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…
Sheffield Chamber Players Concert at Leland Street Cooperative Garden
Sheffield Chamber Players Concert at Leland Street Cooperative Garden
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 administered by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture & by Ellen + Janis Real Estate Team, Compass
June Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter
June Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter
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 of racially motivated violence. After a “call and response” reading of names of the victims, we will hold a 20-minute…
Walking Tour of Hyde Square
Walking Tour of Hyde Square
Learn about 1840s Hyde Square when German and Irish immigrants transformed the neighborhood with their businesses, schools, and institutions. See how in the early 1960s, Hyde Square changed again when Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican immigrants transformed it into Boston’s first predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. This tour also takes us to the home of Maud Cuney Hare, a prominent music historian and one of only two black women students at the New England Conservatory of Music…
Sheffield Chamber Players Concert at Egleston Square Library
Sheffield Chamber Players Concert at Egleston Square Library
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. Saturday, June 4 at 12pm Egleston Square Branch of the BPL 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 administered by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture / Refreshments provided courtesy of the Friends of…
Eliot Schoolyard Concert: Shaw Pong Liu & Brian Friedland
Eliot Schoolyard Concert: Shaw Pong Liu & Brian Friedland
Date: Sunday, June 5 Time: 4:00-5:30pm Venue: Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts, 24 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain Two dynamic composers create an afternoon combining free improvisation and compositions by each. Shaw Pong Liu (violin) engages communities in conversations through musical collaboration. Her work has addressed birdsong and healing, sunlight and warmth, healing and homicide, racism, and the police. Brian Friedland (piano), initiator of the Eliot Schoolyard Concerts, writes music that reflects his love of…
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