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Harambee Park Cricket Fields Ribbon Cutting

August 14, 2025
Event Date2025-08-14T10:00:00 - 2025-08-14T11:00:00

Please join Mayor Michelle Wu, the Boston Parks and Recreation Department, Harambee Park neighbors, cricket leagues, and the local community as we officially celebrate the completion of the new Cricket Fields.

August 14, 2025
Event Date2025-08-14T10:00:00 - 2025-08-14T11:00:00

Ready Boston Field Day 2

Join us for our second Ready Boston Field Day on October 09 from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. For National Preparedness Month, come learn how to prepare for emergencies and disasters and leave with safety tips, giveaways, and life-saving skills. This event will also include a Depolyable Flood Barrier demonstration by City and private partners.

October 9, 2025
Event Date2025-10-09T11:00:00 - 2025-10-09T15:00:00

The Office of Emergency Management (OEM) is hosting the City’s two Ready Boston Field Days the first on September 13, 2025 at Walker Playground ( 550 Norfolk St, Mattapan, MA 02126) and the second on October 09, 2025 at City Hall Plaza ( 1 City Hall Sq, Boston, MA 02201). These family friendly events are open to all!   

  • Learn CPR and first aid from Boston Emergency Medical Services through demonstrations and practice sessions.
  • Get fire-safety tips from the Boston Fire Department.
  • Participate in an emergency exercise with public safety professionals.
  • Get an inside look at emergency vehicles: SWAT vehicles, ambulances, police cruisers, fire trucks, emergency management vehicles, and more.
  • Build an emergency kit to help you and your family prepare for an emergency.
  • Play preparedness games and collect giveaways!
October 9, 2025
Event Date2025-10-09T11:00:00 - 2025-10-09T15:00:00

Family Bike Day

On Saturday, August 23, join Boston Bikes for a Family Bike Day in East Boston!

August 23, 2025
Event Date2025-08-23T10:00:00 - 2025-08-23T13:00:00

The event includes on-bike skill-building for children and adults, free bike checks, and a family-friendly bike ride. The event will take place at McKay School and East Boston Memorial Stadium Park in East Boston. The rain date is Sunday, August 24, 2025.

Register

 
Here is the plan for the day:

 

10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Adult Learn-to-Bike workshop | On-bike children's activities | Bike tune-up station

McKay School, 122 Cottage St, East Boston, MA 02128

  • Learn-to-Bike workshop for adults. There is limited space available! We do maintain an active waitlist if the workshop fills up. 
  • On-bike activities for children (ages 3-12). Bikes and helmets provided, or feel free to bring your own! This is a drop-in activity.
  • Bike tune-up station. This is a drop-in activity.

12 - 1 p.m.

Family-Friendly Bike Ride + Group Walk

Start: McKay School | End: East Boston Memorial Stadium Park

  • Join us for a short family-friendly bike ride or walk
  • Limited number of bicycles are available. Register for the ride and request a free bike rental.
  • Anyone joining the ride should check in by 12:00 p.m.
  • If you're not ready to ride, no problem! A staff member will lead a walking group from the McKay School to the East Boston Memorial Stadium Park.

1 p.m.

Light Food (Sponsored by Jeffrey Glassman Injury Lawyers)

East Boston Memorial Stadium

  • Free food provided to participants who register and attend any part of the day’s events.

The rain date for the event is Sunday, August 24, 2025. The event is sponsored by Jeffrey Glassman Injury Lawyers. 

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August 23, 2025
Event Date2025-08-23T10:00:00 - 2025-08-23T13:00:00

Friday Afternoon Concert Series

Join us this summer for the Friday Afternoon Concert Series at Sam Adams Park.

July 11, 2025
  • 12:00pm - 2:00pm
    Repeats every other week on Friday, starting from July 11, 2025, until August 30, 2025
  • Sam Adams Park
    Boston, MA 02109
  • Contact:
    Office of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Family friendly
    Music
    Outdoor
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-07-11T12:00:49 - 2025-08-29T14:00:49

Mayor Michelle Wu and The Office of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment present Friday Afternoon Concert Series 2025.

This concert series, a partnership between Berklee College of Music and the City of Boston, showcases the best of Boston's local music talent.

On Fridays in July and August, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., an artist or band will set up in front of the statue of Sam Adams on the Congress Street side of Faneuil Hall.

Bring your lunch and a friend or two and enjoy some great music and sunshine. This is event is free and open to the public. You can find the lineup for the concert series below:

  • July 11, 2025: Lourde Childs 
  • July 18, 2025: Simon Davis
  • July 25, 2025: Booligan
  • August 1, 2025: Pedro Secco
  • August 8, 2025: Shravana
  • August 15, 2025: Beno
  • August 22, 2025: Soldiago
  • August 29, 2025: Lilou Chance
July 11, 2025
  • 12:00pm - 2:00pm
    Repeats every other week on Friday, starting from July 11, 2025, until August 30, 2025
  • Sam Adams Park
    Boston, MA 02109
  • Contact:
    Office of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Family friendly
    Music
    Outdoor
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-07-11T12:00:49 - 2025-08-29T14:00:49

Black Voices: Writers for a 19th Century Revolution - SPARK Boston Tour

Join SPARK Boston and Boston by Foot to learn about Boston’s Black writers who were laser-focused on the great topic of the era - slavery.

August 3, 2025
  • 4:00pm - 6:00pm
  • Museum of African American History
    46 Joy Street
    Boston, MA 02114
  • Contact:
    Sam Brenner
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Beacon Hill
    North End
  • Event Type:
    Civic Engagement
    Family friendly
    Outdoor
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-08-03T16:00:33 - 2025-08-03T18:00:33

Come along with Spark Boston and Boston By Foot for an exploration of civic engagement and history!

