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Today, the company works the best art of your life so far, there always Nora, the girl behind the with a variety of artists from rap and metal to vibey seems to be someone that comes out of the happenings calendar here slow jams. It has become an iconic one-stop shop woodwork to meet your triumphs with negativity. at BCN! I’ve been working as a for all artists’ needs. From in house producing, This issue is one that finds itself at the center of volunteer with the Compass for around engineering, and mastering at the downstairs “Damaged Feelings,” the newest single from Pales6 months now, and I’ve loved my time here recording studio run by Juisemoney, to album tinian artist, Neemz, whose multi-faceted artistic talso far. I remember picking up the Compass artwork, photography, and music videos ents have launched her into the position as one of Boson my T ride home years ago -- it was exactly shot upstairs. Book a recording session ton’s most exciting creatives right now. Following up on the news I wanted to read and the events I wished today at Goat House Studio! Visit https:// the recent successes of her singles “Awake” and “Plan A,” I could go to, so I am beyond excited to be a part goathousestudio.simplybook.me/v2/ for Neemz’s newest discographical addition combines brilliant of the paper today! I have always been pretty involved availability and online booking. Hustle sonics with deep meaning. Reflecting on the sentiments dewith the art scene in Boston, especially later in high considers himself an artist, business scribed above, Neemz speaks on the avoidance of such negschool, when I was pursuing classical music with the intent owner, and promoter. He books multiple ative emotions in order to protect our own well-being. Rather to play in conservatory. Along the way, though, I found shows a month at venues all over than stooping down to the hater mentality, the Boston-based artmyself falling in love with many different pieces of the art Boston, inviting on performers with no ist tackles the envy indirectly by continuing to accomplish what’s world – I picked up oil painting, planned events at the MFA, cost to the artist. Events vary from free, best for her. Paying no mind to those who are against you is not a started some musicology work, got really (really) obsessed with monthly cyphers at the shop where sign of weakness, but instead holds the highest measure of power lo-fi and shoegaze music – and decided to take a step back and anyone is welcome to join, to a huge there is—something that Neemz wants all to gain a true grasp of. soak it all in. So, now I’m here! I’m currently working on some 2022 New Years party and concert Since attending IDK and Harvard University’s No Label Academy this slow-core-shoegaze-esque music with friends and trying to find at The Middle East in Cambridge. past August, Neemz has had her sights set towards what lies ahead joy in music like I used to, while studying music theory and visual Some notable artists Hustle Killer in her future. She’s ready to take music markets around the globe by art in school. I still make prints, collect vinyl, and pick up new art works with include DJ Stix, Kyle storm with her pop-infused, radiating catalog of music, seeking to hobbies that cost me way too much at Blick. Honestly, the greatest Goldstein, Highkeyrandom, blossom into the best version of herself along the way. Already making thing I’ve learned is that your relationship with art is on your terms TeeLUXE, and John Scott. Check a strengthened imprint through her photography and modeling work, and does not have to be professional or performative to be valid!! out @Hustle_Killer on Instagram the music that she’s currently working on is something that without a Thanks for getting to know me, and for supporting the Compass! for a full schedule of upcoming doubt will be launching her into the depths of notoriety. The Boston arts Boston is so lucky to have Brain Arts! events and free opportunities for have never been in better hands, and with individuals like Neemz sparkupcoming artists. ing prominent shifts in identity here, I, for one, am incredibly excited to — Nora witness the development of the Bay State’s music scene in real time. —Arts District Boston LAYOUT DESIGN: — Shamus Hill Phoebe Delmonte: p.1,4,5, 7 Hannah Blauner: p.2, 3 Adrian Alvarez: p.6, 8
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ADVICE FOR LOVERS
Q: I recently started dating someone older than me by a couple years. Whenever I’m around him I feel like a child but it’s in a bad way. I feel stupid and annoying compared to him. I can’t shake the feeling of being lesser than and maybe not “adult” enough for him. How do I fix this? A: There is a level of trust when you begin something new with someone - this trust is in the desire they have for you. Perhaps if there is a reality to how you feel - they may be qualities he finds charming in you. Holding the idea that you are wanted and worthy is
essential for receiving love fully. Another thing that comes to mind for me is maybe you have just idealized him - what if you feel lesser than because you have put him on an unreachable pedestal? It is beautiful that you feel that way about him but think of where you place yourself in comparison. Why can’t you also have an equally tall pedestal that you’re on beside his? You can both hold space at the same level and get rid of the hierarchy- love will feel smooth if you believe in your worth. xoxo- @heart.soaked
