May 21, 2024
Fresh News for the Neighborhood You Love
Selena tells the story of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, a Texas-born Tejeno singer. Throughout her career, Selena was well-known in many Hispanic American communities and had chart topping albums on the Latin music charts. There will be a karaoke hour featuring hit songs by Selena Quintanilla-Pérez before the movie screening.
The Camelia Latin Jazz Band can be best described as: instrumental rhythms with jazz solos. The group has added jazz improvisation to the salsa rhythm, and to the merengue, cumbia, bachata and bolero.
Zoolander, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, tells the story of a male fashion model who becomes a pawn in an assassination plot against the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
The ReadBoston Storymobile program is a six-week summer program that serves children in Boston, playing a key role in promoting storytelling and reading during the summer months. Each week during the ¡Viva el Latin Quarter! summer series, a professional storyteller will visit the Blessed Sacrament Church plaza, and all children in attendance will receive a new book to keep.
Elideusa Gomes Almeida is a vocalist, musical instrumentalist, and songwriter from Dorchester. She is a creator primarily of indie R&B and she is an accredited songwriter who has been recognized for her unique methods of incorporating figurative language into commercial music.
All ages domino tournament open to the public. Grand prize to be announced.
In Despicable Me, a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns in his grand scheme to shrink the moon, but their love changes him for the better.
Buscaglia's repertoire embodies the tradition of Latin America's New Song movement with its deep sense of poetry, The sounds of Salsa, Latin Jazz, Nueva Trova, Guaracha and Bomba resonate in his playing.
¡Acción! Community Theater (ACT!) troupe teaches collaboration, time management, communication, and encourages creativity and problem solving—skills essential to life beyond the stage. ACT! youth train with a Theater Resident Artist to cultivate skills as artists and further use those skills to address some of the issues that are important to the community.
In Instructions Not Included, a man makes a new life for himself and the daughter left on his doorstep. However, he finds his family threatened when his daughter’s birth mother resurfaces.
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