Events

The Boston Public Library and Boston Public Schools have separate calendars. For arts and culture events, or to submit your own arts and culture event, visit the ArtsBoston calendar. For information on public hearings and meetings, please search public notices. We also created an RSS feed for City of Boston events.

April 26, 2019

10:00am-12:00pm

South Boston Community Preservation meet and greet

South Boston Library

646 East Broadway

South Boston, MA 02127

thadine.brown@boston.gov

Price:

FREE

Community Preservation is hosting a neighborhood meet and greet! Learn more about Community Preservation Act funding for historic preservation, parks and open spaces, and affordable housing.

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2:00pm

Boston-Kyoto Sister City Reaffirmation Signing Ceremony

Boston City Hall, Mezzanine

1 City Hall Square

Boston, MA 02201

sarah.delude@boston.gov

617-635-0921

Price:

FREE

Join us at City Hall as the Mayors of Boston and Kyoto reaffirm our commitment to our historic Sister City relationship.

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April 27, 2019

9:00am-12:00pm

Gladeside Urban Wild cleanup

Gladeside Urban Wild

3 Gladeside Terrace

Boston, MA 02126

Greenovate@boston.gov

617-635-1385

Price:

FREE

Help preserve Mattapan's Gladeside Urban Wild.

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9:30am-2:30pm

Future of Childcare Challenge

WeWork

200 Portland Street

Boston, MA 02114

sparkboston@boston.gov

Price:

FREE

Join us for a discussion about the crisis around the high cost of childcare.

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10:00am

Boston-Kyoto Tree Planting and Festival

Boston Public Garden

4 Charles Street

Boston, MA 02116

sarah.delude@boston.gov

617-635-0921

Price:

FREE

the Rotary Clubs of Kyoto South and Boston #7 invite you the international friendship ceremony at which a Japanese Stewartia tree will be planted in the Boston Public Garden.

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10:00am-2:00pm

Dog licensing and low-cost rabies clinic - East Boston

BCYF Martin Pino Community Center

86 Boardman Street

East Boston, MA 02128

animalcontrol@boston.gov

617-635-5348

Price:

FREE

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BCYF Pino

Animal Care and Control is offering low cost-clinics across the City.

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1:30pm-4:30pm

Spring Stewardship Days at Allandale Woods / Arbor Day tree planting

Carriage Path and Bussey Brook

19 VFW Parkway

Boston, MA 02130

paul.sutton@boston.gov

617-961-3029

Price:

FREE

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Volunteers wanted! Help us restore and beautify Allandale Woods urban wild with a volunteer Arbor Day tree planting event.

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April 29, 2019

6:00pm

How to manage difficult professional conversations

Suffolk University

120 Tremont Street

5th Floor Commons

Boston, MA 02108

sparkboston@boston.gov

Price:

FREE

Join us for an insightful panel discussion on this nearly universal challenge.

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April 30, 2019

9:30am-10:30am

Neighborhood Coffee Hour - South End

O'Day Playground

75 W Newton Street

South End, MA 02118

parks@boston.gov

617-635-4505

Price:

FREE

Neighborhood Coffee Hours give residents a unique opportunity to speak directly with Mayor Walsh and staff from City departments.

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11:00am-12:00pm

Boston's Safest Driver: Parallel Parking Invitational

Downtown Boston

Union Street and North Street

Boston, MA 02113

newurbanmechanics@boston.gov

Price:

FREE

Join Mayor Walsh for the launch of the 2019 Boston's Safest Driver Competition and Boston's first-ever Parallel Parking Invitational!

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May 1, 2019

9:30am-10:30am

Neighborhood Coffee Hour - Hyde Park

Iacono Playground

150 Readville Street

Hyde Park, MA 02136

parks@boston.gov

617-635-4505

Price:

FREE

Neighborhood Coffee Hours give residents a unique opportunity to speak directly with Mayor Walsh and staff from City departments.

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10:00am-11:00am

Waterworks Book Club: Meet the author of 'New England Neon'

Metropolitan Waterworks Museum

2450 Beacon Street

Brighton, MA 02467

info@waterworksmuseum.org

617-277-0065

Price:

FREE

Author and photographer Susan Mara Bregman will discuss her book, "New England Neon."

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11:00am-12:30pm

Freedom Trail Walk Into History Tours

Boston Common Visitor Information Center

139 Tremont Street

Boston, MA 02111

info@thfreedomtrail.org

617-357-8300

Price:

$14 adults, $12 seniors and students; $8 children, Free ages 6 and under

Boston's official Freedom Trail Walk Into History Tours take you to places where history was made!

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12:00pm-2:00pm

Free immigration consultations with volunteer attorneys

Boston City Hall

1 City Hall Square

Room 806

Boston, MA 02201

immigrantadvancement@boston.gov

617-635-2980

Price:

FREE

Come to an immigration clinic at Boston City Hall to get free one-on-one information about immigration law from volunteer lawyers.

