This Week&#x27;s Arts Events in Boston

290 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts

Featuring: Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, Julia Bullock

BMOP presents *Delight of the Muses*, a concert exploring inspiration, memory, language, and musical history through four eclectic works. The program opens with the world premiere of Anthony De Ritis’ *Jiggedy Jingle Jaunty Jaunty*, an orchestral work with electronics that draws on the artistic legacies of James Joyce and Luciano Berio.

Jordan Hall

Delight of the Muses

Featuring: Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, Julia Bullock

Boston, Ma

Delight of the Muses is a Boston Modern Orchestra Project concert conducted by Gil Rose, bringing together four eclectic works centered on inspiration, memory, language, and musical history. The program opens with the world premiere of Anthony De Ritis’s orchestral-and-electronic work, followed by Samuel Barber’s celebrated setting of James Agee’s recollection of a summer evening. Soprano Julia Bullock also performs two arias from Matthew Aucoin’s meditation on memory, language, and loss.

Sanders Theatre (Harvard Box Office)

Harvard LowKeys

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 6:00 PM

45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Featuring: LowKeys, Opportunes, Din & Tonics, Pitches

Once and Four All: The Last Jam brings the LowKeys, Opportunes, Din & Tonics, and Pitches together for an evening of a cappella music at Sanders Theatre.

Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra: Glinka, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky

Featuring: Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Ben Zander

The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra presents a program celebrating its final season. The concert opens with Glinka’s *Russian and Ludmilla Overture*, followed by Stravinsky’s *Petrushka*, and concludes with Ben Zander’s interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s *Symphony No. 5*.

Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra

Luminous Masters

52 Main Street (Milford Town Hall), Milford, MA 01757

Featuring: Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra

Luminous Masters opens the Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra’s 27th season with a program centered on major works by Brahms and Beethoven. The concert marks the completion of the orchestra’s complete Brahms Symphony Cycle, pairing Brahms’ warm, pastoral Second Symphony with his spirited Academic Festival Overture and Beethoven’s radiant Second Symphony.

Lexington Symphony

Vivid Images

1605 Massachusetts Avenue (Cary Hall / Isaac Harris Cary Memorial Building), Lexington, MA 02420

Featuring: Emily Rideout, New World Chorale, Holly Krafka

Vivid Images brings together three orchestral works that portray vivid, imaginative worlds. Richard Strauss’s mischievous tone poem follows the pranks of Till Eulenspiegel, Claude Debussy’s *La Mer* evokes the changing character of the sea, and Giya Kancheli’s *Styx* depicts the passage across the River Styx to the land of the dead. The program features Lexington Symphony principal violist Emily Rideout and the New World Chorale, led by Artistic Director Holly Krafka.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 7:30 PM

Undergraduate Opera Studio: Scenes Program

Featuring: Undergraduate Opera Studio

The Undergraduate Opera Studio presents an evening of short scenes drawn from three major operas, balancing comic moments with dramatic tragedy. The program is designed for both longtime opera enthusiasts and newcomers.

Boston Early Music Festival Presents: Les Arts Florissants

Featuring: William Christie, Paul Agnew, Les Arts Florissants

William Christie and Paul Agnew reunite to lead Les Arts Florissants in a program devoted to Claudio Monteverdi’s madrigals. The performance traces the form’s range, from intricate polyphonic writing and dissonant vocal textures to more elaborate music with a strong dance character, and concludes with Monteverdi’s dramatic *Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda* (*The Combat of Tancred and Clorinda*).

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Old South Church

Mighty Fortress at Old South Church

645 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Featuring: A Far Cry, Boston Children's Chorus, Kristin Renee Young, Clare McNamara, Brian Giebler, Paul Max Tipton

A Far Cry presents *Mighty Fortress* in the soaring sanctuary of Old South Church, bringing together orchestra, chorus, and four vocal soloists for a program about resilience, conviction, and the strength found in collective action. Curated by Crier Alex Fortes, the concert features the Boston Children’s Chorus alongside soprano Kristin Renee Young, mezzo-soprano Clare McNamara, tenor Brian Giebler, and bass Paul Max Tipton.

Sanders Theatre (Harvard Box Office)

Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum

45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Featuring: Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Radcliffe Choral Society, Cornell Chorus

The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and Radcliffe Choral Society present *The Years Between*, a concert exploring childhood and nostalgia through choral works by Nathan Carter, Katerina Gimon, Johannes Brahms, Francis Poulenc, Eriks Ešenvalds, and others. The Harvard ensembles are joined by the Cornell Chorus, a collegiate treble ensemble led by Dr. Joe Lerangis.

Haydn's The Creation

Featuring: Boston Symphony Orchestra

Haydn’s *The Creation* is a Boston Symphony Orchestra presentation of Joseph Haydn’s celebrated oratorio for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. Inspired by the biblical creation story in Genesis, the work reflects humanity’s enduring questions about the origins of the universe and showcases Haydn’s inventive musical imagination.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 6:00 PM

The Jim & Val Show

Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre

Featuring: Jim, Valerie

The Jim & Val Show brings together an experienced vocal duo with more than three decades of combined performance experience. Jim’s background includes work as a pianist, music director, arranger, and conductor for Broadway artists and touring productions in the United States and Europe. Valerie has spent more than 20 years performing in concert halls across the East Coast, particularly between Florida and New England, and has also appeared as a guest artist with numerous symphony orchestras. Now back in the Boston area, she joins Jim for an evening of live music at Club Café. Singers are welcome.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Through Sun, Nov 8, 2026

219 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Featuring: Boston Lyric Opera, Brittany Renee, Angela Yam, Thomas Glass, Brenton Ryan

Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama becomes a lyrical, emotionally exposed opera set to André Previn’s luminous score. In the oppressive heat of a New Orleans summer, Blanche DuBois seeks refuge with her sister Stella and Stella’s husband, Stanley, after leaving her Mississippi hometown. Blanche’s idealized vision of the past collides with Stanley’s domineering realism, unleashing a volatile story of desire, cruelty, illusion, fear of change, and destruction.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 1:30 PM

Weekend Concert Series

Featuring: Poiesis Quartet

The Poiesis Quartet performs in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Weekend Concert Series. Founded in 2022, the quartet has quickly gained attention in the classical music world. Its program pairs two major works from the established repertoire with contemporary pieces, including a new commission by Jeff Scott.

Jordan Hall

Alisa Weilerstein in Recital

Featuring: Alisa Weilerstein

Boston, Ma

Alisa Weilerstein opens her residency at The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul with an unaccompanied cello recital. Her program connects Joan Tower’s *For Alisa* with two of Johann Sebastian Bach’s celebrated solo cello suites, followed by Zoltán Kodály’s demanding 1915 Sonata for Solo Cello in B minor, a major work in the solo repertoire.

Multicultural Arts Center

Opera Cambridge: Down in the Valley

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Sun, Nov 8, 2026

41 2nd Street, Cambridge, MA 02141

Featuring: Opera Cambridge

Opera Cambridge presents *Down in the Valley*, an opera inspired by Kurt Weill’s affection for traditional American folk music. The work follows Brack and Jenny, whose love story is ultimately doomed.

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Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 12:00 PM

Recital: Subin Lee '27 GD, Harp

Featuring: Subin Lee

Subin Lee, a harp student in New England Conservatory’s ’27 Graduate Diploma class, presents a full professional recital developed through weekly individual study with faculty artist Jessica Zhou. The program spans works by Salzedo, Renie, Rameau, Chopin, and Smetana, showcasing Lee’s artistry and range.

Boston Civic Symphony: Season Opener

Featuring: Boston Civic Symphony

The Boston Civic Symphony opens its season with an in-person concert at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall. The event is open to the public, while programming and ticketing questions are handled by the orchestra.

Faculty Recital: Minsoo Sohn, Piano: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

Featuring: Minsoo Sohn

Minsoo Sohn, pianist and New England Conservatory faculty member, performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s *The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1* in a faculty recital at Jordan Hall. The performance is presented in person and is open to the public.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 8:00 PM

Recital: Evan Beachy '27 MM, Bass Trombone

Featuring: Evan Beachy, Lingbo Ma

Evan Beachy, a bass trombone student in NEC’s Master of Music program, presents a full professional recital shaped through weekly individual study with faculty artist James Markey. The program features works by Rocha, Strauss, Bach, Lebedev, and Chris Brubeck, with Lingbo Ma accompanying on piano.

North Quincy High School

Classical Concert I

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 2:30 PM

316 Hancock Street, Quincy, Massachusetts

Featuring: Quincy Symphony Orchestra, Victor Romanul

Classical Concert I is a Quincy Symphony Orchestra performance featuring Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 and Bruch’s Violin Concerto in G Minor, with violinist Victor Romanul as soloist. The concert is part of the orchestra’s 2025–2026 season.

Vivo Performing Arts presents Igor Levit, piano

Featuring: Igor Levit

Igor Levit makes his Symphony Hall recital debut in a solo program devoted entirely to Beethoven. The performance traces Beethoven’s artistic voice from the swagger of his early career to the luminous “Waldstein” Sonata, presenting the composer’s music as an intimate expression of human vulnerability and a statement of faith in the power of art.

Symphony by the Sea: The Heavenly Life

Featuring: Symphony by the Sea, Sara Heaton, Donald Palma

Symphony by the Sea opens its 45th season with “The Heavenly Life,” a performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. The work traces a journey from earthly existence toward heavenly bliss, imagining paradise through a child’s eyes with sleigh bells, radiant melodies, and a closing song celebrating the joys of heaven.

Wellesley Symphony Orchestra

The British Have Come!

50 Oakland Street (MassBay Community College), Wellesley, MA 02481

Featuring: Wellesley Symphony Orchestra

The British Have Come! is a classical concert featuring music by British composers, beginning with a contemporary work inspired by an iceberg off Newfoundland and concluding with Ralph Vaughan Williams’s celebrated Symphony No. 5. The program also includes William Boyce’s Symphony No. 4 and Benjamin Britten’s atmospheric Four Sea Interludes from the opera *Peter Grimes*.

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Sat, Nov 7, 2026 – Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 11:30 AM

Mom’s 90th Birthday Cabaret starring The Anastasio Sisters!

Featuring: Valerie Anastasio, Veronica Anastasio Wiseman

It’s a miracle: Jenny is turning 90, and sisters Valerie and Veronica Anastasio are celebrating with a cabaret built around the nine decades of her life. The musical journey invites the audience to help determine which songs make the final program, creating a birthday tribute that combines family history, singing, acting, and cabaret.

Breathe with Bach

Featuring: Emmanuel Music

Breathe with Bach is an Emmanuel Music performance designed to support the well-being of Boston’s community. It offers a chance to pause, feel connected, and experience live music in an accessible, low-pressure way, particularly for people who may not otherwise be able to attend a concert.

Peppino D'Agostino

Featuring: Peppino D’Agostino

Peppino D’Agostino brings his acclaimed acoustic guitar artistry to the Tempo Stage at The Platform. The Italian-born guitarist has spent decades developing original compositions and inventive arrangements built around his distinctive fingerstyle technique, expressive steel-string playing, and signature Seagull acoustic guitar.

The Foundry

Davóne Tines: What Creation Sounds Like

Featuring: Davóne Tines, John Bitoy, Vijay Iyer

Cambridge, Ma

Davóne Tines: What Creation Sounds Like explores how stories of humanity’s beginnings might illuminate the present and future. Bass-baritone Davóne Tines and pianist John Bitoy join innovative composer and pianist Vijay Iyer for a program combining live performance, improvisation, conversation, and musical examples.

Adolphus Busch Hall

Midday Organ Recital: Aidan Yau

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 12:15 PM

29 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Featuring: Aidan Yau

Aidan Yau performs a midday recital on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ at Adolphus Busch Hall. Audience members may bring lunch and eat quietly while listening. The recital is presented by the Harvard Organ Society in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums and Memorial Church.

Sanders Theatre (Harvard Box Office)

Fallen Angels

45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Featuring: Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones, Fallen Angels

The Fallen Angels and the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones join forces for *Tripping and Fallen: STUMBLE ON INTO A VERI COOL JAM*, an evening of vocal performance at Sanders Theatre. The show features original arrangements, choreography, and solos, with a repertoire spanning resonant R&B interpretations, high-energy pop moments, and more.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 – Sat, Nov 14, 2026 · 7:30 PM

Creation by Osvaldo Golijov

Featuring: Boston Symphony Orchestra

Creation by Argentine-American composer Osvaldo Golijov is a Boston Symphony Orchestra world premiere inspired by Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Creation. Combining symphonic, operatic, popular, and traditional musical influences from around the world, the work considers the vastness and apparent indifference of the cosmos alongside humanity’s capacity for cruelty, tenderness, and creative discovery.

Through Tue, Jan 26, 2027

Breathe with Bach

Featuring: Emmanuel Music

Breathe with Bach is Emmanuel Music’s ongoing partnership with the Boston Public Library, offering welcoming, accessible live music experiences in neighborhood library communities. The program is designed for people seeking respite, connection, or an opportunity to hear live music who may not otherwise be able to access it.

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Emmanuel Church

Weekly Bach Cantata Series

Through Sun, May 9, 2027

15 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Featuring: Emmanuel Music

Emmanuel Music’s Weekly Bach Cantata Series presents Bach’s sacred cantatas as part of the Sunday Eucharist at Emmanuel Church, preserving the liturgical setting for which the works were written. The series runs from September 20, 2026, through May 9, 2027, with the cantata performed shortly before the service’s closing hymn. The season also includes related sacred choral works, premieres, and music by composers including Bruckner, Brahms, Schütz, Byrd, Purcell, Handel, Britten, Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, Caroline Shaw, and others.

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Gary Higgins

Berklee College of Music / Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Featuring: Gary Higgins

Gary Higgins performs live at the ROOTED Armory Cafe at the Center for Arts at the Armory in Somerville. Presented by Octafish Events, the concert features the psych-folk musician whose 1973 cult album *Red Hash* was rediscovered and reissued decades later, bringing his music to a new generation of psych-folk listeners.

Xinyu Mi’s Recital

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 4:00 PM

136 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA 02115

Featuring: Xinyu Mi

Xinyu Mi presents a debut recital at Berklee College of Music, combining rock and hip-hop with an emo-influenced artistic style. The program reflects influences from Paramore, Michael Jackson, Sheena Ringo, and My Chemical Romance.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 9:00 PM

Svdden Death ( 18+ )

Boch Center (Wang & Shubert)

Featuring: Svdden Death

Svdden Death brings an electronic-music concert to Big Night Live in Boston. The event is presented by Crossroads Presents and is restricted to guests age 18 and older.

BEAT: Belew/Vai/Levin/Bozzio Performing the Music of KING CRIMSON

270 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116

Featuring: BEAT, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Steve Vai, Terry Bozzio

BEAT brings former King Crimson members Adrian Belew and Tony Levin together with guitarist Steve Vai and drummer Terry Bozzio for a live performance of music from King Crimson’s landmark 1980s albums. The concert focuses on *Discipline*, *Beat*, and *Three of a Perfect Pair*, presenting the material with the musicians’ own spirit, precision, and adventurousness rather than attempting to reproduce the original recordings.

Kyle Hume

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 8:30 PM

Featuring: Kyle Hume

Kyle Hume will perform a live concert at Brighton Music Hall in Boston. The event is presented by Citizens and is scheduled for Friday evening.

Burnes Hall

Recital: Hao Tian '27 BM, Contemporary Musical Arts

290 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts

Featuring: Hao Tian

Hao Tian ’27 BM presents a full professional recital in Contemporary Musical Arts, shaped through weekly individual study with faculty artist Adam Hendey. The program features Tian on voice and guitar, joined by trumpet, saxophone, piano, bass, and drums, with music by Artie Matthews, Paul McCartney, Harold Arlen, Fats Waller, and Duke Ellington.

André Ward

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Featuring: André Ward

André Ward performs live at City Winery Boston’s Main Stage, bringing a smooth, soulful saxophone sound shaped by influences including Earth, Wind & Fire and Sade. A Chicago native who developed his musical voice at Berklee and remained closely connected to Boston, Ward draws from his charting work, including “Caution,” and his album *AFRICA RISING*. The performance is expected to emphasize warm tones, deep grooves, and an intimate, seated-room atmosphere.

Songbird: Halley Neal sings Fleetwood Mac

Featuring: Halley Neal

Songbird: Halley Neal Sings Fleetwood Mac is a one-woman tribute performance led by award-winning singer-songwriter Halley Neal. A Berklee College of Music graduate in vocal performance, Neal draws on her extensive touring experience, original albums, and background as a trained vocalist to interpret Fleetwood Mac’s music through expressive singing, storytelling, and musicianship.

FREAK IT!

Featuring: Big Fanny, Aurora, Chanel thee Angel, Big Atlas

FREAK IT! is a Kim Petras and Slayyyter-themed drag show at Club Café’s Moonshine Room. The first half focuses on performances inspired by Kim Petras, while the second half shifts to Slayyyter. Big Fanny hosts the evening, with performances by Aurora, Chanel thee Angel, Big Atlas, and additional performers.

Amble

Featuring: Amble

Amble performs live in Boston at Citizens House of Blues Boston on November 6, 2026. The event is presented as an all-ages concert, with tickets available through the event’s ticketing pages.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 9:00 PM

Organically Good Trio

Featuring: Organically Good Trio, Paul Wolstencroft, Van Gordon Martin, Tommy Benedetti

Organically Good Trio returns to Lizard Lounge for a Boston-rooted blend of reggae, soul, and boogaloo. The Hammond organ trio draws on the Jamaican organ tradition of Jackie Mittoo and classic late-1960s boogaloo, bringing a distinctive sound to the New England reggae scene.

Gavin Adcock: The Day I Hang It Up Tour 2026

Featuring: Gavin Adcock, Braxton Keith, The Creekers

Gavin Adcock brings his *The Day I Hang It Up Tour 2026* to MGM Music Hall at Fenway for a live concert performance. The Boston date features support from Braxton Keith and The Creekers.

Badterms / Klaxon / The Apathetix / Commonwealth / DJ Gabe

Featuring: Badterms, Klaxon, The Apathetix, Commonwealth, DJ Gabe

Badterms, Klaxon, The Apathetix, Commonwealth, and DJ Gabe appear on the same bill at O’Brien’s Pub. The show is for guests age 21 and older, with a 7 PM start time.

Jeffrey Gaines

Featuring: Jeffrey Gaines

Jeffrey Gaines brings his intimate, soulful singer-songwriter performance to Off Cabot. Accompanying himself with guitar, Gaines is known for introspective lyrics, uplifting melodies, and a powerful live presence developed over more than three decades of recording and touring. His set draws on a career that began with his acclaimed 1992 debut album and includes the hit “Hero in Me,” the well-known interpretation of Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes,” live recordings, and his 2018 studio album, *Alright*.

almost monday - THANK GOD IT'S ALMOST MONDAY

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Featuring: almost monday

almost monday brings the THANK GOD IT’S ALMOST MONDAY TOUR to Paradise Rock Club in Boston for a live concert presented by Citizens.

Regent Theatre

Dennis Brennan Band Live

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 9:00 PM

7 Medford Street, Arlington, MA 02474

Featuring: Dennis Brennan Band, Dennis Brennan, Duke Levine, Kevin Barry, Richard Gates, Billy Beard

Dennis Brennan Band Live celebrates Leland Stein’s 25th year at the Regent Theatre with a special performance by the original Dennis Brennan Band. The concert brings together Dennis Brennan with Duke Levine, Kevin Barry, Richard Gates, and Billy Beard for a soulful blend of rock, blues, roots, country, R&B, jazz, and other Americana influences.

