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Pics in the Parks at Jamaica Pond Park

The free Pics in the Parks photography workshop will take place April 9 at 3 p.m. in Jamaica Plain.

April 9, 2017
Event Date2017-04-09T15:00:00 - 2017-04-09T16:00:00

Bring your camera on a search for unique features in Boston's Parks, led by a photography instructor. Select photos will be highlighted in a Boston City Hall photo gallery.  

This workshop will take place at Jamaica Pond Park in Jamaica Plain. To RSVP for this workshop, please email Mavick Afonso at mavrick.afonso@boston.gov.

April 9, 2017
Event Date2017-04-09T15:00:00 - 2017-04-09T16:00:00

Pics In The Parks at Millennium Park

The free Pics in the Parks photography workshop will take place April 2 at 3 p.m. in West Roxbury.

April 2, 2017
Event Date2017-04-02T15:00:00 - 2017-04-02T16:00:00

Bring your camera on a search for unique features in Boston's Parks, led by a photography instructor. Select photos will be highlighted in a Boston City Hall photo gallery.  

To RSVP for this workshop, please email Mavick Afonso at mavrick.afonso@boston.gov. 

April 2, 2017
Event Date2017-04-02T15:00:00 - 2017-04-02T16:00:00

Boston AIR Projects in Process

Get a first look at all 10 artist projects!

March 4, 2017
  • 2:00pm - 4:30pm
  • Boston Public Library, Central Branch
    Raab Lecture Hall, 700 Boylston Street
    Boston, MA 02116
  • Contact:
    Christian Guerra
  • send an email
  • 617-635-2424
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Back Bay
  • Event Type:
    Art
  • Published Date
Event Date2017-03-04T14:00:00 - 2017-03-04T16:30:00

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You're invited to take a first look at the 10 exciting civic practice projects under development through this year's Boston Artists in ­Residence program.

The event is hosted by:

  • Mayor Martin J. Walsh
  • the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture
  • Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF), and
  • the Boston Art Commission.
March 4, 2017
  • 2:00pm - 4:30pm
  • Boston Public Library, Central Branch
    Raab Lecture Hall, 700 Boylston Street
    Boston, MA 02116
  • Contact:
    Christian Guerra
  • send an email
  • 617-635-2424
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Back Bay
  • Event Type:
    Art
  • Published Date
Event Date2017-03-04T14:00:00 - 2017-03-04T16:30:00

BCYF February Vacation Activities

BCYF has lots of fun and exciting activities planned for February vacation week!

February 21, 2017
Event Date2017-02-21T09:00:00

Boston Centers for Youth & Families offers a number of programs for children and teens. This includes gym activities, swim lessons, and movie nights.

Check out the schedule

Find your local community center

February 21, 2017
Event Date2017-02-21T09:00:00

Boston Arts Academy

Presentation of the City of Boston / Massachusetts School Building Authority collaborative effort to bring improvements to the BAA, including the BAA Feasibility Study and alternative approaches to the improvements at the current facility.

January 12, 2017
  • 6:00pm - 7:30pm
  • Fenway Community Center
    1282 Boylston Street
    Boston, MA 02215
  • Contact:
    BAA
  • 617-635-6470
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Fenway/Kenmore
  • Event Type:
    Art
  • Published Date
  • Downloads:
    Official Filed Posting
Event Date2017-01-12T18:00:00 - 2017-01-12T19:30:00

www.fenwaycommunitycenter.org

January 12, 2017
  • 6:00pm - 7:30pm
  • Fenway Community Center
    1282 Boylston Street
    Boston, MA 02215
  • Contact:
    BAA
  • 617-635-6470
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Fenway/Kenmore
  • Event Type:
    Art
  • Published Date
  • Downloads:
    Official Filed Posting
Event Date2017-01-12T18:00:00 - 2017-01-12T19:30:00

Northern Stair Projection

Non-Event and the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture present Northern Stair Projection, an installation and live performance by Boston-born artist, composer, and percussionist Eli Keszler.

November 18, 2016
  • 7:00pm
  • Boston City Hall (mezzanine level)
    1 City Hall Square (enter from 1st floor on Congress Street)
    Boston, MA 02201
  • Contact:
    Thomas Johnston
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Music
  • Published Date
Event Date2016-11-18T19:00:00
ABOUT NORTHERN STAIR PROJECTION

In Northern Stair Projection, composer, and percussionist Eli Keszler presents a sprawling installation, video projection, and live performance within Boston City Hall. The work uses long strands of piano wire to transmit recordings made of the exterior, public spaces of Boston into the enormous interior space of this iconic, Brutalist structure. The wires will run hundreds of feet upward from the floor, terminating at various levels of height in the building. Video of the exterior spaces surrounding City Hall will be projected through the wires onto the space's vast concrete walls. The work takes inspiration from the intent of City Hall's architects, Gerhard Kallmann and Michael McKinnell, to connect the public and governmental spaces, and to create a project which embodies their idea. The work will also feature a live performance by Eli Keszler in dialog with the sounds of the installation, which will be active for one night only, Friday, November 18, from 7 - 9 p.m.

ABOUT ELI KESZLER

ELI KESZLER is a Boston-born artist, composer, and percussionist. His compositions and visual works examine the limits of instrumentation, notation, and space in its institutional, musical and public form.

