Boston Creates South Boston Community Conversation

Join in and share your opinions and ideas about cultural priorities in the City of Boston 

Saturday, August 1, 2015

10 am

Medicine Wheel Productions

110 K Street, South Boston

This Saturday, the Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture will hold seventeen concurrent community conversations as part of the Boston Creates cultural planning process. Sixteen of the Community Conversations will take place in different neighborhoods across the city and one additional conversation will be dedicated to youth participants. 

The Boston Creates Concurrent Community Conversations are continuing the community engagement phase of the cultural planning process. Visit Boston Creates for the full list of community conversations and locations.

Unable to attend the conversations? Share your thoughts through the Boston Creates Survey.

It's All About Art This Week In Fort Point

Mark your calendars. Art starts Tuesday, July 14, 2015 with the opening of "Islands On The Edge" from 5 pm to 7 pm at the Atlantic Wharf Gallery located at 290 Congress Street. "Islands On The Edge" explores the Boston Harbor Islands and the concepts in the islands’ interpretive theme of isolation and existence on the "edge of society", through drawing, painting, photography, video, mixed media, and sculptural installations by twenty-one Fort Point Arts Community artists. More details.

Christophe Squier

Join the conversation occurring in every neighborhood about Boston's first ever Arts and Culture plan and help create Boston's cultural future.  What will South Boston contribute to Boston's art plan? Grab your neighbor, bring your ideas and discover the possibilities. The conversation takes places Wednesday, July 15th at 6pm at the FPAC Gallery. The gallery is located at 300 Summer Street. R.S.V.P

Be sure to see a truly unique performance when the Channel Center Garage opens its gates to INTER-ACTIONS, Performance Art X Art That Performs on Saturday, July 18th and Sunday, July 19th at 8 pm. Dozens of musicians and actors, poets and performance artists will collaborate with an inter-active art installation that billows and changes light and color patterns in response to their movements and sounds. These free performances are produced by the Fort Point Theatre Channel.

Reminder: the comment deadline for Artists For Humanity Epicenter Expansion development is July 31, 2015.

Happy 4th & ONS Neighborhood Upcoming Events

The City of Boston's Office of Neighborhood Services and our South Boston Coordinator Eric Prentis wishes you a Happy Fourth of July weekend.

Mayor Walsh invites you to the FIFA Women's Cup Final Viewing Party  Sunday, July 5, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. on City Hall Plaza, in support of the USA Women's Soccer Team. 

In total, more than 1,500 fans, including members of the Boston Breakers, came out to City Hall Plaza to watch the U.S. ​beat Germany, 2-0, in the semifinals, ​China, 1-0, in the quarterfinals
and Colombia, 2-0, in the Round of 16.

The event is free and open to the public.

​The U.S. features Boston Breakers goalkeeper and 2014 NWSL Goalkeeper of the Year Alyssa Naeher.​ The Boston Breakers are one of nine teams in the National Women’s Soccer League and play their home games at Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium on the campus of Harvard University. 

If you have any questions, please contact the Mayor's 24-hour hotline at 617-635-4500.

Save the date of July 15, 2015 for Boston Creates South Boston/Fort Point arts and culture conversation. 

Boston Creates Cultural Planning Town Hall

The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture kicks off Boston community cultural planning at Boston Creates Town Hall public meeting on:

June 2, 2015

6 pm - 9 pm

English High School

144 McBride Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Accessible by MBTA and Onsite Parking

Register in Advance

The Boston Creates Town Hall is the first large public event in Boston’s cultural planning process, designed to create a blueprint for arts and culture in the City of Boston. The community is invited to attend and share their opinions and ideas about the City’s cultural priorities.  Attendees are encouraged to register for the event in advance.

Boston Creates will engage residents, visitors, and stakeholders to help local government identify cultural needs, opportunities, and resources and to think strategically about how these resources can help the community to achieve its cultural goals. The process will create a ten-year plan to prioritize, coordinate, and align public and private resources to strengthen cultural vitality over the long term.

“Boston Creates is an opportunity for everyone in the city to share their vision of how arts and culture fit into our future,” said Mayor Walsh. “We encourage everyone to come to the Town Hall to help us build upon the cultural assets of our City, and be a part of the plan that will position Boston as a municipal arts leader.”

The Boston Creates Town Hall will be followed by interviews with individuals and groups to lay out a comprehensive map of Boston’s cultural assets, including its variety of arts organizations, festivals, and public art locations. Community Engagement Team Members are still needed for this process, and individuals interested in volunteering can apply at Boston Creates.

“Boston Creates depends upon community participation for its success,” said Julie Burros, Chief of Arts and Culture for the City of Boston. “We need to hear from as many voices as possible so we can create a plan that represents the unique identity of the city.  Over the next year, we will be reaching out to audiences across Boston, and the Town Hall is the first step.”

In partnership with the City of Boston, the Barr Foundation and the Klarman Family Foundation have provided the funding necessary for the cultural planning process. The Cultural Plan is expected to be complete in June 2016. For more information, visit www.bostoncreates.org. Social media users can engage with the process on Twitter using #BostonCreates or by following Arts in Boston on Facebook.