Nimino (18 and Over)

Rockport Music / Shalin Liu Performance Center

Featuring: Nimino

Nimino brings their evolving electronic music project to Roadrunner for an evening concert. The artist’s releases include several singles and an EP, tied together by artwork featuring the recurring nimino character. The character represents the changing environments and influences that have shaped nimino’s musical tastes.

The Lowest Pair

37 Main Street, Rockport, MA 01966

Featuring: The Lowest Pair, Kendl Winter, Palmer T. Lee

The Lowest Pair, the modern roots duo of Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee, bring an intimate performance of poetic folk songs, interwoven vocals, and understated string arrangements to Rockport Music. Their music explores emotional contrasts such as grief and joy, uncertainty and clarity, embracing life’s ongoing cycles rather than resolving them into simple opposites.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 5:30 PM

Ray Cashman

Featuring: Ray Cashman

Ray Cashman brings his “Gumbo Troubadour” performance to Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center. The Mississippi singer, songwriter, and guitarist has spent more than 30 years developing a raw, blues-driven style of American roots music, combining a powerful voice, intricate fingerpicking, amplified foot percussion, and Southern storytelling.

Crosswind - The Chris Stapleton Experience

Featuring: Crosswind, Alec Antobenedetto

Crosswind – The Chris Stapleton Experience is a live tribute centered on the music and distinctive voice of Chris Stapleton, including the sound associated with *Traveller*. The project was created by Alec Antobenedetto, who performs drums with several well-known regional groups. He assembled a group of fellow musicians to share their enthusiasm for Stapleton’s music and recreate it for audiences.

Scullers Jazz Club

ELAN TROTMAN - 25 YEARS IN MUSIC

400 Soldiers Field Rd, Boston, MA 02134

Featuring: Elan Trotman

Elan Trotman celebrates 25 years in music with a contemporary and smooth jazz performance at Scullers Jazz Club. Trotman has released 12 solo albums, appeared on 54 collaborations, and earned 18 Top 30 Billboard radio singles. His extensive touring résumé includes performances alongside Earl Klugh, Peter White, Jonathan Butler, Will Downing, Johnny Gill, Michael McDonald, Sheila E., Marcus Miller, and Peabo Bryson.

The Paradox, Meet Me @ The Altar

Featuring: The Paradox, Meet Me @ The Altar, Ada Juarez, Edith Victoria

The Middle East presents The Paradox with Meet Me @ The Altar at Sonia in Cambridge. Meet Me @ The Altar brings a pop-punk and easycore sound built around catchy melodies, forceful guitar riffs, energetic drumming, and emotionally direct vocals. The band’s lineup includes drummer Ada Juarez and lead vocalist Edith Victoria.

Willie Mac

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Featuring: Willie Mac

Willie Mac performs live at Soundcheck Studios in Pembroke, Massachusetts. The event page lists the show for Friday, November 6, 2026, with an 8:00 PM start time.

A Killer's Confession

Featuring: A Killer's Confession, Dizasterpiece, Dead Things, Silent Season

A Killer’s Confession, presented by Bug World Presents, comes to Taffeta Music Hall with performances by Dizasterpiece, Dead Things, and Silent Season. The event is scheduled for November 6, 2026.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 6:00 PM

Traditional Irish Session

Traditional Irish Session is a weekly gathering hosted by local musicians from Boston and Ireland, featuring traditional Irish music at The Bebop. The session runs for three hours on Friday, November 6, 2026.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 9:30 PM

Blues Jam at The Bebop

Blues Jam at The Bebop is an evening blues session featuring a house band for the first hour, followed by an open jam for blues musicians who would like to sit in and play. A local Berklee student hosts the session each week.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Jeff Galindo

Featuring: Jeff Galindo

Jeff Galindo presents an early jazz dinner set at Beehive Restaurant in Boston. The performance features Galindo’s powerful, creative trombone playing and expressive, energetic style, creating dynamic performances designed to bring the stage to life.

Bubble Wave

Featuring: Bubble Wave

Bubble Wave is a Boston-based neo-reggae collective combining reggae, R&B, jazz, and funk. The group presents itself as a flexible live music experience, with a seasoned Boston lineup that can adapt from intimate lounge performances to large festivals. Its sound and format are designed to bring the versatility of a DJ set while retaining the energy and immediacy of a live band.

Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives

Featuring: Marty Stuart, The Fabulous Superlatives, Kenny Vaughan, Harry Stinson, Chris Scruggs

Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives bring more than five decades of country music experience to The Cabot. A five-time GRAMMY Award winner, Country Music Hall of Famer, Congress of Country Music founder, and recipient of the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Stuart has performed with legends including Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash and built a celebrated solo career with albums such as *Hillbilly Rock* and *This One’s Gonna Hurt You*.

The Foundry

William Basinski: The Garden of Brokenness

Featuring: William Basinski, Adam Tendler, Boston Symphony Orchestra percussionists and pianists

Cambridge, Ma

William Basinski presents the American premiere of *The Garden of Brokenness* as part of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Creation Festival. This rare live realization marks the 20th anniversary of the work’s recorded release and follows its world premiere at the Venice Biennale.

Lafayette Gilchrist ft. Cecil Brooks of the Sun Ra Arkestra

Featuring: Lafayette Gilchrist, Cecil Brooks

Lafayette Gilchrist returns to The Lilypad for a seated performance featuring special guest Cecil Brooks, a Cambridge native and fellow member of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Gilchrist’s music spans jazz traditions from stride to free improvisation while incorporating hip-hop, funk, and Washington, D.C.’s distinctive go-go sound. His compositions move between forceful funk, stride, swing, hip-hop, abstract textures, and deep grooves.

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Jesse Gold

Featuring: Jesse Gold, Jeremy Passion

Jesse Gold performs at The Middle East’s Upstairs room in Cambridge, with Jeremy Passion also on the lineup. The evening features pop and R&B performances, with doors opening at 7:00 PM. VIP tickets include a meet-and-greet, an acoustic performance, and first access to merchandise.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 8:30 PM

Adult. & A Place To Bury Strangers

Featuring: ADULT., A Place To Bury Strangers, Nicola Kuperus, Adam Lee Miller

ADULT. and A Place To Bury Strangers perform at The Sinclair in Cambridge. ADULT., the Detroit-based duo of Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller, are known for combining avant-garde electronics and punk with an intentionally unsettling atmosphere. The event page highlights ADULT.’s extensive recording history and their album *PERCEPTION IS/AS/OF DECEPTION*, a nine-song work inspired by uncertainty, perception, and ideas drawn from writers and artists including Merleau-Ponty, Goethe, Aldous Huxley, and Jean Cocteau.

The Glitter Boys

Featuring: The Glitter Boys

The Glitter Boys perform at The Sinclair in Cambridge on Friday, November 6, 2026. The event is for guests age 21 and over, with doors opening at 9:30 PM and the performance scheduled for 10:00 PM.

Rick & Friends

Featuring: Rick Silberg

Rick & Friends is a weekly morning jazz residency led by vocalist and flutist Rick Silberg in the Armory Cafe. Each week features a varied lineup performing jazz favorites and great American classics, with music continuing through much of the morning.

SoTalented presents TopOppGen, Chuckyy & B-Lovee

Featuring: TopOppGen, Chuckyy, B-Lovee

SoTalented brings TopOppGen, Chuckyy, and B-Lovee to Big Night Live for an all-ages hip-hop and trap concert in Boston. The event promises high-energy live performances, hard-hitting music, and an energetic crowd atmosphere. One listing refers to B-Lovee as “R Lovee,” but the event title and lineup identify the performer as B-Lovee.

Porch Light: Hush Tour

Featuring: Porch Light

Porch Light brings its Hush Tour to Brighton Music Hall for an atmospheric evening of indie and alternative rock. The performance is described as featuring evocative songwriting and a compelling live presentation from the band.

Jimmy Webb

Featuring: Jimmy Webb

Jimmy Webb comes to City Winery Boston for a live performance celebrating his extraordinary career as a songwriter and recording artist. Known as “America’s Songwriter,” Webb has written enduring songs including “MacArthur Park,” “Wichita Lineman,” and “Worst That Could Happen,” while his compositions have been interpreted by artists across pop, country, blues, jazz, disco, rap, and EDM.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 4:00 PM

Mary Mac

Featuring: Mary Mac, Andy Lantz

Mary Mac returns to Josephine’s stage with Boston pianist Andy Lantz for an evening inspired by Berlin cabaret between the two world wars. Their performance invites audiences to mingle with society’s outsiders and scapegoats as they satirize the status quo while imagining a better world.

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Merced Stratton’s House Party

Featuring: Merced Stratton, Cassie Kollman, Tyler Cesario, JJ Thomchick

Merced Stratton hosts her first NATS BOSTON House Party, bringing together two members of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, jazz singer-songwriter and teaching artist Cassie Kollman and tenor, voice teacher, clinician, and Brown University teaching associate Tyler Cesario. JJ Thomchick joins them on piano for an evening centered on vocal performance and musicianship.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 10:00 PM

Saturday Night House Party

Featuring: DJ Darrin Friedman

Saturday Night House Party brings DJ Darrin Friedman to Club Café’s Moonshine Room for a high-energy dance night. As the first Saturday event of the month, the party features driving house music and big pop anthems designed to keep the dance floor moving into the early morning.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 7:00 PM

Alastair Moock’s Pastures of Plenty

Featuring: Mercedes Escobar, Eric Royer, Sean Staples, Paul Kochanski

Alastair Moock’s *Pastures of Plenty* is a long-running Boston-area songwriting showcase that brings together folk, Americana, roots, blues, and rock musicians to share songs onstage. Moock began the series in 2000 to connect different parts of the local music community, including traditional and contemporary folk artists, roots-rock performers, and musicians from different generations. It has been described by *The Boston Globe* as “the hippest hootenanny in town.”

Larcom Theatre

Everybody Wants Some

13 Wallis Street, Beverly, MA 01915

Featuring: Everybody Wants Some

Everybody Wants Some is a high-energy tribute to Van Halen’s classic 1978–1984 period. The band recreates the era’s signature sound, look, and attitude, from Eddie Van Halen’s virtuosic guitar work to David Lee Roth’s exuberant stage presence, in a hard-rocking show built around the band’s best-loved songs.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 9:00 PM

Kabir Sen & The Krush Factory

Featuring: MC Kabir, The Krush Factory

Kabir Sen & The Krush Factory bring MC Kabir and the Krush Factory to Lizard Lounge for their monthly first-Saturday residency. The performance is scheduled for an evening set in Cambridge.

Sammy Rae & The Friends - the GET DOWN!

Featuring: Sammy Rae & The Friends, Melt

Sammy Rae & The Friends bring “the GET DOWN!” to MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston for a concert on Saturday, November 7, 2026. The performance is scheduled to begin at 8:00 PM and features special guest Melt.

MIT Music and Theater Arts (Kresge)

MITHAS presents Vignesh Ishwar

77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

Featuring: Vignesh Ishwar

MITHAS presents Vignesh Ishwar in an exceptional Carnatic vocal recital featuring South Indian classical music. Ishwar is known for his powerful voice, precise shruti alignment, and an approach that combines deep respect for tradition with imaginative interpretation. His performance is expected to include expressive renditions of kritis, extended raga alapana, neraval, kalpana swaras, and intricate rhythmic work.

Ditz / Gloin / Sunrise//Pripyat

Featuring: DITZ, Gloin, Sunrise//Pripyat

DITZ, Gloin, and Sunrise//Pripyat appear on a post-punk and punk bill presented by Mass Concerts at O’Brien’s Pub. The page highlights DITZ with Gloin, while the event listing names all three acts.

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Puppy Pile / NOTADOG / Around My Apartment

Featuring: Puppy Pile, NOTADOG, Around My Apartment

Puppy Pile, NOTADOG, and Around My Apartment perform at O’Brien’s Pub in a Broken String Booking presentation. The event is listed as an alternative/indie show with a 2 p.m. start time and a 21+ age restriction.

Danielle Miraglia & Adam Sherman Duo w/Peter Hoffman

Featuring: Danielle Miraglia, Adam Sherman, Peter Hoffman

Danielle Miraglia and Adam Sherman join forces for an evening of folk, blues, roots, and rock at Off Cabot, with Peter Hoffman accompanying Sherman. Miraglia performs with acoustic guitar and stomp-box-style foot percussion, blending heartfelt and socially conscious original songs with material influenced by artists such as Big Bill Broonzy, Bob Dylan, and Janis Joplin. Her album *Bright Shining Stars* reached No. 15 on the Billboard Blues Charts and features a solo acoustic sound alongside guest appearances by Laurence Scudder, Peter Parcek, and Richard “Rosy” Rosenblatt.

Mr. Fantasy: Sexy Saturday Nights Tour

Featuring: Mr. Fantasy

Mr. Fantasy: Sexy Saturday Nights Tour comes to Paradise Rock Club in Boston for an evening performance presented by Citizens. The event is scheduled for Saturday, November 7, 2026.

Hudson Westbrook

Featuring: Hudson Westbrook

Hudson Westbrook brings his Texas-rooted country sound to Roadrunner in Boston. The page describes Westbrook as a Stephenville, Texas, native shaped by Red Dirt and influenced by artists including George Strait, the Turnpike Troubadours, Parker McCollum, Koe Wetzel, and Tracy Lawrence.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 3:00 PM

Brian Burkhart

Featuring: Brian Burkhart

Brian Burkhart is scheduled at Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center in Maynard on November 7, 2026. The available event information does not include a description, performer details, schedule, or other programming specifics.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 5:30 PM

Jim Larkin

Featuring: Jim Larkin

Jim Larkin brings a solo performance to Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center, where the longtime New England musician will perform at the bar in the venue’s Barside room. His musical credits include work with Al Green, The J. Geils Band, Los Lobos, and Etta James, and his solo shows have been praised as especially impressive by Jim Gould of Newburyport Brewing Co.

Dead Ahead - Anniversary Celebration!

Featuring: Dead Ahead

Dead Ahead celebrates its second anniversary at Sanctuary with an evening devoted to Grateful Dead music, extended improvisational jams, dancing, and community. The band will draw from both familiar favorites and deeper cuts, with room for spontaneous musical exploration and surprises.

Scullers Jazz Club

STEVEN FEIFKE & FRIENDS - 10TH ALBUM CELEBRATION

400 Soldiers Field Rd, Boston, MA 02134

Featuring: Steven Feifke

Steven Feifke & Friends celebrate the release of Feifke’s 10th album with two jazz performances at Scullers Jazz Club. Feifke is a GRAMMY Award-winning bandleader, composer, arranger, and pianist whose work has been praised for its energy and “infectious joy.” His collaborators have included Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride, the Metropole Orkest, the New York Pops, and the Toronto Symphony.

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Somerville Theatre

Le Vent du Nord

Featuring: Le Vent du Nord

Le Vent du Nord, whose name means “The North Wind,” brings Québec’s progressive folk revival to Somerville Theatre. The award-winning francophone quintet draws on the Celtic diaspora to create energetic, soulful music filled with swings, reels, jigs, and songs.

Slip Bizkit - Nu Metal Night!

Featuring: Slip Bizkit

Slip Bizkit brings a high-energy tribute to the nu-metal era to Soundcheck Studios, recreating the genre’s heavy riffs, rap-influenced hooks, breakdowns, attitude, and explosive live intensity. The performance draws from the music of Linkin Park, Slipknot, System of a Down, Korn, Limp Bizkit, and other major acts associated with early-2000s nu metal.

Archer Oh

Featuring: Archer Oh, Integra Pink, The Ghouls, Key Found

Archer Oh performs at Taffeta Music Hall in a concert presented by Bug World Presents. The lineup also includes Integra Pink, The Ghouls, and Key Found.

Gypsy Jazz Brunch at The Bebop!

Gypsy Jazz Brunch at The Bebop features live gypsy jazz and swing-inspired music as part of The Bebop’s weekend brunch programming. The event runs on Saturday, November 7, 2026, with music from noon through the afternoon.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 10:30 PM

Float Stanley

Featuring: Float Stanley

Float Stanley performs at The Bebop on Saturday, November 7, 2026. The listing places the performance late at night, beginning at 10:30 p.m.; its event-time display ends at 11:59 p.m., while the event description says the performance runs until 1 a.m.

Pop Into the Chemist

Featuring: Mike Hermans, George Chinaglia

Pop Into the Chemist is a jazz brunch at Beehive Restaurant featuring guitarist Mike Hermans and bassist George Chinaglia leading a trio. The musicians perform expressively arranged pop songs in a cool, polished jazz style.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Sarah Brindell

Featuring: Sarah Brindell, Tom Appleman, Nathan Sabanayagam

Sarah Brindell performs an evening of original music at Beehive Restaurant with Tom Appleman and Nathan Sabanayagam. The event is presented as a night of beautiful music and a welcoming atmosphere during dinner.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 10:00 PM

Zaccai Curtis

Featuring: Zaccai Curtis, Luques Curtis, Lee Fish

Zaccai Curtis performs at The Beehive as part of the venue’s Jazz Master Series. The Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer, and producer is known for combining jazz and Latin jazz with energetic rhythms and soulful improvisation.

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The Fallout Shelter (Extended Play Sessions)

Walter Parks & The Unlawful Assembly The Magnificent Quartet Returns!

61 Endicott Street, Norwood, MA 02062

Featuring: Walter Parks, The Unlawful Assembly, Ada Dyer, Steven Williams, Etienne Lytle

Walter Parks and The Unlawful Assembly return to The Fallout Shelter following a celebrated February appearance by Parks and vocalist Ada Dyer. Led by guitarist, singer, and songwriter Walter Parks, the group reimagines historic spirituals and hymns through a roots-oriented blend of gospel, blues, prison work chants, swamp hollers, shaped-note hymns, Appalachian reels, southern rock, jazz, early-1970s soul, and electronic loops.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 5:30 PM

Pablo ablanedo Octet(o)

Featuring: Pablo Ablanedo, Fernando Brandao, Dan Rosenthal, Rick DiMuzio, Eric Hofbauer

Pablo Ablanedo Octet(o) presents a jazz performance centered on Ablanedo’s compositions, which are described as highly crafted works shaped by an unusual sensitivity to sound and acoustics. The music has received strong international praise, including a four-star JazzWise review calling much of it magnificent and enduring, as well as recognition from Latin Jazz Network and France Musique for the universality of Ablanedo’s writing and the distinctive personalities of the ensemble.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 10:15 PM

Indie Wonderland

Featuring: Isaac Martin, Catherine Claire, Joey Jr.

Indie Wonderland is a live showcase of emerging Boston indie artists, spanning indie pop, indie folk, indie rock, and alternative music. The evening features high-energy performances and intimate, story-driven songwriting, with a lineup intended to introduce audiences to new local favorites.

Lorena Ometto, Simona Kara, Jane Kristiansen

Featuring: Lorena Ometto, Simona Kara, Jane Kristiansen

The Middle East presents an evening featuring pop vocalist Lorena Ometto, alternative artist Simona Kara, and singer-songwriter Jane Kristiansen. The event is open to guests of all ages, with doors opening at 6:00 PM.

