Monika’s project, "UNUS MUNDUS", is being funded by the City of Boston’s Percent for Art program. She aims to create a mesmerizing environment that invites the audience to mutual participation and resonates with the historical elements of the site.

During the talk, Monika will be in conversation with Director of Eastie Farm Kannan Thiruvengadam and the City of Boston’s Director of Public Art Karin Goodfellow. Monika will give a brief summary of her work and her plans for an upcoming series of experiential community workshops. The workshop methodology includes diverse animated characters, and defining words combined with a hands-on experience of creating a mobile to understand the concept of integrating our differences through perspective as a material.

There will be a question-and-answer session at the end of the artist talk where community members will be invited to ask questions. Spanish interpretation will be available during the event.

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To learn more about Monika Bravo and this project, visit our public art website.

We'll be introducing the inaugural cohort of 16 artists and collectives of color who are working to imagine a racially just future with their communities.

The event will happen on January 22 from 5:30-7:30 p.m., and will be held via Zoom. You can register in advance for the event.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Join the Real F.R.I.E.N.D.S artists for artistic nourishment for the soul! We will be discussing collaboration, friendship and art with artists including Jamaal Eversley, Joan Ganon, Stephanie Ayotte, Stephanie Osser, and Fernando Fula, as well as Beacon Gallery owner and director Christine O'Donnell and John Crowley from Boston's Curator and Exhibitions Coordinator, City Hall Galleries.

Grab a drink or a nibble and log in to join us. Learn more about the exhibition.

The Indigenous Peoples’ Medicine Fire, taking place from dawn to dusk on Saturday, November 28, 2020, is a healing fire that is open to all people who are in need of prayer or who need to pray for others. We recognize that these are difficult times and many people have lost loved ones. This is a time set aside for reflection and to offer your prayers to the fire. Anyone may speak, but all are asked to be mindful that this is a time set aside for reflection and spiritual support. Individulas are not welcome to voice grievances.

The event will happen rain or shine. No photography or video capturing is allowed.

Visitors are asked to not bring anything. Bottled water and packaged snacks will be on hand only for those with special needs.

All participant must wear a mask and comply with posted social distancing protocols. There will be no contact, hugging, kissing, or handshaking between participants. People who are sick or who have symptoms such as cough, fever, or loss of taste should not attend. Please register for a ticketed time slot so we can ensure the gathering does not exceed 25 people at a time to align with public health guidelines.

• Walking: Walk a half mile to the top of Scarboro Hill, in Franklin Park. Follow the signs from the picnic area and tennis courts to the Medicine Fire.
• Driving: From I-93, take exit 11 Granite Avenue, continue through, and take a left at the fourth light onto Neponset Avenue. Neponset Avenue becomes Morton Street. At the rotary, take the last exit onto Circuit Drive. Take the first right into Franklin Park. Do not turn into Lemuel Shattuck Hospital driveway. There is limited parking available.
• Public Transit: Accessible via the Forest Hills T Stop.

The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture invites you to a virtual artist talk and poetry reading for the Roxbury Branch Library Clerestory Project on Thursday, November, 5th, 2020, from 5:30 PM- 6:30 PM.

The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture is hosting this virtual talk to share information about the project, which is the first of two public art projects that will complement the renovation of the Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library. There will be a short presentation and poetry reading, followed by a question and answer session.

To participate in the event, join the Zoom meeting. If you are unable to connect to audio or you do not have internet, you can call into the meeting by dialing +1-646-558-8656 US and entering Meeting Meeting ID: 867 3810 0889#. This event will also be live-streamed on the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture Facebook page.

Nakia Hill was named a Boston Artist-in-Residence in 2018 by Mayor Walsh. She is a writer, journalist, and educator who focuses on empowering women to use writing as a tool for healing and resistance. Hill is the author of two books: "Water Carrier" and "I Still Did It". Learn more about Nakia or purchase her books on her website.

Asiyah is a poet, activist, and 826 Boston’s Youth Literary Advisory Board’s Teaching Artist. She was a finalist for the City of Boston’s Youth Poet Laureate residency.

City of Boston Artist-In-Residence Golden and Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam (FEMS) Founding Director Zenaida Peterson will co-host a virtual Town Hall on October 7 from 4 - 6 p.m., in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture. The event will discuss the representation of transgender and nonbinary individuals in the City of Boston’s policies and processes, with a focus on naming ways the City can better support transgender and nonbinary Bostonians.

This town hall will collect written and oral testimony specifically from trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and gender-expansive individuals currently living in the Greater Boston area.

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Through the Boston Artists-in-Residence (AIR) program, artists work with a parallel cohort of City partners to explore, critique, and re-imagine City initiatives at the intersection of civil service, social justice, and artistic practice.

Golden (they/them) is a black gender-nonconforming trans-femme photographer and poet raised in Hampton, VA, currently residing in Boston, MA. Golden is the recipient of a Pink Door Fellowship (2017/2019), an Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Luminaries Fellowship (2019), the Frontier Award for New Poets (2019), and a Pushcart Nomination (wildness, 2019). Their work has been featured on/at the Shade Journal, the Offing, wildness, Button Poetry, Buzzfeed, i-D, Interview Magazine, & elsewhere. Golden holds a BFA in Photography from New York University and is currently a City of Boston Artist-in-Residence. Instagram | Twitter | Golden's website

Zenaida Peterson, author of “Breakfast for Dinner and Other Blasphemous Things” published by Pizza Pi Press is a mystic, an organizer, a house plant gardener and a Black non-binary poet from the south currently thriving in Boston, Massachusetts. They are the founding director of Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam (FEMS), an all ages radical poetry slam centering marginalized people and celebrating the feminine. Zenaida are easing the impacts of 2020 by learning to make plant medicine, engaging in restorative justice, mutual aid and farming. They are the Equity and Empowerment Director of Quaker Voluntary Service. Their current project is spending each month of 2020 conquering a different fear of theirs.

The session will be held virtually on September 9, 2020, at 6 p.m. ET. Interested artists can participate by visiting our Zoom meeting. You can submit a question in advance through our online form.

The deadline to apply for the public art project is September 16, 2020, at 5 p.m. ET.