FPAC & FPTC Honor Women & Family In "Metaphors Are Not Enough" and "Crossing Cultures"

The Fort Point Theatre Channel presents excerpts from Metaphors Are Not Enough, Poetry and Prose by The Streetfeet Women on: 

Sunday, March 7, 2021

3:30-5:00 pm

Online link will be announced Friday, March 5

On the eve of International Women’s Day, Fort Point Theatre Channel will host six members of The Streetfeet Women who will share pieces, some with music, from their recently published anthology of poems and prose, Metaphors Are Not Enough. All the work celebrates and honors women and girls.

Christina Liu: Spinster; Beyond China; Untitled
Mary Elizabeth Birnbaum: France Eagle; The Ritual of the Visit; Mise-en-place, Carbon Steel
Mary Millner McCullough: DNA and Mayonnaise
Andrea L. Humphrey: Heroic Birth
Elena Harap: Minutes excerpt; Birth Control; Magnificat
Lymyn O'Sing: Smoke in the Paper; Trees Sing to Me in Winter

The work spans themes of freedom and justice, identity, culture, love, and friendship. Throughout, the women offer wisdom, humor, and the unique perspective of a diverse company of writers and performers.

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The Fort Point Arts Community (FPAC) invites you to the art opening of “CROSSING CULTURES: Family, Memory & Displacement” art opening on: 

March 11, 2021

6:30 PM

Join the virtual Opening

“CROSSING CULTURES” addresses the theme of “family” from the point of view of four women artists who came to this country as young adults, leaving their traditions, families, and cultures behind. Unifying their work is its relationship to memory, displacement and identity. The exhibit will revolve around art that they have created to reflect upon what they have left behind while shifting countries and at the same time honoring and remembering family traditions and vanishing ways of life. A commonality of their work is the use of vintage family photographs that they have collected from their many visits back to their homelands. This project embodies and celebrates their shared immigrant story and citizenry in a nation composed of diverse backgrounds, families, politics, faiths, identities, and ideas.

The Artists

Astrid Reischwitz is a lens-based artist who explores storytelling from a personal perspective. Her projects include intimate views of private spaces, and reflections on her own history and values. Using keepsakes from family life, old photographs, and storytelling strategies, she builds a visual world of memory, identity, place, and home. 

Claudia Ruiz Gustafson is a Peruvian-born, Massachusetts-based visual artist, educator and curator. Her work is mainly autobiographical and self-reflective; often portraying themes of femininity, family, memory, dreams and personal mythology. 

Nilou Moochhala’s visual practice (art & design) has been channeled into examining issues of cross-cultural change and transformation through collaging and assemblage techniques. Originally from Mumbai, she has been inspired to juxtapose found objects, memorabilia, and use of language to create social and political narratives, be it in public street spaces or private art galleries. 

Vivian Poey is a photographer and educator in Cambridge, MA. Her work examines a number of issues ranging from migration and cultural assimilation to the passing of time. She is American, born in Mexico of Cuban parents and lived in Guatemala and Colombia before moving to the U.S. This complicated trajectory informs all of her art, which serves as a method of investigation, and includes photography, installation and performance.

First Snow Day & Other Happenings This Week & Next

updated 12.6.19 with events December 14 - 18th,
updated 12.3.19 3:30 pm:  Save the date of  December 18th at 6 pm for the rescheduled 15 Necco (former GE Headquarters) Public Community Meeting.

With thoughts of snow days and winter festivities, here is a round up of free art happenings, Holiday Pop-Ups and Holiday Strolls in Seaport and Fort Point starting Friday, December 6th through Thursday, December 12th with some repeating weekend events.  

Transit is one of the top issues in the neighborhood. The Seaport Fort Point Transit Strategic Plan Public Community meeting will be held December 9th. The final Mayoral Advisory Task Force Northern Avenue Bridge meeting is Tuesday, December 10th.  

Event details are below: 

Friday, December 6th: Seaport Holiday Stroll, 5 pm – 9 pm with Light Up Seaport tree lighting at 7:15 pm. Live music, store specials and treats. More details.

Friday, December 6th: Rubaru Roshini Special Screening, 6 pm at Midway Artist Studios, 15 Channel Center Street. Free. View trailer.

