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This summer, Save the Harbor/Save the Bay is putting on 100 free beach events, including concerts, beach parties, DJ sets, cultural festivals, wellness workshops, and much more. Nearly half of these events are taking place this month on our local beaches. A Calendar of all our events is available in over 100 languages at our blog, Sand, Sea and Sky at blog.savetheharbor.org. We gave away $250,000 in grants to local organizations and creatives to sponsor these events, the three largest grants going to organizations that promote racial justice, access for people with disabilities and language accessibility. Although we are hosting events on over ten different beaches, we hope you will attend two of our biggest events taking place in Dorchester this month. Beats on the Beach is a Dorchester based group that hosts collaborative community music contests and performance events. This year, they are coming to Malibu Beach to put on the Beats on the Beach Block Party on Saturday, August 27th. This will be a huge beach party full of music and live performances. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester is bringing another lively event to Malibu Beach. “BeachFest” will have youth-focused outdoor games, activities, music and food. 150 youth will be transported from Dorchester Clubhouse to Malibu beach. This event will take place on Friday, July 8th. We are also offering trips to Spectacle and George’s Island in July and August. Join us on these free cruises to experience Boston’s history, nature, and STEAM programming from the water. Join us this month for our free cruise to Spectacle Island on Wednesday, July 6th. Register for these cruises on our website at savetheharbor.org/sharethe-harbor. —Save the Harbor/Save the Bay
Come to Salem for a rare summer Sonorium on Saturday, July 30th at 8PM. The show features local heros in the experimental music underground. The program includes Crank Sturgeon, +DOG+, Elka Bong which is Walter Wright & Al Margolis with guest percussionist Tracy Lisk from Philly and Federico Balducci completing the bill. The show will be held at SATV studios at 285 Derby St. #2 in Salem, MA. Go to www.sonorium.net for more info. Uttered in Tongues provides an alternative meditation space called Heavy Meditation. This series brings a full body meditative experience by utilizing high volume and low frequency to provide the sensation of feeling sound. This allows our mind to tune out excess activity that our anxious brain likes to engage in. The project seeks to bridge harsh noise, drone, meditation, and experimental soundscapes in order to drown out the hum of our subconscious and delve into the unknown. There are two upcoming sessions at The Green Room in Somerville on July 31st and August 28th at 2PM $5-10. More info @utteredintongues. FIND OUT is a monthly event series for music and art that tends towards extremes - the heavy, weird, noisy, intricate, and exploratory. It’s a non-commercial, all-ages space, and every show is a partial benefit for radical community organizations. More info @f_i_n_d___o_u_t FIND OUT #8 on 7/21 features Baby; Baby: Explores the Reasons Why that Gum is Still on the Sidewalk, Keenan Flacco Ruffin/Brittany Karlson duo, Chris Strunk, Kaia Berman Peters/Miguel Landestoy Duo with local art/zine vendors and benefit to Great Falls Books Through Bars @First Church 6 Eliot St, JP 8PM $10
Hey! What’s Happening, fam? It’s your friendly neighborhood reporter checking in with exciting updates about what’s been happening at Dorchester Art Project. As you may have heard, DAP and Brain Arts Org entered an incubation period where we researched and discovered emergent strategies to better organize within our internal community. Have any of you ever heard of a Cooperative? Well, it’s alright if you haven’t as there are many types of cooperatives. The basics of it is that a group of people come together to pool resources and share in decision making, governance, and mutual rewards as well as risks. We are currently working with the non-profit known as the Boston Center of Community Ownership to help organize our cooperative efforts. One major milestone reached in house was the studio artists electing their representatives. With the aid of the BCCO, we now focus on developing this leadership team and the methodologies of which they vote! We aim to develop our business plan with the Fairmount Innovation Lab’s Launch Pad program. DAP is striving to operate officially as an arts incubator which is a facility that curates a nurturing environment for local creative entrepreneurs and small organizations by offering subsidized space and resources. July marks the beginning of our open studios btw so come check us out JULY 16th and then bop over to Boston’s Little Saigon Night Market 4PM-9PM where we will be tabling. —Amyas McKnight, creative director at What’s Happening Boston, director of Brain Arts Org, steering committee member at Dorchester Art Project LAYOUT DESIGN:
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THIS PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY A GRANT FROM THE BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL, A LOCAL AGENCY WHICH IS FUNDED BY THE MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL, AS ADMINSTRATED BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF ARTS + CULTURE
PLACES YOU CAN HANG HIGH ENERGY VINTAGE
Walking into High Energy Vintage is like stepping through a portal to the past. A neon green Mr Do. Arcade game features prominently in the middle of the shop, flanked by saddle shoes and cowboy boots; Leather jackets and cyan windbreakers wait for their wearer in the rack behind; flannels and florals drape down from the walls over rows of vinyl records. Playstation and Sega games stacked below wires of controllers and consoles; an impressive VHS collection can be found in the back room, stocked with classics such as ‘Network’, ‘The Neverending Story’, and ‘Monsters Inc.’ With its eclectic vibes and aesthetic, the store and its staff seek to embody the ‘high energy’ of the uptempo, bright and bold, synth driven 1980s. Everything is sourced from a myriad of times and places: from area open markets,
