BCN IS ON PATREON!!

Friends, I have to admit that fundraising platforms can be triggering. The gofundmes, kickstarters and indiegogos tend to send a shock of fear and guilt through me cause I want to support everyone and I simply can’t afford to. Patreon does not do that to me for some reason and I think it’s because like BCN, it’s monthly. So I can plan out my charitable giving, to multiple creators even, and keep it all within budget. See, your budget represents what you value, and if you care about supporting the creative culture of Boston and paying artists, now is your chance to plug in and get OUT! There are too few platforms where contributions go directly to artists in the community

So, yes, this month we launched a Patreon and we invite you to sign up if it’s within your means. Next month we are going to publish the BCN 2023 budget to show you all what our goals and wishes are for this year. For Patreon, our goal is just 100 subscribers, which would nearly cover the costs of paying all of our artists like writers and illustrators for their work on the Compass. That’s about $1,000 a month. Super manageable we think. The printing is halfway covered through grants, and our part time administrative team is securing enough sponsorship to cover their own compensation. So after all these years it’s a work in progress and we are so glad you are part of it. See you next month for some budgeting and goal setting fun! Year 13, let’s goooooo.

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to take careful precautions when going out to public events! Follow the venue’s requirements regarding vaccination/negative Covid tests and masking instructions! Always double check the event online just in case they need to cancel!** music & audio

5/2 Knitting, Squitch, Paper Lady, Grace Givertz

@O'Briens Pub

8PM 18+ $12

5/3 Tossed Aside, Sinister Feeling, Fraud, Shock Treatment

@Ralphs Rock Diner

8PM 21+ $12

5/4 - 5/25

Freestyle Thursday

A weekly jam session for musicians of all backgrounds and genres. All skill levels are welcome. Bring your own instrument, but they have some if need be. Please message @kinrosscommunitycenter on IG for location and updates. Jamming ends at midnight.

@Kinross Community Center

9PM All Ages FREE

5/4 Arts At The Armory

Spotlight Series Presents

David Wax Museum

@Arts at the Armory

7PM-11PM All Ages $25

5/4 Scorpion Porch, Foxfires, Sink, Compress @10Forward (Greenfield)

7PM-10PM All Ages $10

5/5 EXIT Presents Kayla Silverman, Ruby-Sage, Ana Schon & the Reunion

@EXIT Galleries

7PM All Ages $15-$20

5/6 Cathedral Ceilings, Hilken Mancini Band, Lupo Citta

@Midway Cafe 8PM 21+ $10

5/6 babybaby_explores, Donna Revving (FKA Ultra Chapelle, Vulpes Vulpes, Velvet Dreaming benefit show for FANG Collective!

@Democracy Center

8PM All Ages $5-10, No one turned away for lack of funds!

5/6 Nia Suhn Album Release

Party with Aaron Bates, Liz Raki, Amanda Shea, Choppa Tha Beatboxa, Soneta

@The Record Co.

6PM $15/20

Trophy Wife, Tiberus

@EXIT Galleries

7PM All Ages $ome Cost

5/8 Bars Over Bars

Presents: Faucet Flows A Thrift Hiphop Showcase ft. The Strange Merchants, Rey Spyder, Musicman, Project Gurl and more!

@The Faucet Thrift

7PM All Ages $10

5/10 Fully Celebrated Orchestra w/ Jasper Hobbs + Persistent Fools

@Midway Cafe

8PM 21+ $5

5/11 Dumbass Youth & Forbes Graham

@O'Briens Pub

9PM 21+ $12-15

5/12 HIRS, Rong, The Cost of Living, Thighs

@O'Briens Pub

10PM 21+ $14

5/12 Robbery, Sink, Impulse Control, Compress @Rat Trap (Holyoke)

8PM All Ages $10

5/12 EXIT Presents Barefoot Young, Otis Shanty, Hereboy

@EXIT Galleries

7PM All Ages $ome Cost

5/13 Roxbury Community College Presents a Hip Hop Documentary film screening + live local Hip Hop Celebrate 50 years of RCC with a 4PM showing of Public Enemy doc 'Welcome to the Terrordome' with conversation with local hip hop artists to follow, then at 7:30PM live performances by Paul Willis, Red Shaydez, REKS + DJ Troy Frost.