Smack Dabs: Swing-Blues Performance

Featuring: The Smack Dabs

The Smack Dabs present a good-time Swing Blues performance rooted in the music of the 1930s. The program features songs associated with Tampa Red, Big Bill Bronzy, the Harlem Hamfets, and other artists, spanning styles from mournful blues to joyful celebrations. The music also provides opportunities for lively solo and group improvisation and is intended to entertain both listeners and dancers.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 5:00 PM

Lady Ray and Her Jazz Birds

Featuring: Raynel Shepard, Lady Ray

Lady Ray and Her Jazz Birds features the sultry vocals of Raynel Shepard, known as Lady Ray, accompanied by a talented ensemble of instrumentalists. The performance offers her distinctive interpretations of beloved jazz standards in an intimate café setting.

TEN - US Showcase Tour

Featuring: TEN

TEN brings the US Showcase Tour to Big Night Live in Boston for an all-ages concert on Sunday, November 8, 2026. Doors open at 7:00 p.m., with the show beginning at 8:00 p.m. Support acts may change without notice.

Red Leather: Tahoe Tour

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Featuring: Red Leather

Red Leather brings the Tahoe Tour to Brighton Music Hall in Boston for an all-ages concert. The event is scheduled for Sunday, November 8, 2026, with doors opening at 7:00 PM and the show beginning at 8:00 PM.

Jonathan Suazo

Featuring: Jonathan Suazo

Jonathan Suazo presents a live album-release concert celebrating *Ricano Vol. 2* at City Winery Boston. The Puerto Rican saxophonist, composer, and educator combines Afro-Caribbean musical traditions with contemporary jazz, using emotionally driven compositions to explore Caribbean rhythms, history, heritage, and lived experience.

Spyro Gyra

Featuring: Spyro Gyra, Jay Beckenstein

Spyro Gyra performs live at City Winery Boston as part of the band’s continuing 50th-anniversary celebration. Led by Jay Beckenstein, the jazz group traces its history to informal jam sessions organized by Beckenstein and fellow Buffalo, New York, musicians on their shared night off. What began as a modest gathering called “Tuesday Night – Jazz Jam,” with admission originally set at 25 cents, developed into a major jazz act.

Mary Catherine Ward – Falling In Love With Love

Featuring: Mary Catherine Ward, Mark Roderick, Tom LaMark Quintet

Mary Catherine Ward returns to Club Café’s Moonshine Room with *Falling in Love With Love*, a cabaret about the exhilaration of falling in love repeatedly and the possibilities that come with growing older. Still surprised by her most recent birthday, Ward continues to pursue life’s opportunities with determination, pushing herself to draw as much as possible from every experience. She will be joined by her friend Mark Roderick and accompanied by the Tom LaMark Quintet.

Club Passim Sold Out

Maya de Vitry

Featuring: Maya de Vitry, Charlie in the Question Mark

Maya de Vitry brings her Nashville-rooted blend of Americana, folk, and songwriting to Club Passim, with Charlie in the Question Mark opening. De Vitry is a Pennsylvania-born fiddler-turned-songwriter whose music moves between tenderness, strength, joy, sorrow, and candid emotional storytelling.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 11:00 AM

Sunday Jazz Jam (Nov.)

Featuring: MetroWest Jazz Project

Sunday Jazz Jam brings the MetroWest Jazz Project to Hopkinton Center for the Arts for a morning of acoustic contemporary jazz. The music features the rich, mellow sound of the vibraphone, followed by an open jam session where musicians of all ages and experience levels—from beginners to seasoned performers—are invited to participate. Light refreshments will be provided.

Wheeler Walker Jr. - Pullin' Out: The Farewell Tour w/ Channing Wilson

Featuring: Wheeler Walker Jr., Channing Wilson

Wheeler Walker Jr. brings his *Pullin’ Out: The Farewell Tour* to Citizens House of Blues Boston with Channing Wilson providing support. The concert is presented as an all-ages country performance and includes venue security procedures such as bag restrictions and searches.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and ICA/Boston present Sudan Archives: Any Shape I Want

Featuring: Sudan Archives

Sudan Archives presents *Any Shape I Want* at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston in a co-production with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as part of the BSO’s Creation Festival. The performance explores freedom of movement between instruments, identities, and imagined selves through violin loops, voice, storytelling, and projected video.

Jordan Hall Sold Out

Sudan Archives: Any Shape I Want

Featuring: Sudan Archives

Boston, Ma

Sudan Archives brings *Any Shape I Want* to the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston as part of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Creation festival. Co-produced by the BSO and ICA/Boston, the performance explores the freedom to move among instruments, identities, and imagined selves. The New York Times has described Sudan Archives as “an artist in a league of her own,” while Pitchfork has praised her original combination of sound and storytelling.

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Cataclysmic / Pray to be Saved / Zipper / Cartridge / Sodrotter

Featuring: Cataclysmic, Pray to be Saved, Zipper, Cartridge, Sodrotter

Cataclysmic, Pray to be Saved, Zipper, Cartridge, and Sodrotter appear together for a punk show at O’Brien’s Pub. The event is listed for a Sunday evening and features all five acts on the bill.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 6:00 PM

Antje Duvekot & Dan Bern

Featuring: Antje Duvekot, Dan Bern

Antje Duvekot and Dan Bern bring an evening of distinctive singer-songwriter music to Off Cabot. Duvekot is known for intimate, closely observed songwriting and a whispery, expressive vocal style. A veteran performer in the United States and Europe, she has appeared at festivals including Newport Folk Festival, Mountain Stage, Philadelphia Folk Festival, and Kerrville, and has headlined Scotland’s Celtic Connections Festival and Denmark’s Tønder Festival. Her honors include the Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, Kerrville’s Best New Folk Award, and a Boston Music Award for Outstanding Folk Act.

Regent Theatre

The Scottish Celebration Continues- An Afternoon of Scottish Music and Dance

7 Medford Street, Arlington, MA 02474

Featuring: Alasdair White, Eric McDonald, Stephen Thomforde, Highland Dance Boston, Boston Scottish Country Dancers

The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society of Boston presents “The Old World Meets the New,” an afternoon concert and ceilidh continuing Boston’s celebration of Scottish culture. The program combines traditional Scottish music and dance with North American folk influences, followed by opportunities for audience members to join the ceilidh dancing.

Rockport Music / Shalin Liu Performance Center

Jesse Cook

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 5:00 PM

37 Main Street, Rockport, MA 01966

Featuring: Jesse Cook

Jesse Cook brings his globally influenced rumba flamenco to Rockport Music for an immersive live concert. The Paris-born, Toronto-raised Spanish guitarist has spent more than three decades developing a distinctive sound that bridges flamenco, world music, and contemporary musical expression.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 4:30 PM

Bees Deluxe

Featuring: Bees Deluxe, Conrad Warre

Bees Deluxe brings its self-described “acid blues” to Sanctuary, combining blues with jazz, funk, and psychedelic rock. Led by Boston-based British guitarist and vocalist Conrad Warre, the band is known for original material, adventurous reinterpretations, expressive guitar and harmonica, and extended improvisations.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Surely Tempo, Dogs with Hats

Featuring: Surely Tempo, Dogs with Hats

The Middle East presents an all-ages indie-rock show featuring Surely Tempo and Dogs with Hats at Sonia in Cambridge. Doors open at 6:30 PM, with advance tickets priced lower than tickets purchased on the day of the show.

Turning Jane & Hannah Wicklund

Featuring: Turning Jane, Hannah Wicklund

Turning Jane and Hannah Wicklund perform at Taffeta Music Hall in a concert presented by Bug World Presents. The event is open to guests age 18 and older; attendees under 18 may enter with a parent or legal guardian.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 12:00 PM

Bluegrass Brunch

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Bluegrass Brunch at The Bebop combines breakfast and mimosas with live bluegrass music. Guests are encouraged to bring their own instruments and join in the musical gathering.

Old Timey Session

Featuring: Zach Meyer

Old Timey Session is a Sunday evening gathering at The Bebop, hosted this week by Zach Meyer. The session welcomes guests to join the group and play tunes together in an informal, participatory setting.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 10:00 AM

BRUNCH & JAM

BRUNCH & JAM is a weekend brunch experience at Beehive Restaurant featuring live music, relaxed energy, and cocktails. The musical artist for this date has not yet been announced.

Jazz Composers Alliance Presents the JCA Orchestra

Featuring: JCA Orchestra

Jazz Composers Alliance presents the JCA Orchestra in a program of new music for a 21-piece jazz orchestra, written by resident composers David Harris, Darrell Katz, Bob Pilkington, and Mimi Rabson. The ensemble combines composed material with improvisation and draws on influences from jazz history and musical traditions around the world.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 4:00 PM

Weird Frenz EP release party w/ First in Maths

Featuring: Weird Frenz, First in Maths

Weird Frenz celebrate the release of their EP with a live performance featuring First in Maths. The event is presented as a family-friendly indie, rock, pop, and punk show, with standing-room admission at The Lilypad. The EP is linked on the event page as “[TBD]” by Weird Frenz.

Kass Richards + Chris Brokaw

Featuring: Kass Richards, Chris Brokaw

Kass Richards celebrates the release of her EP *Gospel* with her first local performance accompanied by a full band. Chris Brokaw, who played several instruments on the EP, opens or closes the evening with a hypnotic solo set, bringing his extensive work as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and film composer to the Lilypad stage.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 10:00 PM

Zach Sorkin "Wisp" feat. Domenic Rigazzi Quartet

Featuring: Zach Sorkin, Joaquin Valdebenito, Devin Thai, Andrea Amato, Domenic Rigazzi, Andrew Fogel, Albin Sundstrom, Sam Cruz

Zach Sorkin presents “Wisp,” a new quartet project featuring original music by the drummer and composer. The performance includes Joaquin Valdebenito on tenor saxophone, Devin Thai on piano, and Andrea Amato on bass, with the group premiering a substantial selection of Sorkin’s new compositions.

The Frontground, Violet Green, Main St

Featuring: The Frontground, Violet Green, Main St

The Middle East presents a live bill featuring post-hardcore acts The Frontground, Violet Green, and Main St. The event takes place at the venue’s Upstairs room, with doors opening at 7:00 PM.

Diles Que No Me Maten

Featuring: Diles Que No Me Maten

Diles Que No Me Maten is presented by Get To The Gig and MassConcerts at The Rockwell. The event is open to all ages on Sundays, with separate age policies applying to the venue’s Friday and Saturday shows.

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Boston Manor

Featuring: Boston Manor, Ben Quad, Spaced

Boston Manor brings its emotive, modern rock sound to The Sinclair with support from Ben Quad and Spaced. The Blackpool band formed in 2013 and quickly established itself through a DIY approach, expressive songwriting, and self-produced visual work. Boston Manor signed with Pure Noise Records after two years, earned recognition from Kerrang!, Rock Sound, Upset, BBC Radio 1, and other outlets, and received a 2018 Kerrang! Award nomination for Best British Breakthrough.

SIX60

Featuring: SIX60

SIX60, the band formed in Dunedin, New Zealand, headlines Brighton Music Hall in Boston. The group’s catalog includes “Pepeha,” a single performed in te reo Māori.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Cem Adrian

Featuring: Cem Adrian

Cem Adrian performs live at City Winery Boston in an intimate concert built around his unusually wide vocal range and emotionally direct style. A prominent figure in Turkey’s independent music scene, Adrian combines alternative pop, folk, jazz, and classical influences, moving between spare piano ballads and fuller cinematic arrangements.

Josh Rouse

Featuring: Josh Rouse

Josh Rouse brings 25 years of warm, reflective songwriting to City Winery Boston for an intimate evening of close listening. The set is expected to draw from his 1998 debut, *Dressed Up Like Nebraska*, and the more than a dozen albums that followed, with the possibility of hearing new material ahead of his fall 2026 release on New West Records.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 8:00 PM

Passim Monday Discovery Series

Featuring: Ada Arwen, Micah John, The John Sisters

The Passim Monday Discovery Series showcases emerging artists in an intimate setting for an audience of dedicated music listeners. This installment features sisters Ada Arwen and Micah John, performing together as The John Sisters. Their music combines close vocal harmonies, tender twin-guitar arrangements, sad songs, rocking fiddle, and upbeat traditional material.

7-11 Jesus / Hot Slander / Dogs Run Free / The Melting Mountain

Featuring: 7-11 Jesus, Hot Slander, Dogs Run Free, The Melting Mountain

7-11 Jesus, Hot Slander, Dogs Run Free, and The Melting Mountain share a four-band bill presented by Broken String Booking and Exposure Booking. The show features alternative/indie and rock performances at O’Brien’s Pub.

George Clanton

Featuring: George Clanton

George Clanton performs at Paradise Rock Club in Boston on November 9, 2026. The event is presented by Citizens, with ticket listings showing different start times across the referenced pages.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 8:00 PM

Monday Jazz Jam at The Bebop

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Featuring: house band

Monday Jazz Jam at The Bebop is an evening of live jazz and improvisation, featuring a house band, invited guests, and an open jam session for musicians. The program progresses from a house-band set to a guest-inclusive performance before opening up for jamming.

Elan Mehler Trio

Featuring: Elan Mehler, Max Ridley, Dor Herskovits

Elan Mehler leads a jazz trio featuring bassist Max Ridley and drummer Dor Herskovits. Mehler has released 11 albums as a leader and collaborated with musicians including Bill Frisell, Dave Douglas, Becca Stevens, Scott Robinson, and Francisco Mela. His latest release is a solo-piano album on Sunnyside Records. He has performed at venues and festivals around the world, including Birdland, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and the North Sea Festival.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 8:30 PM

Jerry Bergonzi Quartet

Featuring: Jerry Bergonzi

The Jerry Bergonzi Quartet brings veteran tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi to The Lilypad for a high-powered jazz performance. Bergonzi is known for a John Coltrane-influenced sound, command of chord changes, and imaginative playing, and has maintained a strong Boston following as both a performer and educator.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 10:30 PM

The Fringe

Featuring: The Fringe, George Garzone, John Lockwood, Francisco Mela

The Fringe is a long-running Boston free-jazz ensemble founded in 1971 by tenor saxophonist George Garzone, bassist Richard Appleman, and drummer Bob Gullotti. The group was created as an outlet for unrestricted improvisation and has performed for Boston-area jazz audiences for more than five decades.

AYĖL, Belen, DÀN, & Aydan Hill

Featuring: AYĖL, Belen, DÀN, Aydan Hill

AYĖL, Belen, DÀN, and Aydan Hill come together at The Rockwell for an intimate night of songwriting and genre-crossing performances. The lineup moves through folk, pop, alternative, R&B, soul, electronic, and cinematic influences, with each artist exploring themes including vulnerability, identity, belonging, self-expression, and human connection through personal songs, expressive vocals, and immersive arrangements.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 8:00 PM

Hiss Golden Messenger

Featuring: Hiss Golden Messenger, M.C. Taylor, Sam Amidon

Hiss Golden Messenger brings its “I’m People Tour” to The Sinclair, led by North Carolina singer, songwriter, and producer M.C. Taylor. The long-running project is known for blending folk, country, soul, gospel, Americana, and roots music with introspective, poetic songwriting that connects personal experience to broader social and political themes. Sam Amidon is also scheduled to perform.

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 6:30 PM

The Bowery Presents Pokey LaFarge

Featuring: Pokey LaFarge

Pokey LaFarge comes to Arts at the Armory to celebrate the release of his new album, *Rent Money*. The Illinois-born singer-songwriter is known for blending many strands of 20th-century American music with twanging guitars, lively rhythms, memorable melodies, candid storytelling, and socially conscious themes. The album combines personal reflection and commentary on the anxieties of the present day while continuing LaFarge’s distinctive, genre-defying approach to songwriting and performance.

Michigander

Featuring: Michigander

Michigander is scheduled to perform at Brighton Music Hall in Boston. The available event listing identifies the concert date but does not provide a performance time, description, lineup, age policy, accessibility information, or other event-specific logistics.

Cary Memorial Hall

Andy Grammer Greater Than Pt. II: A One Man Show

1605 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA 02420

Featuring: Andy Grammer

Andy Grammer’s “Greater Than Pt. II: A One Man Show” is an intimate, high-energy performance built around acoustic music, storytelling, spoken word, and direct audience interaction. With just piano, guitar, and the collective sound of the audience, Grammer moves between his chart-topping songs, newer material, and the personal stories behind his music in a warm, humorous, and uplifting setting.

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R&B Royalty: The Music of New Edition, Boyz II Men, and more

Featuring: Ball in the House

R&B Royalty is a live celebration of the artists, songs, and sounds that have shaped generations of R&B. Presented by Ball in the House, the concert features music associated with Michael Jackson, The Jackson 5, Boyz II Men, New Edition, Usher, TLC, Alicia Keys, Kehlani, and other influential artists.

Kelsey Waldon

Featuring: Kelsey Waldon, Candi Jenkins

Kelsey Waldon brings her Americana and country songwriting to Club Passim, with Candi Jenkins opening. Waldon’s music draws on hard-won experiences with addiction, grief, generational trauma, recovery, and self-acceptance, themes explored on her album *Every Ghost*. The nine-song record was recorded at Southern Grooves in Memphis with her band, The Muleskinners.

Connolly Branch Library

Musical Magic with Phoebe Neilsen | Magia Musical con Phoebe Neilsen

433 Centre Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Featuring: Phoebe Neilsen

Musical Magic with Phoebe Neilsen is a joyful, bilingual children’s concert led by Phoebe Neilsen, the Boston Public Library’s Children’s Musician-in-Residence. Designed for very young children, the program invites them to sing, dance, clap, and engage with music in whatever ways feel comfortable to them.

Ax and the Hatchetmen: The Late Checkout Tour 2026

Featuring: Ax and the Hatchetmen, Tipling Rock, Axel Ellis

Ax and the Hatchetmen bring their Late Checkout Tour 2026 to Boston for a high-energy indie-rock and power-pop concert featuring bright, jangly guitars, catchy hooks, and live horns. The Chicago six-piece is fronted by Axel Ellis, with Tipling Rock scheduled as support.

Cairo Jag / The Endorphins / Astral Bitch

Featuring: Cairo Jag, The Endorphins, Astral Bitch

Cairo Jag, The Endorphins, and Astral Bitch perform a three-act alternative/indie bill at O’Brien’s Pub. The show is for guests age 18 and older and begins at 7 PM.

Joe Peck

Featuring: Joe Peck

Joe Peck is a Boston-born musician with more than 20 years of experience performing in and enjoying the local music scene. As a member of Dead Ahead, he carries forward the spirit of the Grateful Dead through improvisation, groove, storytelling, and an energetic connection with the audience. His performance draws on the jam-band tradition and counterculture roots, with a focus on keeping the music moving and the dance floor active.

Grateful Tuesday with Playing and Friends - featuring members of Playing Dead with Special Guests

Featuring: Playing with Friends, Jim Harris, Mark Munzer, Brian Epstein, Larry Mancini, John Brigham

Grateful Tuesday brings a Grateful Dead tribute to Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center, featuring three members of Playing Dead alongside special guests. The November 10 performance promises the spirit of the Grateful Dead with a different lineup and an evening of live music.

Giles Corey, Kathryn Mohr, Val Acton Loper

Featuring: Giles Corey, Kathryn Mohr, Val Acton Loper

The Middle East presents Giles Corey on tour at Sonia, with support from Bay Area artist Kathryn Mohr and Val Acton Loper. The evening features Giles Corey’s indie rock performance alongside Mohr’s minimalist, atmospheric songwriting and Loper’s music.

