Flaherty Playground Renovations Meeting #2

Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

This is the second meeting led by the Boston Parks and Recreation Department to renovate the Flaherty Playground. The Parks and Rec design team will share feedback they received at the first meeting and through a follow-up survey, as well as some preliminary/conceptual designs for where certain activities and programs can be located in the […]

Boston Building Resources to Host Panel on Additional Dwelling Units

Boston Building Resources 100 Terrace Street, Roxbury Crossing, MA, United States

Additional dwelling units (ADUs) will be the focus of a panel discussion at the annual meeting of Boston Building Resources, Thursday, May 19, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Panelists include officials from the Boston Home Center and Inspectional Services Department as well as homeowners who have gone through the program. For more information, visit https://www.bostonbuildingresources.com/advice/annual-meeting-adus. The panel will be […]

Sheffield Chamber Players Concert

Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

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 […]

Walking Tour of Sumner Hill

Loring-Greenough House 12 South St., Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

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 […]

Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter

Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

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, […]

Look Up, Step Up in Southwest Corridor Park

Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

"The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk ... if we combine forces now, we can avert climate catastrophe." -- UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres Politicians are failing to take the action we need […]

Confronting Racial Injustice: Rising Asian American Political Power

Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Anti-Asian violence is not new. Join us for a conversation about the history of racial violence against Asian Americans, and the recent rise of political power of Asian Americans. Panel will feature: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu; Paul Lee, former Partner, Goodwin, Procter & Hoar; Phil Nash, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Representative […]

Walking Tour of Stony Brook

Stony Brook T Stop Boylston and Lamartine, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Explore a fascinating industrial area at the geographic heart of Boston that includes 19th-century tannery and brewery buildings, the homes of early German settlers, and today’s Boston Beer Company, the brewers of Samuel Adams. In the 1970s, a coalition of community groups joined together to block construction of the Southwest Expressway through Jamaica Plain and […]

Sheffield Chamber Players Concert at Leland Street Cooperative Garden

Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

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. Monday, May 30 at 2pm Leland Street Cooperative Garden in Jamaica Plain Free and open to the public, no registration required Funded in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council and […]

June Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter

First Baptist Church of Jamaica Plain 633 Centre St, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

The June Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter will be held Thursday, June 2, 5:30-6:30 pm, at the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain at 633 Centre Street. This month’s Vigil will be a remembrance of the 31 children and adults killed in the mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, the latter an act […]

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