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Summer Guide @summerboston 2011 Summer Guide City of Boston Thomas M. Menino, Mayor It is my great pleasure to welcome you to another exciting summer in the City of Boston. From traditional favorites like the Swan Boats and the Freedom Trail, to newer attractions like the Boston Cyberarts Festival and the Extreme Sailing Series at Boston Harborfest, our city has something for everyone. Boston is where history meets innovation. To keep up with our unique cultural landscape, I invite you to follow us @summerboston. There, you will find the the latest Thomas M. Menino information on free events, parades, festivals and more. Mayor of Boston For those who prefer more traditional methods of receiving information, please call 617-635-3911 or visit www.cityofboston.gov/summer. I hope to see you this summer! Thomas M. Menino Mayor of Boston Mayor Menino is excited to launch @summerboston! Follow it for continuous updates about all the fun summer summerboston activities for the whole family to enjoy here in Boston. @ Thank you to our sponsors: 2. May 1st - August 7th May 1st Chihuly, Through the GREASE --May-- Looking Glass Wang Theatre, World-famous glass artist Citi Performing Arts Center, Dale Chihuly, has revolution- 270 Tremont St., Boston. 1 p.m and 6 p.m. $. ized the art of blown glass Various Dates in May 617-482-9393 Frog Pond Yoga and moving it into the realm of www.citicenter.org Tai Chi Classes large-scale sculpture and Honoring the tranquility of establishing the use of glass, May 1st the reflecting pool, weekly an inherently fragile but also B.B. King: An Original Thomas M. Menino classes will provide area magical material as a vehicle Musical Mayor of Boston residents with options for for installation and environ- Berklee students honor the maintaining health and mental art. soulful sounds of music icon Museum of Fine Arts, 465 wellness. B.B. King, in an original telling Huntington Ave., Boston. $. Frog Pond, Boston Common, 617-267-9300 of his story. The Rolling Stone Boston. 617-635-2120 www.mfa.org/ rated, 3rd “best guitarist of all www.bostonfrogpond.org time,” has been captivating Sunday, May 1st audiences from all ethnic, so- May 1st - 16th The Walk for Hunger cial and musical backgrounds Hyde Park Art Join 40,000 caring friends for over 50 years. Association 22nd and neighbors in this annual Berklee Performance Center , Annual Group Exhibit tradition and raise money 136 Mass. Ave. Boston. Mayor’s Gallery and Scollay for those struggling to make 3 p.m. $. 617-747-2261 Square Gallery, 1 City Hall www.berkleebpc.com ends meet. Plaza, Boston. 617-635-3911 Boston Common, Boston. http://www.cityofboston.gov/arts/ http://www.projectbread.org May 1st The Boston Comic Con May 1st - June 3rd May 1st Hynes Convention Center , History Drawn with Musicians from 900 Boylston Street, Boston. Light: Early Marlboro 10 a.m - 5 p.m. Photographs from the 617-954-2000 1:30 p.m at the Isabella Collections of the www.bostoncomiccon.com/ Stewart Gardner Museum Massachusetts 280 The Fenway, Boston. Historical Society May 1st - Sept. 15th 617-566-1401 View one of Boston’s oldest Catherine Opie www.gardnermuseum.org photographs, the Old Feather Exhibition Store by Francis Calley Gray, A photography exhibit that together with portraits and May 1st explores relationships views by early daguerreo- Senior Showcase types. The exhibition is free Performance at the Boston between humans, politics and open to the public. Conservatory Theater. and landscapes. Massachusetts Historical Directed by Neil Donohoe Institute of Contemporary Art , Society, 1154 Boylston St., with musical direction by 100 Northern Ave., Boston. $. Boston. Monday - Saturday, Bret Silverman. This is a free 617-478-3100 1 - 4 p.m. 617-536-1608 event. Boston Conservatory www.icaboston.org www.masshist.org 8 Fenway, Boston. 7:00 p.m. 617-536-6340 www.bostonconservatory.edu 3. May 1st May 1st - 4th May 1st - 8th Treemonisha at Roxbury Foto-tipos Exhibit: 2011 PRC Student Center for Arts Villa Victoria Center Exhibition Roxbury Center for Arts, and for the Arts View the work of students Opera Boston are teaming up Artists from all over the world from 22 PRC institutional to present Scott Joplin’s Tree- pay tribute to the art of the member schools spanning monisha, the first opera writ- 19th century. from RISD in Providence to Villa Victoria Center for the ten by an African-American Maine College of Art in Port- Arts , 85 W. Newton St., composer. Completed in 1910 Boston. 