Join Jamaica Plain History Society on Zoom for a reading of the play Sophia Hayden Deserves Better by Stephanie Alison Walker. In 1891 a brilliant 23-year-old woman from Jamaica Plain won an architecture contest to design the Woman’s Building for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. What should have been the start to a flourishing career in architecture became career-ending. Throughout the two-year process of building The Woman’s Building, the architect quietly endured bullying, micromanaging…

Mayor Michelle Wu and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department will host the 2022 Neighborhood Coffee Hour Series in partnership with Dunkin’ in neighborhood parks citywide from May 4 to June 30. Participants will enjoy Dunkin' Iced Coffee and assorted Dunkin' MUNCHKINS® donut hole treats along with fresh fruit from Star Market. Additional support is provided by City Express courier service. Each family in attendance will receive a free flowering plant from the Parks Department, while supplies last. Residents at each event…

Tour a residential area that includes a National Historic District. View architecture that spans three centuries; the oldest community theater company in the United States; and an elegant 18th-century mansion that once served as the country’s first military hospital. Learn about the monument that commemorates fallen Civil War soldiers from West Roxbury and about Pauline Agassiz Shaw who established the class that became the model for continuous free kindergarten education. We will visit a house…

The program, A Mirror of Starlight, features music by Kenji Bunch, Julia Wolfe, and Evan Ziporyn—who also joins us to play Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A-major. Thursday, May 19 at 6:30pm Jamaica Plain Branch of the BPL Free and open to the public, no registration required Funded in part by the Friends of the Jamaica Plain Branch Library, and made possible in part by funds supplied by the Recording Companies of the United States and Canada through…

This National Historic District includes one of the finest collections of Victorian houses in the area. The district includes the ancestral home of the Dole Pineapple Company founder and the homes of progressives who were active as abolitionists and women suffragists. All tours are free to the public and are offered on dates shown. Tours last between 60 and 90 minutes and are canceled in case of heavy rain. No reservations are required, just meet…

In response to the racially motivated killings in Buffalo last week, a Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter will be held Saturday morning, May 21, at 11:30 a.m. at the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain at 633 Centre Street. We will begin with a “call and response” reading of names of the victims, followed by a 30-minute stand-out along Centre Street. Please bring your own sign, or just yourself, and join us in…