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Modern classifications of sexuality and gender began as justification for slavery and colonialism. These Western frameworks are not universal, ahistorical truths but rather social constructs rooted in the racist personage of Black and Indigenous people as “savage” and “sexually ambiguous,” necessitating their domination in the minds of “civilized” white colonizers. Gender non-conforming writer ALOK penned that colonialism “shaped what we have come to understand as natural & unnatural.” Heteronormativity was central to the dehumanization of Indigenous and African people, as their fluid expressions of gender, sex, and sexuality were used as reasons for their genocide and enslavement by imperial powers. The intentional othering of homosexuality and gender variance is rooted in white supremacy, and this continues to impact the lives of queer people as tenets of modern policing. The modern gay rights movement itself began as opposition to the enforcers of the white, patriarchal status quo—the police. The LGBTQ population is not homogenous, and therefore its members experience different levels of marginalization and violence at the hands of both the police and civilians. The intersection of anti-black racism, transphobia, and misogyny leave Black transgender women extremely vulnerable to hate-fueled violence. The Human Rights Campaign tracked a record of forty-four murders of transgender and gender nonconforming people in 2020, the majority of whom were Black. This number is likely higher due to underreporting and misgendering of victims. Merely existing openly as a genderqueer person of color is grounds for suspicion through the patriarchal and xenophobic lens of the police. “Walking While Trans” is a phrase used to describe the regularity in
which cops profile transgender women of color as sex workers. Police frequently stop, harass and demand identification from trans people out in public. Carrying condoms or dressing “provocatively” can lead to an arrest on prostitution-related charges. Manifesting prostitution is a crime in which evidence is gathered in the biased mind of a cop. According to a 2014 survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality, Black transgender women are incarcerated at a rate ten times that of the general population. Akin to identity-based policing efforts like “Stop and Frisk” where police operate on assumptions of race and class, gender expression is a factor in manifest laws. Constant police targeting discourages trans women from being present in public spaces, like city neighborhoods that have a high LGBTQ population. This leaves trans women more vulnerable to violence in their private lives, as fear of the police alienates them further from their own communities. A 2013 report by the Anti-Violence Project found that trans people of color are six times more likely to experience physical violence from law enforcement than white cisgender victims. Racist, heteronormative views are not an exception, but integral values of policing. Those who exist outside white Western, restrictive ideals surrounding gender and sexuality are a threat to these power structures. “We ambition beyond the manipulation of our bodies in the service of a security that is so tenuous & brittle it breaks with the slightest view of our artful becoming,” writes ALOK. The police sustain the legacy of colonialism through their violent, anti-black, enforcement of the status quo, and their transphobia masked under manifest laws directly harms and devalues trans women of color.
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JOSEPH ALFRED BRANCHES AND LEAVES (FOLK)
Joseph Alfred’s new album Branches and Leaves evokes a mood. It is a profoundly beautiful mood. One of peace and sadness, stillness and anticipation, remorse and acceptance. It paints a picture of sitting alone at dusk, looking over a still and quiet pond, feeling the relief that past trials are over (for better or worse), but acknowledging that more will come. I can’t speak more highly of this album. It is the album we need as we wake from our pandemic existential cocoon to a new world unsure of itself and only limping along. As the song “Redbud Winter” starts: “Who is this that calls my name, when the redbud trees are just in bloom. Oh, but the winter has not left us yet. No there’s another snow in store.” Branches and Leaves is being released by local giants Feeding Tube Records,
who have put out many other albums by Joseph. While I used to think of Joseph as mainly an instrumental guitarist, this album demonstrates the breadth of his talent. In fact, my favorite moments on the album are when it is just Joseph singing over his harmonium. I am going to end this review with the lyrics of the second half of the song “Scoundrel,” which hopefully will be your gateway into the album. “And oh how it burns. A fire as bright as day. Whose arms touch the stars and light up the milky way. The branches unwound and came falling down, down, down. Let it all die. Let it all float away. Carried off by the birds to the ends of the milky way. And dance to the sound when it comes falling down, down, down.”