vintage warehouses, and estate sales; from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. All items are cleaned, repaired, and tailored in house. The immense care with which the staff takes to find and sell quality clothing is a core part of their fashion philosophy. Modern mass production renders clothes brittle and expendable; there is a real hunger in the here and now for affordable clothes from the past that are built to last and made with love. High Energy Vintage promises to provide just that, and more. Check ‘em out! 429 Somerville Ave, Somerville. Open after 12 pm each day (except for Tuesdays). Beyond brick and mortar, check out their instagram– @ highenergyvintage and website www. highenergyvintage.com
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JAMAICA PLAIN’S CITY FEED UNITE CELEBRATES FEDERAL RECOGNITION OF UNION STATUS In the service of transparency, The Compass would like to acknowledge its relationship with the owners of City Feed and Supply, who have long supported the paper through onsite distribution and financial contributions from advertisement. Members of Jamaica Plain’s newest union, City Feed Unite(CFU), are continuing to receive support from residents, umbrella union International Workers of the World (IWW), and the greater food service union community of Boston following recognition of their union status by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The 20-10 vote was announced on June 14th by the NLRB, the country’s federal union regulatory body, granting CFU status as the official and exclusive collective bargaining unit of Jamaica Plain’s City Feed & Supply Co. “We listened to the NLRB ballot counting as it was live streamed,” shared Emery Spooner, worker and organizing member at CFU. Spooner enthusiastically acknowledged that just hours before our interview, 1369 Coffeehouse of Cambridge, MA, received NLRB recognition of their union, as well. “Now, along with 1369, we are the only two coffee houses in Boston, I believe, who weren’t voluntarily recognized by the owners and who then went on to win union victories after an NLRB ballot count.” “It’s proof that all the time they spent having one on one conversations with people actually worked,” said one CFU-affiliated IWW organizer, who asked not to be named in order to protect future employment security. “They were able to change their coworkers minds’ substantially.” Regarding the 20-10 City Feed vote, Spooner acknowledged
that in addition to the 10 votes cast against unionizing, several employees did not cast a ballot. He said this should be taken as a sign that more work is to be done in ensuring all voices are included in the union’s vision and development. Where will City Feed Unite go from here? Daniel Tracey, a City Feed worker and new CFU member, said he hopes and expects that a collective bargaining contract will be agreed upon within the next few months. “We’re looking for a formalized pay structure, paid assault trainings, and in general more transparent and clearer communication between management and workers, in both directions.” The IWW organizer added that management is legally bound to begin a good faith process towards a contract with their workers. “We’re encouraging [CFU members] at this point to get a sense of the things that management is most willing to make changes to, and which things are going to require a longer negotiation process.” When asked about CFU’s effect on the greater Jamaica Plain community, Spooner and Tracey both agreed that they hoped to inspire local workers. “I’m hoping to demystify the process of unionizing.” Spooner declined to comment on whether workers from Jamaica Plain businesses had contacted them to speak about unionizing. Rather, Spooner invited people interested in learning more about the unionizing and collective bargaining process to contact them by email at cityfeedworkers@gmail. com. City Feed owner David Warner did reply to requests for comment on the NLRB’s CFU decision.
—--- STEPHEN GRIGELEVICH
ANALOGUE ADVERTISING MOSS TONGUE
Massachusetts residents can always count on a local band to deliver some phenomenal rock every person under 35 would have been obsessed with as a teen. Moss Tongue, a band made up of four members from the South Shore, fills that need. Moss Tongue formed in 2019, when they wrote their E.P. “Heaven, You’re Almost Here”, but they weren’t able to release it until November 10th of last year. The seven track E.P. features loud, impactful, drums, phenomenal vocals, and inspiring guitar bridges. It may be my personal bias talking but this E.P. reminds me a lot of “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge” especially with the guitar work. The album is sad, introspective, melancholy, maybe defeated. The two vocalists in the band work together quite well. Their voices blend together smoothly when they’re both singing. The lead vocalist is proficient in subtle scream singing, balancing the rasp with pretty, round notes that punches the sadness of the songs deeper. I appreciate the clever word play present throughout the E.P. In the song “So Cold”, “frozen still I sit in my sorrow, my blue lips are too numb to swallow.” In “Too Blue”
they sing “settling for comfortably numb and dumb”. My favorite lyrics “why can’t I see the sky, is it too blue for my eyes” are also in “Too Blue.” I honestly don’t know what it means exactly but I deeply relate all the same. The chords in this song remind me a bit of “Sunsets Over Monroeville” by My Chemical Romance. One of my favorite elements of the album was the white noise and whispering in the final track “Heaven, You’re Almost Here.”, that transitioned into gorgeous guitar based instrumentals. I adore unusual tracks that set the tone for the rest of the album, that help push the listener in a direction of how they’re going to process an album after they’re done listening. Moss Tongue has performed at a couple of beloved venues, including the Sinclar and O’Briens. They went on their first ever tour in March, where they performed in several towns in New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and ended the tour in Boston. The band is currently in the midst of another small tour, which they’ll finish in Allston on July 10th. Moss Tongue started off strong with their first E.P. and I’m excited to see what they’ll do in future projects.
