Join Minni and CoDesign Collaborative in making a cozy quilt! Families will be guided through the making of colorful patterns with soft felt shapes, fabric glue and simple stitching techniques to make cozy quilts, perfect for snuggling up with a favorite stuffy and a cup of hot cocoa! This is a FREE event funded by the City of Boston Nightlife Economy Department’s grant program.

We will also be hosting a donation drive at the workshop! Please consider bringing a warm clothing item or blanket to donate to St. Francis House, the largest day shelter in Massachusetts supporting people experiencing homelessness and poverty. 

About Minni × CoDesign Collaborative

CoDesign Collaborative is thrilled to partner with Minni to expand access for Boston families to hands-on, design-learning workshops through the city’s Wake Up the Night initiative!

Minni's South End space will open to families for FREE evening workshops on select dates this fall. Each workshop will focus on codesign—design that centers community and collaboration. Families will enjoy creative play and messy materials while being introduced to deeper themes of design impact.

Join us for the City Hall Galleries End of Year Celebration! We will announce the six winners of the Fay Chandler Awards.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Exhibitions (On view November 18 - December 27, 2024)

• 2024 Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition
• Konnekxion III
• The Architecture of Happiness

Tales from the Crips: Reimagining Fairy Tales with a Disabled Lens is Abilities Dance Boston annual fall ballet.

This performance will reimagine Grimm Tales and classic tales with more diverse identities to reflect greater Boston and our greater community.

Tales from the Crips: Reimagining Fairy Tales with a Disabled Lens is Abilities Dance Boston's annual fall ballet. 

They will reimagine Grimm Tales and classic tales with more diverse identities to reflect greater Boston and our greater community. 

Non-Event and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture present a free, site-responsive performance by Raven Chacon in the Great Engines Hall of Waterworks.

About the artist

Raven Chacon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Renaissance Society, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, REDCAT, Vancouver Art Gallery, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Borealis Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, and The Kennedy Center. As a member of Postcommodity from 2009-2018, he co-created artworks presented at the Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, Carnegie International 57, as well as the 2-mile long land art installation Repellent Fence.

A recording artist over the span of 22 years, Chacon has appeared on more than eighty releases on various national and international labels. His 2020 Manifest Destiny opera Sweet Land, co-composed with Du Yun, received critical acclaim from The LA Times, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, and was named 2021 Opera of the Year by the Music Critics Association of North America.

Note: the museum has limited parking, so please take public transportation or bike, if possible. The museum is a 10-minute walk from the Cleveland Circle stop on the C branch and the Reservoir stop on the D branch of the Green Line.

The museum is fully accessible to people with disabilities. If you have questions, call the museum at 617-277-0065 or email susanna@nonevent.org.

We are celebrating three vibrant new basketball court murals that pay tribute to Roxbury, the beauty of Malcolm X Park, and the lasting impact of Malcolm X.

Faces of Faith - Celebrating Cancer Survivorship

By the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center

Presented by the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center’s Faith-Based Cancer Disparities Network, this photographic exhibition showcases the resilience and hope of local cancer survivors from the Greater Boston area. Captured by Sam Ogden, these portraits offer a glimpse into glorious, triumphant and fulfilling lives.

To learn more about this project please visit Faith-Based Initiatives - DF/HCC.

Joy

Solo Show by Jennifer Jean Okumura

Jennifer Jean Okumura's solo exhibition invites people to celebrate the beauty and resilience of the human spirit. Drawing inspiration from the diverse landscape and rich cultural heritage of Boston, Okumura's artwork explores themes of immigration, identity, and the power of creativity. Through her gestural marks, Okumura captures the essence of the joie de vivre and the enduring joy of human connection. 

“My work is centered around the main idea of being nowhere and everywhere, waltzing around cultural boundaries with beliefs and traveling through form and energy, attempting to incorporate conflict, balance, and harmony to shape the work's influences, thoughts, and hope for the same thing and shared moment.”

To learn more about this exhibition please email jenniferoku25@gmail.com or visit her website.