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AT THE DAWN OF A HOUSING VICTORY WITH OUR LADY’S GUILD HOUSE A historic affordable housing complex is recovering from over a decade of life under the management of a predatory property firm. Founded in 1947, Our Lady’s Guild House (OLGH) has been owned and run by the Daughters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception, a Catholic order based in New Britain, CT, to provide affordable rent and stable living conditions to Bostonian women. In 2009, former Daughters of Mary leader Mother Jennifer Carroll hired Marc Roos Realty, and OLGH soon witnessed two- and threefold increases in rent. Through the imposition of lease limits and rent increases, OLGH has also witnessed a growth in the number of young, collegiate tenants, and a sharp decline in the number of elder women residents. But recent years of publicized organizing efforts and legal challenges have greatly weakened the image of Roos Realty and the Daughters of Mary. In 2018, OLGH tenants formed a tenant association, the OLGH Benevolent Society. The association collaborated with Jamaica Plain-based housing justice group City Life/Vida Urbana to issue demands to Roos Realty, and to ask for a face-to-face meeting. In its public letter, the tenant association detailed repeatedly shunned efforts to contact the OLGH owners and managers. In one instance, the letter states that Mother Jennifer, Superior of the Daughters of Mary reportedly refused to discuss OLGH housing management practices with a tenant who approached her to speak, reportedly saying “I am done with the building!” and walking away. Soon after,
OLGH tenants partnered with the Boston non-profit Fenway Community Development Corporation to file a petition against evictions issued by Roos Realty in 2019, arguing that age discrimination was being employed to target older tenants on whom lease limits were now being placed. Tenants’ complaints of age discrimination prompted a currently ongoing investigation by Attorney General Maura Healey’s office. Then, in early October, Roos Realty and the Daughters of Mary decided to sell the property of OLGH, as reported by the Boston Globe. Fenway CDC, as well as the Planning Office of Urban Affairs, a housing developer affiliated with the Boston Archdiocese, announced that they would be interested in purchasing the property and maintaining affordable rent practices in accordance with the Catholic order’s official mission. Within the context of the covid-era consciousness surrounding housing and labor insecurity, the Our Lady’s Guild House can be considered an example of multi-level coordination among tenants, lawyers, civic leaders, and justice organizations. District 8 City Councilor Kenzie Bok, who received tweets of acknowledgement for her support of OLGH, told the Compass that she has been protesting with OLGH since before she represented them as city councilor. “I think it is very important that it move forward as fully affordable housing in partnership with the residents and advocates who have worked on this for so long.”
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REUSE REFUSE SPELLS FOR LETTING GO OF THINGS
LIVE FROM DAVIS SQUARE, IT’S SOMERVILLE NIGHT LIVE!
Live from Davis Square, it’s Mess + Finesse’s Somerville Night Live! Mess + Finesse, a Somerville-based production company and education center, returned to the sold-out Rockwell Theatre on October 9th to perform their sixth official sketch comedy show. No one could predict what they would witness from the ninety-minute set, which was written, pitched, and rehearsed all in the span of one week. The results were miraculous: two victims of a Saw trap are disgusted when Jigsaw wants them to kiss each other in order to survive. An all-girls slumber party goes awry when the girls kill their friend during a pillow fight. A priest grapples with several dirty confessions that involve an irresistibly sexy scarecrow on Route 12. The “live studio audience” rocked with laughter, cheered the stage with their IPAs, and heartily applauded after each performance. In an interview with the Compass, Mess + Finesse’s Head Writer and Executive Producer Kenny Gray said that Somerville Night Live “showcases the wonderful talent that we have here in Boston, (...) and that we are capable of doing something like Saturday Night Live without being on Saturday Night Live.” The talents of Mess + Finesse are not limited to the occasional night of sketch comedy—the group has produced zines, films, podcasts, a
As a sculptor and environmentalist, I have SO many feelings about Stuff. Being “responsible with materials” can feel like everything I put in the garbage hurts something else directly, like a bird or piece of soil. I feel the pain of that being as the cheddar cheese wrapper bursts into flames in my mind, after it leaves the garbage can, as the waste from my street enters an unseen industrial incinerator to become fuel. We live in systems with each other, the materials of our lives, the Earth, and billions of other creatures. I try to remind myself that one person cannot be individually blamed for the harms of our systems. Separating the decision about WHETHER to let an object go from HOW to pass it on feels vital. I’m not a Reuse Center. I don’t have the money, space or time to fill in for institutions that should exist but don’t, or to constantly fear the next life stage of a material that’s actually harmful in every stage of its existence (plastic). Here are some spells I wrote to help me let go of physical objects, to ease the guilt of getting rid of things imperfectly, and to connect to larger networks of life, materials, and resistance. Maybe they’ll be useful for you, too. • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Sit outdoors or by a window, somewhere you can feel the air. Make yourself comfortable. Imagine positive things on the breeze. Maybe things you smell, like pizza, maple leaves, or the ocean. Maybe things you can’t smell, like molecules of oxygen, water vapor, and pine forests they have passed through. Take a slow, deep breath through your nose. Imagine these essences entering you, joining and comingling with your particles. Hold them for a long pause. Slowly exhale through your mouth. *Thank You* You are keeping the good things the breeze brought and sending it off to travel further.
