Update: This event is now sold out.
Join us for an evening celebrating Porsha Olayiwola and her work as the City of Boston’s Poet Laureate with her final reading in the role. For six years Olayiwola has served as a beacon of the local literary community, uplifting the city’s great traditions and embodying the future of poetry in Boston.
Porsha Olayiwola, City of Boston Poet Laureate
Danielle Legros Georges, Former City of Boston Poet Laureate
Parker-Vincent Alva, City of Boston Youth Poet Laureate
With musical guest Naomi Westwater
The Un-monument | Re-monument | De-monument: Transforming Boston Programming
After being on display for nearly six months, The Gun Violence Memorial Project will be coming down from the MASS office, the ICA, and Boston City Hall on January 20th. It has been an incredible privilege to collaborate with our Boston partners—the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston’s Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, and Boston’s Un-Monument Initiative—to host the project in the city.
Join us for a closing ceremony on 1/13 to remember and celebrate our loved ones in the memorial through a reading of the names. Families and partners in the Boston area are invited to join us in person at the MASS office, and all are welcome to participate online.
The memorial will be opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit this spring. More information on the memorial’s opening in Detroit will be shared soon!
If you have any questions regarding the event, please reach out to participate@massdesigngroup.org.
Attention: This meeting will be held in person with an option to attend virtually at the link below:
Please note: This hearing will be held virtually and not in person. To participate, please go to our Zoom meeting link or call 301-715-8592 and enter meeting ID 936 0748 3959 #. You can also email comments through email at backbayac@boston.gov
Please note: This hearing will be conducted via Zoom. To participate, you must register at the following link:
Join the City of Boston's Zero Waste team and Dr. Bridget Lee to learn more about how microplastics affect human health and what we can do to reduce our risk.
This workshop will explore what plastics are, and what we are learning about their toxicity and effects on human health. From there we will brainstorm what we can do to reduce our own risks and decrease our use of plastic.
Dr. Bridget Lee is an emergency physician at NeighborHealth in East Boston, where she runs a sustainability team. She is also a member of Greater Boston Beyond Plastic and is on their speaker’s bureau, and helps to educate healthcare providers on how and why to reduce plastic in their practice.
Members of Boston's Zero Waste Team will also be there to share resources for reducing and managing waste in Boston.