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MASSACHUSETTS MINUTE Millyz Starts the Summer on a Hot Streak
Appearing consistently on TV and Celtics social media during this year’s playoff runs was a face-tatted, jewelry-decorated rapper from Cambridge named Millyz. Though his success may seem recently established, he’s worked diligently on his rap career for more than a decade to become one of the Bay State’s most exceptional rhymers. It’s as though he’s in possession of a never-ending array of raps, many of which fire off at you with quick-witted precision. Whether it’s in a Medellín studio or on a radio station’s morning show, Millyz never lacks impressive bars. Looking back on his prolific streak of music, it’s difficult to leave the work that Millyz is currently doing out of the conversation. Releasing several singles, an album, and numerous music videos, some featuring Jadakiss, Dave East, and Cousin Stizz, the Cambridge native never stops feeding his growing fanbase. Last month, he released a music video with notable NYC Drill rapper, Fivio Foreign, bringing one of the world’s most popular rappers right now into the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He’s become a large part of MA rap music’s identity in recent years, as many from outside of the Bay State are finally being exposed to the creative sensations that are from here through his discography. Not only does Millyz work with the titans of Hip-Hop music, he also collaborates alongside creators in our own backyard, including Dtheflyest, GNipsey, and JiggzTB,
among others. Millyz’s contribution to the growth of the music scene here is inspiring in every way, and as the Cambridge native continues to evolve as an artist, I am excited to see the next creative direction he takes. Until then, he has an extensive catalog that we all can enjoy.
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P-Dutch is a multi-faceted musical individual also known as Patrick Rage, uniting twisted branches of EDM, Trap and Drill, RnB, and Indie all into one tangled yet organized tree. His newest album Vendetta is an eclectic mix of previously stated genres and beyond. In fact, some will say P-Dutch’s styles and genres are evolving by each note, with every tone and pitch more refined and determined than the last. In tracks, “Self Care” and “Metro Vex”, the rhythms are compelling with vocals honest and authentically delivered as well as smooth transitions and production. “Escape” and “Dissing”, have hectically catchy energies bouncing and duplicating on every beat. Hihats symbolic of the ticking of grandfather clocks in the middle of the forest, mysterious and enthralling. “666” and “222” are what I just said amplified to the level’s limits with bombastic beats bouncing off every auditory corner. “Recent day events” is manifesting what
I believe to be an inspiring song and captivatingly unique compared to the rest of the album. That being said, it flows phenomenally well with the rest of the songs nonetheless making the track a bewildering paradox. “Boston Heads” has keys and strings that feel divine and ethereal. Patrick Rage proves to be a dedicated musician on every song. On other albums with a lot of different styles and genres combined, the flow can be disconnected from track to track. This is not the case at all with P Dutch, Vendetta is eclectic and organized to perfection. The variety only adds to the replay value and overall distinctiveness of each track individually and collectively, making the listener indulge fully in the records’ versatility. If you feel inclined to check this amazing project out you can here: www.soundcloud. com/xg1mex
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more at bostoncompassnewspaper.com **We strongly encourage all to take careful precaution when going out to public events! Follow the venue’s requirements regarding vaccination/negative Covid tests! Always double check the event online just in case they need to cancel!** Chosen Happenings curated by Creatives of Color Boston 7/10 Walk for Music 2022: Walk to raise money for Zumix who empowers young people to build successful futures for themselves and transforms lives and communities through music, technology, and creative employment. @260 Sumner St, East Boston 4PM-6PM 7/16 ArtBeat 2022 features an eclectic mix of music, dance, theater, food, performance, and interactive activities. @Davis Square, Somerville 11AM all-day event 7/16 Boston Little Saigon Night Market: Boston Little Saigon Cultural District invites the community to join the inaugural Chợ Đêm, Boston Little Saigon Night Market on Dorchester Avenue between Adams Street and Park Street for games, activities, vendors, entertainment, and more! @Fields Corner, Dorchester 4pm-9pm 7/28-7/30 Get To The Gig Boston Presents: NICE, a fest! featuring Speedy Ortiz, Future Teens, Weekend Friends, Colleen Green, Rebuilder, Kal Marks and so many more! Plus midnight screenings, vendors, and more surprises @Crystal Ballroom and The Rockwell All Ages $20-70 7/28 Raw Boston: Rebirth an artist meet and greet, gallery viewing and musical performances! @Mixx 360, 665 Broadway, Malden 5PM 21+ $35
