The SPARK Chats speaker series are an opportunity to hear from SPARK alumni and civic leaders about their personal stories and how it shaped them into the community champions they are today.
We will be hosting Boston City Councilor to District 1, Gabriela Coletta Zapata in the next SPARK Chat! Born and raised in Boston, and alumni to the SPARK Boston Council ('19-'20), join us on Wednesday, July 23 at Northeastern University from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. to hear Councilor Coletta Zapata's civic story.
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The Un-monument | Re-monument | De-monument: Transforming Boston Programming
Join us at Hibernian Hall for a night of gathering and live storytelling around the campfire. "Me & Roxbury" will be an exciting spin on the popular storied format of “Roxbury Roots”! Our storytelling Friends will consist of Edmund Barry Gaither, Jumaada Abdal-Khallaq Henry Smith, L’Merchie Frazier, Paul Goodnight, Byron Rushing and more!
Allow the night to take you through a great range of human experience filled with laughter, tears, and truth. Each of stories will be unique and each voice is authentic. The linkage being that each storyteller has been near dear not only to the Roxbury community at large but to the National Center of Afro-American Artists. Through these invigorating stories, our Friends will have the opportunity to lay bare their hopes for this community that we share. Instrumental figures in their fields, we are excited to go through each journey, and together hear and share our vision for the future Roxbury.
Stick around for food, refreshments, and more vision sharing of the future of Roxbury.
"Roxbury Roots" was created by Haris Lefteri, Creative Director of Hibernian Hall and Leslie Stafford, Health Equity & Wellness Coordinator, who wanted to give a platform to the adventurers and the storytellers. It opened in August 2022 and after popular demand, we are back for more.
*This collaborative version of "Roxbury Roots" is part of the National Center of Afro-American Artists' new project, FINDING OURSELVES IN PUBLIC SPACES: An Un-monument Project, and it is funded by The Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture's Un-monument Initiative, supported by a grant from The Mellon Foundation.
Photo courtesy by National Center of Afro-American Artists
The Un-monument | Re-monument | De-monument: Transforming Boston Programming
Join us for a public conversation about Roxbury Rhapsody, a major commission by now well-known Boston artist, Napoleon Jones-Henderson in the Bolling Building.
A reception will follow where you as a community member can be interviewed and asked to share your story about the past, present and future of Roxbury.
All are welcome to this free and public event!
*This public conversation is part of the National Center of Afro-American Artists' new project, FINDING OURSELVES IN PUBLIC SPACES: An UnMonument Project, and it is funded by The Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture's Un-monument Initiative, supported by a grant from The Mellon Foundation.
Photo courtesy by National Center of Afro-American Artists
The Un-monument | Re-monument | De-monument: Transforming Boston Programming
Join us for a public conversation and celebration at Roxbury's YMCA about one of the original murals from the early "Black Boston's Murals Movement".
All are welcome to this free and public event!
*This public conversation is part of the National Center of Afro-American Artists' new project, FINDING OURSELVES IN PUBLIC SPACES: An UnMonument Project, and it is funded by The Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture's Un-monument Initiative, supported by a grant from The Mellon Foundation.
Photo courtesy by National Center of Afro-American Artists