Learn about the mark Black thinkers and writers made on literary and political history: David Walker and his sentinel work, Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World; novelist, playwright and editor Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins; Dorothy West and her biting satire on racial tensions, and many others.

Walk Beacon Hill as you explore where they worked, raised their families, fought injustice, and wrote. Join us Sunday, August 3 from 4 – 6 p.m. as we explore the stories of Black writers, thinkers, and revolutionaries who shaped 19th-century Boston—and American history. You can meet us at the Museum of African American History – 46 Joy Street, Boston, MA 02114.

August 3, 2025
  • 4:00pm - 6:00pm
  • Museum of African American History
    46 Joy Street
    Boston, MA 02114
  • Contact:
    Sam Brenner
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Beacon Hill
    North End
  • Event Type:
    Civic Engagement
    Family friendly
    Outdoor
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-08-03T16:00:33 - 2025-08-03T18:00:33

Bike Town Pop-Up At City Hall Plaza

September 3, 2025
Event Date2025-09-03T13:30:24 - 2025-09-03T16:30:24

Located on the terrace above the playground at City Hall Plaza (pending City of Boston license approval), this two-hour drop-in event is for families and children under 12 who want to learn to ride and practice their riding skills. A variety of different sized bikes and helmets will be provided, and staff will be present to lead on-bike games and teach bike riding skills and safe riding tips and techniques.

Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.
Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.



PLAN YOUR VISIT

Individuals and families: no registration is required. We will have waivers available at the site. 

Groups and schools: please email us so that we know to expect your group! Hand out waivers to students ahead of time so they can participate. Everyone that takes part in our program must have a signed waiver to ride bikes. Teachers / group leaders are responsible for collecting bringing signed waivers to the event. 
September 3, 2025
Event Date2025-09-03T13:30:24 - 2025-09-03T16:30:24

Canceled:
Bike Town Pop-Up At City Hall Plaza

Reason for cancellation: Rain
August 25, 2025
Event Date2025-08-25T13:30:23 - 2025-08-25T16:30:23

Located on the terrace above the playground at City Hall Plaza (pending City of Boston license approval), this two-hour drop-in event is for families and children under 12 who want to learn to ride and practice their riding skills. A variety of different sized bikes and helmets will be provided, and staff will be present to lead on-bike games and teach bike riding skills and safe riding tips and techniques.

Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.
Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.

 

Plan your visit

Individuals and families: no registration is required. We will have waivers available at the site. 

Groups and schools: please email us so that we know to expect your group! Hand out waivers to students ahead of time so they can participate. Everyone that takes part in our program must have a signed waiver to ride bikes. Teachers / group leaders are responsible for collecting bringing signed waivers to the event. 

August 25, 2025
Event Date2025-08-25T13:30:23 - 2025-08-25T16:30:23

Canceled:
Bike Town Pop-Up at Almont Park

Reason for cancellation: Heat advisory
July 30, 2025
Event Date2025-07-30T14:30:29 - 2025-07-30T16:30:29

Located at the Basketball Courts at Ronan Park, this two-hour drop-in event is for families and children under 12 who want to learn to ride and practice their riding skills. A variety of different sized bikes and helmets will be provided, and staff will be present to set up impermanent bike towns, lead on-bike games and teach safe bike riding skills.

Child riding on an impermanent bike town on Playstead road at Franklin Park.

Plan your visit

Individuals and families: no registration is required. We will have waivers available at the site. 

Groups and schools: please email us so that we know to expect your group! Hand out waivers to students ahead of time so they can participate. Everyone that takes part in our program must have a signed waiver to ride bikes. Teachers / group leaders are responsible for collecting bringing signed waivers to the event. 

July 30, 2025
Event Date2025-07-30T14:30:29 - 2025-07-30T16:30:29

Bike Town Pop-Up At City Hall Plaza

August 18, 2025
Event Date2025-08-18T13:30:00 - 2025-08-18T16:30:00

Located on the terrace above the playground at City Hall Plaza (pending City of Boston license approval), this two-hour drop-in event is for families and children under 12 who want to learn to ride and practice their riding skills. A variety of different sized bikes and helmets will be provided, and staff will be present to lead on-bike games and teach bike riding skills and safe riding tips and techniques.

Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.
Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.

Plan your visit

Individuals and families: no registration is required. We will have waivers available at the site. 

Groups and schools: please email us so that we know to expect your group! Hand out waivers to students ahead of time so they can participate. Everyone that takes part in our program must have a signed waiver to ride bikes. Teachers / group leaders are responsible for collecting bringing signed waivers to the event. 

August 18, 2025
Event Date2025-08-18T13:30:00 - 2025-08-18T16:30:00

Canceled:
Bike Town Pop-Up At City Hall Plaza

Reason for cancellation: Heat Emergency
August 11, 2025
Event Date2025-08-11T13:00:19 - 2025-08-11T17:00:19

Located on the terrace above the playground at City Hall Plaza (pending City of Boston license approval), this two-hour drop-in event is for families and children under 12 who want to learn to ride and practice their riding skills. A variety of different sized bikes and helmets will be provided, and staff will be present to lead on-bike games and teach bike riding skills and safe riding tips and techniques.

Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.
Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.

Plan your visit

Individuals and families: no registration is required. We will have waivers available at the site. 

Groups and schools: please email us so that we know to expect your group! Hand out waivers to students ahead of time so they can participate. Everyone that takes part in our program must have a signed waiver to ride bikes. Teachers / group leaders are responsible for collecting bringing signed waivers to the event. 

 

August 11, 2025
Event Date2025-08-11T13:00:19 - 2025-08-11T17:00:19
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