Butta with music by DJ Stix @ The Jungle 9PM-1AM 21+ $15 7/5 Bars Over Bars Hip Hop Showcase featuring local artists! Every first Tuesday of the month @Midway Cafe 7:30PM 21+ $10 7/7 Jungle Vibes VIII: NH Takeover ft. Kyle Knight, Mo’ Flow, Joey Painter and more! @ The Jungle 8PM-12AM 21+ $10 7/8 Long Neck, Bedbug, Cadderwall, Tuxis Giant @Pasta Planet 8PM 18+ $5-10 7/9 The Velvet Dirt Munchers, Joy on Fire, Violet Nox ft. Noell Dorsey An outdoor limited capacity in-person event with live music & short films in Boston’s South End. Email mali@jaggery.org to RSVP and obtain the address. 7:30PM $15-20 7/9 Bridgeside Cypher: open mic + video shoot hosted by Cambridge Hip-Hop. Hit linktr. ee/bridgecyph to sign up. @Lynch Family Skatepark 9PM-12AM 7/9 ONCE Summer Series Presents - Rumstock! Day show at 1pm featuring Electric Heaters, Uncivil Servants, Tsunami of Sound, Roll Over White, U-ey at the Buoy and Night show at 6pm featuring The Gypsy Moths, The Dogmatics, Muck and the Mires, The Shang Hi Los plus food trucks, bars, family activities, games and more! @Boynton Yards All Ages $15-20 7/10 Non Event Presents: Shea Mowat @Laconia Gallery 2pm All Ages Free (donations encouraged) 7/10 Mega Mass Presents: Artist Showcase! Every second Sunday of the month! Sign up to perform! @The Jungle 9PM12AM All Ages FREE 7/10 Eliot Schoolyard Concert Series Presents: Ava Sophia (soulful grooves) @24 Eliot Street, JP 4PM All Ages $uggested Donation Bring your own chair!
MUSIC & AUDIO 7/1 Future Terror, Cartridge, Phlegm (Final Show), PCP & the Knives, Kuebiko @O’Briens 9pm 21+ $12 7/2 Hallucination Realized, Tossed Aside, Blast Shield, Fraud @O’Briens 9pm 21+ $10 7/2 EXIT Presents OUTCHEA! A summer long performance series inside and around the evolving art installation with musical performances by Reggie Pearl, Gabe Lazaro, Nikole, Elisheva @EXIT Galleries, 99 Franklin St, Boston 6PM-10PM $13 7/2 Hustle Killer Presents Monthly Cypher and BBQ! @Hustle Killer Headquarters 6PM-11PM 21+ 7/3 Silenus, Conduit, Shortest Life, Rosegold Blindfold, Meat Raffle @Peabody VFW (Peabody, MA) 6pm All Ages $15 7/3 Microcosm: jazz infused with funk, avant-garde and bebop @ Lilypad 5PM All Ages $10 7/3 Big Bag Theory Tour ft. Aditi, Adlo, Dean Alves, Kold Kwan, Paranoah, Shea
7/11 Almost August, Tysk Tysk Task, Captain Vampire @The Jungle 6:30pm 21+ Free ($5 sugg. donation)
7/17 Eliot Schoolyard Concert Series Presents: Nadia Washington & Brian Friedland (soul, R&B, jazz) @24 Eliot Street, JP 4PM All Ages $uggested Donation Bring your own chair! 7/17 Get To The Gig Boston Presents: Floral, Elaine the Singer, Really From @O’Brien’s 8PM 18+ $13/15 7/17 Vile Creature, Sunrot, Sea, Severed Boy @The Rockwell 7:30pm All Ages $15-18 7/17 Ex-Hyena, Blood Handsome, Secret Mutilator, Adi Sun, Dj Dan-E-Pants @State Park 8pm 21+ Free 7/17 Floral, Elaine The Singer w/ special guest Really From @O’Briens 9pm 21+ $13 7/19 4 Minute Warning Vol. 69 featuring Poison Ruin, California X, Final Gasp, Diabolus, Silver Dagger @O’Briens 8pm 18+ $12 7/21 M.O.B Presents “3rd Thursdays” at Kay’s Oasis! Live Band, After work Jam and Entertainment @1125 Blue HIll Ave 5-10PM 21+ $10 7/21 FIND OUT Event series for musicians & artists to try out new ideas every 3rd Thursday of the month. Every show is a partial benefit for radical community orgs @First Church, JP 8PM All Ages $10 @f_i_n_d___o_u_t 7/22 Mystra Ooze Feat! featuring Gary Higgins, Gracious Calamity, Wednesday Knudsen, Arkm Foam, Karen Zanes, Tarp, Anthony Pasquarosa, Groan Man (Sam P), Federico Balducci and more! @Shea Theater Arts Center (Turners Falls) 6pm All Ages $10-20 7/23 Non Event in the Park Presents: Judy Dunaway (balloons) & Marie Carroll (koto) / Yoona Kim (ajaeng) duo @Fisher Hill Reservoir (Brookline) 5pm All Ages Free (donations encouraged) 7/23 The Kids Like You & Me Present Summer Series! Garage rock and experimental schlops outside! Lineup TBA @Kenney Park, Davis Square, Somerville 1PM-5PM All Ages $uggested Donation
7/11 battlemode, tongue love, ever finer @Charlie’s Kitchen 8pm 21+ $5
7/24 Eliot Schoolyard Concert Series Presents: Akili Jamal Haynes (Positive African Images) @24 Eliot Street, JP 4PM All Ages $uggested Donation Bring your own chair!
