Past Events
See classic novel ‘The Bluest Eye’ live on stage at the Calderwood Pavilion
Dates: January 28, 2022 - March 13, 2022
Location: Calderwood Pavilion, 527 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116
The stage adaptation of ‘The Bluest Eye,’ from acclaimed author Toni Morrison’s debut novel of the same title, will be live on stage at the Calderwood Pavilion from Jan. 28 through March 13.
The Huntington Theatre Company production comes together through the collaborative vision of playwright Lydia R. Diamond and director Awoye Timpo and of course birthed from the classic storytelling found in the pages of Morrison’s masterpiece. The adaptation is centered on the story of “how we receive images of beauty and how we metabolize messages of images of beauty,” Diamond said in Huntington Theatre’s Meet the Artists video.
Panel Discussion on Exploring Art Therapy
Date and time
Thu, January 27, 2022
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
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Location
Piano Craft Gallery
793 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02118
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Co-sponsored by Italian Professionals of Boston (PIB), this event is free and open to the public.
This panel discussion is part of Domenic’s solo exhibition, Vox Clamantis, which runs from January 7-30 at Piano Craft Gallery in Boston.
Life Altering: Selections from a Kansas City Collection
Dates: January 18 to March 1, 2022.
Location: BU Art Galleries (Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery 855 Commonwealth Avenue)
Featuring work by Jeffrey Gibson (Chocktaw/Cherokee) and Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke/Crow) along with nearly a dozen other contemporary artists. Created over the past 12 years, the works in this exhibit explore a rich array of meaning relevant to our present time.
Artists investigate the global inequity of wealth and power, social justice, race, slavery, colonialism, the experience of exile and the diaspora, identity, the important role of the body, LGBTQ+ issues, popular culture, the precarious balance between progress and technology, climate change, and the environment. Some artists draw from the traditions of their cultural heritage—African, American, Caribbean, Indian, Iranian, Iraqi, and Native American. These artists celebrate their heritage by reclaiming ownership of, and pride in, their cultural origins. Above all, the artists here express hope, courage, resilience, and determination in the service of a better future.
Free and open to the public.
Part of the Indigenous Voices in the Americas series.
Bear Map & Winter Dreams by Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag)
Dates: January to April 2022.
Location: 2nd floor landing of the George Sherman Union – 775 Commonwealth Ave.
Part of the Indigenous Voices in the Americas series.
Bear Map
Black bears were very common here, and their populations may be rebounding in areas where there is enough human tolerance, space, and natural resources like healthy fish to support them. For this map I have chosen to realize the Southern New England landmass as a bear to point to the Native attitude to the earth as a living being that is worthy of our respect, and care. Place names like Sinnechetaconnet, Pocutahunk, Assonet, Monponset are descriptive village names in the closely related Indigenous languages here: Wampanoag, Nipmuc, Mahican, Narraganset/Niantic, many of which later had the newcomers towns and cities planted right on them. And they were renamed for places in England. In using Native placenames, I am reclaiming Native space in the northeast.
Winter Dreams
This traditional wampumpeak belt is fashioned to look like the old style large belts; spare in design, with a lot of open space. They have a quietly expansive feeling of light on the open ocean, or perhaps light upon fields of snow. The male and female keepers of such pieces here in Massachusetts knew the stories and events very well by memory, and were not all depending on complex symbols to recall traditional knowledge and diplomacy at large gatherings or ceremony. Such wintertime gatherings for storytelling were common when there were many tribal communities in a region criss-crossed by well-traveled paths.
Internationally known artist Elizabeth James-Perry is enrolled with the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head -Aquinnah in Massachusetts. An internationally known artist and speaker Elizabeth makes distinctively robust and textured wampum shell jewelry, porcupine quillwork, and northeastern twined textiles. She creates substantial heirloom quality adornment items reflecting her Algonquian diplomatic heritage. In cultivating many of the plants used in natural dyes at her home in the Southcoast area of Massachusetts, her gardens serve to seed the suburbs with important Native species. The rest are wild harvested in a sustainable way.
Patterns of Wind
The BU School of Theatre presents a Booth Production world-premiere. A convergence of stories of lineage, legacy, and land. Developed and facilitated by SOT resident guest artist Ty Defoe (Ojibwe + Oneida Nations) in collaboration with guest artist Katherine Freer. Interweaving Indigenous oral storytelling traditions and contemporary multimedia performance, Patterns of Wind is a process of creation and exploration. Drawing from personal narrative and blood memory, the ensemble will devise an experience that uplifts the interconnectedness of all living things.
Part of the Indigenous Voices in the Americas series.
Dates: December 2-5, 2021
Venue: Booth Theatre – 820 Commonwealth Ave.