Keszler's sound installations, music and visual work have appeared at Lincoln Center, MIT List Center, Victoria & Albert Museum, Sculpture Center, The Kitchen, South London Gallery, Carpenter Center for The Visual Arts (Harvard), Luma-Foundation, Tectonics Festival (Harpa Hall) Reykjavik, Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Boston Center for the Arts, Barbican-St. Lukes, 3S Arts, and Greater New York at MoMA PS1. His writing and work has appeared in Bomb Magazine, The New York Times, Wire Magazine, Frieze and Modern Painters. He has released solo records for ESP-Disk, Pan and REL Records. He has received commissions from the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, ICE Ensemble and SO Percussion amongst others. Keszler is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and is a 2016 New York Foundation for The Arts Fellow. He currently lives in Brooklyn.

His latest record, Last Signs of Speed, will be released on November 17 on Empty Editions from the Empty Gallery in Hong Kong and will be available at the concert.

November 18, 2016
  • 7:00pm
  • Boston City Hall (mezzanine level)
    1 City Hall Square (enter from 1st floor on Congress Street)
    Boston, MA 02201
  • Contact:
    Thomas Johnston
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Downtown
  • Event Type:
    Art
    Music
  • Published Date
Event Date2016-11-18T19:00:00

Artist Hours with Boston AIR Artist Georgie Friedman

Join 2016 Boston AIR artist Georgie Friedman at The Strand Theatre for an informal "Artist Hours" sessions (think: office hours) for her public art video installation, Traces of Wind and Water.

November 6, 2016
Event Date2016-11-06T17:00:00 - 2016-11-06T18:30:00

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Traces of Wind and Water is a two-channel, site-specific, outdoor, video installation on existing architecture at The Strand Theatre in Dorchester, MA, created by Boston Boston AIR (Artist-in-Residence) artist Georgie Friedman. The installation will be on display on the side of the theater from October 13 - November 14, nightly, from dusk to 11 p.m.

This video installation is made up of three sections: one section visually replants large trees on the site, their swaying tops visible from the street below; another transforms the Strand into an architectural/natural waterfall with a constant flow; and in the third, wild grasses spring up and dance in the wind.  Learn more about the project.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and is made possible through the Boston Artists in Residence Program of the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture in collaboration with the Department of Neighborhood Development and the Parks and Recreation Department. 

Additional support was generously provided by luminArtz of Boston, MA.

STRAND THEATRE 

Outside, on the upper, brick, south-facing wall
543 Columbia Rd, Dorchester, MA 02125
Best seen near 531 Columbia Rd & Hancock St, Dorchester, MA 02125 
Google street view

ARTIST HOURS

Saturday, October 22, 6 - 7:30 pm 
Sunday, November 6, 5 - 6:30 pm
531 Columbia Rd | Open to the public

CLOSING EVENT and BOSTON AIR 2016/2017 RECEPTION

Monday, November 14 | Strand Theatre | Open to the public

November 6, 2016
Event Date2016-11-06T17:00:00 - 2016-11-06T18:30:00

Pics in the Parks - Commonwealth Avenue Mall

The fall photography workshop is coming to the Commonwealth Avenue Mall. 

October 30, 2016
Event Date2016-10-30T13:00:00 - 2016-10-30T14:00:00

Individuals of all ages and skill levels are welcome to bring their cameras and participate in these informal sessions led by a photography instructor.  Participants will learn techniques for taking impressive photographs of Boston’s scenic parks in autumn as well as be given a theme to focus on each Sunday.  Select photos may be chosen for an exhibit at Boston City Hall.

For more information please visit the Parks and Recreation department page or www.facebook.com/bostonparksdepartment. Participants must bring their own equipment and can register via email by contacting mavrick.afonso@boston.gov.  

October 30, 2016
Event Date2016-10-30T13:00:00 - 2016-10-30T14:00:00

Pics in the Parks - Franklin Park

The fall photography workshop is coming to Franklin Park.

October 23, 2016
Event Date2016-10-23T13:00:00 - 2016-10-23T14:00:00

Individuals of all ages and skill levels are welcome to bring their cameras and participate in these informal sessions led by a photography instructor.  Participants will learn techniques for taking impressive photographs of Boston’s scenic parks in autumn as well as be given a theme to focus on each Sunday.  Select photos may be chosen for an exhibit at Boston City Hall.

For more information, please visit the Parks and Recreation department page or our Facebook page. Participants must bring their own equipment and can register via email by contacting mavrick.afonso@boston.gov.  

October 23, 2016
Event Date2016-10-23T13:00:00 - 2016-10-23T14:00:00

Pics in the Parks - Back Bay Fens

The fall photography workshop is coming to the Clemente Field House.

October 16, 2016
Event Date2016-10-16T13:00:00 - 2016-10-16T14:00:00

Individuals of all ages and skill levels are welcome to bring their cameras and participate in these informal sessions led by a photography instructor.  Participants will learn techniques for taking impressive photographs of Boston’s scenic parks in autumn as well as be given a theme to focus on each Sunday.  Select photos may be chosen for an exhibit at Boston City Hall.

For more information please visit the Boston Parks and Recreation at Department www.facebook.com/bostonparksdepartment www.cityofboston.gov/parks.  Participants must bring their own equipment and can register via email by contacting mavrick.afonso@boston.gov.  

October 16, 2016
Event Date2016-10-16T13:00:00 - 2016-10-16T14:00:00
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