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The Catalyst-Jazz Inspiration Series!!

Featuring: Jared Sims, Rebecca Cline, Fernando Huergo, Gen Yoshimura

The Catalyst–Jazz Inspiration Series presents saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Jared Sims in a progressive exploration of the musicians who have shaped modern jazz. The program reimagines iconic compositions associated with Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Benny Golson, and John Coltrane, bringing together jazz, classical, funk, rock, and world-music influences.

Geoff Tate

Featuring: Geoff Tate, Operation: Mindcrime

Geoff Tate presents *Operation: Mindcrime – The Final Chapter*, a concert centered on Queensryche’s landmark 1988 concept album. Tate and the current Operation: Mindcrime lineup perform the album in its entirety, from beginning to end, continuing the theatrical presentation that has made the *Mindcrime* tours a defining part of his live work.

Point 01 Percent

Featuring: Anna Webber, Pandelis Karayorgis, Nate McBride, Eric Rosenthal, Dan O'Brien, Nat Mugavero

Point 01 Percent presents an evening of two quartets at The Lilypad, featuring pianist and keyboardist Pandelis Karayorgis in two different ensembles. The first quartet begins at 7:30 p.m., followed by a second quartet at 8:30 p.m., with the program scheduled to run until 9:45 p.m.

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 10:00 PM

The Jorge Perez-Albela Trio w/ Kenny Werner and John Lockwood

Featuring: Jorge Perez-Albela, Kenny Werner, John Lockwood

Peruvian-born drummer, percussionist, and composer Jorge Pérez-Albela leads an evening of improvisational music with two acclaimed Boston-area jazz masters: pianist Kenny Werner and bassist John Lockwood. The trio brings together jazz, global rhythmic traditions, and spontaneous interplay in an intimate performance at The Lilypad.

Exosphere, Cain, Project Flora, The Spiral Continuum, Nine Circles

Featuring: Exosphere, Cain, Project Flora, The Spiral Continuum, Nine Circles

Exosphere, Cain, Project Flora, The Spiral Continuum, and Nine Circles share a metal-focused bill at The Middle East’s Upstairs venue in Cambridge. The lineup spans heavy metal, death metal/black metal, metal, and alternative rock, with doors opening at 7:00 p.m.

The Saint Cecilia

Featuring: The Saint Cecilia

The Saint Cecilia is a high-energy rock band drawing on emotional imagery, romance, art, power, passion, and soul. The group describes its sound as a modern revival of the spirit associated with artists such as Bowie, Hendrix, James Brown, and Jim Morrison, combining vocals, guitars, bass, drums, and whatever else is needed to create music with heart, rhythm, and intensity. The band’s members come from across the Northern Hemisphere.

the olllam

Featuring: the olllam

The olllam brings together Irish traditional music and Detroit’s post-rock and psychedelic sensibilities in richly layered, genre-defying instrumental music. The collective is known for intricate rhythms, hypnotic recurring melodies, and virtuosic performances built around uilleann pipes, whistles, guitar, keyboards, bass, and drums.

The Bowery Presents: Bedouine with Other Delights

Featuring: Bedouine, Other Delights

The Bowery Presents brings Bedouine with Other Delights to the Arts at the Armory for an evening of intimate, emotionally resonant folk music. Bedouine is the musical project of Azniv Korkejian, whose songs explore family, upbringing, childhood, and the desire for the sense of safety every child deserves. The material was shaped in part by a visit to her family in Saudi Arabia and combines vivid, personal imagery with gentle, lilting folk arrangements and fingerpicked guitar.

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The Wldlfe

Featuring: The Wldlfe

The Wldlfe performs at Brighton Music Hall in Brighton, Massachusetts, in a concert presented by Citizens. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, November 11, 2026, at 7:00 PM.

Marshall Crenshaw

Featuring: Marshall Crenshaw, Sarah Borges, Eric Ambel

Marshall Crenshaw performs live at City Winery Boston with Sarah Borges and Eric Ambel. Known for finely crafted, guitar-driven songwriting, Crenshaw has released more than thirteen albums and built a catalog that includes “Someday, Someway,” “Cynical Girl,” and “Whenever You’re On My Mind,” along with deeper cuts for longtime listeners.

Jason Carter Band

Featuring: Jason Carter Band, Jason Carter

Jason Carter Band brings a bluegrass performance to Club Passim, led by Kentucky fiddler, singer, and longtime Del McCoury Band member Jason Carter. A three-time Grammy winner and five-time IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year, Carter is also a founding member of the Travelin’ McCourys and has collaborated with artists including Steve Earle, Ricky Skaggs, Dierks Bentley, Charlie Daniels, Vince Gill, Asleep at the Wheel, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Sarah Jarosz, and Billy Strings.

Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam

Featuring: Hamilton Leithauser, Rostam, Sam Sullivan, Louise Sullivan

Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam bring their Joint Tour to the Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre, joined by Sam and Louise Sullivan. The tour celebrates the 10th anniversary of their collaborative 2016 album, *I Had a Dream That You Were Mine*.

Rich Hinman, Kevin Barry, Zacharian Hickman and John Sands

Featuring: Rich Hinman, Kevin Barry, Zachariah Hickman, John Sands

Rich Hinman returns to the Lizard Lounge with a new ensemble featuring Kevin Barry, Zachariah Hickman, and John Sands. The performance draws from Hinman’s album *Memorial*, blending electronica, psychedelia, and exploratory improvisation with pedal steel as the central voice.

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Beartooth: Pure Ecstasy World Tour

Featuring: Beartooth, Don Broco, Magnolia Park, Windwaker

Beartooth brings the *Pure Ecstasy World Tour* to Boston for the opening date of the tour’s U.S. leg. The metalcore band will be joined by Don Broco, Magnolia Park, and Windwaker for a stacked multi-band bill spanning metalcore, post-hardcore, and related heavy-rock styles.

Brody Price / Tiberius / Clifford (Solo)

Featuring: Brody Price, Tiberius, Clifford (Solo)

Brody Price, Tiberius, and Clifford (Solo) perform at O’Brien’s Pub in a three-act live music lineup. The show is for guests age 18 and older, with doors or showtime listed at 7 p.m.

Phillip Phillips: Let's Go Far Tour (18+)

Featuring: Phillip Phillips, Briscoe

Phillip Phillips brings his *Let’s Go Far Tour* to Paradise Rock Club in Boston, with Briscoe listed as a special guest. The concert is presented by Citizens and is restricted to guests age 18 and older.

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Tue, Nov 10, 2026 – Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 8:00 PM

GEESE

Featuring: Geese, Gwenifer Raymond

Geese, the Brooklyn art-rock band, bring their *Getting Killed Again Tour* to Roadrunner in Boston Landing. Welsh guitarist Gwenifer Raymond opens the show.

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 5:30 PM

The Joy Reo Trio

Featuring: The Joy Reo Trio, Joy Reo, Molly Flannery, Diane Heffner

The Joy Reo Trio brings a lively, soulful program to Sanctuary, moving across classic jazz, pop, and Broadway. Vocalist Joy Reo performs with pianist Molly Flannery and Diane Heffner, who plays tenor saxophone, clarinet, and bass clarinet.

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 6:00 PM

Bluegrass Open Jam Hosted by Familiar Strangers

Bluegrass Open Jam Hosted by Familiar Strangers is an all-ages, acoustic-instrument gathering led by Greg Young of Familiar Strangers. Participants may jam in multiple spaces, with groups divided according to attendance, experience levels, and musical styles, including bluegrass, country, and fiddle tunes. The bar will be open during the event.

Souvenirs: The Music of John Prine (A special tribute to Sam Stone for Veterans day)

Featuring: Souvenirs

Souvenirs celebrates the music of John Prine in a special Veterans Day tribute to “Sam Stone.” The band brings fresh energy and unexpected touches to Prine’s classic songs while preserving their distinctive melodies and storytelling. The performance is intended for longtime Prine fans and first-time listeners alike, with familiar songs that invite the audience to sing along.

P.E.E., Gapyear, The Ritornello Form, Summers In Autumn

Featuring: P.E.E., Gapyear, The Ritornello Form, Summers In Autumn

P.E.E., Gapyear, The Ritornello Form, and Summers In Autumn perform at Sonia in Cambridge, presented by The Middle East. The show is open to all ages, with doors opening at 7:00 p.m.

Playing Dead - Grateful Wednesday Residency

Featuring: Playing Dead, Dave Olson

Playing Dead is a Grateful Dead tribute band performing as part of the Grateful Wednesday Residency at Soundcheck Studios. Featuring former members of Dark Star Orchestra, Slipknot!, and Uncle John’s Band, the group recreates the atmosphere of a live Grateful Dead concert through music spanning the band’s full catalog.

Maryna Krut

Featuring: Maryna Krut

Maryna Krut is a Ukrainian singer-songwriter and virtuosic bandura player whose music connects the instrument’s ancient folk traditions with contemporary songwriting, pop, and jazz influences. A Eurovision finalist and prominent ambassador for Ukrainian culture, she brings the resilience, beauty, and continuing spirit of her homeland to stages around the world.

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 9:30 PM

Bluegrass Jam

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Featuring: Chandler

Bluegrass Jam invites musicians to join Chandler and a talented group of bluegrass players for an evening of shared tunes at The Bebop. Guests are encouraged to bring an instrument and participate in the jam.

Peru Mestizo-Beehive International Experiences!!!

Featuring: Peru Mestizo, Oscar Stagnaro

Peru Mestizo-Beehive International Experiences!!! combines a live celebration of Peru’s musical heritage with a Peruvian culinary experience. Peru Mestizo, led by Grammy-winning bassist, composer, and producer Oscar Stagnaro, explores the cultural influences that shaped Peru’s music, from the Andes and Europe to Africa. The performance features styles including festejo, landó, marinera, Peruvian vals, huayno, and Afro-Peruvian classics, presented by accomplished musicians with intensity and authenticity.

The Fallout Shelter (Extended Play Sessions)

Dave Limina's Wednesdave Blues III Special Guests Darcel Wilson, Odra Lee & Diane Blue

61 Endicott Street, Norwood, MA 02062

Featuring: Dave Limina, Lorne Entress, Marshall Wood, Bobby Keyes, Darcel Wilson, Diane Blue, Odra Lee

Dave Limina leads this installment of Wednesdave Blues, a monthly blues series at The Fallout Shelter. The Berklee College of Music keyboard department chair and longtime New England music fixture brings an all-star group to the venue, joined by guest vocalists Darcel Wilson, Odra Lee, and Diane Blue.

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 6:15 PM

Shooting Stars with Emma Du

Featuring: Emma Du, Catherine Claire

Shooting Stars with Emma Du is Emma Du’s debut show, presenting a blend of indie pop and rock with original songs alongside selected covers. Her original material explores heartbreak, self-discovery, and personal growth, with new music expected to be released on streaming platforms in the coming months.

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 8:15 PM

Gill Aharon Trio

Featuring: Gill Aharon, Jef Charland, Andrew Stern, Randy Wooten

Gill Aharon Trio is a seated jazz and avant-garde performance led by pianist Gill Aharon. The group’s music draws on 1950s and ’60s cartoon scores, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, Bach, Ligeti, Medeski, Martin & Wood, live Phish, the Beatles, and the immersive possibilities of music.

ARE YOU EVER COMING BACK? TOUR

Featuring: vaultboy, Gus

The Middle East presents the ARE YOU EVER COMING BACK? TOUR, featuring vaultboy with support from Gus. The 18+ show takes place at the Middle East – Upstairs, with doors opening at 8:00 PM. A VIP upgrade is available for fans who want a personal photo opportunity, signed merchandise, a question-and-answer session, and a brief acoustic performance with vaultboy.

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 6:00 PM

Boston T Party

Featuring: Olivia Gullick, Fran Darling, Mad Jupiter, Sariyah Glamour, Nikko The Nymph

Boston T Party is a one-night celebration of queer joy, gender-norm defiance, and authentic self-expression. The Rockwell event brings together local drag, music, and dance in an inclusive, high-energy showcase featuring Olivia Gullick, Fran Darling, Mad Jupiter, Sariyah Glamour, and Nikko The Nymph.

The Bad Plus

Featuring: The Bad Plus

The Bad Plus comes to The Sinclair for the group’s farewell tour, offering one of the final opportunities to see the influential modern jazz ensemble perform live. Known for combining intricate compositions, improvisation, precise rhythms, and high energy, the band has also earned acclaim for inventive interpretations of rock and pop songs.

The Longest Johns: Ends of the Earth Tour

Featuring: The Longest Johns

The Longest Johns bring their Ends of the Earth Tour to The Wilbur with exuberant harmonies, driving folk-rock, and a modern approach to traditional sea shanties and work songs. Formed around a kitchen table in Bristol in 2012, the group blends maritime folk, original songwriting, dry humor, digital culture, and gaming influences.

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Get to the Gig Presents Weatherday

Featuring: Weatherday

Get to the Gig Presents Weatherday brings Weatherday to the Arts at the Armory for an evening music performance. Doors open at 7:00 p.m., with the show beginning at 8:00 p.m.

An Evening With Alyssa Grace

Featuring: Alyssa Grace

An Evening With Alyssa Grace is a live performance by Alyssa Grace at Brighton Music Hall, presented by Citizens. The event is scheduled for Thursday, November 12, 2026, with the performance beginning at 7:00 PM.

Rachael Yamagata with Will Dailey

Featuring: Rachael Yamagata, Will Dailey

Rachael Yamagata performs at City Winery Boston with Will Dailey as the evening’s featured support. Yamagata’s emotionally direct songwriting, soulful voice, and cinematic blend of alternative pop and indie rock have earned her an international following since her debut album, *Happenstance*. Her live sets move from quiet, piano-led passages to fuller, more powerful arrangements, focusing on themes of love, heartbreak, vulnerability, and resilience.

Andy Lantz & Frankie Campofelice – Lush Life

Featuring: Andy Lantz, Frankie Campofelice

Andy Lantz and classically trained vocalist Frankie Campofelice present *Lush Life*, an evening of live music in Club Café’s Napoleon Room. Their repertoire combines jazz standards from the 1920s through the 1960s with Broadway selections and pop favorites. Guests can arrive early for a full sit-down dinner and craft drinks at their table, relax with cocktails and snacks, or participate in the room’s open mic.

Giant Rooks

Featuring: Giant Rooks

Giant Rooks bring their North American Tour 2026 to Citizens House of Blues Boston for a live concert. The performance is scheduled for the evening of Thursday, November 12, 2026, with support acts possible; the supporting lineup may change.

Lyle Brewer “Learning Curve” Album Release

Featuring: Lyle Brewer

Lyle Brewer returns to the Lizard Lounge for the release of *Learning Curve*, his 13th solo album. The Massachusetts guitarist and songwriter blends fingerstyle, jazz, and folk into instrumental music that emphasizes composition, melody, and storytelling as much as technical skill.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 7:15 PM

The 'Quin: 5th Anniversary 'House Celebration (21+)

Featuring: John Legend, Gipsy Kings, Nicolas Reyes

The ’Quin marks its fifth anniversary with a special House Celebration at MGM Music Hall at Fenway. The concert brings together pop, R&B, and soul performances, with John Legend and Gipsy Kings featuring Nicolas Reyes listed among the performers.

Hot Seat / Makeout Palace / Tongue Love

Featuring: Hot Seat, Makeout Palace, Tongue Love

Hot Seat, Makeout Palace, and Tongue Love perform an alt/indie bill presented by Webookthings at O’Brien’s Pub. The show is for guests age 21 and older, with doors or showtime listed at 7 p.m.

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Die Spitz

Featuring: Die Spitz

Die Spitz will perform at Paradise Rock Club in Boston in a concert presented by Citizens. The available event listings place the show on Thursday, November 12, 2026, with doors or performance information centered around 7:00 PM.

Sleep

Featuring: Sleep

Sleep is scheduled to perform live at Roadrunner in Boston. The event page identifies the show as taking place on November 12, 2026.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 5:30 PM

Sarah Mendelsohn

Featuring: Sarah Mendelsohn

Sarah Mendelsohn brings her original music to Sanctuary as a singer, drummer, guitarist, and front person. Known for performing with the Bob Marley tribute band Duppy Conquerors, she now leads her own band, pairing melodic songs and catchy hooks with heartfelt themes of love, loss, vulnerability, hope, and determination. Her music draws on rock, Americana, ska, reggae, and ballads.

Christian Löffler, PARIS

Featuring: Christian Löffler

Christian Löffler brings his melodic techno and immersive live show to Sonia as part of his 2026 tour, presented by The Middle East. The German producer is known for combining electronic music with visual art, balancing euphoric, introspective, and minimalist sounds in audio-visual performances.

Lars Chappell Jazz Project - FREE Admission

Featuring: Lars Chappell Jazz Project, Lars Chappell, Jimmy C, Mike Levesque

The Lars Chappell Jazz Project brings a live trio performance to Soundcheck Studios, led by Lars Chappell on guitar and vocals with Jimmy C on saxophone and Mike Levesque on drums. Their music has a relaxed, improvisational character, allowing each player room to stretch out while maintaining a warm, melodic, approachable sound.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 9:00 PM

BT Allstars

Featuring: BT Allstars, Brian Thomas, Steve Fell, Jeffrey Lockhart, Jef Charland, Francis P.

BT Allstars is a live jazz residency led by trombonist and bandleader Brian Thomas at The Beehive. A longtime Beehive favorite since the venue opened in 2007, the group performs original music drawing on jazz, funk, soul, and reggae, with improvisation and arrangements that develop in the moment onstage.

Mordent.IO, Zeist, Rohan, Sunshine [at Night], Hint of Reason

Featuring: Mordent.IO, Zeist, Rohan, Sunshine [at Night], Hint of Reason

The Middle East presents an electronic-focused live bill featuring synth-pop artist Mordent.IO, dance/electronic acts Zeist and Rohan, dance performer Sunshine [at Night], and electronic-pop act Hint of Reason. The event takes place at the Middle East’s Upstairs room in Cambridge.

Sleep

Featuring: Sleep, Zombi, The Schizophonics, Al Cisneros, Dale Crover, Bubba Dupree

Sleep brings its fall 2026 North American tour to The Sinclair with support from Zombi and The Schizophonics. The performance features Sleep’s current lineup of Al Cisneros, Dale Crover, and Bubba Dupree, following the release of the new single “Have Spacesuit Will Travel,” the band’s first new music since 2018.

Comedy

Boch Center (Wang & Shubert)

Dante Gebel - World Tour Despedida 2026

270 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116

Featuring: Dante Gebel

Dante Gebel brings his *World Tour Despedida 2026* to Boston for a farewell-style conference and stand-up performance. After a worldwide tour attended by more than 700,000 people, Gebel presents a reflective, emotional show built around stories that move between humor and tears, exploring life, neighborhood experiences, death, nostalgia, and everyday moments.

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Chevalier Theatre

Marc Maron: Yammering into the Void Tour

30 Forest St, Medford, MA 02155

Featuring: Marc Maron

Marc Maron brings his *Yammering into the Void Tour* to Chevalier Theatre for an evening of stand-up comedy. Maron is known for his candid, darkly comic style and for a career spanning acclaimed specials, television, film, and the landmark interview podcast *WTF with Marc Maron*.

