March 8 to 15, 2019:

(Pictured above: Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola)


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Friday, March 8, 7 to 10 p.m.
Artists of Color Pop-up at 363 B Centre St., Jamaica Plain, Boston.
“Art by local and/or displaced artists of color” will be featured in this pop-up exhibition in a vacant commercial space in the heart of Jamaica Plain’s Latin Quarter. Organized by the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation.


Saturday, March 9, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, March 10, 1 to 5 p.m.
“Frankenstein” at Boston Public Library, Copley Square.
An intimate audio experience by voice artist Paul McLaughlin and musician Taz Modi allows you to imagine yourself a scholar exploring the life and memories of Victor Frankenstein. The 30 minute work involves stops at nine desks where you’ll find “authentic Victorian objects in old archive boxes that come from ‘the Frankenstein Family Archive.’”


Saturday, March 9, 1 to 3 p.m.
“Break Bread, Fellowship & HEAL” at 230 Centre St., Dorchester Center, Boston.
“Our community has been faced with a lot of mourning and trauma, both as individuals and as a whole,” writes organizer James W. Hills, who has been addressing gun violence in the city. “As a community, let’s come together and simply break bread, fellowship and HEAL!”



Saturday, March 9, 2 to 9 p.m.
“Breakeasy 7” at Harvard University’s Lowell Lecture Hall, Cambridge.
Breakdancing battle/competition. There is never enough breakdancing!


Magnus Johnstone "Larger Works & More" at Nave Gallery
Magnus Johnstone “Larger Works & More” at Nave Gallery

Sunday, March 10, 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Magnus Johnstone “Larger Works & More,” opening reception at Nave Gallery, 155 Powder House Boulevard, Somerville. Plus 1:30 p.m. panel discussion about Johnstone’s life in Boston.
Visionary paintings by Magnus Johnstone (1953-2013), the trailblazing Boston hip-hop and raggae DJ from WZBC 90.3 FM and WMBR 88.1 FM.



Tuesday, March 12, 7 p.m.
“City of Boston Poetry Gathering with Porsha Olayiwola” at Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theater Paramount Center, Boston.
Hear the searing, riveting words of new Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola, the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion. The Jamaica Plain resident is also artistic director at MassLEAP, the Masschusetts youth literary nonprofist, and co-founded The House Slam, a poetry slam venue at the Haley House Bakery Café in Roxbury. Former Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges and other local artists will also read.


Wednesday, March 13, 7 to 9 p.m.
“Blackout Political Poetry Night with Mass Poetry” at Trident Booksellers and Café, 338 Newbury St., Boston.
Join poet MP Carver to consider the state of our democracy by erasing or blackouting sections of the Bill of Rights, the US Constitution, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” and Malala Yousafzai speech “Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons” to create poems out of the altered words of these documents. “We will display these erasures on Mass Poetry’s website, via social media, and exhibit them in large-scale format in public locales such as libraries, city halls, and on buses and subway cars.”


Thursday, March 14, 6 p.m.
Bouchra Khalili talk at Anderson Auditorium, SMFA at Tufts, 230 Fenway, Boston.
A talk by the Moroccan-French artist whose new film “22 Hours” is “a testament to Khalili’s research into the legacy of the Black Panther Party in Boston and its contemporary resonances,” says Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, which will screen it on March 20.


Anna Ziegler's "Photograph 51" at Central Square Theater
Anna Ziegler’s “Photograph 51” at Central Square Theater

Thursday, March 14, 7:30 p.m.
Anna Ziegler’s “Photograph 51” at Central Square Theater, Cambridge. Show runs through April 14, 2019.
A 2015 play about British biophysicist Rosalind Elsie Franklin, whose X-ray imaging in the 1950s revealed DNA’s double helix structure—but was overlooked when the Nobel Prize for research into DNA was given to three dudes, Francis Crick, James Dewey Watson, and Maurice Wilkins, who’d gained insight from her discoveries.


“The Figure is Queer” at Dorchester Art Project, Boston.
“The Figure is Queer” at Dorchester Art Project, Boston.

Friday, March 15, 6 to 9 p.m.
Reception for “The Figure is Queer” at Dorchester Art Project, Boston. The exhibit continues through March 22.
A showcase of local queer figure artists from the “Queer/Trans Figure Drawing” group and colleagues.


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