Saturday, December 7th: Holly-Day on the Harbor, an afternoon of kids holiday fun 12 pm - 2 pm at Atlantic Wharf's Waterfront Square.

Holiday Pop-Up Shops

• FPAC Assemblage Art Space at the Envoy: Sat & Sundays 12 pm to 4 pm in December. Every weekend different FPAC artists participate in these Tabletop Holiday Pop-Ups. 70 Sleeper St.

• Row 34: Sundays December 8th and December 15th from 4 pm to 6 pm. Sip on complimentary bubbles & snacks while shopping for unique gifts made by local artists. 383 Congress St.

Monday, December 9th: Seaport Transit Strategic Plan Community Meeting (transit improvements & connectivity in Seaport & Fort Point) 5:30 pm-7:30 pm, BSA Fort Point room, 290 Congress St.

Tuesday, December 10^th:  Northern Avenue Bridge Mayoral Advisory Task Force Meeting, 3 pm - 5 pm at WPI Seaport, 303 Congress St. Public is welcome to attend.

Tuesday, December 10^th: Fort Point Theatre Channel presents Andrew Neuman: Two Video Project(ions) 8pm in Art Under The Stairs at Midway Artist Studios, 15 Channel Center St. Free. 

Wednesday, December 11^th: Friends of Fort Point Channel Holiday Stroll 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm. Over 25 participating locations. Meet & greet with Olaf from Frozen. Details. 

Thursday, December 12th: Fort Point Channel Landmarks District Commission meeting 6pm, City Hall. Check FortPointBoston.com for details later this week.

Saturday, December 14th: 249 A Street Artists Holiday Sale & Open Studios.  A select group of artists will open their studios between noon and 5 pm. Visit "Paper Clips" exhibit in the gallery. 

UPCOMING

Monday, December 16th: Boston Tea Party Reenactment starts at 6:30 pm at Old South Meeting Hall and ends with public viewing along the Fort Point Channel across from the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum from 8 pm to 8:30 pm.

Tuesday, December 17th: please note that the City Cannabis Community meeting for 324 A Street is postponed at the request of the operator in order to review the new cannabis ordinance that passed by City Council and signed by Mayor Walsh in November 2019.

Wednesday, December 18th: 15 Necco (former GE Headquarters) Public Community meeting, hosted by the BPDA (Boston Planning & Development Agency) 6pm at 300 A Street.

originally posted 12.3.19

Meet Me On The Brink

Boston arts and community organizations are collaborating with the Fort Point Theatre Channel (FPTC) to explore the contemporary relevance of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

The public is invited to preview Meet Me On The Brink, a fifteen minute vignette, FPTC is creating for Tempest Reconfigured. Be one of the first to witness the beginnings of this work in-progress performance as it readies for its fall debut.

Sunday, August 25, 2019
6 PM

Midway Production & Performance Lab
15 Channel Center St, lobby level
free

Tempest Reconfigured will culminate in fall 2019 with community-based and citywide performances.

What Is A Clown? Clowns Are Us

TheFort Point Theatre Channel presents CLOWNS ARE US on:

Sunday, May 5, 2019

7 pm

Midway Artist Studios

15 Channel Center Street

Free admission (donations requested)
Refreshments will be served.

We all are CLOWNS in the World Circus while interfacing and interacting with the reality of our life. A reality best described by famous Shakespeare’s phrase All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players…

But:

What is a CLOWN?

Aren’t we the ones? Are we not carrying ourselves “clownishly” within our inner selves, or enveloping our outer selves in such a way? And ‘’the other’’? Our fellow-human beings?

Come see a video by Olga Shmuylovich and her collaborators, peruse and play with props, sets, costumes, and miscellaneous objects used in creating the video, and enjoy a discussion of this ongoing project with the artist.

originally post 4.22.19

Art Is Springing Up In The Neighborhood

3/28/19: Updated to include Friday March 29th's one night only show at The Distillery.

March into spring with a collection of diverse art happenings starting Friday, and street cleaning resumes Tuesday, April 2, 2019.  