24-hour improvised monoscene, and anything they can dream up next. What started out as a space for extra music equipment and a hang-out spot for Gray and his friends has bloomed into a thriving community space for creatives to get together and create content. Somerville Night Live has become one of their most beloved long-running projects. In a final comment, Gray reflected, “I think what makes [the show] special to me is that the cast likes it as much as the audience does. There’s this special feeling of ‘you’re • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • only seeing it once, we’re only doing it once.’ Pick an object you really like. Hold it in your It captures the joy of improv and puts it into hand. Make 5 observations about how it feels. Is sketch.” The actors, writers, and creatives of Mess + it cool? Finesse have been without a comedy home ever since ImprovBoston, the non-profit theatre in Cambridge, closed its doors last year due to pandemic constraints. The shift to The Rockwell is part of an initiative to not only revitalize the live comedy scene in the greater Boston area, but also to revitalize a post-lockdown Somerville. For those who missed the event, Somerville Night Live is having another show on December 11 at The Rockwell. Stay in the loop by following @messandfinesse and @rockwellthtr on Instagram.
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Gritty? Soft? Heavy? Place it on a cleared surface. Choose 2 - 3 other objects you like and place them next to it. Repeat 3 times: “I keep what I love, and let go of what I don’t. The space to hold them is mine to tend.”
• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• On a piece of paper, write a list of specific places where you will get rid of different types of things. This might include: garbage (can in the kitchen), recycling (bin in the stairwell), fabric recycling (collection down the block), and thrift store (Boomerangs). Flip the paper over and write: “I take care of this world.” You can draw a picture too, maybe a flower or tree. Put the list in a handy place where you can use it.
• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I was inspired to write this article by the work of Corina Dross and Jocelyn (Jo) Mosser, artistic collaborators who run a blog and small business called AbacusCorvus. If you’re prepared to be profoundly moved by a wall calendar, please check them out. http:// abacuscorvus.com
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11/15 Tequila Sirens, New Aura, Dead Trains, Talk Chalk @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $10
MUSIC & AUDIO
11/16 ONCE Somerville Presents Wednesday and they are gutting a body of water @ Cambridge Elks 6pm All Ages $15
11/1 Ignorantes, Wanted, G.R.I.N., The Massacred @The Banshee Den (Everett) 8pm All Ages $10
11/18 DYR FASER, André Obin, Ex-Hyena @Notch Brewing Biergarten (Brighton, Charles River Speedway) 7pm 21+ Free
11/1 Blvck Hippie, Mint Green, TIFFY @O’briens 8pm 21+ $8-10
11/19 Rosewater Records presents: Frog (NY), Paper Lady, Puppy Problems, First Passionate Frisbee Club @Lost Woods DIY 9PM $7-$10. Not wheelchair accessible, mask required, vax required. DM @lostwoodsdiy or @rosewaterecords for address
11/4 Feels Fest: CD Rose, Miranda Rae, Notebook P presented by Afrodesiacity + WEGDAW @Hard Rock Cafe 7:30PM 21+ $15-20 11/4 Stay Mad Productions Presents Mostly Fast Shit Vol. 3 featuring Horrible Earth, Drive By Bukkake, Butt Portion (formally Psytoxia from Upstate NY), Psychic Weight @O’Briens 9pm 21+ $7 11/5 Short Fictions, Perspective a Lovely Hand to Hold, Pet Fox, Winter Passing@ O’briens 8pm 21+ $12-15 11/5 Owsley’s Owls Grateful Dead Night @Deep Thoughts JP 9:30pm All Ages $10 (vax reqd) 11/6 bedbug, ok, pilocase, bunny boy, woozles @Midway Cafe 3PM All Ages $5 11/6 The Creative Music Series Presents Golda Solomon’s Po’Jazz + Eric Cardinaux, poet, pianist @The Lilypad 8PM All Ages $20 11/7 ONCE Presents Alice Longyu Gao + Fraxiom @The Rockwell (Somerville) 6pm All Ages $18-20 11/9 Spiritual Cramp, Bacchae, Black Beach @Hardcore Stadium 7pm All Ages $15 11/10 Dare, Life’s Question, Sick Minds, Early Grave, Climb @Sons of Italy Lodge Hingham 6pm All Ages $15 11/10 Fully Celebrated Orchestra w/ Griffin Woodard Jazz Quartet @Midway Cafe 8PM 21+ $5 11/11 Kitner, Ezra Cohen & The Big City Band, The Furniture @Notch Brewing Biergarten (Brighton, Charles River Speedway) 7pm 21+ Free 11/13 KLYAM Present Rama Lama Ding Dong 2021! featuring Unnatural Axe, Silver Synthetic, Kathy Snax, The Swettes, Johnnie and the Foodmasters @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $10 11/13 Young Guv, Narrow Head, Gil Sayfan, Crescent Ridge @Hardcore Stadium 6pm All Ages $15 11/14 Mega Mass Presents Artist Showcase: Music, poetry, comedy, raffles @The Jungle (Somerville) 5:30pm FREE