Joe Fenti

Featuring: Joe Fenti

Joe Fenti is a Brooklyn-based stand-up comedian and content creator whose act has taken him to venues and festivals across the country. He has headlined nationally and recently released his 60-minute comedy special, “Partner,” on YouTube. His credits include the Vancouver Is Funny Fest and Rogue Island Comedy Festival, as well as being a semifinalist in the 2025 Boston Comedy Fest.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 9:30 PM

Dirty Disney

Dirty Disney is an adults-only comedy parody that reimagines familiar Disney classics in a wildly irreverent, anything-goes style. The show is shaped by audience suggestions, so each performance offers a different comic take on the stories, songs, and characters audiences remember from childhood.

Nick's Comedy Stop

J.J. Jones LIVE at Nick’s Comedy Stop Friday November 6th

100 Warrenton St, Boston, MA 02116

Featuring: J.J. Jones, Kathy Gilmour, Lloyd Sharp

J.J. Jones headlines an evening of live stand-up comedy at Nick’s Comedy Stop in Boston’s historic Theatre District. The showcase features Jones alongside special guests Kathy Gilmour and Lloyd Sharp, offering a high-energy night of comedy on the club’s underground stage.

Improv Asylum's Main Stage Show

Improv Asylum’s Main Stage Show is the company’s signature unscripted comedy performance, featuring six quick-witted performers creating fast-paced scenes based on audience suggestions. Each performance combines audience interaction, original music, and larger-than-life character work, with every show unfolding differently and offering unpredictable comedy throughout.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 9:30 PM

LIVE STREAM: Improv Asylum's Main Stage Show

Improv Asylum’s Main Stage Show is a livestreamed presentation of the company’s signature improv comedy. Six quick-witted performers create nonstop, lightning-fast scenes based on audience suggestions, with interactive moments, original music, and outrageous character work. Because the show is improvised, the comedy unfolds unpredictably and changes from performance to performance.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 11:30 PM

Raunch

Featuring: Improv Asylum's Main Stage cast

Raunch is Improv Asylum’s late-night, adults-only improv show, featuring the Main Stage cast in an uncensored performance. It serves as the cast’s chance to step away from their usual suits, grab a drink, and perform comedy that is more unrestrained than the regular Main Stage show. Members of the Main Stage cast may be joined by alumni and special guests.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Tina Friml

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Featuring: Tina Friml

Tina Friml brings her stand-up comedy to Laugh Boston, using an upbeat, animated style to explore life with cerebral palsy. Her material combines sharp jokes and candid observations about the assumptions and social expectations often directed at people with disabilities.

Nick's Comedy Stop

Dan Crohn LIVE at Nick’s Comedy Stop Saturday November 7th at 7:30pm

100 Warrenton St, Boston, MA 02116

Featuring: Dan Crohn, Matt Misci

Dan Crohn headlines a Saturday night of live stand-up comedy at Nick’s Comedy Stop in Boston’s Theatre District. Known for high-energy storytelling and humorous observations about everyday life, Crohn is presented as a major favorite of the New England comedy scene and a regular performer at comedy clubs around the country.

Regent Theatre

The Uncle Louie Variety Show

7 Medford Street, Arlington, MA 02474

Featuring: Lou Greco, Carlo Russo

The Uncle Louie Variety Show brings Italian-American comedians Lou Greco and Carlo Russo to the Regent Theatre for an up-close comedy performance. Their sketch-based act combines irreverent and ribald humor designed to keep the audience laughing throughout the evening.

Tim Dillon

Featuring: Tim Dillon

Tim Dillon brings his unfiltered stand-up comedy and sharp social commentary to The Wilbur. Known for tackling political and cultural chaos, human behavior, and the absurdities of everyday life, Dillon performs material shaped by his international theater tours and popular podcast.

Drew Dunn

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 3:30 PM

Featuring: Drew Dunn

Drew Dunn brings his stand-up comedy to The Wilbur. Originally from New Hampshire and now based in New York City, Dunn has performed across the United States and Canada and is a regular at New York’s Comedy Cellar.

Chevalier Theatre

Ben Schwartz & Friends

30 Forest St, Medford, MA 02155

Featuring: Ben Schwartz

Ben Schwartz & Friends is a live improv comedy show led by Emmy Award-winning writer, actor, and comedian Ben Schwartz. Schwartz has performed internationally with the show, including sold-out engagements at the Sydney Opera House, Radio City Music Hall, and Royal Albert Hall. His live-comedy work also includes three long-form improv specials on Netflix under the title Middleditch and Schwartz.

Lil Mo Mozzarella

Featuring: Lil Mo Mozzarella

Lil Mo Mozzarella, the stage name of Mark Brucato, brings his nationally touring stand-up to Laugh Boston. A Brooklyn-born and Queens-raised comedian with a distinctly New York voice and blue-collar perspective, Lil Mo draws material from jobsite chaos, family life, marriage, and fatherhood. His performance is built around sharp observations, real-life stories, and an unmistakably New York comedic style.

DeRay Davis

Featuring: DeRay Davis

DeRay Davis brings his sardonic, streetwise comedy to The Wilbur. Born and raised on Chicago’s South Side, Davis developed a stand-up style rooted in personal stories and sharp observations about race, poverty, family dysfunction, and his experiences growing up in the city’s projects. His routines can be vulgar and droll while also being candid and socially pointed.

HOUSE TEAMS

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House Teams brings together improv groups made up of current Improv Asylum Training Center students and graduates. Each team performs a 20-minute improvisational set, showcasing emerging comedic talent from Boston’s improv scene.

Boston Comedy Festival Comedy Contest Preliminary Round 3

Featuring: Carolyn Plummer, Demetrius “Big D” Hullum

Boston Comedy Festival Comedy Contest Preliminary Round 3 brings 12 stand-up comedians to City Winery Boston as they compete for a place in the semifinals. The broader competition features 96 comedians from across the United States and occasionally Canada, competing over eight preliminary rounds for 32 semifinal spots and a share of $7,000 in prize money. The lineup is designed to showcase both established performers and comedians who may be on the verge of a major breakthrough.

Mike'd Up Production Comedy Open Mic Night

Mike’d Up Production Comedy Open Mic Night is a comedy showcase presented by Mike’d Up Comedy at Taffeta Music Hall. The event is open to guests age 18 and older, with admission also available to those under 18 when accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

Boston Comedy Festival Comedy Contest Preliminary Round 5

Featuring: Steve Bjork, Orlando Baxter

Boston Comedy Festival Comedy Contest Preliminary Round 5 brings 12 comedians to City Winery Boston as part of a national stand-up competition featuring 96 performers over eight preliminary rounds. Contestants are competing for 32 semifinal places and a share of $7,000 in prize money, giving audiences a chance to discover comedians before they become widely known.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 – Sat, Nov 14, 2026 · 7:30 PM

Improv Asylum's Main Stage Show

Improv Asylum’s Main Stage Show is the company’s signature comedy performance, featuring six quick-witted performers in nonstop, fast-paced improvisational scenes created from audience suggestions. The show combines audience interaction with original music, outrageous characters, and unpredictable comedic moments, with every performance offering a different experience.

Dance

Club Café Fridays – GayMaxxing

Featuring: DJ Stevie Psyclone

Club Café Fridays – GayMaxxing is a weekly queer dance night focused on building community through an energetic, inclusive dance floor. Guests are encouraged to bring their friends and arrive early, with music running from late evening into the early morning.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 9:00 AM

BDT Pro Fall 2026

BDT Pro Fall 2026 is an advanced contemporary dance class led by Boston Dance Theater company members at the Mosesian Center for the Arts. The professional morning training welcomes experienced dancers seeking a rigorous environment and includes rotating instruction in contemporary technique, floorwork, partnering, and repertory exploration.

Late Nites

Late Nites is an after-hours Museum of Fine Arts, Boston event combining music, dancing, art-making, gallery conversations, exhibitions, food, and community. Presented with stay silent, a New England organization rooted in diasporic hip-hop communities, the evening transforms the MFA into a late-night house party featuring DJs, creative activities, photography, and opportunities to explore the Museum after dark.

The Platform Grand Opening: A Member Celebration

Featuring: BANDALOOP, Compagnie Hervé Koubi

The Platform’s grand opening is an exclusive celebration for Global Arts Live members, offering a first look at the new Kendall Square venue through dance, community, and hospitality. The evening begins outdoors with BANDALOOP artists performing suspended from the side of The Platform, followed by the Boston premiere of *SOL INVICTUS* by contemporary urban dance company Compagnie Hervé Koubi.

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Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 10:00 PM

A BOOGIE WIT DA HOODIE & DABABY - OFFICIAL AFTER PARTY ( 21+ )

Featuring: A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, DaBaby, DJ Spinking

A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie and DaBaby bring the official “10 Years of Artist” tour after-party to Big Night Live in downtown Boston. DJ Spinking is slated to handle the decks for the late-night event.

Lucky 13

Lucky 13 is an amateur burlesque competition that has supported emerging performers in Greater Boston since 2010. New burlesque artists of every gender, size, and genre perform for the audience, while three professional burlesque judges and audience votes together determine the winner. Guests are invited to cheer on the contestants and vote for their favorite performer.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 5:00 PM

Barn Dance

Featuring: Rascals

Grab your boots for a welcoming night of country-style fun at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts. Barn Dance begins with an optional line-dancing workshop led by instructors from Rascals, Worcester’s premier line-dancing destination, followed by DJ music and open dancing. Beginners, solo attendees, and experienced dancers are all welcome, and no partner or prior experience is required.

Compagnie Hervé Koubi

Featuring: Compagnie Hervé Koubi

Compagnie Hervé Koubi presents the Boston premiere of *Sol Invictus*, a work that fuses contemporary dance, capoeira, and urban movement into powerful, gravity-defying choreography. Inspired by the ancient Roman deity of the “invincible sun,” the performance explores love as a foundation for peace and suggests that human connection can endure even in times of division.

Koo Koo

Featuring: Koo Koo, Bryan, Neil

Koo Koo brings its high-energy, interactive dance party to The Sinclair. Lifelong friends and collaborators Bryan and Neil combine comedic songs, infectious positivity, crowd participation, and a hyperactive live show designed for kids, parents, and teachers. Their music has grown out of a successful YouTube channel and years of touring, including appearances at Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and the Vans Warped Tour, as well as performances with Yo Gabba Gabba, The Aquabats, and Frank Turner.

Earlybirds Club

Featuring: L’DUKE

Earlybirds Club is a Y2K-themed dance party for women and gender-expansive people, with a judgment-free atmosphere centered on joy, kindness, and connection. The night revisits low-rise jeans, flip phones, going-out tops, and late-1990s and early-2000s pop, hip-hop, R&B, and dance hits. Guests may attend alone or with friends, and the event is intended to be finished early.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 9:00 PM

1 year of hyperlinked: a girl edm + hyperpop party

Featuring: Skipipop, gw3nd0lyn, DJ Frazzo, Kate Kush

Celebrate the first anniversary of Hyperlinked, a high-energy party centered on girl EDM, hyperpop, techno, and other cross-genre electronic sounds. The night features a local DJ lineup, including Skipipop, gw3nd0lyn, DJ Frazzo, and Kate Kush. Kate Kush returns from Burlington, Vermont, while Skipipop makes her Boston debut.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 4:00 PM

Sunday Tea Dance

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Featuring: DJ AGA

Sunday Tea Dance is a holiday-weekend dance party at Club Café’s Moonshine Room, featuring DJ AGA spinning favorites from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s alongside current hits. Go-go dancers are also part of the event, which is intended for guests age 21 and over.

Queer Line & Partner Dancing

Queer Line & Partner Dancing is a welcoming social dance event rooted in Boston’s LGBTQ+ country-western community. Participants can meet new people and learn both classic and contemporary line dances and partner dances in a low-pressure setting. No prior experience is required, and attendees are encouraged to try unfamiliar moves and connect with others respectfully.

BDT Creative Expression & Dance for Everyone Fall 2026

Boston Dance Theater’s Creative Expression & Dance for Everyone class offers an inclusive, supportive way to explore movement, creativity, rhythm, and self-expression. Designed for beginners, returning dancers, and more experienced movers, the class is led by professional BDT company members and welcomes participants from a wide range of backgrounds and experience levels.

Fuego Thursdays - Dance Night - Reggaeton | Salsa | Bachata | Cumbia

Featuring: DJ Dave Casanave

Fuego Thursdays is a monthly Latin dance night at Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center in downtown Maynard. The event transforms the historic venue into a high-energy dance club featuring reggaeton, salsa, bachata, cumbia, merengue, Latin pop, dembow, and other current Latin hits. The welcoming dance floor is intended for both experienced dancers and newcomers looking for a lively night out.

Talk/Lecture

Chinatown Branch Library Cancelled

Information Session for Adult English Learners

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 12:30 PM

Featuring: Boston Public Library’s Literacy Services team

This informal session is for adult English-language learners seeking guidance, support, and opportunities to practice. Members of the Boston Public Library’s Literacy Services team explain how to enroll in grammar classes, describe free conversation-practice groups, and answer questions about local programs and other resources. It is intended as an information and referral session rather than a formal English class.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 11:30 AM

Information Session for Adult English Learners

Featuring: Boston Public Library’s Literacy Services team

This informal session is for adults learning English who want guidance, support, and opportunities to practice. Members of the Boston Public Library’s Literacy Services team will answer questions, explain how to register for grammar classes, introduce free conversation-practice groups, and share local resources and programs.

Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre

Post-Show Talkback | A Streetcar Named Desire

219 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Featuring: Nina Yoshida Nelsen, Daniela Candillari, Brittany Renee, Angela Yam

Join Boston Lyric Opera after the Friday evening performance of *A Streetcar Named Desire* for a moderated post-show conversation about the opera’s themes and the artists’ creative processes. The talkback will be held in the house after curtain call and will last approximately 25 minutes.

Ask a Conservator

Through Fri, Nov 6, 2026

Ask a Conservator gives visitors the opportunity to meet Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, conservators, ask questions about caring for artwork, and learn more about careers in art conservation. The November 5 session focuses especially on training pathways and the panelists’ experiences pursuing careers in the field; the November 6 sessions offer conversations with conservators from several specialties.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Information Session for Adult English Learners

Featuring: Boston Public Library’s Literacy Services team

This informal information session is for adult English-language learners seeking resources, support, and opportunities to practice. Members of the Boston Public Library’s Literacy Services team will explain how to register for grammar classes, describe free conversation-practice groups, and answer questions about local programs and resources.

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Book Café

Book Café is a relaxed gathering for people who enjoy discovering and discussing books. Attendees can exchange recommendations, expand their reading lists, and connect with fellow book lovers. Light refreshments will be provided by the Friends of the West Roxbury Library.

2026 Druker Award Lecture: More Than a Building

Featuring: Marianne McKenna, Paulo Rocha

The 2026 Druker Award Lecture, “More Than a Building,” features KPMB Architects founding partner Marianne McKenna and partner Paulo Rocha. Their presentation will examine how cities change over time, using Boston’s evolution and the design of Boston University’s Duan Family Center for Computing & Data Sciences as a case study. The speakers will discuss how collaboration and the design process can produce lasting social, environmental, and economic benefits, as well as the future of architecture in Boston.

Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation

The Mill Girls in Story & Song

154 Moody Street, Waltham, MA 02453

The Mill Girls in Story & Song is a 45-minute historical tour about the women who worked in the Boston Manufacturing Company and other textile mills operated by the Boston Associates in Waltham and Lowell. Through stories, artifacts, images, and songs written by mill women and recorded during a museum concert by historical folk singer Diane Taraz, the program examines women’s roles in industrial America.

Spotlight Tour: Disavowed, with Julianne Wu ’28

Featuring: Julianne Wu

Spotlight Tour: Disavowed, led by Harvard undergraduate Julianne Wu ’28, examines how people and institutions reject, conceal, or challenge authority through three works in the Harvard Art Museums’ collections. The conversational tour considers Bearded Man, Possibly Emperor Macrinus, Max Beckmann’s Self-Portrait in Tuxedo, and Franz Kline’s High Street.

Spotlight Tour: Thresholds, with Jane Lilly ’27

Featuring: Jane Lilly ’27

Spotlight Tour: Thresholds, led by Harvard undergraduate Jane Lilly ’27, examines ideas of boundaries and in-between states through three works in the Harvard Art Museums’ collections. The conversational tour considers how visitors perceive and move through art, with stops at a Marinid-period lintel from Fez, Morocco; the stained-glass window *Scene from the Life of Thomas Becket* from Canterbury, England; and Canaletto’s *Piazza San Marco, Venice*.

Author Talk: Sandy Bailey - She's On to Something

Featuring: Sandy Bailey, Liz Nania

Sandy Bailey discusses her debut novel, *She’s On to Something*, a high-stakes mystery about Jaye Brannigan, a determined SEC prosecutor who uncovers a church-based investment scheme that is taking millions from working-class families. As Jaye traces the fraud from Boston to New Mexico, she exposes religious patriarchy, financial wrongdoing, and offshore dealings while facing threats from a hostile administration and the complications of falling for a magnetic woman.

Swissnex

Whose Landscape: The Alps Between Nation and Planet (Off-Site)

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 12:30 PM

420 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Featuring: Claire Galloni d’Istria, Joachim Homann, Anne Whiston Spirn, Benji Jones, Sarah C. Rosenthal

Whose Landscape: The Alps Between Nation and Planet is an afternoon program examining how the Alps have been represented, claimed, and understood across national and planetary scales. Through a panel discussion and art, the event considers whether the Alps belong to Switzerland, to the countries and communities that share them, or to a broader ecological system of glaciers, biodiversity corridors, and atmospheric records.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Christian Wiman and Tracy K. Smith

Featuring: Christian Wiman, Tracy K. Smith

Christian Wiman and Tracy K. Smith present a special pre-concert reading and conversation centered on creation. They will assemble poetry and prose from their own acclaimed work and from writers across different eras, exploring origins, wonder, imagination, and the human impulse to make. The program offers a literary response to Haydn’s *The Creation*, emphasizing how creation can unfold through language, image, breath, and thought.

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Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 2:30 PM

The Happily-Ever-After Book Club Reads... Heist Romances

The Happily-Ever-After Book Club invites romance readers to a bring-your-own-book discussion focused on the heist-romance trope. November’s conversation will explore romances in which a heist or con is central to the story. Participants do not need to read a specific title, and Boston Public Library librarians can provide personalized recommendations through Shelf Service.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 12:00 PM

Since Forever: A Book Discussion with Jeff Ament

Featuring: Jeff Ament, Barry Ament

City Winery Boston presents a live discussion with Pearl Jam member Jeff Ament and his brother, Barry, focused on their new book, *Since Forever*. The conversation will explore the stories behind the photographs featured in the book.

ASL-Interpreted Spotlight Tour: Child’s Play, with Ricardo Fernandes Garcia ’27

Featuring: Ricardo Fernandes Garcia

This ASL-interpreted Spotlight Tour, led by Harvard undergraduate Ricardo Fernandes Garcia ’27, examines how artists have used images of innocence to address conflict and war. The tour considers childhood, toys, and imagination through three works in the Harvard Art Museums’ collections: Winslow Homer’s *The Brush Harrow* (1865), George Grosz’s *Nutcracker* (1931), and Joseph Cornell’s *Midnight Carrousel* (1954).