Friday, March 29: The Distillery presents the premiere of Georden West's Patron Saint, an otherworldly black-and-white film, featuring the looks of fashion designer, and current Project Runway contestant, Jamall Osterholm. One night only 7pm - 10pm at 516 East 2nd St. More details.

Sunday, March 31: Fort Point Theatre Channel presents By The Book, a reading of a play

by Amy Merrill. Free admission. Donations appreciated. 2pm at Midway Artist Studios (15 Channel Center St.) More details.

Tuesday, April 2: Street Cleaning begins Tuesdays from 9 am to 1 pm on A Street and on Binford Street . Sign up for No Tow Alerts. (You will need to enter street name in search first.) 

Thursday, April 4: Opening reception of Regali: Sicilian Stories from 6:30pm - 8:30pm at the FPAC Gallery located on the lower level of 300 Summer St. More details.

Saturday, April 6: Opening reception of Sustainable Photography from 6pm - 8pm at Assemblage at The Envoy Hotel. More details.

Monday, April 8: 20 Knots: Daffodils for Boston, a public art installation of enormous daffodils, at Seaport Common (85 Northern Ave). More details.

Be In The Loop With Local Art

Did you know Artists For Humanity recently expanded their EpiCenter? This Wednesday, January 30 from 5 pm - 7 pm, Artists For Humanity invites you to their first Open Studios of 2019.  Tour bustling studios, meet inspiring teens, preview the latest projects, network with local creatives, and mingle over wine and cheese. The event is free, family-friendly, and open to the public. Artist For Humanity is located at 100 West 2nd Street next to the A Street Park and just blocks away from the Broadway red line T station.

Artists For Humanity

The same evening (January 30), the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) is hosting an opening reception of  Surface Tension: Architectural photographs from Peter Vanderwarker and Boston Up: Infrared photographs by Neal Rantoul from 6 pm - 8 pm in the BSA Space at 290 Congress Street. R.S.V.P. for this free event.  On view through June 1, 2019. 

Peter Vanderwalker

Start February with the Fort Point Arts Community (FPAC) opening reception of Melt , a reinterpretation of Nordic myths — with feminist and science fiction twists through video, photography and sculpture by artists Isabel Beavers and Laine Rettmer. The artists created Melt during a residency in Iceland. The opening reception is Friday, February 1st from 6 pm - 8 pm at FPAC Gallery, 300 Summer Street. More details.

Melt

The Loop, an interactive art experience, has landed at One Seaport Square (between Showcase Icon and Scorpian). Take a seat in these giant circular structures, pump the handlebar, and watch a story unfold. The installation will be around until February 17, 2019. More details.

The Loop

On Sunday, February 10th at 2 pm, the Fort Point Theatre Channel presents Her Story Is Translated: Perspectives on Poetry, Playwriting, and Music in Arabic and English coordinated by Jennifer Jean and Amy Merrill. Her Story Is continues with this special event highlighting the process of “translation” in the poetry, plays, and music between and among several artists living in Iraq and in the United States. The free event will take place in Art Under The Stairs at Midway Artist Studios located at 15 Channel Center Street. To learn more about Her Story Is visit the Fort Point Theatre Channel. 

Her Story Is Translated

Two Local Art Organizations Are Making Magic This Summer

The Distillery Gallery presents Make Reality Magic Again, A Retrospective Exhibition of the Voyeuges Series & Public Premiere Screening of Episode III. Reception and screening are Thursday, August 16, 2018 from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. 

Voyeuges involves a cameraman and musical ensemble observing the street from a row of second story windows, creating together cinematic footage and an improvised musical score in response to either the happenstance occurrences on the block, or improvised public performances and installations by members of the ensemble. The footage and accompanying live music are cut down to a short movie with a hint of narrative arc. The mood leans naturally towards mystery and suspense, and sways from feelings of daydreaming to mundanity to absurdity, madness and back again - a weird and beautiful form of movie entertainment.

Make Reality Magic Again is on view through August 18th.  The Distillery Gallery is located at 516 E 2nd St.

The Fort Point Theatre Channel takes you on tour with Jose Rivera's Cloud Tectonics. 

Cloud Tectonics is a humorous time-bending love story written by Academy Award-nominated José Rivera. Celestina, a hitchhiker whose pregnancy is lasting over two years, and Aníbal, a baggage handler at LAX, meet in the rain for an unforgettable and life-altering encounter in the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. Sometimes our paths are meant to overlap and diverge simultaneously.

