Events for June 10, 2016
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3:30 pm
Story Time with Jujube at the Boston Public Library
Join Boston-based drag queen Jujubee for stories, songs, and fun as the Boston Public Library kicks off their celebration of the Pride Parade. This event is part of the Children's Library Pride Month programming and is free and open to the public.
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Yaa Gyasi reads from her acclaimed debut novel, HOMEGOING
Harvard Bookstore and GrubStreet welcome debut novelist Yaa Gyasi for a reading from her anticipated first book, HOMEGOING: A NOVEL. Called "an inspiration" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and "hypnotic" by Isabel Wilkerson, Gyasi's multi-generational novel explores the long-term costs of human trafficking in Ghana, Europe and America. The reading will be followed by a book signing. […]
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Brown Box Theatre Project’s BRILLIANT TRACES
Brown Box Theatre Project is thrilled to launch their summer season with this raw and illuminating drama: "Brilliant Traces" by Cindy Lou Johnson! "Brilliant Traces" is set in a remote cabin nestled in the Alaskan wilderness. Sole occupant, Henry Harry, sleeps as a blizzard rages outside. When he is awakened by a pounding at the […]
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.