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. land. Photographic Resource by the “King of Ragtime,” www.villavictoriaarts.org/ Center , 832 Commonwealth Treemonisha was not fully Avenue, Boston, MA staged for sixty years. Set May 1st - June 4th 617-975-0600 . $ www.bu.edu/prc/ in Arkansas during the Jim Elegant Enigmas: The Crow era of the 1880s, the Art of Edward Gorey May 1st - 10th feminist heroine Treemoni- This exhibit includes over Boston Cyberarts sha leads the townspeople 150 Gorey drawings that he created for over thirty of his Festival to reject the local conjurers’ books which were published The Boston Cyberarts Festi- superstitions in favor of hard between 1953 and 2006. val is the first and largest work and learning, a mes- Boston Athenæum, 10½ collaboration of artists sage that remains timely to- Beacon Street, Boston. working in new technologies day. The musical styles speak 617-227-0270 in all media in North America, directly to modern audiences www.bostonathenaeum.org/ encompassing visual arts, from heartfelt arias to rousing dance, music, electronic ragtime choruses. This is the May 1st - 8th literature, web art, and public first time Treemonisha will be Boston Ballet’s art. staged in Boston. Bella Figura CyberartsCentral is the head- Madison Park Development An extraordinary collection of quarters for the 2011 Boston Corporation, 184 Dudley St., works by three of the world’s Cyberarts Festival, located at Suite 102, Roxbury. foremost contemporary the new Atlantic Wharf 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. choreographers. 617-541-3900 development, 290 Congress Boston Opera House, 539 http://www.madison-park.org/ St., Boston. 617.524.8495 Washington St., Boston. arts-culture http://bostoncyberarts.org/festival/ Various Times, $. 617.695.6950 May 1st & 2nd May 1st - 10th http://www.bostonballet.org/ Art in Bloom Tours Boston Lyric Opera’s Celebrate spring at this May 1st – 8th A Midsummer Night’s annual festival of fine art JazzBoston’s Jazz Week Dream and fresh flowers. Museum Jazz Week ‘11: This Is Jazz The thrill of the chase is so of Fine Arts , 465 Huntington spotlights the Greater much more intriguing when Ave., Boston. Various Times. Boston’s vibrant jazz scene Shakespeare pens the words 617-267-9300 and Britten adds his touching, www.mfa.org with events all over the city from clubs, galleries, edgy and very funny score museums, and churches to that leaves characters won- libraries, unversities, shop- dering whether they are in a ping malls, and hotels. More dreamscape or a nightmare than 200 events are already The Shubert Theatre, Citi on the schedule and new Performing Arts Center, 265 events are being added daily. Tremont St. Boston. Various To view the full Jazz Week Times. $. schedule visit the website 617.542.4912 www.citicenter.org below. www.jazzboston.org http://www.blo.org/ 4. May 1st - 15th May 1st - 15th May 1st - September 18th Aladdin and the Museum of Science’s Boston Frog Pond Wonderful Lamp Voices Without Faces, Swan Boats An adventure awaits the Voices Without Races: Take a ride through the downtrodden Aladdin! When An Audio Journey Public Garden lagoon on one he is tricked by a mysterious Learn the story of race from of Boston’s famous Swan magician to steal an old lamp biological, cultural, and his- Boats, a family operation from a dark and hidden cave, torical points of view, through since 1877. Aladdin discovers a magnifi- interactive components, Schedule: cent genie, powerful enough historical artifacts, compelling Spring (April - June 20), to grant his every wish. photographs, and multimedia 10 a.m to 4 p.m. The performance will run 1.5 presentations. The RACE Summer (June 21 to Labor hours. Suggested for ages 5 Project explains the Day), 10 a.m to 5 p.m. and up and all fans of fairy differences among people Fall (After Labor Day), tales and magic. Great for and reveals the reality — and 12 p.m - 4 p.m. on weekdays grades K- 8. unreality. and 10 am - 4 p.m weekends. Wheelock College; Boston Museum of Science, Public Garden, Boston. $. Campus, 200 The Riverway, Science Park, Boston. $. 617-522-1966 Boston. Various times. $. 617-723-2500 http://www.swanboats.com/ 617-879-2147 www.mos.org http://www.wheelockfamilytheatre. May 1st - October 31st org/ May 1st - 20th SOWA OPEN MARKET Community Windows Quality Sunday art market. 460 Harrison Ave, South End, May 1st - 15th exhibition - Urbano 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Big Apple Circus Project www.sowaopenmarket.com The Big Apple Circus enters The Mills Gallery windows its 33rd season. This year’s are the newest exhibit space May 2nd show is hosted by Ring- on the BCA campus! Artwork His Presence master Kevin Venardos. from local organizations will be showcased in the Mills Enjoy a free evening of Performers include a troupe Gallery windows in between gospel music, featuring of monocyclists and lasso exhibitions throughout the BCM’s Reverence Gospel twirlers from China, Mongo- year. Ensemble, OverJoyed, lian contortionists, Kenyan Boston Center for the Arts , Women of Virtue and Men of athletes, and an Ethiopian 539 Tremont St., Boston Valor. juggler. With such a diverse http://www.bcaonline.org/ Berklee Performance acts and music from the http://www.urbanoproject.org/ Center,1140 Boylston Street, Big Apple Circus Band, the Boston.
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