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2025 Fay Chandler Emerging Art Opening Reception

Enjoy the art by 60 emerging local artists featured in the show and find out which six artists will take home a cash prize!

December 4, 2025
  • 5:00pm - 7:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Civic Engagement
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-12-04T17:00:55 - 2025-12-04T19:00:55

Join us on Thursday, December 4, to celebrate the 60 local emerging artists who were selected to show their work in the Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition.

We will also announce the awards, juried by Luisa Castellanos (Art Consultant at Powell Fine Art Advisory), Amor Diaz-Campos (Curatorial and Development Coordinator for the Boston Public Art Triennial), and Gabrielle Domb (Executive Director at Brookline Arts Center)! 

Prizes
  • Best in Show: $3,000
  • 50+: $2,000
  • New Voice: $2,000
  • Three Juror’s Choice Awards: $500 each
Getting There

Enter on the first floor (across from Faneuil Hall) and take the elevators or stairs to the 3rd floor. The gallery is just around the corner from the mezzanine steps.

Flyer for the Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition 2025

December 4, 2025
  • 5:00pm - 7:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Civic Engagement
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-12-04T17:00:55 - 2025-12-04T19:00:55

'We Are Here to Thrive!' By Johnetta Tinker Opening Reception

Join us to celebrate Johnetta Tinker's solo exhibition at the Mayor's Office Gallery (5th Floor) in Boston City Hall.

November 20, 2025
  • 5:00pm - 7:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    5th Floor
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Civic Engagement
    Other
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-11-20T17:00:10 - 2025-11-20T19:00:10

Celebrate the opening of Johnetta Tinker's solo exhibition, "We are Here to Thrive!" Tinker is one of many local contemporary artists that were mentored by Allan Rohan Crite, whose work is currently on view in a community-driven retrospective at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Join us for an opportunity to meet the artist and build community. Light refreshments provided.

Directions:

Please enter on Congress Street (across from Faneuil Hall), pass security and take the elevators to the 5th floor.

View more information about the exhibition.

Flyer with details for "We Are Here to Thrive!" Opening Reception

November 20, 2025
  • 5:00pm - 7:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    5th Floor
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Civic Engagement
    Other
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-11-20T17:00:10 - 2025-11-20T19:00:10

Together We See More: Exhibition Talk

Join your community to question, connect, and talk a few artworks through — together.

January 11, 2026
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • McKim Exhibition Hall
    Central Library
    Boston, MA 02116
  • Contact:
    Boston Public Library
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Back Bay
    Citywide
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Boston 250
  • Published Date

  • Boston 250

Event Date2026-01-11T13:00:41 - 2026-01-11T14:00:41

This is a small group tour through facilitated discussion in front of works of art featured in the current exhibition, "Revolution! 250 Years of Art & Activism in Boston".

January 11, 2026
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • McKim Exhibition Hall
    Central Library
    Boston, MA 02116
  • Contact:
    Boston Public Library
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Back Bay
    Citywide
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Boston 250
  • Published Date

  • Boston 250

Event Date2026-01-11T13:00:41 - 2026-01-11T14:00:41

Together We See More: Exhibition Talk

Join your community to question, connect, and talk a few artworks through — together.

December 14, 2025
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • McKim Exhibition Hall
    Central Library
    Boston, MA 02116
  • Contact:
    Boston Public Library
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Back Bay
    Citywide
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Boston 250
  • Published Date

  • Boston 250

Event Date2025-12-14T13:00:41 - 2025-12-14T14:00:41

This is a small group tour through facilitated discussion in front of works of art featured in the current exhibition, "Revolution! 250 Years of Art & Activism in Boston".

December 14, 2025
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • McKim Exhibition Hall
    Central Library
    Boston, MA 02116
  • Contact:
    Boston Public Library
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Back Bay
    Citywide
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Boston 250
  • Published Date

  • Boston 250

Event Date2025-12-14T13:00:41 - 2025-12-14T14:00:41

Together We See More: Exhibition Talk

Join your community to question, connect, and talk a few artworks through — together.

November 15, 2025
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • McKim Exhibition Hall
    Central Library
    Boston, MA 02116
  • Contact:
    Boston Public Library
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Back Bay
    Citywide
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Boston 250
  • Published Date

  • Boston 250

Event Date2025-11-15T13:00:41 - 2025-11-15T14:00:41

This is a small group tour through facilitated discussion in front of works of art featured in the current exhibition, "Revolution! 250 Years of Art & Activism in Boston".

