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…
Franklin Park Coalition Virtual Public Safety Meeting
Franklin Park Coalition Virtual Public Safety Meeting
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 from 6-8pm In response to the terrible attack on a longtime park user near White Stadium and multiple reports of drug activity and encampments near the Shattuck Hospital, Franklin Park Coalition is hosting a public safety meeting with local officials and police. Please join us and share this invitation with fellow park users. Register in advance You will receive a confirmation email about how to join the meeting. And remember, the…
November Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter
November Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter
Please join us for the November Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter on Thursday evening, November 3 from 5:30 - 6:30 pm on the lawn of the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain, 633 Centre St, JP. Our speaker this month will be Emmanuel (Manny) Knaggs, a Math Instructor and Post-Secondary Specialist at X-Cel Education, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to make high school completion, post-secondary study, and sustainable career paths more accessible…
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