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Malcolm X Park Basketball Court Mural Celebration

Join us for music, food, family activities, and live performances!

October 19, 2024
2024-10-19T13:00:24 - 2024-10-19T16:00:24

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.

October 19, 2024
2024-10-19T13:00:24 - 2024-10-19T16:00:24
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Festival Central-American Flag Raising and Cultural Event

September 14, 2024
2024-09-14T10:00:14 - 2024-09-14T17:00:14

Join us on Saturday, September 14, as we celebrate Central American Independence Day with a vibrant festival on City Hall Plaza! This event will honor the rich cultural heritage of Central America, featuring the ceremonial raising of flags from countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Belize.

The day will be filled with traditional music, dance, and delicious cuisine from across Central America. It's a wonderful opportunity to learn about and experience the pride and unity of the Central American community here in Boston. All are welcome to join in this joyous celebration of culture, history, and community!

Don’t miss it—let’s come together to show our support and appreciation for the Central American diaspora.

September 14, 2024
2024-09-14T10:00:14 - 2024-09-14T17:00:14
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Community Arts Showcase

Community Arts Showcase is hosted by Live Like a Local Tours Boston and supported by the Wake Up the Night Grant.

September 21, 2024
  • 5:00pm - 9:00pm
  • National Center for African American Artists
    300 Walnut Street
    Boston, MA 02119
  • Contact:
    Office of Nightlife Economy
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Roxbury
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2024-09-21T17:00:00 - 2024-09-21T21:00:00

The Live Like a Local Tour Boston: Community Arts Showcase (CAS) aims to create a vibrant, inclusive event that brings together a diverse array of local arts organizations to perform for the public. This event will celebrate Boston's rich cultural heritage and artistic talent, providing a unique platform for artists to showcase their work, engage with the community, and support local businesses.

September 21, 2024
  • 5:00pm - 9:00pm
  • National Center for African American Artists
    300 Walnut Street
    Boston, MA 02119
  • Contact:
    Office of Nightlife Economy
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Roxbury
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2024-09-21T17:00:00 - 2024-09-21T21:00:00
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Funk Fest: Stacking Stylez 2024

Funk Fest: Stacking Stylez 2024 is hosted by A Trike Called Funk and supported by the Wake Up the Night Grant.

September 12, 2024
2024-09-12T17:00:00 - 2024-09-12T22:00:00

A Trike Called Funk’s Funk Fest is a free, family-friendly event that will feature local creatives who will put their own spin on what it means to “make it funky” in their respective mediums. A Trike Called Funk’s resident DJ EdWord plus Dorchester native DJ Safire will spin music throughout the event with Trike’s MC and Dance Lead A-A-Ron inviting people to jump in and get down on A Trike Called Funk’s large checkerboard dance floor.

The first hour will feature Funk music-inspired vegetarian wraps and patties from Rhythm and Wraps plus refreshing all natural juices by LymeLyfe–both black owned and operated local businesses–for free on a first-come, first serve basis. The first hour will also feature live painting on each side of A Trike Called Funk’s large-scale, free-standing frame. One side will be a wild-style “Funk Fest” piece by Sobek and the other side will be a piece by GoFive paying tribute to a dearly departed Popper, Domino, who passed away in 2018.

The live painting will run into the second hour, which will include Popping Showcase and dance battle featuring local dance leaders and their groups including Stiggity Stackz, MegaTron and members of SlaughterHouse Kingz, Beast Mode and members of The Flavor Continues, as well as Poppin’ Groove and members of the All City Rockers. And the third hour will feature a special live music performance of modern Funk performed live by keyboardist Yukihiro Kanesaka Carmichael aka U-Key.

Between the live painting, Popping showcase and dance battle, and the live Funk performance segments there will be generous amounts of open dance / community cypher time when all participants take turns dancing together to classic electro-Funk tracks, celebrating the legacy of Funk from the airwaves to the dance floor. In the spirit of James Brown’s “Funky Good Time” and George Clinton’s “One Nation Under a Groove,” A Trike Called Funk’s Funk Fest will unite nine local artists and 50+ community members to celebrate the past, present, and future of the Funk here in Boston.

September 12, 2024
2024-09-12T17:00:00 - 2024-09-12T22:00:00
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Boston Waves

Boston Waves is presented by The Record Co. and supported by the Wake Up The Night Grant. 

