Week of Events
Play Reading: ‘Sophia Hayden Deserves Better’
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…
Flaherty Playground Renovations Meeting #2
Flaherty Playground Renovations Meeting #2
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 new park design. There will also be a Q&A session. This is a virtual meeting. Join the Zoom meeting: bit.ly/Flaherty2
Boston Building Resources to Host Panel on Additional Dwelling Units
Boston Building Resources to Host Panel on Additional Dwelling Units
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 at BBR’s Reuse Center, 88 Terrace Street, Roxbury Crossing. Panelists include Anita Christon, Program Manager for HomeWorks and ADU Programs;…
Sheffield Chamber Players Concert
Sheffield Chamber Players Concert
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…
Walking Tour of Sumner Hill
Walking Tour of Sumner Hill
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…
Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter
Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter
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…
Look Up, Step Up in Southwest Corridor Park
Look Up, Step Up in Southwest Corridor Park
"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 to avoid devastating climate change. But we can still take action together to ensure our children have a future. It's…
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