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…
From Haiti to Jamaica Plain: Migrating Arts
From Haiti to Jamaica Plain: Migrating Arts
“From Haiti to Jamaica Plain: Migrating Arts” Bilingual Poetry presentation, featuring renowned guitarist Jimmy Jean-Félix Join the Loring Greenough House for Migrating Poetry: From Haiti to Jamaica Plain" on November 16th, 7 - 9 pm, at the Loring Greenough House in Jamaica Plain. Presented by Charlot Lucien, a Haitian visual artist, illustrator, and storyteller based in the Boston area, this program will highlight his volume of poetry, La tentation de L’autre rive (The Temptation of…
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