September 20, 2024
  • 5:00pm - 9:00pm
  • 55 Morrissey Boulevard
    Dorchester, MA 02125
  • Contact:
    Office of Nightlife Economy
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Dorchester
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2024-09-20T17:00:00 - 2024-09-20T21:00:00

Boston Waves is a music concert event dedicated to highlighting the larger Art Stays Here movement by bringing together local artists and cultural features to foster community between Boston’s music makers and creatives. The event will feature a collection of bands as well as local vendors to assemble everyone in a space where Boston's creatives can celebrate each other and acknowledge the need for artist space in the city.

September 20, 2024
  • 5:00pm - 9:00pm
  • 55 Morrissey Boulevard
    Dorchester, MA 02125
  • Contact:
    Office of Nightlife Economy
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Dorchester
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2024-09-20T17:00:00 - 2024-09-20T21:00:00
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Summer Jazz Concerts in Library Park

Summer Jazz Concerts in Library Park are hosted by Friends of the South End Library and supported by the Wake Up The Night Grant.

September 11, 2024
  • 6:30pm - 8:00pm
  • Library Park
    685 Tremont Street
    Boston, MA 02118
  • Contact:
    Office of Nightlife Economy
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    South End
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2024-09-11T18:30:00 - 2024-09-11T20:00:00

Friends of the South End Library (FOSEL) is excited to honor our South End jazz heritage with another series of jazz and blues concerts this summer, featuring our long time friend and gifted saxophonist, Pat Loomis with his amazing musical Friends. 

On Wednesdays starting July 17 and continuing every other Wednesday until September 11, attendees will hear some fantastic music. If we have rain on any concert night, come back to this space, as we will cancel and reschedule for the following Wednesday. 

Because we have limited Library Park seating, you may want to bring your own chairs.

The band of every concert will be Pat Loomis on sax, Jimmy Dower on keyboard, Daniel Day on bass and Zeke Martin on drums. 

September 11, 2024
  • 6:30pm - 8:00pm
  • Library Park
    685 Tremont Street
    Boston, MA 02118
  • Contact:
    Office of Nightlife Economy
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    South End
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2024-09-11T18:30:00 - 2024-09-11T20:00:00
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Dewey Square Mural Opening Celebration and Drag Show

Dewey Square Mural Opening Celebration and Drag Show is presented by the Greenway Conservancy and supported by the Wake Up The Night Grant.

September 19, 2024
2024-09-19T18:00:00 - 2024-09-19T20:00:00

Join us on Thursday, September 19 from 6 - 8 p.m. at in Dewey Square for a free, all-ages evening of performance, drag, dance, music and art-making as we mark the opening of Jeffrey Gibson's new mural, your spirit whispering in my ear, on The Greenway in partnership with MASS MoCA!

Gibson's mural ushers in the 10th installation of The Greenway's rotating mural program on Dewey Square. Bring your friends and come ready to dance and celebrate!

The event will feature Greenway food trucks offering both vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals for purchase, including Zaaki, Vaz & Mac, Jamaica Mi Hungry, and Cookie Monster.

Night Shift Brewing will offer beer, wine, and alcoholic beverages for purchase for visitors 21+.

September 19, 2024
2024-09-19T18:00:00 - 2024-09-19T20:00:00
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Sacred Spaces Series at Night: Breath/less

Sacred Spaces Series at Night: Breath/less is presented by ANIKAYA and supported by the Wake Up The Night Grant.

September 26, 2024
  • 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  • City Hall Plaza
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Office of Nightlife Economy
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2024-09-26T19:00:00 - 2024-09-26T20:00:00

Breath/less is a solo for two dancers. Breath/less is a conjuring of breath and togetherness. The work is situated in ritual and connection, the consecration of space and of bodies together. Breath/less is a ritual of waiting, of suspended expectation, a holding pattern, a maintenance of hope in a time of brutality. It is also a memorial.

We invite the public to participate in the setting and lighting of the candles that light the performance, and to write or draw their own remembrances that are scattered amongst the candles. Breath/less was originally created at the height of the pandemic and is now a work that memorializes global shared experience, and now invites us to acknowledge and experience grief together, no matter what it is we are grieving. The public is guided by the dancers and volunteers to light, and then re-light over one hundred candles that create a space in which the dance occurs.