These special workshop performances feature live music and Foley effects by L.A.-based musician Olivia Brownlee and is presented by actor/director Jaime Carrillo in association with Fort Point Theatre Channel. 

August 14 @ 7:30 pm

The Fort Point Room at Atlantic Wharf
290 Congress Street, Boston

August 17 and 18 @ 7:30 pm

Boston Playwrights' Theatre
949 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

August 21 @ 7:30 pm *

Gloucester Stage
267 East Main Street, Gloucester 

The August 14, 17, and 18 performances are free.

To reserve your seats, please email Jaime@fortpointtheatrechannel.org.

* Click here for tickets to the August 21 performance at Gloucester Stage.

Cast: Jadira Figueroa (Celestina), Jaime Carrillo (Anibal), &
Fernando Barbosa (Nelson) 

Musicians: Nick Thorkelson, Mitchel Ahern, Anaís Azul, Francis Xavier Norton,
Luz Lopez, & Fernando Barbosa

REMINDER: Channel Dance continues from 11 am to 1 pm on August 19, 2018 at Waterfront Plaza (290 Congress St) across the Channel from the Boston Children's Museum.  Story Dance returns September 2, 2018 at the same time and location. All events are free and open to kids and families. 

The Power Of Words: Pangyrus & The Fort Point Theatre Channel

Fort Point Theatre Channel presents Pangyrus Litmag, readings from a community of creative individuals and organizations dedicated to arts, ideas and making culture thrive. On Thursday, March 22nd they step from behind the curtain to read their own works. Come hear Anne Bernays, Fiction Editor; Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, Poetry Editor; Cynthia Bargar, Managing Editor; Greg Harris, Editor; Yahya Chaudry, Social Media Director and Chris Hartman, Reviews Editor of Pangyrus.

Thursday, March 22, 2018

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Art Under The Stairs

Midway Artist Studios

15 Channel Center Street

free admission and light refreshments

Lots Going On Around The Neighborhoood

From art to seasaws to Dorchester Heights to wearing green and not turning green, there is a lot going on this weekend.

The South Boston Arts Association is hosting an Irish Open House tonight, March 16th from 5 pm - 8 pm at their gallery, Art Around The Corner. Purchase paintings of Ireland and South Boston from local artists including Fort Point artist Karen McFeaters. Light refreshments will be served. Art Around the Corner Gallery is located at 317 E Street (behind Neatly Nested).

If you live in the neighborhood, you most likely know March 17th is St. Patrick's Day and the South Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade is Sunday. If you are new, you may not be as familiar with South Boston's historic ties to Evacuation Day. In 1776 Col. Henry Knox moved 50 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester Heights much to the surprise and dismay of the British who later evacuated 3,000 men and ships from Boston on March 17, 1776. The South Boston Citizen’s Association invites you to the annual Evacuation Day Memorial Mass celebrated by Father Joe White on Saturday, March 17th at 9 am at St. Augustine’s Chapel located at 181 Dorchester St., and the annual Historical Exercises to celebrate Evacuation Day at 10 am at the Dorchester Heights Monument. Watch the 2017 Evacuation Day Promo.

Closer to home it's a St. Patrick's Day Celebration at the Seasaws at Seaport Common from 11 am - 4 pm on March 17th. Enjoy food, live Irish music and local craft beers for the over 21 crowd. There will be family friendly lawn games, a chance to win prizes and of course, no visit would be complete without hopping on a seasaw. Seaport Common is located at 85 Northern Avenue.

In addition to shamrocks, there are flowers galore at the Boston Flower & Garden Show this weekend at the Seaport World Trade Center.

Now about this Sunday's March 18th St. Patrick's Day Parade at 1 pm, we suggest you check out Caught In Southie's ultimate guide for all the details on where to watch, public bathrooms and general tips by seasoned parade watchers. View the parade route. If you wish to avoid the crowds, NECN will stream live and on air the parade starting at 12:30 pm. Coverage for St. Patrick's Day breakfast hosted by Congressman Stephen Lynch and Councilor-At-Large Michael Flaherty begins at 10 am. Remember bars throughout the neighborhood will close at 6 pm on Sunday.