Tactile Echoes

Olivia Leigh Curtis, Claire Pellegrini, Charlene Tsai, Cheyenne Yu

This exhibition showcases the work of four emerging ceramicists whose practices explore the intersection of materials, memory, and personal narratives. Through their abstract forms and tactile surfaces, Olivia Leigh Curtis, Claire Pellegrini, Charlene Tsai, and Cheyenne Yu invite viewers to engage with the materiality of their work and contemplate the interplay between the physical and the emotional.

Olivia Leigh Curtis (she/her) is an emerging glass and ceramic artist. She holds a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in glass. Her process-based work is composed of glass, ceramics, and metal, and is driven by experimenting with phenomena across media. She has shown work in MassArt’s 6th Alumni Biennial, the 2023 MassArt Auction and the Glass Art Society's 2023 Member Exhibition. She was a recipient of the Stephen D. Paine Scholarship and her work has been recently published in Corning’s New Glass Review 42.

Claire Pellegrini (they/she) is a mixed-media artist and botanist from New England. They seek to highlight the small, overlooked, and impermanent details of the natural world in a permanent medium. Their practice includes slip cast ceramics, often imitating the form of bones they have found themselves (such as a seal vertebrae or an opossum skull). All of their work is treated as collage, meshing and remixing natural and human-made forms. They are interested in exploring the distance and divide that humans place between themselves and the natural world.

Charlene Tsai (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist, working with acrylic paint, fibers, and ceramics. She draws inspiration from the textures of both manmade and natural materials and is fascinated by the interplay between hard, unyielding surfaces and soft, pliable forms. Through her work, she explores various relationships, with a particular focus on the connection between the mind and body, the physical manifestation of stress. Her works invite active engagement from the viewers, evoking familiarity of everyday objects while remaining ambiguous. Charlene was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, and currently lives in Boston, MA.

Cheyenne Yu (she/her) is a San Francisco born, Boston based artist who recently graduated from a BFA in Studio Art from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Her work is a tapestry of diverse influences, deeply rooted in the power of touch and sensory experiences, while harboring a profound desire to explore and reflect on family relationships, memory and Asian American identity.

The final event in this year’s Un-monument public conversation series is titled “The Future of American Democracy," and brings together two of the nation’s most renowned thinkers—Danielle S. Allen and Michael Sandel—for a discussion that will challenge and inspire.

Join us for a compelling and timely public conversation at The Embrace, the renowned monument on Boston Common honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, where Sandel and Allen will reflect on the pressing challenges facing America’s democratic institutions and traditions today.

Danielle S. Allen, is one of Harvard’s esteemed “University Professors,” and a prolific political theorist and classicist who has devoted her career in academia and beyond to exploring the foundations of democracy and the question of justice. Her work, including Justice By Means of Democracy and Our Declaration, reimagines key democratic texts and ideals in ways meant to confront our contemporary struggles. A former gubernatorial candidate in Massachusetts, Allen is a tireless advocate for civic engagement and participation. Michael Sandel, a Harvard political philosopher celebrated for his accessible and thought-provoking explorations of justice, ethics, and democracy, is the author of influential works like Democracy’s Discontent and The Tyranny of Merit. His work encourages us to reflect on the moral dimensions of political and civic life, asking fundamental questions about fairness, equality, and the common good.

This conversation comes at a pivotal moment when many Americans feel that the country’s democratic institutions and traditions are under threat. From growing political polarization to rising concerns about voter rights, civic trust, fairness, and governmental accountability, the future of American democracy appears uncertain. Together, these two scholars will bring clarity, urgency, and hope to a conversation that couldn’t be more timely or essential.

Join us to celebrate the annual Hyde Park Art Association Members Exhibition. Awards juried by Mariana Rey, Julia Ryan and Alexandra Paul Zotov will be announced. Light refreshments will be provided.

35th Hyde Park Art Association Members Exhibition

The Menino Arts Center proudly announces their 35th Annual Scollay Square Members Exhibition. The show features work from over 40 different Hyde Park Art Association members across different mediums and is curated by Sasja Lucas.

To learn more about this exhibition please visit Current Exhibits – Menino Arts Center.