Events for May 3, 2018
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Story Club Boston
A monthly storytelling/reading show in Jamaica Plain. This month's theme: I Forgot - stories about forgetting and the aftermath. Featured storytellers and an open mic where audience members can tell their own 5 minute story, written or from the page.
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Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. at the Boston Public Library
Acclaimed Chicano poet, novelist, children’s book author, and journalist Luis J. Rodriguez tells the story of his childhood as a gang member in the national bestseller Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. This vivid memoir explores gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that haunts its participants. A New York […]
Find out more »7:30 pm
Step Afrika: The Migration at the EmersonArts Theater
Step Afrika! triumphantly returns to Boston with The Migration, a multimedia powerhouse production that chronicles and celebrates the paths of the brave men and women who left the American South searching for better opportunities. Inspired by painter Jacob Lawrence’s groundbreaking series about “The Great Migration,” the company transforms the work into a textured, interdisciplinary movement […]
Find out more »Staged Reading: How Will We Live Tomorrow?
The first public staged reading of How Will We Live Tomorrow? will be held at Boston Playwrights' Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave, on Thursday May 3rd at 7:30 p.m. A middle-aged white man bicycles to the 48 contiguous states, and asks everyone he meets, ‘How Will We Live Tomorrow?’ Along the way, he encounters generous people […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.