The Fort Point Arts Community presents Misremembered, a group  exhibition examining the ever-changing emotional resonance of past events and how they can transform our perceptions of memory as we mature. The FPAC Gallery show runs  now through April 12, 2018. An artists talk takes place this Sunday, March 18th at 1 pm. The event will incorporate working with the public to create a site-specific installation of accordion books that bridge the gap between two-dimensional and three-dimensional works. The opening reception of Misrememebered is Friday March 23d from 6 pm - 8 pm. Come see the artists intertwine displays of glass sculpture (Katie Dye), prints (Amanda Kidd Schall), and photographs (Brittany Severance) creating an experience similar to the process of making memories. The FPAC Gallery is located at 300 Summer Street.

Got To Laugh

If the winter blues have you down, then the Fort Point Theatre Channel's MCFARLAND is guaranteed to laugh those blues away. A reading of the new comedy by Joshua Faigen and directed by Hailey Klein will be presented this Saturday, February 10, 2018 at 7:30 pm in Art Under The Stairs at Midway Artist Studios, 15 Channel Center Street. The event is free and light refreshments will be served. You won't want to miss MCFARLAND.

Looking For Holiday Cheer?

Look no longer and look no further than your own backyard to get in the holiday spirit. The seventh annual Fort Point Holiday Stroll, hosted by the Friends of The Fort Point Channel, is Friday, December 8, 2017 from 4 pm - 7 pm. 

There will be treats by Row 34, Bastille Kitchen, Pastoral, Bon Me and more
There will be beverages for sipping at Menton, Mayhew Wine Shop, Craft Beer Cellar, Envoy and more
There will be gifts for sale at the 249 A St Artist Cooperative, Boston Children's Museum, Fpac Space at the Envoy and more
There will be singing by Emerson's premier acapella group, The Treble Makers
It is a wonderful time of the year in Fort Point

Click here to register and start planning your stroll. 

You may pick up the Fort Point Holiday Stroll map at the Atrium at the Residence Inn by Marriott located at 370 Congress Street or at any participating business. Be sure to collect stamps at every stop for a chance to win prizes from local businesses and restaurants. 

At the end of the night rest those weary feet at a free screening of the Fort Point Theatre Channel's We Are Egypt at 7:30 pm at Midway Artist Studios.

Return this weekend for more shopping at the 249 A Street Holiday Studio Sale on Saturday 12 pm to 5 pm, and Holiday Pop Ups at the fpac space Saturday and Sunday 12 pm - 6 pm and at Row 34 on Sunday from 4 pm - 6 pm. For more information read our previous post, It's Time To Put On Your Holiday Walking Shoes. 

Visual & Performing Art Around Fort Point

The FP3 Gallery presents Josh Falk | Small Worlds: Looking Glass.

Opening Reception:

Thursday, April 13

6:00-8:00 pm

FP3 Gallery

346 Congress Street

Growing up in and around a small industrial city that was surrounded by rural landscapes, mixed media artists Josh Falk has always been influenced by the juxtaposition of these two worlds and the often subtle ways in which they overlap. As if the city itself was a living terrarium, Falk would learn and respect the ways in which two opposites could naturally coexist and complement one another throughout his life. More details. 

The FPAC Gallery presents Big Red & Shiny show's Teenaged, a group exhibition of thirteen artists in celebration of the independent contemporary art magazine's thirteen years of publication.  In Teenaged, BR&S features artists who have contributed to the diversity of art making in some way, be it their own writing, or profiles, interviews, or reviews of their visual work. This sampling of art making in Boston demonstrates the vitality of contemporary art practices in the city. The show runs through April 22, 2017.

Opening Reception

Thursday, April 13

6:00- 8:00 pm

FPAC Gallery

300 Summer Street

The Fort Point Theatre Channel presents On With Living and Learning's (OWLL) Unsafe All Around: Excerpts from Humanity Not Statistics through the eyes of seven middle school girls from six Boston schools and in collaboration with Sisters on The Move. Unsafe All Around is a workshop performance with original music composed by the Sociedad Latina Youth Music Ambassadors. More details. 

