Holi is “the Hindu Festival of Colors which celebrates the arrival of Spring,” the Boston University Hindu Student Council writes. This afternoon they invited hundreds of their fellow students to…Continue Reading →
As is traditional, the families gathered at Gloucester’s Temple Ahavat Achim for their annual celebration of the Jewish holiday of Purim on Wednesday evening were costumed as superheroes and princesses,…Continue Reading →
“That could have been me. That could have been my brother. That could have been my own family,” Farida Moustafa told the hundreds of people gathered outside Cambridge City Hall…Continue Reading →
Gragger—Boston Workmen’s Circle’s annual, grown-up “evening of gender-bending, ancestral-healing, world-transforming Purim festivities”—is named for the clacker or rattle traditionally used to blot out the villain’s name in the ancient Jewish…Continue Reading →
“Hey, hey, ho, ho! Climate change has got to go,” chanted hundreds of people at the Youth Climate Strike at the Massachusetts State House in Boston at midday today. Predicted…Continue Reading →
Chinese Culture Connection hosted its annual Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration at Malden High School on Jan. 26, 2019. All photos copyright 2019 Greg Cook. If this is the kind…Continue Reading →
Window of Semper Vi, 304 Essex St., Salem, Jan. 9, 2019. Copyright 2019 Greg Cook)Continue Reading →
Art and activism across Boston and New England as I witnessed it in 2018. All photos copyright 2018 Greg Cook. Pictured at top: Double Edge Theatre’s “Leonora’s World,” Ashfield, Massachusetts,…Continue Reading →
“We are here today because we believe in the rule of law and we have a president who does not,” said Myra Slotnick, one of the organizers of “Rally To…Continue Reading →
The Gallery on Main Street in Malden hosted a public celebration of the Hindu festival of Diwali tonight. “Diwali is known as the festival of lights,” Shikha Vyas told the…Continue Reading →