Masterclass: Fall Painting Demonstration with Dianne Panarelli Miller

Featuring: Dianne Panarelli Miller

Masterclass: Fall Painting Demonstration features Boston-based plein air painter Dianne Panarelli Miller in a live, in-person demonstration at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts. Rooted in the traditional Boston School approach, Miller combines rigorous atelier training, structured drawing, and strong composition with impressionist attention to color and light.

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam-Michaelis

Featuring: Michaelis

The Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam features Michaelis, a multimedia spoken-word artist from the DMV who now lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Their work combines rhyme, rhythm, and wordplay to explore stories of Blackness and queerness, informed by childhood connections to the Deep South.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 2:00 PM

Information Session for Adult English Learners

Featuring: Boston Public Library’s Literacy Services team

This informal information session is for adult English language learners seeking resources, support, and opportunities to practice. Members of the Boston Public Library’s Literacy Services team will answer questions, explain available programs, and help participants connect with local resources. The session is intended for information and referrals, not as a formal English class.

Farkas Hall

The Janes Reading

12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Janes is a public reading of Kate Hamill’s brand-new play inspired by the Jane Collective, the radical feminist network that operated in Chicago from 1968 to 1972. The group defied the law to provide approximately 11,000 illegal abortions. The play explores the complications, conflict, joy, and power of collective activism while asking what people might sacrifice to spark a revolution. This is the play’s first public reading.

Honan-Allston Branch Library

2026 Medicare Open Enrollment Clinics

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The 2026 Medicare Open Enrollment Clinics help older adults review their Medicare health insurance and prescription plans annually so they can receive the most coverage at the lowest cost. Attendees can meet in person with an Age Strong certified SHINE counselor, or speak with a counselor by phone.

Spanish Language Storytime

Featuring: Pine Street Village Daycare

Spanish Language Storytime is a free Spanish-language reading program presented by friends from Pine Street Village Daycare. It is intended for young children from birth through age 5 and will take place in the downstairs community room at the Jamaica Plain location.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 6:00 PM

Lowell Lecture: A Conversation with Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett

Featuring: Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett

Join the Shaw-Roxbury Branch Library for a Lowell Lecture conversation with Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, available both in person and via Zoom Webinar. Dr. Corbett is a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health professor, renowned virologist, science communicator, and TIME Hero of the Year.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Rainbow Reads Book Club

Rainbow Reads Book Club is a discussion group for adults interested in LGBTQ+ literature. This meeting will focus on *Giovanni’s Room* (1956) by James Baldwin, a novel about a young American living in Paris as he reflects on relationships with men and women and struggles to find his place in society while his lover Giovanni awaits execution for murder.

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 3:00 PM

Information Session for Adult English Learners

This informal session is for adults learning English who want guidance, support, and opportunities to practice. Members of the Boston Public Library’s Literacy Services team will explain how to register for grammar classes, describe free conversation groups for speaking and listening practice, and answer questions about local programs and resources.

Employee Know Your Rights Training

Featuring: Lawyers for Civil Rights

This training, presented with Lawyers for Civil Rights, helps immigrant workers understand their rights during interactions with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including enforcement activity in the workplace. It also covers ways employees can prepare themselves and their families, along with reliable legal and community resources for further assistance.

Author & Illustrator Series: Grace Lin

Featuring: Grace Lin

Grace Lin, a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator, visits the Charlestown library to discuss her work and meet with children. A recipient of the Newbery Honor, Theodor Geisel Honor, and Caldecott Honor, Lin has created dozens of books, including *Dim Sum for Everyone*, *Where the Mountain Meets the Moon*, and the *Ling and Ting* series.

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 2:00 PM

Author & Illustrator Series: Grace Lin

Featuring: Grace Lin

Grace Lin, a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator, visits the Chinatown Branch of the Boston Public Library to discuss her work and meet with children. Lin is a recipient of the Newbery Honor, Theodor Geisel Honor, and Caldecott Honor. Her books include *Dim Sum for Everyone*, *Where the Mountain Meets the Moon*, and the *Ling and Ting* series.

Roxbury Renaissance Readers Book Club

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The Roxbury Renaissance Readers Book Club is a community-based adult literacy program hosted by the Boston Public Library’s Grove Hall Branch. Participants read and discuss literature while building reading comprehension, supporting lifelong reading, and exploring connections to culture, history, economics, politics, and community life.

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 12:30 PM

Gallery Talk: Taking the Stage—Ancient Greek Performers and Their Masks

Featuring: Sarah Gonzalez

Gallery Talk: Taking the Stage—Ancient Greek Performers and Their Masks explores what it may have been like for actors in ancient Greece to wear and perform with theatrical masks. Through ancient Mediterranean artworks, Sarah Gonzalez will examine the relationship between performer and mask, including funerary monuments honoring deceased actors, symposium eye cups, and other objects.

Sip of Joy

The Scoop: Book Club — Dream Drawings

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 2:00 PM

661 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts

November is Native American Heritage Month, and this installment of The Scoop book club focuses on N. Scott Momaday’s *Dream Drawings: Configurations of a Timeless Kid*. The group will discuss Momaday’s collection of 100 brief “dream drawings,” which combine prose-poem-like sketches with reflections on nature, animals, warriors, hunters, love, loss, time, and memory. The book draws on Momaday’s Native American heritage and oral storytelling traditions and includes black-and-white paintings by the author.

Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation

Mill Talk: A Paper Nation: America’s First Information Revolution

154 Moody Street, Waltham, MA 02453

Featuring: Alex Wright

“Mill Talk: A Paper Nation: America’s First Information Revolution” is an illustrated presentation by author Alex Wright about the rapid growth of American newspapers from the Revolutionary War through the early twentieth century. Wright examines how new technologies, public policy, and the country’s commitment to free expression helped create a powerful new communications industry.

Gloucester Stage Company

Fish Tales: Veterans

267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

Fish Tales: Veterans is a live storytelling showcase presented by the Gloucester Writers Center for Veterans Day. Storytellers will share true, personal accounts by and about veterans, looking beyond military uniforms and traditional tributes to explore the human experiences of service, including change, connection, challenges, humor, and perspective.

Through Wed, Nov 11, 2026

Gallery Highlights

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Gallery Highlights is a guided tour at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for visitors who want an introduction to the collection. Knowledgeable museum guides lead participants through selected artworks, offering a closer look at well-known pieces while introducing lesser-known works and helping visitors decide where to begin their visit.

Union Church

Author Talk: Laura Zigman — The Author Weekend

485 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts

Featuring: Laura Zigman

Laura Zigman will discuss her latest novel, *The Author Weekend*, as part of the Fall 2026 Author Talk Series presented by the Friends of the South End Library. The evening will feature a lively conversation about the book and its darkly comic take on envy, ambition, aging, and the publishing world.

WBUR CitySpace

Daddy Issues: 'Call Her Daddy' co-creator Sofia Franklyn reclaims her story

890 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215

Featuring: Sofia Franklyn, Anna Marie Tendler

Sofia Franklyn, co-creator of the influential podcast “Call Her Daddy,” will discuss her memoir, “Daddy Issues,” and the personal story behind its creation. In conversation with writer and visual artist Anna Marie Tendler, Franklyn will reflect on girlhood, friendship, sexuality, ambition, agency, betrayal, healing, and the process of reclaiming her narrative after the highly publicized collapse of her partnership with Alex Cooper.

West End Branch Library

Information Session for Adult English Learners

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 11:00 AM

151 Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Featuring: Boston Public Library’s Literacy Services team

This informal session is for adult English learners seeking library resources, support, and opportunities to practice English. Members of the Boston Public Library’s Literacy Services team will answer questions, explain how to register for grammar classes, introduce conversation-practice groups, and help attendees find local programs and other resources. It is intended as an information and referral session, not a formal English class.

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ArtsEmerson (Emerson Paramount Center / Cutler Majestic)

The Point: America, 250 Years From Now: Imagining the Future of Performance and Identity

559 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111

The Point: America, 250 Years From Now: Imagining the Future of Performance and Identity is a conversation about how the choices being made today could shape American culture over the next 250 years. As part of ArtsEmerson’s America 250 series, artists, educators, and cultural leaders will consider the future of storytelling, artistic practice, technology, public space, and community. The discussion will ask who gets to imagine the country’s future, which traditions should endure or change, and how artists can help envision new possibilities for American identity, belonging, and connection.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 5:00 PM

Author Talk: Lauren Klein and Tanvi Sharma on "Data by Design"

Featuring: Lauren Klein, Tanvi Sharma, Arvind Satyanarayan

Join visualization historian Lauren Klein and designer Tanvi Sharma for a conversation about their book *Data by Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science*. The book revisits the history of data visualization, examining the power embedded in charts and maps and considering how these tools can support social change.

Greater Boston Religion & Theology Graduate Fair

The Greater Boston Religion & Theology Graduate Fair is a community meeting and information session for people exploring graduate education in religion, theology, ministry, and related fields. Hosted by the Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium (BTI), the fair gives prospective students a chance to speak directly with representatives from area schools and learn about academic programs, admissions, financial aid, student life, and vocational opportunities.

Business of Art with Jason 'Swat' Talbot

Featuring: Jason 'Swat' Talbot

The Kirstein Business Library & Innovation Center presents Jason “Swat” Talbot in the ongoing Business of Art series. Talbot will discuss creative career pathways, youth art enterprise, public art, and how to build lasting connections within the creative community.

Great Decisions — A New Nuclear Age

Featuring: Mark Libby, Rebecca Gibbons

Great Decisions — A New Nuclear Age is a Boston Public Library lecture presented in partnership with World Boston and the GBH Forum Network, with support from the Lowell Institute. The program will explore how rising global tensions and shifting alliances are changing the risks associated with nuclear weapons.

Charlestown Youth Gambling Project Presentation

The Charlestown Youth Gambling Project Presentation brings together the Mayor’s Office of Human Services and the research team behind the Charlestown Gambling Project to discuss the project’s newly released findings. The presentation will examine the project’s data, economic analysis, and effects on the Charlestown community.

Charlestown Book Group: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

The Charlestown Book Group meets to discuss Amanda Peters’s novel *The Berry Pickers*. Readers are invited to gather with neighbors, share their perspectives, and explore the book’s themes and story. Copies are available to borrow from the Charlestown Branch.

East Boston Book Club: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

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The East Boston Book Club discusses Raymond Chandler’s 1939 crime novel *The Big Sleep*, featuring Philip Marlowe, the quintessential urban private detective. The story begins when a dying millionaire hires Marlowe to deal with the blackmailer targeting one of his two troubled daughters. The case soon expands into a dangerous web involving kidnapping, pornography, seduction, murder, and other complications.

The Artist’s Voice: Leilah Babirye with Ruth Erickson

Featuring: Leilah Babirye, Ruth Erickson

The Artist’s Voice brings artist Leilah Babirye into conversation with Ruth Erickson, the ICA’s Barbara Lee Chief Curator, for a discussion of Babirye’s sculptural practice. Babirye’s ICA exhibition centers on a queer wedding and portrays its celebrants through ceramic and carved-wood figures incorporating materials such as bicycle chains, gears, tire tubes, and other found objects.

Mattapan Branch Library Cancelled

Information Session for Adult English Learners

This canceled information session was intended for adult English-language learners seeking guidance, support, and opportunities to practice English. A Boston Public Library instructor would have provided informal help with registering for English and workforce classes, explained conversation practice groups, and answered questions about local programs and resources.

An Evening With Alex O'Connor

Featuring: Alex O'Connor

An Evening With Alex O’Connor brings YouTuber and host of the *Within Reason* podcast to The Wilbur for an evening of conversation and audience questions. The discussion will explore God, religion, consciousness, and other related topics.

Through Thu, Nov 19, 2026

Historic Library Tour

Join a public guided tour of the Boston Public Library’s Central Library in Copley Square. The approximately one-hour tour introduces the library’s history as the first large free municipal library in the United States, along with the art and architecture of its historic building.

Comparing Across Time and Culture

Through Thu, Dec 3, 2026

Featuring: Barbara T. Martin

Comparing Across Time and Culture is a four-session Looking Together program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Led by Barbara T. Martin, Alfond Curator Emerita of Education, the program uses close looking and comparison to examine how artists, styles, historical periods, and cultures differ and connect.

Museum of Printing

Aldus and his dream book: A Viewing of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Through Sat, Dec 5, 2026

15 Thornton Avenue, Haverhill, MA 01832

Featuring: Frank Romano

Frank Romano presents an original copy of *Hypnerotomachia Poliphili*, the mysterious and exceptionally rare book printed by Aldus Manutius in Venice in 1499. The presentation explores the book’s place in printing history and Renaissance bookmaking, including its elaborate woodcut illustrations, distinctive typography, and enduring mysteries.

Theater

The TUNEabomber

Featuring: John Lampe, Michael Wysong

The TUNEabomber is a darkly comic two-person musical about Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, appearing before a parole board and retelling his life in song. The show imagines Kaczynski trying to prove that he was never meant to be a monster, but rather a star, turning his history of explosives and notoriety into an intentionally absurd musical-comedy premise.

I And You

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I And You is presented at The Umbrella Arts Center from November 5 through November 7. The available event information lists two performances during the engagement.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 2:15 PM

Circus Up 2026 Benefit Show

Featuring: Kirkos, Circus Up coaches

Circus Up’s 2026 Benefit Show is an afternoon of live circus acts celebrating equity and access in the arts. The program will feature Circus Up’s community troupe, Kirkos, alongside performances by Circus Up coaches and local and national circus artists and dancers.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 10:30 AM

Good News Gus

Huntington Theatre Company

Featuring: Harry LaCoste

Good News Gus is a family-friendly vaudeville performance led by Harry LaCoste. With a cast of interactive fuzzy puppet friends, Harry sings familiar songs, tells jokes, plays a lively ukulele, and joins his sunshine-spreading sidekick for wiggling, giggling, juggling, and musical fun.

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

Through Sun, Nov 8, 2026

264 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

Featuring: Huntington Theatre Company

Harper Lee’s *To Kill a Mockingbird* comes to the Huntington Theatre in Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Set in 1934, the drama follows the principled lawyer Atticus Finch as he seeks justice for a man wrongfully accused, confronting the limits of his own virtue and the difficult possibility of forgiveness in a deeply divided society.

The Company Theatre

Beetlejuice Jr.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Sun, Nov 8, 2026

30 Accord Park Drive, Norwell, MA 02061

“It’s showtime!” Beetlejuice Jr. brings the ghost-with-the-most, a chaotic cast of mortals and immortals, and a riotous Netherworld to A.C.T. this November. Based on the beloved film and its Broadway musical adaptation, this frightfully funny production combines outrageous humor with emotional honesty in a theatrical party for audiences of all kinds.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 7:30 PM

Bat Boy: The Musical

Boston Playwrights' Theatre

Bat Boy: The Musical is scheduled at The Umbrella Arts Center from November 6 through November 8. The available schedule lists two performances.

Pay-What-You-Want Previews

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 – Fri, Nov 13, 2026 · 7:00 PM

949 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

Pay-What-You-Want Previews offer an opportunity to see *jessica of venice* before its regular performances while choosing the amount to pay, including nothing.

Emerson Colonial Theatre

Hadestown

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 – Sat, Nov 14, 2026

106 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116

Hadestown is an acclaimed musical by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin. The production reimagines the myths of Orpheus and Eurydice and of Hades and Persephone as a haunting, hopeful love story about whether devotion can overcome fate. Its journey moves between the world above and the underworld, exploring the tensions between industry and nature, doubt and faith, fear and love.

Footlight Club

Annie

Through Sat, Nov 14, 2026

7A Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

Annie is a family-friendly musical about an optimistic young orphan who holds on to the belief that better days are ahead. With humor, energetic dance numbers, and classic songs including “Tomorrow” and “It’s the Hard-Knock Life,” the production explores hope, resilience, friendship, and the importance of staying positive.

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Citizens Opera House (Broadway in Boston)

Wicked

539 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111

Featuring: North American Touring Company

Wicked reimagines the world of Oz from the witches’ point of view, telling the story of what happened before Dorothy arrived. Elphaba, a brilliant and fiery young woman with emerald-green skin, meets Glinda, a cheerful and highly popular blonde student. Their rivalry gradually becomes an unexpected friendship, but the forces around them eventually cast one woman as “good” and the other as “wicked.”

Gloucester Stage Company

Laugh Out Loud

267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

Featuring: Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe

Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe opens its 2026–27 season with *Laugh Out Loud*, a program of three modern one-act comedies. The collection ranges from a satirical search for the perfect partner to a family dispute that turns into a courtroom-style showdown and a classic farce filled with escalating mishaps.

The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN)

All My Sons by Arthur Miller

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Sun, Nov 15, 2026 · 7:30 PM

14 Summer Street, Natick, MA 01760

Featuring: TCAN Players

Arthur Miller’s *All My Sons*, presented by the TCAN Players, follows Joe Keller, a businessman who protected his company during wartime at the cost of 21 pilots’ lives. Joe and his wife, Kate, have concealed the truth, but the secret threatens to emerge when their son Chris becomes engaged to Ann, the daughter of the man who was blamed for Joe’s crime. The production examines grief, idealism, family loyalty, friendship, and the personal cost of pursuing the American dream.

Vokes Theatre (Vokes Players)

For Peter Pan On Her 70th Birthday

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Sat, Nov 21, 2026

97 Boston Post Road (Route 20), Wayland, MA 01778

Sarah Ruhl’s For Peter Pan On Her 70th Birthday follows Ann, a woman who once played Peter Pan at her hometown children’s theater. Decades later, Ann and her siblings return to that formative theatrical world, revisiting Neverland while confronting the tension between refusing to grow up and facing the realities of aging.

Boston Playwrights' Theatre

white phoenix

Through Sun, Nov 22, 2026

949 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

White Phoenix is a sweeping family drama by Shenzhen-born playwright Yide Cai, presented on the Snodgrass Stage as part of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre’s Fall Rep Festival. Told by two actors in a single-room setting, the play follows Li CunYi, a Chinese orphan who promises to reunite with his sister, Li CunXin, after she is adopted by an American family.

Boston Playwrights' Theatre

jessica of venice

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 – Sun, Nov 22, 2026

949 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

Rachel Beth Greene’s *Jessica of Venice* is a new play set in the present day but shaped by echoes of the Early Modern period. A group of Orthodox Jewish schoolgirls discovers a forbidden copy of Shakespeare’s *The Merchant of Venice* and becomes captivated by Jessica, prompting Shaina to confront religious expectations, forbidden desire, and her longing for a life beyond her community.

Central Square Theater

The Getaway Driver

Through Sun, Nov 29, 2026

450 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

The Getaway Driver is a new drama inspired by the true story of Katherine Ann Power and Clare Schroeder. Set against the political unrest of 1970, the play follows Power, a college student who joins an activist group protesting the Vietnam War, and Schroeder, who is forced to mature under the shadow of her father’s killing when the group’s resistance turns fatal. After disappearing and spending decades on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, Power reemerges seeking redemption and must face Schroeder and the history that altered both of their lives. Framed with the tension of a true-crime thriller, the play examines how far people should go when pursuing what they believe is right.

Farkas Hall

1972

Through Sun, Dec 6, 2026

12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1972 is a world-premiere rock opera presented in a heightened-concert style. Set against the fight for reproductive freedom before Roe v. Wade, it follows Hannah, a pregnant woman escaping an abusive relationship, as she travels the rails with three outcasts and encounters the Janes, an underground network of women who risked their safety to help others obtain abortions.