7/13 Fully Celebrated Orchestra w/ Alec Morrissey and Aphelion @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5
7/24 Eastern Souvenirs, Cadderwall, Kathy Snax @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $12
7/14 New England Synth Fest Presents: Rachel Devorah & Emily Boyer, A. Campbell Payne with Christopher Konopka, J. Bagist with Debstep @Museum of Science 7:30PM All Ages $10
7/26 Frankie & The Witch Fingers w/ GIFT @The Rockwell 7pm All Ages $15-18
7/14 John Wiese, Crazy Doberman, Problem Masturbator, Noise Prince, Ashen Veil @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $12 7/15 CakeSwagg feat. DJ WhySham, Muzzins, Off Wing, The Love Shamans @The Jungle 7:30pm 21+ $10 7/15 Bikini Kill with Alice Bag @Wang Theatre 8pm All Ages $30-70 7/16 Lifeless Dark, B.E.A.S.T., Burning Wind @Shanty-Cimex
7/28 No Agreements Presents: Fax Gang, Naked Flames, bliss3three, City Light Mosaic @Lilypad 10PM $10
7/29 Illegally Blind Presents: Fugitive Bubble, Blue Ray @Lilypad 7PM All Ages $12 7/29 Open Mic presented by Fort Point Arts Community Last Friday of every month! @Assemblage Art Space 70a Sleeper St. Boston 5PM-9PM All Ages @fortpointarts 7/30 Dark Summer Garden Party featuring Dark Rose Burning, Cliff and Ivy, Ghost Painted Sky, Komrads, L’Avenir, Pilgrims of Yearning, Summore, The Spearmint Sea, Trigger Discipline @ONCE at Boynton Yards 12pm-10pm All Ages $19 7/30 Black Portals I: Ujima Summer Party @Nubian Gallery 7pm All Ages $ome Cost Black Portals is a recurring visual projections dance party, collaborative fundraiser and digital art exhibition sponsored by the Boston Ujima Project and curated by Black and Brown artists in Boston and beyond. 7/31 Eliot Schoolyard Concert Series Presents: YBH Trio (jazz) @24 Eliot Street, JP 4PM All Ages $uggested Donation Bring your own chair! 7/31 Tossed Aside, Cannabis Crypt, Voidbringer, Psychic Weight, Face First @O’Briens 9pm 21+ $10-12 Queeraoke: Join us EVERY Thursday as we break into song with supa dupa karaoke tracks and bursts of ferocious dance sets by our own DJ Summer’s Eve & DJ Moxie. @Midway Cafe 8PM 21+ $8 TheMUSEUM TV + The Soundlab present The Testing Lab a bi-weekly event where local musicians can perform their original music and get feedback from a panel of experts! Spots fill up fast so make sure to stay in tune @thesoundlabma or email thetestinglabma@gmail.com ItsLitBoston Podcast has a dope new Spotify playlist called “ItsLitBoston Presents: VIBES FROM THE STATE” updated weekly with local new music you need to check out!! I hear they take submissions too! @itslitboston Also on Youtube and SoundCloud New England Mic Check Radio is our region’s top dawg for uplifting urban music! Local musician spotlights every Sunday with artists such as Monaveli and Nelly Protoolz. www.nemiccheck.com for podcasts, swag and further updates! @newenglandmiccheck
VIDEO & FILM Weird Local Film Fest #14 celebrates 5 years of local filmmakers! SUBMIT to their next screening! THE RULES: Submit a film of any genre 10 mins or less by September 1st to weirdlocalfilmfestival@ gmail.com, 1 submission per filmmaker, submission is FREE, filmmaker must be in reasonable proximity to Somerville, MA and ideally can make the event on 9/15 @Warehouse XI, Somerville @weirdlocalfilmfestival Wenham Street Cinema is a free theater in a JP garage. They aim to build community through film and informal gatherings. Donations very optional! Showtimes at @wenhamstreetcinema
The DocYard is an award-winning film and discussion series. Catch a screening before it goes on hiatus in the Fall! Farenheight TV has a monthly variety show that celebrates people’s greatness through exclusive interviews, performances & more. Last season is airing soon! www.farenheighttv.com @farenheighttv
VISUAL ART NOW+THERE’s Public Art Accelerator Cohort Five is open for SUBMISSIONS to artists through July 17! The Public Art Accelerator exists to support early-to-mid-career Greater Boston-based artists who demonstrate need and interest in creating object-based works in Boston’s neighborhoods with the skills and sensibilities to succeed in the dynamic field of public art. Last info session July 13th 12:30PM-1:30PM. Register and more info at www.nowandthere.org @now_and_there Mindscapes / Bodyscapes @Cutter Gallery, Arlington - Upcoming joint exhibition “Mindscapes / Bodyscapes,” a contemplative journey exploring the balance between imagination and the perception of mind and body. Closing Reception July 31st 2PM-6PM 10b is not a ‘gallery’ in a traditional sense. There is no selling of work here, or any commodification of work as revenue. The value in this space is in providing opportunity for experimentation with community witness and participation. 