#WhereToBe: 4.29.16–5.5.16
Each Friday, we feature a special “where to be” post on our blog to make sure every day of the week has some sort of cultural event to check out. We hope that you all can come out into the community, learn, and commemorate some influential people and events around Boston! Have something coming up that you’d like to see here? Tweet us Epicenter Community @epicentercom #WhereToBe
Tonight, Friday, 4.29.16
I Am Not Who You Think I Am
The Artist Talk invites audiences to engage with the artist (Salvador Jimenez Flores) about the body of work in the exhibit. The content of Salvador’s work is a fusion of myth, history, religion, politics, and popular culture and is driven by his life experiences. As an artist he feels the responsibility to address the issues that affect his community and to create awareness and propose actions through art. He wants to capture what others overlook by choice or by ignorance.
The work in this exhibit allows the artist to mask himself with stereotypes, perceptions and expectations assigned to him merely because he is a member of an ethnic group within the dominant White culture in the United States. Through these works he digs deep down into his inner self through this process — hoping to find universality and humanness that transcends adaptation and blurs the division of dominant and ethnic groups.
When: 6:30PM
Where: The Urbano Project| 29 Germania St, Boston, 02130
W: http://urbanoproject.org/new-exhibition-series-salvador-jimenez-flores/
Artist Press Release: http://urbanoproject.org/neue/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Salvador-Exhibition-PR-final.pdf
AND…
Beyonce’s Lemonade Screening and Discussion
See what everyone is talking about! We are opening up our Friday screenings to the public this Friday. Come check out the controversial and groundbreaking visual album. Seating is limited and it will be first come first served basis with youth being given a priority.
This event is free but 13+
When: 4:30pm
Where: BCYF | 1483 Tremont St, Boston, 02120
Tomorrow, Saturday, 4.30.16
CLAIMING YOUR SPACE: Presented by ArtsEmerson, Howlround & ArtChangesUs
Claiming Your Space is a conversation about writing and performing identity with acclaimed performer/playwrights Marissa Chibas and Melinda Lopez moderated by Dr. Polly Carl. In conjunction with ArtChangeUS events happening around the country, ArtsEmerson and HowlRound are thrilled to invite you to a conversation between two phenomenal Cuban American artists who have earned notoriety for both creating and performing pieces of theater that have been seen around the country.
This event will be livestreamed on HowlRound TV at howlround.tv.
About ArtChangeUS
This Event is part of ArtChangeUS, a series of curated performances/talks/workshops/interventions that ask: What does a changing United States look like on the ground? How are arts and culture being expressed by people and communities across the country?
HowlRound is a core partner of ArtChangeUS: Arts in a Changing America, a new five-year initiative that seeks to explore and understand the dramatic demographic transformation of the United States and its profound impact on arts and culture. ArtChangeUS will serve as an urgently needed catalyst that brings unheard, leadership voices in the arts to the forefront of social discourse, arts production, and community change.
When: 4:00 pm
Where: ArtsEmerson | 559 Washington St, Boston, 02111
Cost: Free
Sunday, 5.1.16
TrillFit
GET READY TO SWEAT!
We’re back in the South End at The BCA’s Deane Rehearsal Hall for another beat bumpin’ Sunday sweat session with TRILLFIT’s Melisa Valdez. Bring the homies and enjoy our signature cardio dance class, TRILLFIT, set to the sounds of DJ Nick Bishop spinning live.
About the class:
Our newly-designed TRILLfit signature workout is an explosive, full body dance cardio class that incorporates HIIT exercises for optimal burn. Sneakers required.
Following class, enjoy treats from our wellness partners!
