied landscapes, our dystopian realities, and the truths we carry forward.

Original choreography by: Claudia Varela, Marcel Santiago Marcelino, and Mar Parrilla.

Divised movement by: Juliet Salameh Oliver, and members of Danza Orgánica.

Artistic direction: Mar Parrilla

The City of Boston is getting a new Youth Poet Laureate! Join us for a showcase at Boston Public Library's Rabb Hall featuring the 2026 finalists, and find out who will serve as the fourth Boston Youth Poet Laureate (BYPL).

What is the Boston Youth Poet Laureate program?

The BYPL is a writer and advocate who performs original works at civic events, brings poetry into schools and libraries, leads a special interest project, and works closely with Boston’s current Poet Laureate, Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah, to strengthen the City’s literary community.

Come join us for a night of art and creativity at Boston City Hall! The Haitian Artists Assembly of Massachusetts gallery reception is a celebration of their 30th Anniversary and its partnership with Boston City Hall, site of its first exhibition in October, 1995.

Directions:

Please use the entrance located on Congress St, across from Faneuil Hall. Pass security and take the elevators to the 2nd floor. The Mayor's Neighborhood Gallery is located to the left of the elevator bank.

Don't miss the ribbon cutting for Boston City Hall Plaza's newest public artwork! Meet the artist, learn about the process from design to installation, and mingle with fellow art-lovers. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Please join us to celebrate Airplay, Adria Arch's monumental installation at the Mezzanine Gallery (3rd floor) in Boston City Hall.

Don’t miss your chance to meet the artist, connect with other artists and art lovers, and explore the artwork!

Directions: Please use the entrance located on Congress St, across from Faneuil Hall. Pass security and take the elevators to the 3rd floor. The reception will take place at the top of the stairs.

Please note the exhibition will be on view through January 30, 2026. For more information please visit boston.gov/cityhallgalleries.

In conjunction with the end of the year celebration of the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture (MOAC), the National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) presents Finding Ourselves in Public Spaces as its culminating event. The event consists of the premier documentary screening of Cancel Violence: Artists Speak, a public conversation and a first ever video projection onto the museum's prized sculpture Eternal Presence by John Wilson.

During this year end celebration and culminating event, music will be provided by Zack Wilson, grandson of famed artist John Wilson who also created Eternal Presence, and Jamila Gordon on percussion. The premier documentary screening of Cancel Violence: Artists Speak was created by FPoint Productions will showcase artists including Paul Goodnight, Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs, L’Merchie Frazier, and others talking about causes of violence and possible correctives that can guide the community toward social healing. A special feature of the discussion will be a conversation between Alexis Smith, a homicide survivor, and Laurence "Larry" Pierce, an artist and retired teacher,  moderated by Edmund Barry Gaither, director emeritus of NCAAA. Lastly, in collaboration with ILLUMINUS and FPoint Productions, images and video interviews of Roxbury community members will be projected onto  the monumental sculpture Eternal Presence at dusk thus providing another grand scale, artistic screening on the historical Roxburian grounds.

Finding Ourselves in Public Spaces was convened by the Un-monument project and Cancel Violence: Artists Speak under the auspices of the National Center of Afro-American Artists with funds from the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture through a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

We cannot wait to see you there!