@Roxbury Community College Media Arts Center

All Ages FREE

5/13 Illegally Blind

Presents System Exclusive, Boston Cream, Kathy Snax

@Lilypad

Own, Life of Crime, Opposition

@Taffeta (Lowell)

6:30PM All Ages $15

5/20 Kermit's Finger, Jonee Earthquake Band, Charmed & Strange, The McCritters

@Midway Cafe

3PM All Ages $10

5/20 Electric Street

Queens, Midnight Creeps, Shellshag, Scare City, Sherman

@Ralphs Rock Diner

7PM 21+ $5

5/20 Cake Factory Presents ximena, Tonyman, Alfredo, Final Object

@Cantab Lounge

6PM 21+ $10

5/22 Dead Bars, Perfectly Lethal, Hell Beach (first show)

@FACES Brewing

7PM All Ages $5

5/22 Superheaven, Cloakroom, Pony

@Crystal Ballroom

7PM All Ages $ome Cost

5/22 Pet Symmetry, Retirement Party, Camp Trash

@Arts at the Armory

7PM All Ages $ome Cost

5/25 IBOOKTHINGS

Presents Tsunami Of Sound, Jonee Earthquake Band

@Notch Brewing Biergarten

7PM 21+ FREE

5/28 Arts at the Armory

Spotlight Series Presents Bill Frisell, Tony Scherr, and Rudy Royston

@Arts at the Armory

7PM All Ages $40-50

5/29 En Attendant

Ana, Adult Learners, Hands and Knees

@O'Briens Pub

9PM 21+ $12

6/22 - 6/24 Boston Art & Music Soul Festival (BAMS)

Get youR tickets now to one of the best annual fests Boston has to give!

Featuring performances by Tim Hall, Nate Nics, Tori Tori, Notebook P., Cake$wagg, Kei and more!! Plus tons of activities for the whole family including vendors, food, drink, live art + graffiti exhibition. Many ticket options available from FREE to paid VIP seats!

@ Franklin Park, Playstead Field

10AM-8PM All Ages FREE-$300

Queer Women In Music Boston is a labor of love via The History Project www.historyproject.org which documents Boston’s LGBTQ history. QWIMB seeks to document, archive, promote, love, cherish, and support queer women and the gender expansive community in Boston’s music scene…past and present. Find out how to support and get involved at www.qwimb.org + follow @queerwomeninmusicboston performance art

Thru 5/21 Central Square Theater has assembled an amazing ensemble of local talent for Tony Kushner's groundbreaking play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Don't miss! Tix at centralsquaretheater.org

@Central Square Theater

$25-68

Thru 5/14 Apollinaire Theatre brings Clare Barron's memory play on pre-teen ambition, Dance Nation to Chelsea Theatre Works.

Tix @apollinairetheatre.com

$15-30

5/12-5/14 HER | alive. un.dead by Emily Koh. A multimedia opera and surrealist drama, coproduced with Guerilla Opera that follows two Chinese-American women who meet in the afterlife and explores conflicts between their Western upbringing and Chinese culture. Multiple showtimes and tix available at www.paoartscenter.com

@PAO Arts Center

All Ages $15-$55

5/12-5/13 The Bard's timeless tale, Romeo & hit the legendary Strand Theatre in Dorchester. Tix www.commshakes.org

5/17-5/21Nehanda explodes on the stage with music and movement

5/26 Slut Trek a night of drag, burlesque, live music, pole, and fan service to one of the most prolific and loved science fiction series of all time, Star Trek.

@ONCE Somerville

7PM-11PM 18+ $20-45

6/2-6/4 African Fashion Week Boston Every year some of Boston's best cultural fashion designers, activists and artists weave together an experience that manifests the rich African tapestry of New England. After much anticipation, African Fashion Week Boston happens this June with a cultural experience that will resurrect the diaspora in you. Ft panel discussions, fashion shows, cultural dance, marketplace and more! Learn more at www.afwboston.com

@The Guild Works

5/2-5/31 The Coolidge screens their 7 favorite Jim Jarmusch films ALL MAY. Stranger Than Paradise 5/2, Down by Law 5/10, Mystery Train 5/16, Night on Earth 5/17, Coffee Cigarettes 5/24, The Limits of Control 5/30 and Only Lovers Left Alive 5/31.

