#WhereToBe: 5.20.16–5.26.16
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, 5.20.16
Persistence Of Vision: A Night Of Independent And Experimental Film
The second installment of the new, ongoing film series Persistence Of Vision, featuring a program of shorts by Brian Lonano, including his Slamdance award winning new film, Gwilliam. Boston’s own Substrates and SOLEI will open things up with music followed by the films.
Shorts will include:
Gwilliam (2015) https://vimeo.com/147920208
#BUFF15 (2015)
CROW HAND!!! (2014)
Welcome To Dignity Pastures (2013)
Martian Precursor (2010)
8bit Ghost Hop (2010)
The Transmission (2012)
ATTACKAZOIDS, DEPLOY!! (2009)
ATTACKAZOIDS! (2008)
Bacchus Attack Us (Boston Underground Film Festival Bumper) (2011)
BRIAN LONANO is an Atlanta-based, award winning director of horror and sci-fi short films whose work has screened at such film festivals as Slamdance, SXSW, Boston Underground Film Festival, FanTasia International Film Festival, among countless others.
SUBSTRATES and SOLEI
Please be respectful of those around you! We strive to be a safer space so any offensive behavior or language including racism, sexism, ablism, body shaming, transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia, etc. is unwelcome.
When: 6:30PM
Where: Make Shift Boston| 549 Columbus Ave, Boston, 02118
Cost: $5-$10 Suggested Donation
Tomorrow, Saturday, 5.21.16
Reel Life Experience — Season Finale * My Brothers Keeper Edition
My Brother’s Keeper: The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete will respond to the energy fostered in the most recent Reel Life Experience talk back discussion. The screening of FIVE STAR inspired attendees to question fellow audience members about their personal opinions on the current state of Boston neighborhoods. This intense conversation created threads related to race, class, equity, and activism.
Event features Music, Red Carpet, Art Exhibition, Cash Bar, Film Screening and Q&A with Special Guests!
The characters of Mister and Pete learn that in tough times you don’t leave one another, but instead you work together to go through. With President Obama’s 2014 launch of My Brother’s Keeper initiative (https://youtu.be/UrRPgAVxGgY), new efforts span the nation that uplift young men of color, including here in Boston. Collectively, we will examine the need for community responsibility in our city and in our world. Join us as we discus: How can we lend helping hand to someone? How do we move beyond helping out of necessity and instead help in an effort to be a good neighbor? How can My Brothers Keeper initiative empower the next generation?
When: 6:30PM
Where: Paramount Theatre | 559 Washington St, Boston, 02111
RSVP HERE
AND…
BRUNCH FIT- LOVEWORKOUT
Brunches of Boston and LoveWorkout present a special love inspired Brunch Fit in collaboration with Hops N Scotch Cambridge. Brunch Fit is part of Brunches of Boston signature events series providing both a fitness experience and brunch to attendees.
This event is hosted at Hops N Scotch Cambridge. It will start with a 60 minute LoveWorkout team-building inspired fitness session in Hops N Scotch’s adjacent parking lot. Get ready for an exciting, fun, and unique way to build connections through fitness! Workout will focus on strength training, endurance, and group activities.
After class, the fun continues inside in the Hops N Scotch’s dining room in a private section for Brunches of Boston Brunch Fitters. Choose from a special brunch menu and enjoy brunch with a group of fun, fit locals who are always DTB just like you!
Tickets to this event include:
-An hour long LoveWorkout class
-Full brunch at Hops N Scotch
-A Brunches of Boston swag bag filled with gifts from local businesses
When: 11:00AM
Where: Hops Test Kitchen & Raw Bar | 1248 Cambridge St, Cambridge, 02139
Purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brunch-fit-loveworkout-hops-n-scotch-tickets-24213323703
Sunday, 5.22.16
Community Event with Mayor Marty Walsh
Please join your neighbors & friends from
Dorchester, Mattapan, South Boston, South End, and Roxbury for a community event with Mayor Martin J. Walsh
When: 9:00AM
Where: IBEW Local 103|256 Freeport Street, Dorchester, 02122
Free! RSVP HERE
Monday, 5.23.16
Jammin’ for Justice 2016
It’s their biggest celebration and fundraiser of the year! Jammin’ for Justice is a crucial time to support our work. Join us to award local leaders in environmental justice, enjoy dinner and drinks, and celebrate our community while supporting effective EJ organizing in our city and beyond.
Win Red Sox tickets, movie passes, theater tickets and gift certificates to local restaurants in our silent auction. Check out the full list: ace-ej.org/jammin2016#SA
Can’t make it? We’ll miss you! There are still ways for you to support:
*Make a donation: donatenow.networkforgood.org/1410794
*Support our hosting team on Crowdrise: crowdrise.com/jamminforjustice2016
*Ask your business or organization to sponsor Jammin’.
*Donate a silent auction item.