11/19 Zulu, Buggin, Move, Peace Test, Adrienne @Sons of Italy Lodge Hingham 7pm All Ages $15 11/20 The Creative Music Series Presents Eric Dahlman & the JMDE Quartet @Arts at the Armory 8PM All Ages $10 11/26 Colin of Arabia, Back of Tha Neck, Restraining Order, Pummel, Pure Bliss, Torn in Half, Stop Loss @Brockton VFW 7pm All Ages FREE SHOW 11/29 Zygote Theory, Gracie Grace & All The Goodboys, Alex Maes and the Connection @The Jungle 8PM 21+ $5 Suggested Donation Wenham St Cinema Outdoor Concert Series (Jamaica Plain) Free neighborhood theater that seeks to build community through film, food, and discussion. All showings are free and open to the public! BAMS Fest is constantly showing up for the community by organizing live shows, talks, competitions for local artists... not to mention their amazing annual music festival. Learn more at www.bamsfest.org Tiny DAP Concert Series Our spin on the NPR Tiny Desk Concert Series! All episodes are available now, including the newest drops featuring Kasia Lavon and Tashawn Taylor! Visit dorchesterartproject.com/tinydap for more info and subscribe to the Boston Compass Newspaper Youtube channel for video drops! ItsLitBoston Podcast Boston’s #1 urban podcast here to connect you with the local hip hop community and entertain you at the same time. @itslitboston Also on Youtube and SoundCloud New England Mic Check Radio is our region’s top dawg for uplifting urban music! Episode #58 out now on all streaming platforms with a special feature on local artist Tamera King! www.nemiccheck.com for podcasts, swag and further updates! @newenglandmiccheck
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Check out WECB FM Boston! WECB is a student-run, creatively independent internet radio station at Emerson College in Boston. They host dozens of radio shows by hundreds of DJs and highlight new and exciting music both locally and beyond! Also, check out their music review platform Milk Crate! To listen and for more info, visit: www.wecb.fm LFOD Life A radio show, event promoter, artist uplifter, blog, video series. LFOD does it all! They go live Tuesdays @ 10PM on 91.5FM in Boston. @lfodlife www.lfod.life Spark FM at Night with DJ Stix: Every Tuesday/Thursday from 11-1AM plus many more programs! Check out www.sparkfmonline.com Nonevent is a Boston-based concert series devoted to the presentation of experimental, abstract, improvised, and new music from New England and around the world. Visit nonevent.org Subcentral is a unique space that spored from the subculture in the heart of Cambridge. They are dedicated to promoting and producing electronic music and performance arts, while nourishing creative minds through classes, workshops and art installations. @subcentral.studio and www.subcentral.studio
VIDEO & FILM TheMUSEUM TV “Bringing The Creative Community Together In Our Own Fashion!”. That’s for sure! Check out their website www.tmtv.world for local art and hiphop news and so many dope exclusive artist interviews. Subscribe on Youtube for endless video content! No Price Tag Productions is dedicated to bringing artistry to life by highlighting creatives through film production and events. They have a dope artist interview series on their Youtube Channel No Price Tags Productions! www. nopricetagsproductions.com @nopricetagsproductions Farenheight TV has a monthly variety show that celebrates people’s greatness through exclusive interviews, performances & more. Check out their latest collab with BAMS Fest interviewing artists from their current performance series Amplify the Soul. www.farenheighttv.com @farenheighttv Cinema Salem has been resurrected under new leadership! They aim to provide more cult classics and art haus obscurities to Massachusetts film buffs. All start at 10PM and cost $11: 11/12 REPO MAN. 11/19 Andrzej Żuławski’s POSSESSION. More showtimes TBA. Check www.cinemasalem. com
Weird Local Film Festival has their 6th Virtual film series live for you to check out! Nothing beats this lineup of local filmmakers. Get introduced into the world of New England experimental filmmaking. On Youtube @Weird Local Productions and IG @weirdlocalfilmfestival ShowPlace ICON is host to a redefined movie experience with cutting-edge digital and theatre technology. Check out their website for events. www.ShowPlaceICON.com @showplaceiconboston
