{"id":10589,"date":"2019-03-06T20:12:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T01:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=10589"},"modified":"2019-03-22T11:22:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T15:22:16","slug":"recommended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2019\/03\/06\/recommended\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended: Breakdancing \u2022 Poet Laureate \u2022 Boston Black Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 8 to 15, 2019:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(<em>Pictured above:\u00a0Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/wonderlandlandfanclub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don&#8217;t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Friday, March 8, 7 to 10 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/702196520178138\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artists of Color Pop-up <\/a>at 363 B Centre St., Jamaica Plain, Boston.<\/em><br \/>\n\u201cArt by local and\/or displaced artists of color\u201d will be featured in this pop-up exhibition in a vacant commercial space in the heart of Jamaica Plain\u2019s Latin Quarter. Organized by the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Saturday, March 9, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, March 10, 1 to 5 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/bpl.bibliocommons.com\/events\/5c6da2f1449967200e8fcb05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cFrankenstein\u201d<\/a> at Boston Public Library, Copley Square.<\/em><br \/>\nAn 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\u2019ll find \u201cauthentic Victorian objects in old archive boxes that come from \u2018the Frankenstein Family Archive.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Saturday, March 9, 1 to 3 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2299771420266865\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cBreak Bread, Fellowship &amp; HEAL\u201d<\/a> at 230 Centre St., Dorchester Center, Boston.<\/em><br \/>\n\u201cOur community has been faced with a lot of mourning and trauma, both as individuals and as a whole,\u201d writes organizer James W. Hills, who has been addressing gun violence in the city. \u201cAs a community, let&#8217;s come together and simply break bread, fellowship and HEAL!\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0A6jYSdjvfY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Saturday, March 9, 2 to 9 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/333450897253143\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Breakeasy 7\u201d<\/a> at Harvard University\u2019s Lowell Lecture Hall, Cambridge.<\/em><br \/>\nBreakdancing battle\/competition. There is never enough breakdancing!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10592\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picMagnusJohnstoneNave190309.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10592\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picMagnusJohnstoneNave190309.jpg\" alt=\"Magnus Johnstone &quot;Larger Works &amp; More&quot; at Nave Gallery\" width=\"960\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picMagnusJohnstoneNave190309.jpg 960w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picMagnusJohnstoneNave190309-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picMagnusJohnstoneNave190309-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picMagnusJohnstoneNave190309-370x222.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magnus Johnstone &#8220;Larger Works &amp; More&#8221; at Nave Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Sunday, March 10, 3:30 to 5 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/navegallery.org\/wp\/magnus-johnstone-larger-works\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Magnus Johnstone &#8220;Larger Works &amp; More,\u201d<\/a> opening reception at Nave Gallery, 155 Powder House Boulevard, Somerville. Plus 1:30 p.m. panel discussion about Johnstone\u2019s life in Boston.<\/em><br \/>\nVisionary paintings by Magnus Johnstone (1953-2013), the trailblazing Boston hip-hop and raggae DJ from WZBC 90.3 FM and WMBR 88.1 FM.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A6sugtJ78xY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Tuesday, March 12, 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.gov\/calendar\/city-boston-poetry-gathering-poet-laureate-porsha-olayiwola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cCity of Boston Poetry Gathering with Porsha Olayiwola\u201d<\/a> at Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theater Paramount Center, Boston.<\/em><br \/>\nHear 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 Caf\u00e9 in Roxbury. Former Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges and other local artists will also read.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, March 13, 7 to 9 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/553547621805865\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cBlackout Political Poetry Night with Mass Poetry\u201d<\/a> at Trident Booksellers and Caf\u00e9, 338 Newbury St., Boston.<\/em><br \/>\nJoin 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.\u2019s \u201cLetter From a Birmingham Jail\u201d and Malala Yousafzai speech &#8220;Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons&#8221; to create poems out of the altered words of these documents. \u201cWe will display these erasures on Mass Poetry&#8217;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.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Thursday, March 14, 6 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/smfa.tufts.edu\/events-exhibits\/galleries#visiting-artist-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bouchra Khalili talk<\/a> at Anderson Auditorium, SMFA at Tufts, 230 Fenway, Boston.<\/em><br \/>\nA talk by the Moroccan-French artist whose new film \u201c22 Hours\u201d is \u201ca testament to Khalili\u2019s research into the legacy of the <strong>Black Panther Party in Boston<\/strong> and its contemporary resonances,\u201d says Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts, which will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.org\/programs\/bouchra-khalili\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">screen it on March 20<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10593\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picPhotograph51CentralSq190314.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10593\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picPhotograph51CentralSq190314.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Ziegler's &quot;Photograph 51&quot; at Central Square Theater\" width=\"960\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picPhotograph51CentralSq190314.jpg 960w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picPhotograph51CentralSq190314-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picPhotograph51CentralSq190314-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picPhotograph51CentralSq190314-370x193.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Ziegler&#8217;s &#8220;Photograph 51&#8221; at Central Square Theater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Thursday, March 14, 7:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralsquaretheater.org\/shows\/photograph-51-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Ziegler&#8217;s &#8220;Photograph 51&#8221;<\/a> at Central Square Theater, Cambridge. Show runs through April 14, 2019.<\/em><br \/>\nA 2015 play about British biophysicist Rosalind Elsie Franklin, whose X-ray imaging in the 1950s revealed DNA\u2019s double helix structure\u2014but was overlooked when the Nobel Prize for research into DNA was given to three dudes, Francis Crick, James Dewey Watson, and Maurice Wilkins, who\u2019d gained insight from her discoveries.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10591\" style=\"width: 742px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picFigureIsQueerDotArtProjects19031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10591\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picFigureIsQueerDotArtProjects19031.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cThe Figure is Queer\u201d at Dorchester Art Project, Boston.\" width=\"742\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picFigureIsQueerDotArtProjects19031.jpg 742w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picFigureIsQueerDotArtProjects19031-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/picFigureIsQueerDotArtProjects19031-370x479.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe Figure is Queer\u201d at Dorchester Art Project, Boston.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Friday, March 15, 6 to 9 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/bostonhassle.com\/event\/the-figure-is-queer-queer-trans-figure-drawing-showcase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reception for \u201cThe Figure is Queer\u201d<\/a> at Dorchester Art Project, Boston. The exhibit continues through March 22.<\/em><br \/>\nA showcase of local queer figure artists from the \u201cQueer\/Trans Figure Drawing\u201d group and colleagues.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>To be considered for Recommended, <a href=\"mailto:gcook30@hotmail.com\">email your events<\/a> by Monday the week (or so) before your event. Please include links to event info. Thanks!<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/wonderlandlandfanclub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don&#8217;t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 8 to 15, 2019: (Pictured above:\u00a0Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola) If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter so that you don&#8217;t miss any of our reporting. 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