Organized by: ACE
When: 6:00PM
Where: Hibernian Hall | 182–186 Dudley St., Roxbury, 02119
Purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jammin-for-justice-2016-tickets-21044777496
Tuesday, 5.24.16
The History Project Celebrates David Scondras
The History Project cordially invites you to attend a party honoring the opening of the David Scondras Collection.
David Scondras, longtime community activist and educator, served as the first openly gay representative to the Boston City Council, from 1984 to 1994. During his tenure he advocated tirelessly for the LGBTQ community. An early proponent for HIV/AIDS research, he is the founder of Search For A Cure.
The David Scondras Collection, comprising over 37 boxes of materials, will be a major resource for researchers and scholars.
Join us as we celebrate opening an invaluable addition to The History Project’s mission to document Boston’s LGBTQ history.
Tickets are free, but reservations through Eventbrite are required.
When: 6:00PM
Where: Club Cafe Boston | 209 Columbus Ave, Boston, 02116
Cost: Free; RSVP HERE
Wednesday, 5.25.16
Asian Americans and the Model Minority Mutiny
Northeastern Crossing and AARW are collaborating for A/PID Heritage Month! Our interactive workshop will focus on unpacking the “Model Minority Myth” — we will discuss the impact of this myth on Asian American communities and how it serves to divide communities of color in the United States. In this workshop, we will brainstorm how Asian American communities can create a “mutiny” by fighting model minority stereotypes and acting in solidarity with Black and Brown communities. We aim to create space for discussion about the impact of model minority stereotypes and the role of Asian/Asian American communities in racial justice organizing.
Note: We will be providing dinner for everyone! Please register throughthe eventbrite link above — this event is free but registration is required to help us get a sense of numbers.
Venue: The event is located street level and is wheelchair accessible. Please contact the organizers (uma@aarw.org) if you have any questions.
Facilitators:
Mariko Dodson grew up in Boston and is proud to call both New England and Southern California home. As a 4th generation (Yonsei) Japanese American, Mariko feels pulled to the intersection of her multiracial heritages. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from Occidental College, and her true passion lies in community organizing. She currently works as Program Coordinator at Boston Mobilization where she creates, with teens, grassroots leadership for social change. Popular education, community building, home-cooked foods, and song are some of her favorite tools in the struggle for liberation.
shiliu is a first generation, chinese american, queer 20something year old from western ma. she is curious about acupuncture school, all things intergalactic, exploring her asian american identity through community building and dj-ing and has grand aspirations to help open a collectively owned qpoc cafe/bar/community health center in the next 20 years. holler at her if you want to join. she is very excited about sticky rice project and hopes that you are too !
When: 6:00 pm
Where: Northeastern Crossing |1175 Tremont St, Roxbury, 02120
RSVP HERE
AND …
Blackness in America Dinner Series: Boston Edition
Tunde Wey is a Nigerian traveling chef and writer. He is now bringing his dinner and dialogue series to Boston.
Okayafrica says, ““The emphasis is that I wasn’t black until I came here,” Wey, 32, tells us about the upcoming tour, a series of dinners in partnership with Okayafrica exploring the notion of Blackness in America. Diners will converse and explore this theme from the perspective of “guest collaborators.” They’ll also enjoy a five-course meal that features Wey’s take on Nigerian classics like dodo (fried plantains), pepper soup, eba, and puff puff.
For Wey, the dinners are a chance to reflect on his “bifurcated reality.” “I’m ‘black’ because I live in America yet by virtue of my upbringing I’m steeped in a different and privileged emotional experience,” says Wey, who emigrated from Lagos to Detroit at age 16.
On the topic of Blackness in America, Wey says “It is incomplete to discuss America without referencing race and dishonest to mention race without beginning from blackness.”
A dinner offers the perfect setting to discuss important, and largely disregarded matters of race. “If we are to have these conversations,” Wey mentions, “and they are to be inclusive and sensitive then shouldn’t we sit about a table to eat, and raise our glasses in drink?””
When: 6:30PM
Where: Dudley Cafe | 15 Warren Street Roxbury, 02119
Dinner is by advanced reservation. purchase tickets here:
www.fromlagos.com/boston
Thursday, 5.26.16
BREAD presents Startup Classroom featuring Morgan DeBaun of Blavity
Morgan DeBaun is the CEO and Founder of Blavity, a startup and digital community for Black millennials who are not represented in mainstream media. Since founding Blavity, Morgan has been quoted in nationwide outlets like Forbes, Washington Post, TechCrunch, NPR and Huffington Post as a voice of her generation.
Morgan has deep insights into the culture of technology and the progressive movements around them and is passionate about building the next generation of consumer web and mobile technology. She is a native of St. Louis and graduate of Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to starting Blavity, Morgan was a product manager at Intuit.
The theme of Morgan’s talk will be “Taking the Leap of Faith.” It will be a discusion about getting out of your head and transitioning from idea to reality. Hosted by Make Bread and Outside the Box Agency
When: 6:30PM
Where: Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building | 2300 Washington St, Boston, 02119
RSVP Here
