OFFICIAL PROGRAM GUIDE
December 3 , 20 5 – January , 20 6 firstnightboston.org SPONSORS PARTNERS
HOST HOTELS
SPECIAL THANKS
A Better City Robert Beal Gill Fishman Arts Boston Boston Public Library Friends of Copley Square The Back Bay Association Margot & Jonathan Davis Trinity Church
ICE GALLERY
Businesses, Restaurants, and Retailers will be participating in First Night’s First Annual Ice Gallery by displaying a beautiful ice sculpture outside of their location, thus creating an enchanting wintertime extravaganza city-wide. Participants include:
AT&T Cheers One International Place Atlantic Fish Co. The Colonnade Hotel Seaport Place Battery Wharf Hotel DoubleTree by Hilton Sheraton Boston Hotel Boston Architectural College East Boston SoulCycle Boston Harbor Cruises Faneuil Hall Towne Stove and Spirits Boston Harbor Hotel Four Seasons Hotel Union Oyster House Boston Public Library Legal Test Kitchen USS Constitution Museum First Night First Day Boston 2016 produced by Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum National Hockey League The Westin Copley Place FIRST NIGHT SCHEDULE — December 31 FIRST NIGHT SCHEDULE (continued) COPLEY COPLEY PRUDENTIAL BOSTON PUBLIC OLD SOUTH COPLEY COPLEY PRUDENTIAL BOSTON PUBLIC OLD SOUTH SQUARE PLACE CENTER LIBRARY CHURCH SQUARE PLACE CENTER LIBRARY CHURCH
Noon Boston 8:30 PM Pipes and Opening Ceremony Saxophone Quartet Live Pops Concert Music Ripe 12:30 PM 9:00 PM OrigiNation – Berklee Chu Ling College 1:00 PM Photo Op 9:30 PM Christian O’Connor CopleySquared of Music Arts & – Crafts Restless Road (Hunt. Elsa from – Conundrum Nine 1:30 PM Instant Pageant Arcade) Frozen 10:00 PM Greater GBCCA Waist Drum — Boston (20 minutes each) Chinese 2:00 PM Face 10:30 PM Cultural Amanda McCarthy Painting Meet the King of The Weekend Riot by Jandy Association Instruments (GBCCA) Organ 2:30 PM Mixed Emotions (Belv. 11:00 PM Demonstration The House on Cliff Sweet Harmony Arcade)
3:00 PM Arts & 11:30 PM
Arts & Architecture Tours Countdown to CopleySquared Magic Show Crafts Puppet Midnight: Ripe – – Showplace 3:30 PM Instant Pageant Midnight — Robert Clarke Spontaneous Midnight Fireworks by First Night, Inc. (Boston Inner Harbor) Celebrations Midnight 4:00 PM GBCCA Percussion 12:30 AM Pyrotechnics Show O’Shea Dance Acad. 4:30 PM Live Music Sweet Harmony – Berklee College FIRST DAY SCHEDULE — January 1 5:00 PM of Music Joe Dias COPLEY SQUARE ImprovBoston 11:00 AM 11:30 AM Noon 12:30 PM 1:00 PM 1:30 PM 5:30 PM Instant Pageant Aurora Bradley Christian O’Connor Restless Road Jalen Rance Devon Borealis Dance Bartlett-Roach Live Broadcast of NHL Winter Classic 6:00 PM People’s 2:00 PM 2:30 PM 3:00 PM 3:30PM Procession to Frog Pond Skating Spectacular Boston Common Alex Preston Phunk Phenomenon 6:30 PM (Boston Common) Live Broadcast of NHL Winter Classic – Boston Bruins vs. Montreal Canadiens Pipes and PRUDENTIAL CENTER 7:00 PM Pops Concert Family Fireworks by Mugar Productions (Boston Common) Noon 12:30 PM 1:00 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 2:30 PM Live Music – Berklee College of Music (Huntington Arcade) 7:30 PM Photo Op – Mary Poppins / Face Painting by Jandy (Belvidere Arcade)
Paa Seck 3:00 PM 3:30 PM 4:00 PM 4:30 PM 5:00 PM 5:30 PM Diery Band 8:00 PM Pipes and Pops Concert Magic Show – Robert Clarke Live Music – Berklee College of Music
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What are the dates/times for First Is Public Transportation Available? W ll there e fre or s Is this a family friendly event? Night and First Day? Yes, and we would advise taking it as parking f course he famil frien l freworks Yes! There will be plenty of interactive First Night: Thursday, December 31, 2015 will be limited. The most direct access via display will take place on the Boston activities that encourage participation oon MBTA is the Green Line to Copley Station. ommon at on ecem er st from both adult and youth audiences. There is no scheduled transportation for You may also ring in the New Year with the Youth activities include two interactive First Day: Friday, January 1, 2016 elderly provided by First Night First Day. tra itional freworks ispla over oston Puppet Parades in Copley Square, the Harbor at Midnight. larger People’s Procession from Copley to Where are the best opportunities the Common, street performers, children’s Where are the activities being held? for parking? Where can I dance? activities at the Boston Public Library and The majority of the First Night First Day’s irst i ht irst a oes not have specife the Prudential Center, and more! We encourage folks to join the People’s activities will be held in Boston’s Copley event garages, but the following are close laren on ara e at laren on t rocession startin at on the st Square. Partner programming will occur I want to donate to First Night, how during similar hours at the Prudential Center, and garages at Copley Place, Prudential to the Common, dancing along both sides Center, and the Boston Common. can I do that? Boston Public Library, the Old South Church of Boylston St. The main stage at Copley and Copley Place. Additional activities can Square will feature a variety of bands on Thank you! In order to keep our activities be found on the Boston Common, along the What road closures and traffc First Night to welcome in the New Year free, we need your support! Donate online Freedom Trail, and in the Seaport District. advisories will be in effect? until ancin is encoura e at frstni ht oston or Dartmouth Street will be closed from St. Do we need to buy buttons for James to Boylston on the afternoon of the Is there a countdown to midnight? Will there be any discounts offered 31st. Trinity Place will be closed on the 31st First Night First Day? for shopping and dining in the area? and 1st. Boylston Street will be closed from A new tradition is beginning. The New Year Thanks to our generous sponsors, all on the st alon the Pyrotechnics and Countdown will follow Yes, retail and restaurant discounts are listed First Night First Day activities are free parade route from Dartmouth St. to the the music and dancing of the Light and Ice on frstni ht oston or , an man will also an un uttone Boston Common. Party in Copley Square. be promoted on social media.
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