Events

Boston’s greatest, shortest race is back. Join 826 Boston for their Half Half Half Half Half Marathon at Jamaica Pond on Thursday, April 16, 2026. Check in starts at 5:30 PM at the Jamaica Pond Boathouse, 6:00 PM start. The Half Half Half Half Half Marathon is a fun, fast, family-friendly 0.826-mile race where you can run, jog, walk, dance, prance, or wheel your way around part of Jamaica Pond—and then call yourself a marathon…

City Councilors and city personnel are expected to attend the walk. Please meet inside the station at noon and then the group will walk to local businesses to ask business owners to sign letters of support for street safety improvements.

Come join JPZeroWaste and Beyond Plastic and watch the "Plastic Detox" Movie with a community discussion afterwards. There will be a discussion after the movie, and talk about toxicity of plastic, and what we can do individually and as a community. This is a free event at the Jamaica Plain Library (30 South St.) from 2-4:30 pm on Saturday, April 25.

The next concert of the First Church Recital Series is on April 25, 2026 at 3:00 pm in the Parish Hall of First Church in Jamaica Plain at 6 Eliot St. behind the monument. Room to Spare, comprised of chamber duo Julia Connor (violin/fiddle) and David Leach (pianist/composer), perform their "Invisible Cities" program, bridging classical and contemporary musical styles.  A $25 donation is suggested, but all are welcome. Donations can be made at the door…

THE 48TH ANNUAL WAKE UP THE EARTH FESTIVAL SATURDAY MAY 2ND, 2026 12-6 PM SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR PARK @ STONYBROOK T 10:30AM @ CURTIS HALL - CENTER ST PARADE 11:00AM @ ROBERT LAWSON PARK - EGLESTON ST PARADE ✨ Created by: Spontaneous Celebrations ✨

Please enjoy this special concert recently added to the First Church Recital Series on May 2, 2026 at 3:00 pm in the Parish Hall of First Church Jamaica Plain at 6 Eliot St. behind the monument. Pianist Andrew Baumann and cellist Adrienne Taylor will perform Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata as well as works by Coleridge-Taylor, Messiaen, Albeniz, and Chopin.  A $25 donation is suggested, but all are welcome. Donations can be made at the door or…

On Sunday, May 3 at 7 pm, a Pop Up History Museum will celebrate First Church Unitarian Universalist's first 250 (plus a few) years. The event will be at First Church. Please use the 6 Eliot Street entrance. The event is free and open to all. George Wardle, volunteer church historian for more than three decades, has created 10 stations, each of which focuses on a different aspect of the church's history, using documents and…

Explore the heart of JP on a tour that includes a National Historic District. You will view architecture that spans three centuries, the oldest community theater company in the United States, and an elegant eighteenth-century mansion that once served as the country's first military hospital. Additionally, the tour includes a house that once served as a tavern, the Eliot School, the home of the first woman to graduate from MIT, and the First Church Burial…

Developed as a suburb by General William Hyslop Sumner in the mid-nineteenth century, this National Historic District includes one of the finest collections of Victorian houses in the area. The tour includes the ancestral home of the Dole Pineapple Company founder as well as the homes of progressives who were active as abolitionists and women suffragists. Leaves from Loring-Greenough House, 12 South St.  Click here to see photographs for the Sumner Hill tour.