VISUAL ART #ARTWORKSHERE, #ARTSTAYSHERE at Humphreys Street Studios Speak Out to Preserve Artist Workspaces: This exhibition features a handful of components visually representing both the longterm, region-wide problem of artist displacement throughout Greater Boston, as well as the individual preservation journey the Humphreys Street Studios artists began in July of 2020. On view until November 5th! Look out for more exhibition at this great Dorchester studio and gallery Praise Shadows Art Gallery is pleased to present Space Folding, the Manila-based American artist James Clar’s debut in Boston. Recognized internationally for his diverse art practice that spans digital media, light sculptures, and new technologies, the exhibition highlights his global reach by bringing to Boston artworks created at his studios in Dubai, New York, and Manila. Another show is going up 11/18-12/24 which is an exhibition with artist Yowshien Kuo. 13FOREST Gallery Pop-Up recently suffered damages from a fire. Please consider supporting them by buying art from their website www.13forest.com They even provide payment plans for customers! Kingston Gallery will be opening three more new exhibitions 11/3 to 11/28! Reception held on 11/5 from 5-8PM Linda Leslie Brown: Entangled | Christopher Volpe: Alchemy and After | Brian Littlefield: Smaller EXIT Galleries is a Bostonbased pop-up art gallery. EXIT transforms underutilized spaces into site-specific art installations and environments. Now popping up in Lower Allston this fall at 99 Franklin St. @exitgalleries www.exitgalleries.com 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. blackmarketnubian.com/nspai SPOKE This year for our Days Without Art/World AIDS Day installation, we invite people to create a fabric sampler, 16” x 16” to remember, reconnect, and honor how you have been touched in these concurrent pandemics; someone who has
Touched your life physically, spiritually, or emotionally. Join us for open studio “Quilting Bees”, beginning Thursday September 23rd - Friday, November 19th, at our studio at 840 Summer Street in South Boston. www.mwponline.org Aviary Gallery has rolled out its online exhibitions from a diverse cast of artists including BCN columnist Jenn Stanley. Check out all the beauty at www.aviarygallery.com
PERFORMANCE ART The Square Root A Roslindale cafe with a great variety of performances! 11/4+11/18 Standup (comedy) in the Square hosted by Owen Liners & Angela Sawyer 8PM 11/19 Henry Horenstein’s Blitto Underground Film Premiere Check out Artists’ Theater of Boston! They produce “thoughtful, evocative work that challenges systemic injustices facing our communities through the collaborative process of making theater.” Online opportunities and performances can be found at artiststheater. org The Comedy Studio: one of Boston’s best standup comedy venues is back with in-person events. Shows every Thursday, Friday, Saturday @Vera’s 8PM and 10PM start times $20 21+ 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 hosted by Angela Sawyer @Midway Cafe 21+ The Black Comedy Explosion: Wednesday nights at Slades Bar and Grill starting at 7pm. Join us as we bring you some of today’s funniest comedians from BET Comic View, HBO DEF Comedy Jam, and more, with both national and local acts. Sladesbarandgrill.com @slades.boston Starlight Square: Outdoor events happening all summer at Starlight Square in Central Square, Cambridge. Check the calendar at www.starlightsquare.org/events
LITERARY ART The Boston Anarchist Bookfair is back 11/13 + 11/14! Workshops will all be held virtually, and, if the COVID-19 infection rate is low enough, we will have a vendor table space at the Democracy Center! Apply to present or table at www. bostonanarchistbookfair.org The Negro Flower Series A collection of writings and poetry by various POC authors compiled by BCN contributor Qadir Shabazz. Read online at www.linktr.ee/qadir__shabazz Fuck Your Dreams Zine CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for VOLUME III IS HERE! Send them your art & writing inspired by your dreams & nightmares! Looking forward to what will be the most absurdist & surreal issue yet.
Deadline November 19th. For more info and to purchase volume 1 & 2 visit www.fuckyourdreamszine.com
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Lucy Parsons Center is an independent, non-profit, radical bookstore and community space. They also do a Free Store for the People every 2nd Sunday of the month 12-2PM across the street. www.lucyparsonscenter.org
Springboard for the Arts: Free Business Skills workshops for artists! Check out the packed calendar at www.springboardforthearts. org/events. Creative fun for the whole family!