10b is establishing space for conversation, non-traditional exhibitions, and performances where ‘artists’ can experiment, play, fail, and connect. @10b Brookley Rd, JP Open Sun 12PM5PM by appt. www.10bprojects. com DeGlassification features work by Siena Hancock & Lindsy Marshall. It is a culmination of experimentation with glass as a material from the past five years. @Beacon St Gallery on view until July 10th Mon-Sat 10AM-7:45PM / Sun 12PM-5:45PM Support the Nubian Square Public Art Initiative, a newly launched initiative spearheaded by Black Market Nubian to develop a series of public murals and installations as a catalyst for neighborhood economic empowerment by the community, for the community. Support the cause and donate to their gofundme! www. blackmarketnubian.com/nspai
PERFORMANCE ART 5/31-7/3 The Orchard Needham’s Arlekin Players Theatre is taking digital theatre to a new level. Streaming live and in person from NYC with Mikhail Baryshnikov! Tix at theorchardoffbroadway.com $29 7/5 Frederick Douglas Community Reading: Join us for a community reading of Frederick Douglass’ speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July.” @Starlgiht Square, Cambridge 6PM
7/6 Open Armory is an open mic for all performance practices. Sign up at 7PM. Every first Wednesday of the month @Arts at the Armory 7PM-10PM All Ages Free 7/8 Subdrift Mela: Celebrating South Asian Creative Community @Starlight Square 7PM-9PM All Ages 7/9 Union Comedy Presents: The Kerfuffle! A mix of sketch, interactive, and completely undefinable comedy. @The Rockwell 9PM 21+ $20 Goofs Underground: Comedy Under the Cantab Every Thursday enjoy local comedians, live music openers, and drink specials all brought to you by Duck Duck Goofs @Cantab Lounge Basement 8PM 21+ $10 Midway or the Highway Ever wondered what hilarious comedians from big fancy TV shows do the rest of the week? Sometimes they appear at your neighborhood bar! The funniest in New England and beyond can now be found in the wilds of JP on every single Sunday night at 9PM FOR FREE. Open mic at 10PM @Midway Cafe 21+
ZINES Visual Magazine provides a platform for creative spirits to tell stories through visuals. As growing proof that people want substantive artistic media in their hands, the quarterly platform is proving again and again that people want to lift the veil on uncomfortable and fascinating topics with art as the hand. Purchase their latest issues at www.visualmag.ink and connect with @visualmag_ LONER Magazine is a publication that strives to showcase the raw, unfiltered and saturated life we experience on a daily basis. This publication aims to be a creative safe space for Artists, POC, LGBTQ and those who have a desire to change the world with their work. Read at www.lonerofficial.com and follow @loner.magazine Stay Kind! publishes and distributes creative works including zines and buttons. A portion of all sales are donated to initiatives supporting positive change in our communities. Shop multitudes of zines at www.staykind.com and connect with @staykinddistro Wisteria Magazine beautiful digital local art and music zine published weekly with love! Peek now at www.wisteriamag.com @wisteria.mag “Can We Talk With Spirit Friends?” is a series of digital collage zines, compositions of images and text found in books from the 19th-Century to the present, sequenced to create surreal interpretive narratives. There are currently 24 zines in this ongoing series. Buy them online at www.horskyprojects.com/store. Gay Ghost stories seeks anything queer, spooky, and printable for a full color Halloween zine. Trans ghosts? Queer campfire tales? Haunted gay clubs? Anything spooky goes! Email submissions to Lavendermenacepress@gmail.com
Penny Magazine was created as a means to discuss how different areas of the music industry have been affected and changed in lieu of the coronavirus pandemic. Read this beautifully colorful zine at www.penny-mag.com and follow @pennythemag The Negro Flowers Series An online zine of writings, poetry, art and photography by various local BIPOC authors compiled by BCN contributor Qadir Shabazz. ‘People & Places’ Issue #3 is now available! Read online at www.linktr.ee/qadir__shabazz Pleasure Pie is a grassroots sex-positive organization in Boston, MA. They make zines, illustrations, publications, events, and conversations on sexual empowerment and consent. They now distribute sex-positive zines by others outside their org! Check this link to SUBMIT YOUR ZINES! www.pleasurepie.org/submit Zinesters Club NEW TIME AND LOCATION All ages and experience levels are welcome every first Friday of the month 7PM to come down to Hatch Makerspace and make zines! Supplies provided!