November 15, 2025
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • McKim Exhibition Hall
    Central Library
    Boston, MA 02116
  • Contact:
    Boston Public Library
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Back Bay
    Citywide
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Boston 250
  • Published Date

  • Boston 250

Event Date2025-11-15T13:00:41 - 2025-11-15T14:00:41

Ways of My Ancestors Opening Reception

The Un-monument | Re-monument | De-monument: Transforming Boston Programming

November 19, 2025
Event Date2025-11-19T16:30:42 - 2025-11-19T18:30:42

Ways of My Ancestors Flyer

Launching in Fall 2025 at Quincy Market, Ways of My Ancestors - Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness is a Native American photography series by Hassanamisco Nipmuc Artist Scott Strong Hawk Foster. He will display images that document the contemporary presence of the descendants of the Indigenous inhabitants of Southern New England and the ways in which they preserve their culture and heritage today. 

With five two-sided portraits at each end of Quincy Market, Scott Strong Hawk Foster's portraits will greet people as they pass by, enter, and leave the building.

Please join us for an opening reception of Ways of My Ancestors - Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness with spoken words by the artist and other members of the Native American community on Wednesday November 19, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. at the west end between historic Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market. Light refreshments will be provided.

Funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture through a grant from the Mellon Foundation, Ways of My Ancestors - Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness is presented in partnership with Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Graffito SP, the Office of Historic Preservation, and the City of Boston Planning Department.

Learn more about this project

November 19, 2025
Event Date2025-11-19T16:30:42 - 2025-11-19T18:30:42

Rock the Plaza

Wear your best Halloween costume and join Rock the Plaza for a free afternoon of music, empowerment, and fun celebrating women who rock and featuring two live bands.

October 26, 2025
  • 1:00pm - 4:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Family friendly
    Music
    Outdoor
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-10-26T13:00:35 - 2025-10-26T16:00:35

These Boston rock ‘n’ roll veterans have headlined Boston’s famous clubs and they’re still rocking strong. 🔥🎸

Put on your Halloween costume and join us for Rock the Plaza, a free afternoon of live music celebrating women who rock!

October 26, 2025
  • 1:00pm - 4:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Family friendly
    Music
    Outdoor
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-10-26T13:00:35 - 2025-10-26T16:00:35

The Blair Project

A Halloween party and FREE concert on City Hall Plaza highlighting creative women in the Greater Boston Area.

October 31, 2025
  • 6:00pm - 11:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Festivals and fairs
    Music
    Outdoor
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-10-31T18:00:08 - 2025-10-31T23:00:08

This Halloween, meet us at City Hall Plaza for a FREE concert featuring an all-women line-up of DJs, artists and entertainers!

Don’t miss:

🔥 Live performances by @anyciaaaaaa, @keiweifruit, and @mareko.xyz

🎧 DJ sets by @brandichanel_, @childish.rayvino, and @djkendollaz

🍔 Heated food truck village

🕷️ Vendors curated by @select.markets

October 31, 2025
  • 6:00pm - 11:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Arts and Culture
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Festivals and fairs
    Music
    Outdoor
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-10-31T18:00:08 - 2025-10-31T23:00:08

Solomon Northup "Hope out of Darkness" Traveling Exhibition Unveiling Ceremony

October 22, 2025
  • 10:00am - 11:00am
  • Boston Harbor Islands Welcome Pavillion
    191 W Atlantic Ave
    Boston, MA 02110
  • Contact:
    North American Indian Center of Boston
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Boston 250
  • Published Date

  • Boston 250

Event Date2025-10-22T10:00:18 - 2025-10-22T11:00:18

The North American Indian Center of Boston and the Rose Kennedy Greenway in collaboration with the Solomon Northup Committee for Commemorative Works (Marksville, Louisiana) invite the public to an unveiling of "Hope Out of Darkness," The temporary installation depicts Solomon Northup who after twelve years of enslavement, then self-liberated and advocated for abolition in Boston and across New England.

The statue will be installed starting October 20 through the middle of December 2025.

Hope out of Darkness 2

October 22, 2025
  • 10:00am - 11:00am
  • Boston Harbor Islands Welcome Pavillion
    191 W Atlantic Ave
    Boston, MA 02110
  • Contact:
    North American Indian Center of Boston
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Boston 250
  • Published Date

  • Boston 250

Event Date2025-10-22T10:00:18 - 2025-10-22T11:00:18

Color Flows Closing Block Party

Join us for the closing celebration of Color Flows on Winter Street – we’ll bring the music, you bring the vibes!

November 15, 2025
Event Date2025-11-15T15:00:02 - 2025-11-15T21:00:02

We’re throwing a block party to send off Color Flows on Winter Street with a celebration of the art, culture, and community that made it all possible. Come hang out with us from 3 - 9 p.m. on Saturday, November 15 to experience Winter Street transformed by music, activations, and more.

ABOUT COLOR FLOWS ON WINTER STREET

This fall, Winter Street is coming alive with Color Flows, a six-week, family-friendly street transformation that will create a vibrant, welcoming space within the heart of Downtown. Color Flows is part of the City of Boston’s broader effort to reimagine how our streets and pedestrian zones can be safer, more engaging, and more enjoyable for all.

November 15, 2025
Event Date2025-11-15T15:00:02 - 2025-11-15T21:00:02
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