Art & Letters Poetry Zine has two new special issues out now: “14 International Younger Poets” and “Mexico: Photographs.” Learn more and order now at www.artnletters.com Superfroot Magazine Dedicated to uplifting underrepresented artists and writers, this zine focuses on a new theme each issue. Issue #2 NOSTALGIA coming soon. Learn more at www.superfroot.com Moral Crema Zine has released its Fall 2021 edition dedicated to the archiving and promotion of experimental artists who are primarily queer, POC, working class, and women. Look out for zine events they started hosting! Find out more @moralcrema and purchase at www.moralcrema.com Mass Love Distro is a Massachusetts-based distro focused on creating and distributing engaging, immersive multimedia artwork from local area artists, with an emphasis on zines, books, records, CDs, pins, patches, stickers, and other merch. Check them out online and follow them @masslovedistro Pleasure Pie zines and illustrations about sexual empowerment and consent! @pleasurepie www.pleasurepie.org
COMMUNITY 11/6 The Oddity Marketplace featuring vendors of the strange, otherworldly and unusual! @Mill No. 5 (Lowell) 12-4pm All Ages FREE 11/20 Seek+Find Boston present JP Flea! @First Church JP 11-4pm All Ages Shop local this holiday season! A multicultural marketplace in Boston’s beautiful Jamaica Plain neighborhood, featuring local artists, zine distros/publishers, vintage and antique dealers, small businesses, community non-profits, and artisans of all kinds! Apply to be a vendor www.thejpflea.com 11/20 Annual Turkey Giveaway by Violence In Boston Drive through and grab a turkey with special guest Smoke Bulga! First come first serve! 12PM @96 Business Street, Hyde Park Bipop music instrument & production lessons: An online music instruction platform tailored towards WOC & the non-gender conforming community taught by WOC and the non-gender conforming community of Boston. Become a student or a teacher! Learn more at www.bipop.org @bipopbops The BYTE Shop is a computer and electronics repair, resale, and recycling shop at 48 South St in Jamaica Plain. Available
Apparel Brand, Music Label and Entertainment Company Scope Apparel has opened a storefront and HQ AT 484 B Center St, Jamaica Plain. Check it out! @scopeapparel and www.scopeapparel.com The Lucky Jungle, a new Cambridge community space, has spawned from the depths of quarantine. Selling work of local artists and beautiful plants, providing specialized art classes, and soon putting on live performances, this space seems to offer everything we need after a year trapped in our rooms. @theluckyjungle and www.theluckyjungle.com Check out the Daily Table at 684 Mass. Ave in Central Square! They sell affordable, sustainable food for all. Check out their other locations in Dorchester and Roxbury! They are open from 9AM - 8PM on Monday - Friday, and 11AM 7PM on Sundays. Boston GLASS operates Drop-In Community Centers for LGBTQ+ youth of color between the ages of 13–25! GLASS provides a continuum of services to LGBTQ+ youth of color and their allies in the Greater Boston and Greater Framingham areas and also provides education and consultation to other providers and community organizations. Women Explore Lecture and Discussion Forum: Women Explore provides lecture series within a feminist learning community for women, to connect with the sacred dimensions of their experience and to support and encourage each other in the world community. womenexplore.org
ADVOCACY ACT UP Boston is an Aids Coalition to Unleash Power Boston is a multi-national, multi-generational coalition committed to direct action to end the world AIDS crisis. Check out their recently uploaded Youtube video on overdose reversal training! @actupboston West Of Washington Coalition A neighborhood group of Dorchester seeking to make our community a safer, friendlier, and more vibrant place to live. @wowcoalition and on Facebook to stay up to date with their community events and actions Blue Crime Blue Dime is a community initiative working to have police pay for their own lawsuits and settlements instead of the state draining the wallets of taxpayers. Check out their IG @bluecrimebluedime and Twitter @dime_crime for community events
and end the harassment of victims and witnesses. Visit www.maapb.org for info on actions/protests in the Boston area. FTP Boston is a community of Black & Brown organizers from the Boston area committed to Abolition. They do pop-up community thrift stores and accept donations in addition to many other things! @ftpboston www.ftpbos.com CityLife/VidaUrbana: Organizing for racial, economic, and gender justice since 1973. Building solidarity to put people before profits. Support their Homes For All Act at homesforallmass.org/act
Sunrise Movement Boston works every day to stop climate change and create jobs in the process. Find them at @sunrisemvmtboston to cue into all the rad actions and workshops they have going on. Asian American Resource Workshop is a political home for pan-Asian communities in Greater Boston. They are a member-led organization committed to building grassroots power through political education, creative expression, and issue-based and neighborhood organizing. Join today! @aarw.boston and www.aarw.org Mass Action Against Police Brutality A campaign to prosecute the police and jail those who are guilty, open all past cases of police brutality,
Community Happenings curated by Side Presents MOTHER MERCY Zoom artist talk: As part of the memory, mapping & other tools for living writing workshop series, Mother Mercy presents thinking and feeling through process and ritual. Wednesday, November 3rd at 6PM Register at: https://bit.ly/processandritual
Community Fridges! There’s a bunch of these popping up all around the city! They provide food for all and are totally volunteer-run! Check Out @bostoncommunityfridge @dotcommunityfridge @allstoncommunityfridge @matcommunityfridge @cambridgecommunityfridge @roslindalecommunityfridge Some are relocating and need your help finding businesses and people to host them!