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2:00pm-6:00pm

Custom House observation deck tour

Custom House Tower

3 McKinley Square

Boston, MA 02109

617-310-6300

Price:

$7 donation (100% goes to Boston Children’s Hospital)

One of Boston’s first skyscrapers, the Custom House now houses a Marriott hotel.

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6:00pm-8:00pm

Artist Talk with Peter Vanderwarker and Neal Rantoul

BSA Space

290 Congress Street

Boston, MA 02210

617-391-4000

Price:

$20 ($10 for BSA members)

Join photographers Peter Vanderwarker and Neal Rantoul for a behind-the-scenes tour of their current photo exhibitions at BSA Space.

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6:00pm-7:30pm

Brookline, Massachusetts, and the Origins of Suburbia

Central Library in Copley Square, Commonwealth Salon

700 Boylston Street

Boston, MA 02116

ask@bpl.org

617-536-5400

Price:

FREE

Ronald Dale Karr examines the evolution of Brookline, Boston’s most renowned 19th-century suburb.

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6:00pm

Preservation Month 2019 kickoff

New England Historic Genealogical Society

99–101 Newbury Street

Boston, MA 02116

blc@cityofboston.gov

617-635-3850

Price:

FREE

Every May, Boston Preservation Month encourages public awareness and appreciation of the City's historic resources.

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6:30pm

Spark Social: Brighton Edition

Corrib Pub

396 Market Street

Boston, MA 02135

sparkboston@boston.gov

Price:

FREE

Join us for our Brighton Neighborhood Social! Bring your friends, family, colleagues, and anyone else for a drink and bite at the Corrib Pub.

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May 2, 2019

9:30am-10:30am

Neighborhood Coffee Hour - Bay Village / Chinatown

Elliot Norton Park

295 Tremont Street

Bay Village/Chinatown, MA 02116

parks@boston.gov

617-635-4505

Price:

FREE

Neighborhood Coffee Hours give residents a unique opportunity to speak directly with Mayor Walsh and staff from City departments.

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2:00pm-6:00pm

Custom House observation deck tour

Custom House Tower

3 McKinley Square

Boston, MA 02109

617-310-6300

Price:

$7 donation (100% goes to Boston Children’s Hospital)

One of Boston’s first skyscrapers, the Custom House now houses a Marriott hotel.

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5:30pm-7:30pm

The City-State of Boston: The rise and fall of an Atlantic World, 1630-1865

Colonial Society's house

87 Mount Vernon Street

Beacon Hill, MA 02108

donaldfriary@comcast.net

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FREE

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Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Join us for this groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United States

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6:00pm-7:30pm

Historic walking tour on Newbury Street

Meet in front of Brooks Brothers

46 Newbury Street

Boston, MA 02115

wyoung@epsilonassociates.com

978-461-6262

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FREE

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Explore how an appreciation for art and architecture guided the historic development of Newbury Street.

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May 3, 2019

5:00pm

Movie screening and talkback: 'The Hate U Give'

Strand Theater

543 Columbia Road

Boston, MA 02125

Ruth.Georges@Boston.gov

617-635-4202

Price:

FREE

Hosted by the Mayor's Youth Council Public Health & Safety Committee

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May 4, 2019

8:30am

2019 Love Your Block Spring Cleanup

Citywide

Locations across the City of Boston

Boston, MA 02201

Kaira.Fox@boston.gov

Price:

FREE

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Love Your Block Neighborhood Cleanups

2019 Love Your Block Spring Cleanup

Come join us for our annual cleanups in neighborhoods across the City of Boston.

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9:30am-12:00pm

Ames-Webster House tour

Ames-Webster House

306 Dartmouth Street

Back Bay, MA 02116

architecture@nabbonline.com

617-247-3961

Price:

FREE

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Preserving 19th-century splendor in a 21st-century City.

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10:00am-12:00pm

Boston Philharmonic: Interpretations of Music - Lessons for Life

Boston Public Library Central Branch

Rabb Lecture Hall, 700 Boylston Street

Boston, MA 02116

617-536-5400

Price:

FREE

Boston Philharmonic's world-renowned master classes on musical interpretation return for another season in Rabb Hall.

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10:30am-12:00pm

Research your historic home workshop

Bunker Hill Museum, Community Room

Monument Square

Charlestown, MA 02129

info@charlestownpreservation.org

Price:

FREE

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Join us for brunch and a talk about how to research your historic home.

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11:00am-1:00pm

Biking a historic landscape: Back Bay Fens to Arnold Arboretum

Shattuck Visitor Center

125 The Fenway

Boston, MA 02115

ebradley@emeraldnecklace.org

Price:

FREE

Join the Emerald Necklace Conservancy for an interpretive bike tour from the Fens to Arnold Arboretum, led by a Conservancy docent.

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12:00pm-5:00pm

Wake Up the Earth festival

WAKE UP THE EARTH FESTIVAL

45 Danforth Street

Boston, MA 02130

617-524-6373

Price:

FREE

The Wake Up the Earth Festival began in 1979 when a group of local neighbors and activists banded together to stop the Interstate 95 expansion into Jamaica Plain.

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