Dedham Public Library

Come meet&nbsp;Patrick Bringley, author of the bestselling book All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum and Me&nbsp;at the Dedham Public Library as part of Dedham Reads Together, the annual community-wide reading program launched in 2011 by <a href="https://www.dlitdedham.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dedham Library Innovation Team (DLIT)</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;A reception including a book signing, cash bar, raffles,&nbsp;live music by pianist Linnéa Bardarson, and light refreshments will follow the author talk. The event is FREE and open to the public, but pre-registration is requested at:&nbsp;<a href="https://dlit2024.eventbrite.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DLIT2024.eventbrite.com</a>. Named Best Book of the Year by the New York Public Library, National Public Radio, the Financial Times, and the London Sunday Times, Bringley’s book is an inspiring portrait of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (aka "the&nbsp;MET",) written after Bringley spent ten years as a security guard at the museum. With accolades from all corners of the book industry, the book follows Bringley’s journey from the personal crisis that led him to seek temporary solace as a guard, to the wisdom and healing that is unexpectedly built over time through his relationships with his colleagues, and more importantly, the art all around him. <a href="https://www.patrickbringley.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bringley</a>’s book was named the 2024 Dedham Reads Together Official Selection by the award-winning non-profit&nbsp;Dedham Library Innovation Team (DLIT)&nbsp;and its program partners. Generous sponsorship by <a href="https://www.dedhamsavings.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dedham Savings</a>.&nbsp;

Local Event: Meet Best-Selling Author Patrick Bringley Thursday April 18th at Dedham Public Library 

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Meet Best-Selling Author Patrick Bringley...

Thursday April 18, 2024: Come meet&nbsp;Patrick Bringley, author of the bestselling book All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum...

Meet Best-Selling Author Patrick Bringley Thursday April 18th at Dedham Public Library 

Florida Ruffin Ridley School

Come see the area's only community rock choir in concert, backed up by a four-piece band. Playing songs by Boston, Eric Clapton, Kacey Musgraves,&nbsp;Fleetwood Mac, George Benson, Foo Fighters, Selena Gomez, Crosby Stills &amp; Nash, the Monkees, and more. (Plus a tribute to the late Jimmy Buffett as well as the late Robbie Robertson.) Tickets available at the door or in advance online at <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rock-voices-brookline-tickets-857239916667" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eventbrite.com.</a>
Want to sing with us? Our summer season (a tribute to QUEEN!) starts the Tuesday, May 21 in Brookline. Come to the first rehearsal and try it out risk-free!&nbsp;We also have groups in Newton and Framingham.&nbsp;

Local Event: Rock Voices Concert

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Rock Voices Concert

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Come see the area's only community rock choir in concert, backed up by a four-piece band. Playing songs by Boston,...

The Huntington at the Calderwood Pavilion / BCA

Emmy-winning actor Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue) will bring his acclaimed portrayal of poet Robert Frost to Boston this Spring in the one-man show "Robert Frost: This Verse Business" by local playwright A.M. Dolan. It’s an entertaining portrait of the great poet and platform legend whose public “talks” were hot tickets for nearly half a century and an illuminating glimpse of the old bard at home, aware of his fame and failures, with poems still to write and “promises to keep.”\
Directed by Gus Kaikkonen, performances will run from April 23-28, 2024 (<a href="mailto:jbpr@comcast.net">Press Performance April 23 or 24</a>) in the Roberts Studio Theatre at Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, Tuesday - Friday, 7:30 PM; Saturday and Sunday, 2:00 PM. Tickets are $75 - $25. For more information, visit <a href="https://bostontheatrescene.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bostontheatrescene.com</a> or call 617 933 8600. “The Boston performances reflect a homecoming of sorts for the poet, who had a home on Beacon Hill and then, for the last two decades, in Cambridge on Brewster St.,” said Dolan. “He died in Boston, just weeks after giving his final ‘talk’ at the Ford Hall Forum. 2024 is the 150th anniversary of his birth, and April is ‘Poetry Month.’ The time felt right for the Boston premiere.” "Frost is a voice that we need in this century," Clapp said. "I feel like I'm bringing him into this time again."

Local Event: Emmy-Award winner Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue) in Robert Frost:This Verse Business

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Emmy-Award winner Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue) in...

Tuesday April 23, 2024: Emmy-winning actor Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue) will bring his acclaimed portrayal of poet Robert Frost to Boston this...