COMMUNITY 7/1-2 Boston JerkFest Caribbean Foodie Festival + Boston Hot Sauce Fest The 9th Annual Boston JerkFest is back for 2 days of fun in the sun this summer. This an out-door, family-friendly Caribbean food festival event that features Jamaican jerk hot spiced BBQ food. @Harvard Athletic Complex, 145 North Beacon Street 7/15 This is How We Roll: Come down and experience the unity and love of our local skate community while roll bouncing to the city’s hottest DJs Mo, Nomadik, and Bruno! @Starlight Square, Cambridge 6PM-9PM All Ages FREE 7/16 Savor the Square is a Saturday series on a lot in Nubian Square which brings together existing brick and mortar businesses and entrepreneurial vendors into one marketplace in the business districts’ core. This year will bring food, fun, and entertainment in the heart of Roxbury! @4 Palmer St, Roxbury 12PM-4PM All Ages FREE 7/16 Taste of Carnival Cambridge is a decadeslong Central Square tradition, celebrating the Caribbean influence and stories in Cambridge. Get a taste of their bigger event at this mini showcase at Starlight of music, dance, and vendors. @Starlight Square, Cambridge 1PM-3PM 7/16 Salem Flea Vintage, art, clothes, hand-made goods @Derby Square, Salem, MA UPHAMS IN BLOOM Humphreys Street Studios will host 3 series of free flower-making workshops in July for youth & families. The artwork made will be assembled into public art activations in Uphams Corner this summer. No registration needed, just show up! Workshop 1: Flower Making from Found Objects with Maria Ritz. Saturdays, July 9, 16, 23, 30 | 10 AM-12PM @Boston Public Library, Uphams Corner Branch
Workshop 2: Flowers to Wear: Tie Dye, Silk-Screen Printing, Decoupage & More with Elson & Wilson Fortes. Saturdays, July 9, 16 | 2-4PM @Humphreys Street Studios Workshop 3: Photography Discovery: Flowers in Uphams Corner with Jaypix Belmer. Saturdays, July 9, 16 | 10AM12PM @Humphreys Street Studios Lucy Parsons Center, your favorite radical bookstore and community space, is moving back to the South End (Into MakeShift’s former spot). They need your help fundraising to make the transition smooth and help keep this Boston staple going! To donate visit www.tinyurl.com/lpcfunds or check their social media @lucyparsonscenter Popportunity Pop-up Shops: Every weekend, shop local and get to know Central’s newest small businesses. All operated by local entrepreneurs and artists, Popportunity’s Pop Up Shops are open Sat + Sun 12PM-5pm, weather permitting. @Starlight Square, Cambridge Egleston Farmers Market is back at the Community Servings parking lot in JP! Every Saturday 10AM-2PM The market is expanding to include a bunch of low waste living resources like textile recycling, DIY workshops, bicycle repair, live tailors and lots more! @eglestonfarmersmarket Central Square Farmer’s Market open every Monday 12PM6PM from May 16th through November 21st. Their footprint, like last year, includes Norfolk Street and Starlight to increase space for vendors and distancing for shoppers. Melanin Owned Business Vendors Flea Market: Every Saturday at Kay’s Oasis 1125 Blue Hill Ave from 12-5pm. Open Mic 1st and 4th Saturdays. Contact 585-237-8487 for vending opportunities. Vendors of color please reach out! Launchpad Business Accelerator presented by Fairmount Innovation Lab Take your small business to the next level with the expertise of Hakim Cunningham! APPLY NOW @fairmount_lab www.filboston.org Hatch Makerspace Workshops Tons of free with registration workshops all month long. From programming to sewing to making paper flowers, Hatch is a really cool community spot you have to check out! www.watertownlib.org/hatch
Community Fridges! There’s a bunch of these popping up all around the city and beyond! They provide food for all and are totally volunteer-run! @southbostoncommunityfridge needs help starting up! Email southbostoncommunityfridge@ gmail.com to find how to get involved. @dotcommunityfridge is not open but does regular food drives. The following are now open! @watertowncommunityfridge @bostoncommunityfridge @allstonbrightonfridges @matcommunityfridge @cambridgefridge @cambridgecitygrowers @roslindalecommunityfridge @somervillecommunityfridge @newtoncommunityfreedge @numutualaid @southendfridge @ brooklinecommunityfridge
ADVOCACY Families For Justice As Healing has converted one side of their Roxbury office into a community pantry and fridge to meet people’s basic needs like diapers, hygiene products, and food staples. You can contribute to stocking the pantry here: tinyurl.com/ communitylovefundpantry @100R Warren St., Roxbury www.justiceashealing.org BDS Boston recognizes that Israel has been involved in the oppression of not only Palestinians, but people in the Caribbean, Central, South, and North America, Africa, and Asia. Israel and the US have been jointly responsible for developing the infrastructure of surveillance and repression of people of color and immigrants. We are committed to building alliances with other groups to fight this oppression. Help build the BDS movement in Boston with this devoted group of activists @bdsboston Sisters Unchained is a prison abolitionist non-profit organization dedicated to supporting young women and girls with incarcerated or formerly incarcerated parents. It is a refuge space where young women of color can focus on loving and improving themselves and their communities in the way they see fit. Summer programming open for application now! @sistersunchained www.sistersunchained.com