April 14, 2017

8 pm

Midway Artist Studios

15 Channel Center Street

FREE Admission & Light Refreshments

OWLL is a collective of artists who use art for activism. OWLL brings together underrepresented women and at-risk youth with community elders and teaching artists in leadership workshops that culminate in culturally specific theater productions focusing on the social justice issues most relevant to the participants. OWLL’s collective art serves as a basis for deep community listening, transformation, and the development of a new narrative for participants’ and their communities’ future.

Get ready to dance. The Fort Point Theatre Channel presents The Liz Borden Band. A melodic rock band with a love of vocal harmonies, a dose of punk, and a punch of attitude... Playing original songs, some new ones, even crossing the Dixie line...

Saturday, April 22, 2017

7:30 PM

Midway Artist Studios

15 Channel Center Street

FREE Admission & Light Refreshments

Life In Fort Point Captured On FIlm

If you are new to Fort Point or have been here forever, you must see the Fort Point Theatre Channel's Fort Point-Inspired Short Films written by Rocco Giuliano and directed by Henry Dane. "Landfill: From Guppies to Yuppies" and "Exile from A Street" will be shown Sunday, February 19, 2017 at 7 pm at Art Under the Stairs located at Midway Artists Studios, 15 Channel Center Street. Free admission. Light Refreshments.

Enjoy an evening of sometimes arrogant, often hilarious commentaries about life and movies, and movies about life . . . in Fort Point. You’ll see Emmy-nominated vignettes aired on Boston TV as well as short films currently clogging up the festival circuit. You’ll also get the chance to demand answers from writer/performer Rocco Giuliano and producer/director Henry Dane (who reserves the right to shift blame back to Rocco). Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind event that won’t change Fort Point one iota, but will help you avoid another depressing episode of 60 Minutes. More details.

The Fort Point Theatre Channel (FPTC) is dedicated to creating and sustaining new configurations of the performing arts. FPTC brings together an ensemble of artists from the worlds of theater, music, visual arts, and everything in between as a forum for collaborative expression while enriching the Fort Point community, Boston, and beyond.

originally posted 2.3.17

Basra-Boston Connections: World Premier This Saturday

Basra-Boston Connections: An Iraq-US Collaboration in Theater, Poetry Art and Music is part of the Basra-Boston Project, which explores common and uncommon experiences through art. Join the Fort Point Theatre Channel for this free multi media premier performance on:

Saturday, October 1, 2016
8 pm
Atlantic Wharf
290 Congress St
Reservations Required
This performance is part of Artweek Boston. A second performance will be held November 4 at Arts at the Armory in Somerville.

Accompanying the show is an art exhibit on display
October 1 - October 3 at Atlantic Wharf
October 7 - October 30 at Midway Artist Studios.
Midway Artist Studios is located at 15 Channel Center St.

Final Shows of Dreambook Tonight & Tomorrow

The Fort Point Theatre Channel's final shows of Dreambook, a musical tale of New Orleans in 1848, are:

Friday, June 24 

Saturday, June 25

8 pm

Boston Playwrights' Theatre 

949 Commonwealth Ave, Boston

Limited Tickets Available

Robin JaVonne Smith (left) as Anna Lion and Lauren Foster as Walt Whitman;
photo Carolle Photography

Dreambook is a collaborative theatrical reimagining of pre-Civil War New Orleans, often considered the most unique of U.S. cities. Dan Osterman and Nick Thorkelson's fictional drama, with musical elements performed live, serves as an invitation to envision this past with fresh eyes and ears, while also coming to grips with what has changed--or not--in American culture.

Walt Whitman and the adventurer William Walker factor heavily in Dan Osterman's play. Yet Dreambook does not revolve only around those larger-than-life historical figures. Rather, Osterman provides a close view of two other historical individuals: artist Jules Lion, a free person of color and the first daguerreotypist in New Orleans; and Anna Lion, a shape-shifting, irrepressible black teenager."This is not the Whitman you think you know," states playwright Dan Osterman

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.