This presentation will provide perspective on crafting a life of one’s own design as an artist, stealing away time for dreaming, sweetness, and creation from other responsibilities and concerns around material survival, or “thieving sugar” as Dionne Brand writes. Think of it less as a “how-to” guide and more as an offering of one set of possibilities for how one might approach and engage in their artistic practice. Mother Mercy writer-in-residence Zoë Gadegbeku will share the ethical, intellectual, and aesthetic considerations that ground her work, including what she calls the black fem[me]/feminist sublime, a Black queer gaze, and framework that accounts for beauty and abjection in landscape and experience. The talk will also explore the role of ritual in writing across genres and the tangible processes that make creative work possible. For more information about Mother Mercy visit: www.mothermercy.org or @ seemothermercy on Instagram.
Boston LGBTQIA+ Artists Association is revamping with a new director and a new website! They just released a survey asking what LGBTQIA+ artists in Boston would like to see happen with this new organization. Find it at www.blaa.us
IN THE PARK is an invitation to a shared experience of communal eating, creative documenting, and open mic style sharing. Saturday, November 13th 12-2PM at Jamaica Pond Organized by @Adobofishsauce - Led by Ricky Orng @rickyorng and Anthony Febo @thisisfebo
ArtAssembled in Assembly Row! There is a new pop-up art space in Assembly Row that you can rent for $5/hour. Art Assembled is a project of the Somerville Arts Council with support from Federal Reality/ Assembly Row.
In this pop-up series, Adobo-Fish-Sauce will facilitate a journey and guide you through moments of intentionality called “recipes.” These “recipes,” developed by youth poet-chefs in workshops throughout the year, invite participants to dive deeper into their cultural identity, provide a menu of questions for cross-cultural dialogue, and carve out time for intentional art-making. We would love to know who is coming. We kindly ask people to RSVP. SOCA FUSION- Choreography Soca Dance Class Every Monday in November 8:15-9:30PM at 4 Star Dance Studio, Dorchester Instructed by Makeda Samuels, CEO is Ella Wechsler-Matthaei More info at www.socafusion.com BlackBoston2020 - Resource Buffet - All you can give Haitian Relief drive: Sunday, November 7th, 11AM-5PM at Scope HQ, 484 B Centre Street, Jamaica Plain
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NATURE: no mo sunshine on the street No mo sunshine on the street a breeze blocked by where buildings meet
CULTURE:
not a cloud in sight so where’d the sun go? hiding behind luxurious condos city view balconies for lease pronto I only see the sunset
CUISINE:
when the sun sets still don’t see the sun I know the darker it gets still don’t see the sun at another address, another asset residing in a three family home I can no longer afford luxury down the street but no luxury for me family money making its way down the family tree trees torn down to make way for three doors down biking down my old favorite block brand new pavements and back to back coffee shops for who? years of inadequate crosswalks meeting at the corner for small talks dodging death while walking on sidewalks
Fruit of the Room
aftershock watching our neighborhood’s life clock living in a prism with no doors schematic perception on all fours living paycheck to paycheck for one floor giving bank checks and bank checks for more loans and I still can’t see the sun, anymore. I used to see my shadow now they following it my hood don’t look the same cuz they swallowing it I’m reaching for the breeze am I hot, do I freeze? cuz I can’t feel the air touching my elbows or my knees buildings blocking all the air where there used to be trees and now I can’t even see the sun, -anymore. there’s no more sunshine No mo sunshine on the street.
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