MORE INFO: info@anikaya.org

September 26, 2024
  • 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  • City Hall Plaza
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Office of Nightlife Economy
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2024-09-26T19:00:00 - 2024-09-26T20:00:00
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Sacred Spaces Series at Night: Waterfall Performance

Sacred Spaces Series at Night: Waterfall Performance is presented by ANIKAYA and supported by the Wake Up The Night Grant.

September 15, 2024
  • 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calderwood Pavilion
    527 Tremont Street
    Boston, MA 02116
  • Contact:
    Office of Nightlife Economy
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2024-09-15T18:00:00 - 2024-09-15T19:00:00

Waterfall - a movement workshop and outdoor participatory performance

Waterfall is a global ritual, taking place on iconic and overlooked staircases around the world. Twenty or more dancers cascade slowly together down a staircase. Waterfall is created in an intensive workshop in which dancers and other movers learn to move together as a body of water through a series of practices developed by Wendy Jehlen, Artistic Director of ANIKAYA Dance Theater that draw on elements of Butoh, Parkour, Contact Improvisation and Deep Listening.

This will be the third iteration of Waterfall in Boston.

Waterfall is an intersection between two of ANIKAYA's public dance series - Sacred Spaces and Mass Movement.

Sacred Spaces is a series of public space interventions that unveil the sacred in the urban landscape.

Mass Movement is a series of actions that call attention to urgent issues that require us to move together as a species to address. Mass Movement actions, like change, are impossible without many people moving together in solidarity. The practices that are taught in Mass Movement projects teach us to work together with care and to connect across what we imagine to be barriers.

The Waterfall has taken place in NYC; Boston; Washington, DC; Bamako, Mali; Kolkata, India; Tokyo, Japan and Tijuana, Mexico.

During the workshop we will learn ways of moving together, first on the floor and then on stairs. Wendy will guide participants through a series of exercises to prepare the body, the mind, and the group to create this performance together. The process will teach us to move not as individuals but as one body of water.

 

September 15, 2024
  • 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calderwood Pavilion
    527 Tremont Street
    Boston, MA 02116
  • Contact:
    Office of Nightlife Economy
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2024-09-15T18:00:00 - 2024-09-15T19:00:00
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Sacred Spaces Series at Night: Waterfall Workshop

Sacred Spaces Series at Night: Waterfall Workshop is presented by ANIKAYA and supported by the Wake Up The Night Grant.

September 15, 2024
2024-09-15T14:00:00 - 2024-09-15T17:00:00
Waterfall Workshop

September 15, from 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Boston Center for the Arts - Calderwood Pavillion

Nicholas Martin Rehearsal Hall

FREE

Followed by:

Waterfall performance (by workshop participants)

September 15, at 6 p.m.

Staircase from Congress Street to World Trade Center Avenue, Seaport

Waterfall - a movement workshop and outdoor participatory performance

Waterfall is a global ritual, taking place on iconic and overlooked staircases around the world. Twenty or more dancers cascade slowly together down a staircase. Waterfall is created in an intensive workshop in which dancers and other movers learn to move together as a body of water through a series of practices developed by Wendy Jehlen, Artistic Director of ANIKAYA Dance Theater that draw on elements of Butoh, Parkour, Contact Improvisation and Deep Listening.

This will be the third iteration of Waterfall in Boston.

Waterfall is an intersection between two of ANIKAYA's public dance series - Sacred Spaces and Mass Movement.

Sacred Spaces is a series of public space interventions that unveil the sacred in the urban landscape.

Mass Movement is a series of actions that call attention to urgent issues that require us to move together as a species to address. Mass Movement actions, like change, are impossible without many people moving together in solidarity. The practices that are taught in Mass Movement projects teach us to work together with care and to connect across what we imagine to be barriers.

The Waterfall has taken place in NYC; Boston; Washington, DC; Bamako, Mali; Kolkata, India; Tokyo, Japan and Tijuana, Mexico.

During the workshop we will learn ways of moving together, first on the floor and then on stairs. Wendy will guide participants through a series of exercises to prepare the body, the mind, and the group to create this performance together. The process will teach us to move not as individuals but as one body of water.

September 15, 2024
2024-09-15T14:00:00 - 2024-09-15T17:00:00
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