Week of Events
Play Reading: ‘Sophia Hayden Deserves Better’
Join Jamaica Plain History Society on Zoom for a reading of the play Sophia Hayden Deserves Better by Stephanie Alison Walker. In 1891 a brilliant 23-year-old woman from Jamaica Plain won an architecture contest to design the Woman’s Building for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. What should have been the start to a flourishing career in architecture became career-ending. Throughout the two-year process of building The Woman’s Building, the architect quietly endured bullying, micromanaging…
Folksinger Terry Kitchen Performing at Jamaica Plain Library
Folksinger Terry Kitchen Performing at Jamaica Plain Library
Terry Kitchen Award-winning folksinger/songwriter/guitarist Terry Kitchen will perform a free concert on the terrace of the Jamaica Plain Branch Library onThursday July 21 at 6 pm. The concert is rain or shine and if the weather is bad, it'll move inside. Kitchen will include some summer sing-along favorites as well as his own award-winning songs. Kitchen's been performing on folk stages across the country since the 1990s, releasing a dozen albums of distinctive, literate musical storytelling.…
Walking Tour of Hyde Square (in English y Español)
Walking Tour of Hyde Square (in English y Español)
Aprende sobre la plaza Hyde en la década de 1840 cuando los inmigrantes alemanes e irlandeses transformaron el vecindario con sus negocios, escuelas e instituciones. Veremos cómo a principios de la década de 1960, Hyde Square volvió a cambiar cuando los inmigrantes cubanos, puertorriqueños y dominicanos convirtieron el vecindario en el primero predominantemente hispano de Boston. Este recorrido también nos lleva a la casa de Maud Cuney Hare, destacada historiadora de música y una de…
Eliot Schoolyard Concert: Akili Jamal Haynes
Eliot Schoolyard Concert: Akili Jamal Haynes
Date: July 24 Time: 4:00-5:30pm Venue: Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts, 24 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain Akili Jamal Haynes creates unfettered artistry of dreams, past lives, present life events, and future imaginings to heal with Positive African Images. A trombonist, composer, trumpeter, keyboardist, vocalist, tenor and alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist, acoustic bassist, and drummer, he began his career under the mentorship of Wynton Marsalis, and has also arranged music for Kimati Dinizulu and Alvin…
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