Bilingual Theatre Classes For Kids in Fort Point

This summer (June or July), Fort Point Theatre Channel is considering offering ¡Teatro for Kids!, a Spanish/English bilingual theatre class in Fort Point for kids in the 4- to 7-years-old age range. Activities will include improvisation games, reenacting classic children's stories, and mask-making to bring characters to life! The class will expose kids to theatre skills in a relaxed bilingual setting. It will be 90 minutes long. All levels of Spanish welcome, from beginner to bilingual. Students can enroll for either four weeks or six weeks, with one afternoon class a week. For more information or to tell us your kids will be interested, please email Jaime Carrillo, Jaime(at)fortpointtc.org.

Fort Point Spring Open Studios, 2014

Nicole Aquillano, Cityscape Bowl

Pick up a map and explore the studios of more than 75 artists working in all media. Talk with artists in their studios and discover new works and treasured favorites. See Fort Point’s art galleries. and find public art installations throughout the neighborhood, and in the Fort Point Channel.

Explore Boston’s changing Fort Point and see the unique waterfront warehouse district that is home to one of New England’s largest arts communities.

In addition to the more than 75 artists studios and galleries which will be open, Fort Point Open Studios features a series of special events, including:

• artists’s demos
• performance
• public art
• hands-on activities for all ages
• Member’s Group Show at the FPAC Gallery

FPAC's Spring Open Studios
Friday May 9th, 4-7pm
Saturday and Sunday May 10 &11, 12-5pmFree to the public and free parking!

Tropical Fort Point, Peter Agoos
(photo by Sylvia Stagg-Giuliano)

Exclamation Point! 12: Bohemians, a Fort Point Theatre Channel event with the theme of bohemia and bohemians, will be presented during Fort Point Arts Community's Spring Open Studios.  The project will center on a revue-style program performed after Fort Point artists close their studios for the evening.

Bohemians
Curated by Nick Thorkelson
5:30pm, May 10-11, 2014
Art Under The Stairs, lower level Midway Channel Gallery
15 Channel Center St
Fort Point, Boston

http://www.fortpointtheatrechannel.org/ep12-bohemians

Art & Music Tonight in Fort Point

The Midway Channel Gallery presents the "Changing Faces of Fort Point," an exhibition running through April 30, 2014. "Changing Faces of Fort Point" shows reaction to the decades long redevelopment of a former warehouse district by the artists who live there. The exhibition serves to join the historical context with the contemporary viewpoint by creating a bridge through art. The exhibit illustrates not only the visual changes to the urban landscape, but also the transformation and reincorporation of early industrial materials in new ways.

painting by Karen McFeaters

Opening Reception

Thursday, April 10, 2014
 5:00 - 8:00 pm
 with special guests

  Music of Fort Point Theatre Channel
7:30 pm
 

"Music of Fort Point Theatre Channel" 
produced by Mary Driscoll & Nick Thorkelson 

Featuring: Shalaye Camillo, Theresa Chiasson, Kelly Chick, Alissa Cordeiro, Lindsay Eagle, Chris Everett, Paola Ferrer, Maria Hendricks, Robin JaVonne Smith, Nick Thorkelson and Peter Tork, and the music of Brendan Burns, Alyssa Jones, Anton Karas, Nick Thorkelson, and Mark Warhol.

Exhibition visual artists: Mario Avila, Martin Berinstein, Laura Davidson, Dawna Davis, William Frese, Jacob Higginbottom, Eric Levin, Karen McFeaters and Jose Santos. Curator: Liliana Folta.  More details.

The gallery is located within Midway Artist Studios at 15 Channel Center Street Boston, MA 02210.

Gallery 14 presents "Big Dig Nostalgia" running through April 29, 2014. 
It has been ten years since the Big Dig departed from our neighborhood, and some of us look back with nostalgia to the time when Fort Point was still "owned" by the artists and were stimulated every day by the muscular art of civil engineering as it took place around us. Our building at 249 A Street was literally "touched" by the Big Dig. Some of us are still processing the images and the experience. 

Rebecca Leviss Dwyer, Don Eyles (curator), Anton Grassl, Dan Osterman, Lenore Tenenblatt, Nan Tull, George Vasquez, and Valda Zalkalns. 

Opening Night:  Thursday, April 10, 2014 6:00 - 8:00 pm.

Gallery 14 is located at 249 A Street Boston, MA 02210