Emmy-Award winner Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue) in Robert Frost:This Verse Business

Jamaica Plain Branch of the Boston Public Library

Join us for a lunch of mentoring and networking on Tuesday, April 23, 12:30-1:30pm, at the JP Branch Library. Come with your questions about starting and running your own business. Open to entrepreneurs, small business owners, and anyone who has ever been interested in starting their own business.
This event is free and open to all. A complimentary lunch is provided. Please register in advance so that we may plan accordingly.

Local Event: Small Business Luncheon

Jamaica Plain

Small Business Luncheon

Tuesday April 23, 2024: Join us for a lunch of mentoring and networking on Tuesday, April 23, 12:30-1:30pm, at the JP Branch Library. Come...

Loring Greenough House

Tour a residential area that includes a National Historic District. View architecture that spans three centuries; the oldest community theater company in the United States; and an elegant 18th-century mansion that once served as the country’s first military hospital. Learn about the monument that commemorates fallen Civil War soldiers from West Roxbury and about Pauline Agassiz Shaw who established the class that became the model for free, public kindergarten education. We will visit a house dating to 1716 that once served as a tavern, the Eliot School dating back to 1689, the home of the first woman to graduate from MIT and the First Church Burial Ground.

All JPHS tours are free to the public. Our tours are canceled in case of heavy rain. No reservations are required, just meet the guide at the location listed.

Cannot attend on Saturdays at 11:00? You can also find our tours available in an online app! <a target="_blank" href="https://www.jphs.org/onlinetours?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3cnCTVK71jtsjM9V_aa3qbRwBXeBZNrwxgp1Eo0LXHZev77-1iyI4EaCc_aem_AaCVYc_RlHCUkmOr4QARtnMUDXKUNu_dGDnqwVcsfmBaU03ZouP896w2LpBp4YEjUX9Xl13nif65l8fsdLc965Hx" rel="nofollow">https://www.jphs.org/onlinetours</a>

Local Event: Walking Tour of Monument Square

Walking Tour of Monument Square

Saturday May 11, 2024: Tour a residential area that includes a National Historic District. View architecture that spans three centuries; the...

Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library

“The Flea and the Fly” is a 30-minute, fun-filled, music + storytime experience for youth 4-8 years of age. Using music by Black women composers, including Maible Bailey, Florence Price, and Margaret Bonds, this original storybook tale written by Ashleigh Gordon teaches friendship and belonging in a way that both children and parents can enjoy.
Join them on January-June 2024 as Castle of our Skins presents a series of interactive, intergenerational, educational programs designed for youth and families. All programs highlight Black history, culture, music, and arts in our signature mix of education and entertainment.
Supported by the The Fellowes Fund of the Boston Public Library

Local Event: The Flea and The Fly

The Flea and The Fly

Saturday May 11, 2024: “The Flea and the Fly” is a 30-minute, fun-filled, music + storytime experience for youth 4-8 years of age. Using...

Holy Name Parish

We conclude our season by giving voice to “the dream unfinished”, a poignant reminder that we don't yet all share the same opportunities, freedoms, and liberties that are this country’s founding ideals. Our program includes Florence Price’s Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight and William Grant Still’s Plain-Chant for America, plus works by Randall Thompson, Margaret Bonds, André Thomas, Dorothy Rudd Moore, and Irving Berlin. Join us, baritone Philip Lima, and pianist Valerie Becker as we celebrate the American Dream’s ideals and the hope of realizing a world where people of all backgrounds can coexist harmoniously. Tickets are $40 ($10 for students; ID needed 14 and up) and are available at the door or through CommonwealthChorale.com/tickets. Admission is free for EBT/WIC card holders.

Local Event: Commonwealth Chorale: The Dream Unfinished

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Commonwealth Chorale: The Dream Unfinished

Saturday May 11, 2024: We conclude our season by giving voice to “the dream unfinished”, a poignant reminder that we don't yet all share the...

Featuring Castle of our Skins teaching artist Steph Davis; for children of all ages. Portraits of Spirituals is a 60-minute performance that explores the world of Negro spirituals as arranged for marimba. Audiences will have the opportunity to engage in traditional songs, melodies, and the culture and communities from which they come.

Local Event: Portraits of Spirituals

Portraits of Spirituals

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Rock Voices Concert

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Meet Best-Selling Author Patrick Bringley Thursday April 18th at Dedham Public Library

Rock Voices Concert

Emmy-Award winner Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue) in Robert Frost:This Verse Business