When: 1:00pm
Where: Boston Center for the Arts | 527 Tremont St, Boston, 02116
Purchase Tickets HERE
Monday, 5.2.16
SoJust ProfDev: Art of the Schmooze
ART OF THE SCHMOOZE
Forming and cultivating relationships is at the heart of any successful fundraising campaign, volunteer drive, committee effort or community building activity. This training will give you the confidence to pursue your personal and professional goals — from the importance of shaking hands and making eye contact, to tips on the best opening line and how to exit a conversation gracefully. An amazing side benefit is that you’ll learn how to create a welcoming community space by keeping an eye out for outliers, considering yourself a host instead of a guest and knowing how to compliment someone without “othering” them.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTER
Robbie Samuels has been recognized as a networking expert by Inc. and Lifehacker, and profiled in Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It by Dorie Clark. Since 2009, his engaging and fun presentations have helped a wide array of audiences increase their confidence when it comes to building their professional network and strong, welcoming communities. He passionately believes everyone should stop wasting time networking and shares how through his signature session, “Art of the Schmooze.”
In 2006, he founded Socializing for Justice (SoJust.org) to build a cross-cultural, cross-issue progressive community and network in Boston based on the philosophies of abundance and radical inclusion. In 2011, in recognition of his social justice work, Boston City Council named his birthday “Robbie Samuels Day.” Learn more about his work and get connected at www.RobbieSamuels.com.
When: 6:00PM
Where: Boston’s NonProfit Center| 89 South St, Boston, 02111
Purchase Tickets HERE $15 in advanced, $30 at door
Tuesday, 5.3.16
My Name is Rachel Corrie
The one person show My Name is Rachel Corrie, edited from Rachel’s emails and journal entries by the late Alan Rickman and editor in chief of The Guardian, Katherine Viner, chronicles the life of the 23 year old American Peace Activist who traveled to Gaza in January of 2003 with the International Solidarity Movement to defend Palestinian homes from being demolished. It was there, on March 16th, 2003 that she was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while protecting her host’s home from being destroyed by the Israeli army.
This award winning, critically acclaimed show is performed by Ashley Malloy* and directed by Josh Perlstein. The show was first performed at Central Connecticut State University in September 2013 and was subsequently presented at the annual National End the Occupation conference in Washington DC. Rachel’s parents Craig and Cindy Corrie have attended several of Ashley’s performances and continue to support Ashley’s work on the piece. The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice invited Ashley to perform the play on March 16th 2014, the 11th anniversary of Rachels death, in her hometown of Olympia, Washington.
Over the course of the play, Rachel matures from an insightful young girl listing the millions of things she wants to be when she grows up, to a scattered adolescent immersed in the manic search for self while battling boys and an over-involved mom, to a young woman determined to pursue peace and justice in a place she’s never been for people she’s never met, as she constantly questions herself, her country, the world around her, and ultimately, what it is to be human.
When: 7:30P
Where: Hibernian Hall | 182–186 Dudley St., Roxbury 02119
Cost: $15
Purchase Tickets HERE
W: http://www.northeastern.edu/crossing/
Wednesday, 5.4.16
PERSPECTIVES ON ROX/DOT Part 1: REAL ESTATE MARKET
What’s really going on in my area’s housing market?
How can I own and manage property?
How much is my property worth and why?
What solutions could I choose to address gentrification?
Presenters:
Joyce Stanley, Executive Director, Dudley Main Streets;
Terrance Moreau, Real Estate Agent, The Mandrell Company;
Abadur Rahman, Director of Economic Development, Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation;
Glynn Lloyd, Managing Director, Boston Impact Initiative;
J.R. Gilet, Mortgage Banker, Sage Bank;
Denisha McDonald, Sales Manager, The Mandrell Company;
Ellington Jackson, Licensed Banker, Citizens Bank;
Lisa Owens, Executive Director, City Life/Vida Urbana
When: 7:00 pm
Where: Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building | 2300 Washington Street, Roxbury, 02119
RSVP HERE
Thursday, 5.5.16
Beyond the Bust: Defining Our Public Monuments
What are monuments? What should they memorialize, and why? Who gets to select and place memorials? How should our communities interact with monuments? Beyond the Bust, a panel discussion between public artists, administrators, and scholars, will explore the meaning of public monuments in Boston and beyond. Moderated by Now and There’s Kate Gilbert, Beyond the Bust will offer dialogue on monuments as artworks, memorials, and community identifiers. Panelists will discuss the significance of monuments as objects of public history, collective memory, and art.
When: 6:00p
Where: Roxbury Community College | 1234 Columbus Avenue, Roxbury
Cost: Free!
RSVP Here
