Happenings About The Neighborhood Starting Tonight

2/3: Green Infrastructure Planning and Flood Mapping Climate Social from 6pm to 8pm: Hear from the Boston Community-Based Flood Resilience project team and community partners. Learn how the results of the Office of Green Infrastructure's Boston Flood Survey are being used, get access to local resources, and explore the updated flood viewer tool!  Meet in person at the Civic Pavilion or online.  

2/5: 2025 Draft Massport Strategic Plan virtual presentation at 6pm. Your comments will help shape Massport’s path forward. Comments are open until March 6th. 

2/5: West Street and West Coast, Works on Paper by Sarah Turner, opens at The Gallery at 249A Street from 6pm to 8pm. A series of quiet ‘burn drawings’ which give into the winter stillness of home in New England’s landscape. A set of photographs that resist winter’s muted colors and reach instead for West Coast exuberance. The exhibition runs through February 20th. 

2/5: The Cultural Incubator presents HUMANITY AS PRAXIS, Resilience. Resistance. Collective Hope by renowned Cuban artist Carlos Martiel and Palestinian artists Hanan Azaiza, Osama Hussein, Ahmed Jarbou, Ahmad Al-Daalsa, and Kawthar Al-Qabbani at 5:30pm at 15 Channel Center St.

2/7: The Distillery Gallery presents Tortured Artist, a collaborative project by photographers Sun Brown and Yves, this weekend only. Saturday Opening reception from 6pm to 10pm with Sunday viewing hours from 12pm to 6om. The Distillery Gallery is located at 516 E 2nd St.

2/7: Assembly Required, An Exhibition of Collage As a Mirror of the Mundane by Hervé Kwimo, opens at 6pm at the Midway Gallery, 15 Channel Center St. Herve presents a study in fragmentation, alignment, and viewpoint.

2/11: Boston in Focus: Capturing a Changing Urban Canvas, a powerful collection of work from AFH teens, alumni artists, and local Boston photographers, each with their own perspective and truth on the changes our city has undergone within the past two decades, opens with an Artist Talk at 5pm followed by a reception at 6pm at Artist For Humanity (AFH), 100 W. 2nd St. 

2/12: Artists of Tomorrow: Self Portraits, created by Artists for Humanity (AFH) teens, opens from 4pm to 6pm at the FPAC Art Space, 70A Sleeper Street. The portraits are honest, imaginative reflections on who they are and who they are becoming. Together, they tell a collective story of emerging identity, possibility, and the vibrant future these young creatives are shaping for themselves and their communities. 

originally published 2.3.26

Have You Checked Your Car? Don't Get Towed.

If you are parked on A Street, Congress Street or Sleeper Street, check you car for no parking signs while these streets are currently undergoing pre-construction test pit digging as part of the Streets Reconstruction Project. Even if your car is still buried under snow, it could get towed. 

Pre-construction activities is occurring now through March. The project will include construction of curbs on Melcher Street in the Spring. 

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