Film

After Hours

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After Hours is Martin Scorsese’s dark, nightmarish comedy about Paul, a Manhattan office worker whose attempt to navigate Lower Manhattan turns into an increasingly chaotic journey through New York City at night in the early 1980s. The film stars Griffin Dunne, Linda Fiorentino, Rosanna Arquette, Tommy Chong, and Verna Bloom.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 2:00 PM

Friday Matinee: The Sheep Detectives (2026)

Spend Friday afternoon at the Charlestown branch of the Boston Public Library with a relaxed screening of *The Sheep Detectives* (2026). This witty mystery follows George (Hugh Jackman), a shepherd who reads detective novels to his sheep each night, never suspecting that they understand him. After a mysterious incident disturbs life on the farm, the sheep begin examining clues and investigating the human suspects, discovering that they may be remarkably capable crime-solvers.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 11:59 PM

Eraserhead

David Lynch’s startling debut feature, *Eraserhead*, is a surreal cult classic shaped by the writings of Franz Kafka and Nikolai Gogol. Set in a dystopian industrial wasteland, the film follows Henry Spencer, a perpetually bewildered pencil-factory worker whose relationship with his girlfriend takes an unsettling turn. The film’s strange imagery includes mutant babies, women singing inside radiators, and dancing roasted chickens.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 11:59 PM

The Guardian (1990)

William Friedkin’s *The Guardian* is a supernatural horror film about a young couple whose seemingly ideal live-in babysitter conceals a terrifying connection to ancient forces. As the sitter’s true intentions emerge, the new parents must fight to save their newborn child’s soul. The film stars Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown, and Carey Lowell, and is based on Dan Greenburg’s novel *The Nanny*. It marked Friedkin’s first horror film since *The Exorcist*.

Bullitt

Bullitt is Peter Yates’s tightly controlled 1968 crime thriller, following Steve McQueen as a laconic San Francisco detective. The film is celebrated for its inventive, high-speed car chase through the city, but it also builds tension through quieter observations of urban life and sharply drawn contrasts between San Francisco’s neighborhoods, institutions, and centers of power.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 9:15 PM

The Conversation

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 1:30 PM

Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 psychological thriller follows a highly private surveillance expert whose professional detachment begins to unravel when he becomes emotionally invested in the conversation he has been hired to record. Set against the paranoia of the early 1970s, the film repeatedly revisits the same audio recording, creating an atmosphere of mistrust, guilt, and conspiracy.

North End Branch Library

Friday Films Double Feature: Bodyguard (1948) & Armored Car Robbery (1950)

Featuring: Barry Marshall

Join Barry Marshall, Senior Affiliated Faculty in Emerson College’s Visual and Media Arts Department, for the opening week of a Richard Fleischer film series. This double feature pairs two film noir works, followed by discussion of Fleischer’s direction.

Somerville Theatre Sold Out

Cast Aside the Clouds

Featuring: Mary Darling, Bre Vader

Cast Aside the Clouds is an internationally award-winning love story set in present-day Tehran. Layla, a Bahá’í woman barred from attending university because of her faith, pursues her education through an underground institution. After her father’s bookstore is attacked, she becomes close to Sasan, a Muslim neurologist whose promising future has been shaped by deeply rooted beliefs and prejudices. Their growing relationship challenges his assumptions, and Layla’s arrest forces him to choose between the secure life he planned and the uncertain path demanded by his conscience.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 2:15 PM

Sidewalk Stories

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Sidewalk Stories is a charming yet gritty New York drama inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s *The Kid*. Charles Lane writes, directs, and stars as an unhoused street artist in Manhattan who unexpectedly becomes responsible for caring for an orphaned child. The film presents a portrait of 1980s New York City and pays tribute to Chaplin’s blend of humor, tenderness, and hardship.

Women on Trial

Featuring: Kelly Colvin, Julian Bourg

Women on Trial is a French courtroom drama set during a landmark 1972 trial in France. Sixteen-year-old Marie-Claire is prosecuted after having an illegal abortion with help from her mother and two other defendants. In a male-dominated courtroom, the women face prison while the man who raped Marie-Claire remains unpunished. Their defense attorney, Gisèle Halimi, a Jewish lawyer known for challenging patriarchy, fights to overturn the system’s treatment of victims and ultimately helps change the status of women.

Happenstance Horror Fest '26 BLOCKS A&B

Happenstance Horror Fest ’26: Blocks A & B is a festival presentation at Cinema Salem featuring both blocks of the event. The page identifies it as a 390-minute horror festival and invites attendees to take in the complete two-block program.

Diabolique (1955) & Discussion

Featuring: Matt Taylor

Diabolique (1955) follows the wife and mistress of a cruel headmaster who join forces to murder him. When his body mysteriously disappears after the killing, the two women become trapped in a series of increasingly unsettling events. This critically acclaimed French film has influenced filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock, whose *Psycho* bears its imprint, as well as William Friedkin’s *The Exorcist* and other works. This encore screening will be followed by a discussion led by Matt Taylor.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 10:30 AM

Relaxed Screenings: Raya and the Last Dragon

Raya and the Last Dragon follows Raya, a determined warrior traveling through the fantasy land of Kumandra in search of the legendary last dragon, Sisu. After an ancient evil returns centuries after dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity, Raya must reunite the fractured land and its divided people. Her journey ultimately teaches her that trust and cooperation are as essential as courage.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 11:59 PM

To Live and Die in L.A.

To Live and Die in L.A. is William Friedkin’s hard-edged action thriller about corruption, revenge, and obsession. After a federal agent is killed, Agent Richard Chance sets out to bring down a murderous counterfeiter, abandoning the rules in favor of blackmail, defiance, and increasingly reckless methods. William Petersen and Willem Dafoe face off in a deadly cat-and-mouse pursuit that includes a celebrated freeway chase and an explosive conclusion.

Ju Dou

Ju Dou is a 1990 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang. Set in an early-20th-century dye mill, it follows a beautiful indentured bride caught in a dangerous relationship with her husband’s adoptive nephew while living under the control of her sadistic, impotent patriarchal husband. The film combines lush, highly stylized imagery with elements of film noir, horror, fairy tale, and tragic melodrama, while examining cycles of intergenerational violence.

Sudden Fear

David Miller’s 1952 noir suspense film follows a San Francisco heiress, played by Joan Crawford, whose seemingly secure life becomes entangled with betrayal and murder. Set amid cliffside homes, covertly recorded conversations, doppelgängers, and excursions into the redwood forests, the film explores danger across both physical and social distances, including the tensions of class and gender.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 9:15 PM

Experiment in Terror

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Blake Edwards’s *Experiment in Terror* is a 1962 black-and-white thriller set against a vividly rendered San Francisco. Its suspenseful story follows an obsessive stalker whose threats draw in an FBI agent determined to solve the case. The film features striking locations including the Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman’s Wharf, and Candlestick Park, and is accompanied by Henry Mancini’s ominous score.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 11:30 PM

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Philip Kaufman’s 1978 science-fiction horror film is an unsettling remake of the classic original, relocated to a socially and politically tense San Francisco. As people begin transforming into eerie, emotionless versions of themselves, a small group—including Elizabeth and her coworker and confidant Ben—struggles to understand and resist a terrifying threat tied to conformity, authority, corporatization, and institutional betrayal. Their developing romance brings tenderness and added heartbreak to the film’s nightmarish vision, heightened by disturbing visual details, a sparse soundtrack, elaborate effects, and disorienting camerawork.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 4:00 PM

Warren Miller: Days Off

Warren Miller’s 77th film, *Days Off*, follows host Katie Burrell as elite athletes pursue the activities they love away from competition and schedules. The film celebrates the unfiltered joy of mountain culture through skiing, snowboarding, mountaineering, and other adventures around the world.

Begotten

Through Sun, Nov 8, 2026

Begotten returns in a newly restored 4K presentation. E. Elias Merhige’s stark, experimental cult film presents a nightmarish creation myth in grainy black-and-white, following God Killing Himself, Mother Earth, and Son of Earth through cycles of birth, violence, death, and rebirth. The film’s deliberately archaic visual style came from shooting on 16mm and re-photographing the footage over several years, creating the appearance of a mysterious artifact from an ancient or post-apocalyptic world.

RPM Fest Presents "Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son" and others Films by Ken Jacobs

RPM Fest and the Brattle Theatre present a tribute to experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs and his longtime partner and collaborator, Florence “Flo” Jacobs. The program centers on Jacobs’s landmark structural film *Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son*, which reworks a 1905 Biograph short through re-photography and detailed manipulation of the original footage, revealing its textures, movement, spatial depth, and performers in newly unsettling ways.

Silents, Please! Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life

Featuring: Jeff Rapsis

Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life is a landmark silent documentary adventure from 1924, made by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack with journalist and sometime spy Marguerite Harrison. The film follows the Bakhtiari tribe’s twice-yearly migration across Persia, now Iran, as more than 50,000 people and roughly half a million animals travel toward seasonal pasture through extreme terrain.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 5:00 PM

Ifé/Ifé the Sequel (together)

Ifé/Ifé the Sequel presents two connected Nigerian films about the relationship between Ife and Adaora, with a brief intermission between screenings. The program begins with Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim’s 2020 film *ÌFÉ*, followed by Pamela Adie’s 2026 sequel, which reunites the former lovers years after their separation.

Dark Passage

Dark Passage is a 1947 film noir directed by Delmer Daves, presented in a 35mm screening. The film follows an escaped prisoner who heads toward San Francisco with an unclear purpose, encountering a city portrayed as a threatening maze of surveillance and suspicion. Its first half uses a first-person camera perspective, placing viewers inside the protagonist’s experience.

The Lineup

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The Harvard Film Archive presents Don Siegel’s 1958 crime film *The Lineup*, a San Francisco-set thriller about drug smugglers racing against an exceptionally tight deadline. Shot across a vividly changing postwar city, the film turns locations including the Embarcadero YMCA and the soon-to-be-demolished Sutro Baths into settings for elaborate killings, while its harbor views, bay maps, and highway construction evoke San Francisco’s uncertain transition into a new era.

Hocus Pocus

Through Mon, Nov 9, 2026

Cinema Salem presents the 1993 original *Hocus Pocus* on the big screen, close to several locations where the film was shot. By arrangement with Disney, the movie returns for a limited Halloween-season engagement, offering a chance to see the Sanderson Sisters’ supernatural mayhem in the city that helped provide its setting.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 3:30 PM

You Can See Everything

You Can See Everything is a 174-minute documentary from directors Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder. Thirty-four days before her prison sentence begins, disgraced Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes agrees to let a skeptical film crew record her life. The project grows from an intimate portrait of the controversial entrepreneur into a surreal, three-year examination of her world.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 4:00 PM

The Cat in the Hat

The Cat in the Hat is an adventure film about a clever, mischievous cat whose arrival throws the home of two young children into chaos. The film is directed by Alessandro Carloni and Erica Rivinoja and features an ensemble voice cast including Bill Hader, Giancarlo Esposito, Tituss Burgess, Xochitl Gomez, Bowen Yang, Matt Berry, Paula Pell, Quinta Brunson, Tiago Martinez, and America Ferrera.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 4:15 PM

Godzilla Minus Zero

Godzilla Minus Zero is an action film directed by Takashi Yamazaki. Set two years after war has reduced Japan to devastation, the story follows a country struggling to rebuild and restore ordinary life when a new Godzilla threat shatters its fragile peace. With humanity facing what may be its final confrontation, the film declares that there will be no third chance.

The Blues Brothers in 35mm

The Blues Brothers screens in a 35mm presentation as part of Somerville Theatre’s “F*ck the Nazis (again!)” repertory series. This 1980 comedy follows Jake and Elwood, former orphanage residents who believe they are on a mission from God to save the orphanage from foreclosure. Their efforts bring music, mayhem, street dancing, car chases, neo-Nazis, and other chaos.

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock’s *Vertigo* follows Scottie Ferguson, a retired police detective whose career ended in tragedy and who is hired to observe an old friend’s wife. As Scottie becomes increasingly captivated by Madeleine, the assignment develops into a disturbing mystery involving love, death, identity, and obsession. The film is widely regarded as one of Hitchcock’s defining works and a landmark of psychological cinema.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Mon, Nov 9, 2026

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco is a film series about San Francisco as both a real place and a cinematic state of mind. The program explores the city’s history in independent, avant-garde, studio, and film noir traditions, focusing on recurring ideas of doubles, ghosts, criminal conspiracies, alienation, loss, hidden recordings, and the uncanny effects of San Francisco’s hills, fog, streets, and vertiginous heights.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 1:00 PM

Free Matinee Series 2026 – Sunset Boulevard

Featuring: Matthew Taylor

Sunset Boulevard is presented as part of the Movies as Medicine Free Matinee Series, which offers classic films as opportunities for comfort, connection, and community. The screening follows an aging silent-film star, Gloria Desmond, who is determined to revive her career. She brings in a young screenwriter, William Holden, believing he can help orchestrate her comeback, but his attempt to control the situation collapses into a volatile story of obsession, violence, madness, and death.

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Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 6:00 PM

The Scout

The Scout is Paula Andrea González-Nasser’s contemplative feature debut about Sofia, a location scout working on a television pilot in New York City. As she searches the city’s neighborhoods for apartments, businesses, and exteriors to use as filming locations, Sofia enters the private spaces of strangers and briefly observes their lives. Over the course of one day, these encounters expose curiosity, vulnerability, and quiet tension, eventually taking an unexpectedly personal turn.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Tue, Nov 10, 2026

Location Location Location: 80’s NYC

Location Location Location: 80’s NYC is a brief repertory film series exploring distinctive New York City locations as seen in films from the 1980s. It serves as a companion to the Boston premiere screenings of writer-director Paula González-Nasser’s *The Scout*, a contemporary New York story featuring Mimi Davila as a quietly magnetic location scout.

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Crime, Comedy, and Chaos: The Early Cinema of the Coen Brothers

Featuring: Andre Puca

Crime, Comedy, and Chaos: The Early Cinema of the Coen Brothers is a five-week film course led by Andre Puca, focused on the Coen brothers’ work from the 1980s and 1990s. The class examines the filmmakers’ distinctive combination of genre experimentation, dark comedy, visual precision, moral uncertainty, and Americana-inspired storytelling.

Golden Boy

Golden Boy is a filmed-live revival of Clifford Odets’ American classic, led by Josh O’Connor. Set in Depression-era New York, the drama follows Joe Bonaparte, a gifted young violinist whose pursuit of fame and fortune draws him into the violent world of professional boxing.

El Topo in 35mm

El Topo is presented in a 35mm screening as part of the Somerville Theatre’s Cult Cinema Tuesdays series. Alejandro Jodorowsky writes, directs, and stars as El Topo, a master gunslinger and mystic whose attempt to defeat four expert marksmen leads him through a strange, allegorical journey toward self-awareness and resurrection. The film combines classic Americana and European avant-garde influences with elements drawn from Zen Buddhism and the Bible.

To a Land Unknown

Featuring: Mahdi Fleifel

Mahdi Fleifel’s 2025 film *To a Land Unknown* follows Palestinian cousins Reda and Chatila as they hustle through Athens while trying to reach Germany. As their difficult circumstances intensify, Chatila proposes a reckless, all-or-nothing scheme that tests their loyalty and the limits of what they are willing to do for freedom.

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 4:00 PM

My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile, Chapters 1-3 (of 5)

My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile, Chapters 1–3 (of 5) follows a group of Russian independent journalists who leave the country after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The film examines their scattered lives in exile and their continuing efforts to report the truth while confronting authoritarianism in new countries. It continues the story begun in Part I, which chronicled the journalists’ lives in Moscow under increasing pressure from the Putin regime.

Wed. Classics: Key Largo (1948)

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Cinema Salem’s Wednesday Classics series presents *Key Largo* (1948), John Huston’s tense crime drama set at a Florida hotel as a hurricane approaches. A man visiting the hotel of his late friend discovers that a gangster has taken control, leading to a confrontation amid the escalating storm.

Weirdo Wednesdays

Weirdo Wednesdays is a Cinema Salem mystery screening series presented with a deliberately secretive premise: the event’s first rule is that attendees do not discuss what happens at Weirdo Wednesdays. Each listed screening runs for two hours, with doors opening before the 7:30 p.m. start time.

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 6:15 PM

Discussion: Beware, My Lovely

Discussion: Beware, My Lovely is a film-and-events program at Coolidge Corner Theatre that places the film within a broader exploration of film noir. The event examines how wartime anxiety, refugee filmmakers, American pulp fiction, and German expressionism helped shape noir, while considering stories of economic hardship, empowered women, psychological torment, and national conflict.

My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile, Chapters 4-5 (of 5)

My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile, Chapters 4–5 (of 5) is a special premiere screening directed by Julia Loktev. The film follows Russian independent journalists who leave the country after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and confront the challenges of exile while continuing to pursue the truth across several nations. Part II explores their dispersed lives and new realities after Part I chronicled their work in Moscow under increasing pressure from the Putin regime.

Beware! The Devil's Wrath

Featuring: Craig Meinhart

Beware! The Devil’s Wrath is a 92-minute horror film set in Blackwood Falls, Texas, a deeply religious community whose fragile sense of order is disrupted when newlyweds Richard and Samantha arrive. After Samantha attracts the attention of several local high school boys, a violent encounter sets off devastating consequences and a series of ritualistic attacks. Hooded apparitions, fiery visions, and apparent acts of judgment expose the town’s hidden hypocrisy as residents struggle to determine whether the killings are divine punishment, demonic activity, or the work of human beings.

You Can See Everything

From boundary-pushing filmmakers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, *You Can See Everything* follows disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in the 34 days before she began her prison sentence. Beginning in 2023, Fielder moved into Holmes’s home with Holmes, her husband Billy Evans, and their children. Filmed secretly over three years, the documentary observes Holmes as she continues to insist on her innocence, unfolding into an unusually intimate, strange, and unpredictable portrait rather than a conventional true-crime film.

Wicker

Wicker is an audacious comic fable about sex, marriage, and the strange rules that govern society. The film follows an ostracized fisherwoman who commissions a husband from the village basketmaker. When the resulting wicker man is far more extraordinary than she expected, his spirit and unusual abilities stir desire, jealousy, and fascination, setting off upheaval that threatens the entire village.

La bola negra

La bola negra is a Spanish-language film from Cannes-winning directors Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, known together as Los Javis. The story follows three generations of men at pivotal moments in Spanish history, connecting their experiences through desire, love, pain, and the enduring effects of secrets and repression.

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

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The Only Living Pickpocket in New York is a 1-hour, 28-minute film directed by Noah Segan. Described as a love letter to New York City, it follows Harry Lehman, an aging pickpocket whose profession has become increasingly difficult in a city where cash-filled wallets have given way to easily canceled credit cards.

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

Once Upon a Time in Harlem is a newly restored documentary assembled from footage of a remarkable 1972 gathering of Harlem Renaissance artists and intellectuals. Filmmaker William Greaves organized the event, bringing together people who in many cases had not seen one another for 50 years. Over four hours, they shared memories, debated their work and cultural legacy, laughed, argued, and reflected on their place in a changing society.