@Coolidge Corner Theater

7PM $16.25

5/2-5/30 Catch iconic collabs from Scorsese and DeNiro on the big screen for only 7 bucks every Tuesday in May with Taxi Driver on 5/2, Raging Bull on 5/9, Goodfellas on 5/16, Cape Fear on 5/23 and Casino on 5/30

@Kendall Square Cinema

7PM $7

5/8+5/14 Harvard Film Archive’s celebration of the founding father of African cinema, Med Hondo, wraps up. Catch Black Light on 5/8 or his doc Polisario, A People in Arms on 5/14 @Harvard Film Archive

7PM FREE

5/8 Come of age in Black America, Chicago 1964 at Cooley High with Motown as the soundtrack.

@Coolidge Corner Theater

7PM $16.25

5/12-5/27 Experience the poetic world of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's films. Don't miss his masterpieces Taste of Cherry on 5/19 or The Wind Will Carry Us on 5/21 @Harvard Film Archive

7PM FREE

5/25 Parker Posey time capsules part of ‘90s NYC in the film Party Girl.

5/26-5/27 Crimes of Passion is peak Kathleen Turner in Ken Russel's sultry and controversial film. After midnight showing!

@Coolidge Corner Theater

12AM $16.25

5/2-5/30 REPARATIONS

'Repair Action Hour'

For just one hour a week

5/1-6/30 Workers Statues in Chinatown by Wen-ti Tsen pays tribute to the workers who have uplifted Boston Chinatown through their essential labor over the decades. The four sets of clay models Tsen has developed for the project represent four different workers from the Chinese immigrant community.

@PAO Arts Center

5/1-6/30 Call and

Response: Illustration in Uncertain Times features illustrations and graphic designs by seven local AAPI artists including Deborah Johnson and Payal Kumar who have used their craft to speak to this complicated moment. As with other kinds of labor, these artistic gestures offer critical support to the community by giving voice to different experiences and encouraging care.

@PAO Arts Center

5/26 Holding Space: Meditations on Queer Experience opening reception for this upcoming local art exhibition. Expect music performances and an open screening of local queer filmmakers. Drinks provided! Exhibition on view

5/19-6/25 12PM-4PM

@Assemblage Art Space

6PM All Ages FREE

Until 7/30 May Stevens: My Mothers Paintings featuring the artist's birth mother and "spiritual" mother that explore the relationship between the personal and political.

@MAAM 12PM-5PM

Repair America Collective will meet to organize to end cycles of harm within our communities through reparations for Black Americans that are descendants of chattel slavery. Every Tuesday!

Face masks required.

@Democracy Center

5:45PM All Ages FREE

5/6 Wake Up the Earth Festival + Parade

Come together as a community to inspire change in how we interact with the Earth in this pressing time of rapid ecological change. Featuring vendors, performances, parade, family activities, food and drink!

More info at www.spontaneouscelebrations.org

@12PM-6PM All Ages FREE

5/13 Wrong Brain Presents Spring Bizaare an arts and crafts fair for the weird, unusual, wacky, alt and unconventional. Take a spring trip up to NH and have a ball!

@Millspace 11AM-5PM All Ages $1 Masks required

5/28 Boston Vinyl & Variety

Pop Up Record Market ft. vinyl vendors, live vinyl cutting, custom amp demo, and merch swap!

@Fields West

5PM-10PM

All Ages FREE

Girl Magic Meets is a space where womxn empower each other through collaboration, photography, and sisterhood. This platform is for womxn to use to explore and express their true selves with the support of like-minded individuals through themed photo shoot meetups and events centered around building community. Stay up to date at www.girlmagicmeets.co and follow @girlmagicmeets

Take-A-Zine, Leave-A-Zine has a new location! Check out this incredible community resource where you can trade your coolest zines for even cooler ones! They just set up a new street box at Gallery 263 in Cambridge that you can access 24/7. They even have a discord if you wanna get involved or learn more!

More info on their IG @takeazine

CALL FOR ARTIST-INRESIDENCE! Gallery 263 invites artists of all media and experience levels to apply for this opportunity, which will take place this summer. The residency is a non-livein opportunity and will be awarded to one artist who will have sole use of our 700-square-foot space and amenities. The residency, which includes a $250 stipend, will culminate in a one-week solo showcase. Deadline to apply 5/21. More info at www.gallery263.com

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! 4th

Annual Trans Resistance March & Festival help with their upcoming event on June 3rd at Franklin Park Playstead 12PM-5PM. Check out all the open positions at www.transresistancema.com