HAWC (Healing Abuse Working for Change) strives to help abused women, children, men, and nonbinary people live free from violence and fear. As a leading domestic violence agency in Massachusetts, HAWC provides a domestic violence helpline, emergency shelter, legal services, advocacy and counseling services to more than 2,500 families in the North Shore area each year. @hawcnorthshore www.hawcdv.org Be Heard Initiative A racially diverse group of artists pushing the Boston community to start talking about racial inequities. With a host of local partners, dancers, poets and filmmakers from Mattapan to Chelsea have created a myriad of events across the city in June and July, 2022, to have conversations about racism. www.beheard.world Sista Creatives Rising helps marginalized women/femme creatives gain accessibility and visibility in the arts to facilitate personal healing @sistacreativesrising www.sistacreativesrising.com Dunamis drops a weekly Resource Roundup for artists straight to your inbox! Stay up to date with all this locally curated list of artist opportunities. Go to their website now and sign up for the newsletter! www.dunamisboston.org DeeDee’s Cry provides resources and education on the importance of mental health and wellness within communities of color. They collaborate with organizations and agencies to create events, programs, projects and activities within communities of color that are centered on family, mental health and wellness. Find out about upcoming events at www.deedeescry.com Creatives of Color Boston is a collective dedicated to the creation of intersectional safe spaces for BIPOC artists to connect and create together, while also celebrating and uplifting the voices and work of BIPOC artists from around the Boston area. They plan three main events each year including concerts, workshops, and exhibitions. More at www. creativesofcolorboston.com
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In May of 1933 just months after Hitler was appointed Chancellor and the Nazi Party rose to power, a research facility in Germany was taken over by Nazi youth and its library looted and publicly burned. This center was the Institute of Sexology founded by Magnus Hirschfield, a Jewish, gay academic and advocate for the advancement of gay and trans studies. This overtly political act of incinerating books deemed “un-German” was the beginning of a violent nationalist campaign against the country’s Jewish, homosexual and trans populace and ultimately laid the ground work for their eradication under Nazis dictatorship.
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Burning literature that did not support a white, Christian ethnostate was a performance of fascist zealotry and fear mongering meant to dehumanize a vulnerable population and set the stage for their state sponsored genocide. The manufacturing of scapegoats is critical to the rise of fascist politics as they enflame existing tensions and redirect them towards a susceptible group, enabling further violence and division through fear, paranoia and propaganda. The Jewish-German poet Heinrich Heine wrote that, “Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people”.
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The erasure and repression of literature that humanizes LGBTQ people is only the beginning. The “grooming” rhetoric of the right wing that demonizes LGBTQ people, the articles published by major media outlets that delegitimize trans lives, the upswell of fanatical draconian bills that target trans youth and the abject failure of democratic politicians to actively stand against this vitriol is setting a terrifying prescient for dehumanization. Centrist politics that compromise the safety of trans people in order to “win elections” has only succeeded in enabling fanatical rightwing groups and state sponsored transphobic violence. There must be an activated effort to defend trans rights, not only because a society is only as safe as its most vulnerable, but also simply because it is what is right and just. In a letter to Angela Davis, James Baldwin once wrote, “For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night”. These coordinated attacks on trans people mirror the initial waves of 1930s European fascism, and turning a blind eye will end up drowning us all.
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While on the surface less fanatical than public burnings, the recent swarth of book bans across the US enflame totalitarian sentiments by attempting to erase identities deemed “unAmerican”. The banning of LGBTQ books, particularly by Black authors, is an effort to erase the lived experiences of marginalized people and re-establish the cultural dominance of a white, Christian theocracy. Affirming stories
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found in these books can be critical to social acceptance and identify formation of young LGBTQ people. Conservative and alt-right groups target and fear these books because they deem them a threat to the power of the white cis heteropatriarchy. The white paranoia over curriculum that works to educate children about issues of race and racism in the US provoke these same bigoted fears.
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