Wild Horse Nine

Wild Horse Nine is a new film written and directed by Martin McDonagh, known for *The Banshees of Inisherin* and *Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri*. The cast includes John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Parker Posey, Mariana di Girolamo, Ailín Salas, and Tom Waits.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 11:45 AM

Fatherland (2026)

Fatherland (2026) is a historical drama directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, focusing on the complicated relationship between Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann and his daughter, Erika Mann, an actress, writer, and rally driver. Set in the summer of 1949, the film follows them on an emotionally difficult road trip through a Germany devastated and divided after World War II, traveling from American-controlled Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar in a black Buick.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 9:30 PM

The Devils (1971)

Ken Russell’s *The Devils* (1971) screens in a new 4K restoration presented on a newly struck 35mm print. This controversial historical horror film dramatizes the Loudun possessions and witchcraft trial in 17th-century France, where political ambition, religious fanaticism, sexual repression, and institutional power collide.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 9:45 PM

In Bruges

Martin McDonagh’s Oscar-nominated black comedy-drama follows Ray and Ken, two London hit men sent by their boss to lie low in Bruges after a job goes wrong. While Ken is captivated by the Belgian city’s medieval architecture, canals, and quiet beauty, Ray is haunted by what happened in London and struggles with their enforced tourist vacation.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 3:00 PM

Teen Anime Club

Teen Anime Club invites teens and tweens to spend the afternoon watching and discussing anime at the Hyde Park Branch. The ongoing club is also a place to make friends, build community, and get help with homework.

Somerville Theatre

I Can Do Hard Things: Samantha's Story

I Can Do Hard Things: Samantha’s Story is a special premiere documentary screening about Samantha Gibbs, a young woman with Down syndrome who has turned her personal experiences into advocacy for education and inclusion. Through interviews with Samantha, her family, and friends, along with candid glimpses of her life, the film examines the challenges and achievements that have shaped her and celebrates the support, community, and determination that help make her goals possible. Samantha is a Special Olympian and cosmetologist-in-training whose story emphasizes possibility rather than limitation.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 – Sun, Nov 15, 2026 · 6:45 PM

I Play Rocky

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I Play Rocky tells the true story of Sylvester Stallone’s determined struggle to bring Rocky Balboa to the screen and play the lead himself. Repeatedly rejected, the unknown actor refuses to give up, wagering everything on his belief that he was meant not only to write the film but to become its iconic underdog hero.

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

Featuring: Sofia Coppola

This Harvard Film Archive program brings together three films by Sofia Coppola: *The Virgin Suicides* (1999), *Marie Antoinette* (2006), and *The Bling Ring* (2013). Presented as an unofficial trilogy, the series examines young women whose seemingly privileged lives conceal isolation, danger, and impending loss.

Through Fri, Nov 20, 2026

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945–1960 is a Harvard Film Archive retrospective examining British filmmaking in the years immediately following World War II. Curated by film curator and archaeologist Ehsan Khoshbakht, the program is a focused version of a Locarno rediscovery originally produced with the BFI National Archive and Cinémathèque Suisse, with support from Studiocanal. The BFI supplied several prints for the Harvard presentation.

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 – Tue, Nov 24, 2026 · 1:00 PM

Tuesday Films: Noir November

Tuesday Films: Noir November presents Howard Hawks’s 1946 film *The Big Sleep*. The film follows private detective Philip Marlowe, who is hired by a wealthy family and becomes involved in a tangled case involving murder, blackmail, and possibly love.

Through Sat, Dec 12, 2026

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

Nostalgia is a Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque program exploring how cinema evokes, shapes, and reimagines the past. Curated by current Harvard students under the supervision of Harvard Film Archive Director Haden Guest, the series draws on the archive’s collection to present a varied selection of vintage film prints. Programs are introduced by members of the Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque, and the series includes a silent film accompanied live by an undergraduate musician.

Through Sun, Dec 13, 2026

“Feel no guilt in your desire:” 90 YEARS Short Film Program

“Feel no guilt in your desire:” 90 YEARS Short Film Program presents a looping selection of films and videos connected to the ICA’s history of video art during the 1980s. Shown in conjunction with the exhibition 90 YEARS, the program brings together works addressing AIDS, place, urban life, war, and nuclear anxiety through distinctive color, sound, and political imagery.

Exhibition

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 9:00 AM

All Day Art

All Day Art is an event at The Umbrella Arts Center.

Salem Arts Association

Exhibition: Monsters & Myths

88 Wharf Street, Salem, MA 01970

“Monsters & Myths” is an open exhibition at Salem Arts Association’s Pickering Wharf gallery, inviting members and nonmembers to explore creatures, legends, supernatural beings, and the stories that shape our ideas of mystery and fear. The exhibition draws on Salem’s history of witchcraft and supernatural tales while also welcoming interpretations inspired by personal experiences, cultural traditions, folklore, classic literature, and modern anxieties.

Castle Hill / Crane Estate (The Trustees)

Crane Estate Art Show & Sale: SEIZE THE MOMENT

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 – Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 10:00 AM

290 Argilla Road, Ipswich, MA 01938

The Crane Estate Art Show & Sale: SEIZE THE MOMENT brings more than 200 original works to the historic Castle Hill on the Crane Estate. The exhibition features paintings, photography, fiber art, sculpture, student artwork, and a gallery of distinctive small works, along with unusual gifts available at the Castle Hill gift shop.

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Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 11:00 AM

Spotlight Tour: Human/Nature, with Luke Tan ’28

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 – Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 11:00 AM

Featuring: Luke Tan

Luke Tan ’28 leads this conversational Spotlight Tour examining how people try to control and possess aspects of the natural world, and what those efforts reveal about the ways we value materials, relationships, and experiences. The tour focuses on three works: a Ming-dynasty Chinese jar decorated with fish and aquatic plants, Edgar Degas’s *Cotton Merchants in New Orleans* (1873), and Franz Marc’s *Grazing Horses IV* (1911).

ICA Watershed

Watershed Community Event: Harboring Creativity

256 Marginal Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Harboring Creativity is a free community presentation by the East Boston Artists Group at the ICA Watershed. The event showcases work by emerging and established artists who live, work, or create in East Boston, highlighting the creativity and innovation of East Boston and its surrounding neighborhoods.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Boston Family Days

Boston Family Days offers free admission to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for Boston school-aged children and up to two accompanying guests. The program is a public-private partnership involving the City of Boston, local schools, participating cultural institutions, and philanthropic supporters, designed to broaden arts and cultural access for Boston families. Eligible visitors must present a Boston Family Days Program Pass at the Museum.

ICA Free Thursday Night

Thu, Nov 12, 2026

Montserrat College of Art Galleries

ICA Free Thursday Night gives all visitors free admission to the Institute of Contemporary Art on Thursday evening. The program offers access to the museum from 5 to 9 PM, with advance tickets required.

Sunday at the Nut House

Through Sat, Nov 14, 2026

23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA 01915

Sunday at the Nut House explores a formative period in the work of artists who gathered with Maurice Sendak in Ridgefield, Connecticut, from 2004–7. On Sundays, the group drew from live models as an informal respite from Sendak’s demanding studio practice, which included projects such as the illustrations and sets for the opera *Brundibar*.

America at 250

America at 250 is a 60-minute guided tour exploring art made across the Americas during the 1700s. The tour considers global interdependence and examines how artists shape, recount, and reflect history, while encouraging visitors to reconsider the past.

Through Mon, Nov 16, 2026

Boston Stories

Montserrat College of Art Galleries

Boston Stories is a one-hour guided tour at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exploring artworks that reflect the spirit and history of Boston. The tour also highlights artists who lived and worked in the city and the MFA’s longstanding connection to Boston.

Andrew Mowbray: New Heraldic Ordinaries

Through Sat, Nov 21, 2026

23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA 01915

Andrew Mowbray: New Heraldic Ordinaries presents a series of personal crests, or “ordinaries,” made from commercially produced Tyvek. Drawing on the geometric symbols traditionally used in heraldry to identify families, institutions, and nations, Mowbray creates repeated shield-like frames containing individualized arrangements of shapes, forms, and symbols. The blank nameplates invite anyone to claim a lineage, reframing heraldry’s historic ties to nobility and wealth.

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Rocky Neck Art Colony

The Great Marsh/ Manship Artists Residency

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Sun, Nov 22, 2026 · 12:00 PM

6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

The Great Marsh/ Manship Artists Residency exhibition, presented as The Great Marsh Starts Here! A Living Landscape in Motion, celebrates three years of artistic exploration, collaboration, and community engagement inspired by the Great Marsh, one of New England’s significant coastal landscapes. The exhibition brings together work by artists involved in the Great Marsh Artists Fellowship, whose projects explore the marsh’s natural and man-made history, ecological importance, beauty, and fragility.

Through Sat, Nov 28, 2026

Modern and Contemporary Art

Explore the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s modern and contemporary art collection on this one-hour guided tour. The tour examines artistic innovations created in response to a changing world, featuring works dating from 1880 to the present.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 – Sun, Dec 6, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Bank of America Museums on Us

Bank of America Museums on Us offers eligible cardholders free admission to the Institute of Contemporary Art during select first-full-weekend dates each month. Visitors may reserve a ticket in advance by applying the event code when choosing an entry time, but must show an eligible Bank of America card at check-in.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 – Sun, Dec 13, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Boston Family Days

Boston Family Days gives Boston school-age students and their families free access to the Institute of Contemporary Art as part of a City of Boston program connecting children with local cultural institutions. Eligible students can visit the ICA with up to two family members or guests by presenting a Boston Family Days pass.

Through Thu, Dec 17, 2026

ICA Free Thursday Night

Through Mon, Dec 21, 2026

ICA Free Thursday Night offers free admission to the Institute of Contemporary Art every Thursday evening, giving visitors access to the museum from 5 to 9 PM. Free tickets are required, and admission is available to everyone.

New Art Center

Six of Us, Roberta Paul Student Showcase

61 Washington Park, Newton, MA 02460

Six of Us, Roberta Paul Student Showcase is an exhibition featuring work by students of Roberta Paul. The presentation celebrates the participating artists and their work, with an opening reception welcoming friends, family, and community members.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 – Wed, Dec 30, 2026 · 12:00 PM

Perfect Memory

Perfect Memory is an installation by Boston artist crystal bi, presented in the ICA’s Bank of America Art Lab. Inspired by the ICA’s waterfront setting and the role of water in Boston’s past and future, the work invites visitors to consider how water and the memories it carries can help us imagine and create what comes next.

Through Thu, Dec 31, 2026

To My Best Friend

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To My Best Friend is an exhibition celebrating art, artists, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston’s long history of presenting influential contemporary voices. It draws on more than 50 works that longtime ICA supporters Fotene Demoulas and Tom Coté have helped bring into the museum’s collection, which now numbers nearly 500 works across painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and other media.

Jenna Gribbon: Entwined

Through Sun, Jan 3, 2027

Jenna Gribbon: Entwined is the first major solo museum exhibition devoted to the paintings of Jenna Gribbon, bringing together more than forty works created from 2001 to the present, including ambitious new canvases made specifically for the exhibition. On view in the Rose Art Museum’s Lois Foster Wing, the exhibition traces Gribbon’s development as a figurative painter through luminous color, inventive compositions, and emotionally charged scenes.

Yinka Shonibare: Sanctuary

Through Sun, Jan 3, 2027

Yinka Shonibare: Sanctuary presents the U.S. debut of *Sanctuary City* (2024), an installation by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare. The work consists of 18 scaled-down replicas of historical and contemporary buildings that have provided refuge to persecuted or vulnerable people over the centuries.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 – Wed, Jan 6, 2027

Art Exhibition — Rachel King: At the Water's Edge

Montserrat College of Art Galleries

Rachel King: *At the Water’s Edge* is a photography exhibition at the Jamaica Plain Branch Library, presented by the library in partnership with the Friends of the Jamaica Plain Branch of the Boston Public Library. The exhibition explores seasonal changes along Jamaica Pond through images of waves, melting ice, shifting light, reflections, and other fleeting patterns at the shoreline.

Jamison Cloud: the excavation, and a return

Through Sun, Jan 10, 2027

23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA 01915

Jamison Cloud’s *the excavation, and a return* is an installation exploring identity, home, movement, and belonging across cultures and histories. Working with print, handmade paper, and installation, Cloud creates two- and three-dimensional works that reflect the artist’s navigation across different spaces and cultural contexts.

Art Complex Museum

Interpreting the Natural: Contemporary Visions of Scholars’ Rocks

Through Sun, Jan 17, 2027

189 Alden Street, Duxbury, MA 02332

Interpreting the Natural: Contemporary Visions of Scholars’ Rocks explores how contemporary artists respond to the traditions, aesthetics, and visual possibilities of scholars’ rocks. Traditionally collected in East Asia as objects for contemplation, these naturally shaped stones are valued as miniature landscapes or portals to larger natural worlds. The exhibition places authentic viewing stones alongside contemporary artworks, inviting reflection on nature, authorship, authenticity, and what makes something a work of art.

Through Mon, Jan 18, 2027

Cynthia Daignault: Valley

Cynthia Daignault: *Valley* is a large-scale installation by Baltimore-based artist Cynthia Daignault, whose practice explores “long-form painting” through interconnected, impressionistic canvases. The exhibition considers painting as a way to slow time, reflect on what should be remembered, and examine how landscapes bear witness to history.

Through Mon, Jan 18, 2027

Leilah Babirye: Embaga ya Naki ne Naki (Wedding of Naki and Naki)

Addison Gallery of American Art

Leilah Babirye’s *Embaga ya Naki ne Naki (Wedding of Naki and Naki)* presents a vivid sculptural wedding ceremony centered on queer love, identity, and community. The exhibition features newly made ceramic and wood sculptures in roles such as bride, groom, ring bearer, flower girl, bridesmaid, and groomsman. Large-scale charred-wood figures representing aunties, uncles, and ancestors surround the ceremony, extending themes that have run through Babirye’s practice.

America in the Making

Through Sun, Jan 31, 2027

3 Chapel Avenue, Andover, MA 01810

America in the Making surveys the Addison Gallery of American Art’s collection from the 18th century through the present. Filling the entire museum, the exhibition examines how American art has recorded, shaped, reinforced, and challenged the country’s evolving society, politics, values, and cultural identity.

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Sat, Nov 7, 2026 – Sat, Mar 6, 2027 · 1:00 PM

90 YEARS Exhibition Tour

90 YEARS Exhibition Tour is a guided exploration of the ICA’s nine decades of history. Led by a Graduate Student Lecturer, the tour uses close looking and discussion to examine the exhibition’s artists, ideas, and themes.

90 YEARS

Through Sun, Mar 7, 2027

90 YEARS is a special anniversary exhibition celebrating the Institute of Contemporary Art’s 90-year history. It revisits nine exhibitions and initiatives that helped define the ICA, tracing the museum’s development alongside major shifts in contemporary art. The exhibition looks back at the institution’s past while considering its future and includes additional artworks installed throughout every floor of the museum.

90 YEARS — Beyond the Galleries

Through Sun, Mar 7, 2027

90 YEARS — Beyond the Galleries expands the ICA’s 90th-anniversary programming beyond the main fourth-floor exhibition. Additional works are installed throughout the building, inviting visitors to encounter pieces from the museum’s history and collection on multiple floors, including video, photography, text-based installations, and neon works.

Through Sun, Mar 21, 2027

Caroline Monnet: Man-made Land

deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum

Caroline Monnet’s *Man-made Land* is a site-responsive installation created for the ICA’s Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall. Responding to the museum’s position on Boston Harbor, the work reflects on the city’s four-century history of land reclamation and the artificial landscape on which the ICA stands.

Chromatic Portals

Through Fri, May 28, 2027

51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln, MA 01773

Chromatic Portals is an immersive outdoor installation by Boston-based artist Silvia López Chavez at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Three large metal structures are draped with flowing fabric in blue, green, and violet, forming passageways that invite visitors to move through shifting fields of color, texture, and light.

ChromaForm

Through Sun, Jun 6, 2027

ChromaForm examines a key transition in mid-20th-century abstraction, as artists moved beyond the emotional intensity associated with Abstract Expressionism and turned toward perception, geometry, and color. The exhibition draws from the Rose Art Museum’s permanent collection, presenting sharply structured works with crisp lines, shaped canvases, and vivid color relationships that ask viewers to consider how meaning can emerge through visual experience itself.

En/Lighten: Material & Metaphor

Through Sun, Jun 6, 2027

deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum

En/Lighten: Material & Metaphor examines artificial light as both a material used to make art and a symbol associated with creation, spirituality, knowledge, memory, and absence. Drawing on the Rose Art Museum’s permanent collection and loans from other institutions, the exhibition considers how contemporary artists use light to shape space, convey emotion, offer social and political critique, and explore metaphysical ideas.

PLATFORM 33: Zohra Opoku, Self-Portraits

Through Sun, Aug 1, 2027

51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln, MA 01773

PLATFORM 33 presents Zohra Opoku’s ongoing *Self-Portraits*, a series of photographs in which the artist partially conceals her face behind plants. Installed across deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the project includes one large billboard and five smaller signs, placing Opoku’s images among the park’s native and introduced plant life. The works explore identity, belonging, camouflage, migration, and the relationship between people and the landscapes they call home.

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Art Complex Museum

Under Construction: America at 250

Through Sun, Aug 29, 2027

189 Alden Street, Duxbury, MA 02332

Under Construction: America at 250 is a site-responsive exhibition reflecting on the nation’s 250-year experiment in democracy: its history, present condition, and possible future. Selected through a nationwide call for art, the exhibition brings together 17 works by individual artists and collaborative teams. The installations are spread across the Art Complex Museum’s landscaped grounds and two additional Duxbury locations, encouraging visitors to pause and consider the question, “What does America mean to me?”

Market/Fair

Adams Street Branch Library

Adams Street Friends of the Library Book Sale

690 Adams Street, Boston, Massachusetts

The Adams Street Friends of the Library Book Sale offers previously loved books for readers of all ages and interests. Shoppers can look for an old favorite or discover something new for their reading list, with selections ranging from mysteries and classics to nonfiction, romance, young adult, and children’s titles. Proceeds support programming and materials at the Adams Street Branch.

Puzzle Swap

Puzzle Swap invites community members to exchange completed jigsaw puzzles and discover new ones to take home. Participants may bring puzzles for any age level, provided they are in good condition and, to the best of their ability, contain all pieces. Guests can take as many puzzles as they like.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 – Sat, Apr 17, 2027 · 9:30 AM

Somerville Winter Farmers Market

The Somerville Winter Farmers Market is a weekly indoor market at the Center for the Arts at the Armory, featuring more than 65 local food vendors. Shoppers can find locally grown and regionally produced goods including fresh produce, cheese, eggs, meat, fish, breads, tamales, pastries, chocolate, skincare products, and more.

Interactive

A Night To Be Heard: B.Heard World Gala

A Night To Be Heard: B.Heard World Gala is an evening celebrating the power of art, community, and voices that deserve to be heard. The program brings together dance, poetry, music, storytelling, documentary film, food, and live performance, with work by artists and community members connected to beheard.world.

ESOL Conversation Group for Ukrainian Speakers

Practice English conversation with other adult ESOL learners in a relaxed, welcoming setting. Led by a volunteer instructor, this group is designed specifically for Ukrainian speakers who are learning English.

Singalong (Ages 0-5)

Children ages 0–5 and their caregivers are invited to enjoy a live musical performance in the Children’s Room at Boston Public Library’s Central Library in Copley Square. Attendance may be limited. The program is supported by the Louise H. Allen Children’s Music Fund.

ESOL Conversation Group (Advanced Beginner and Higher) — No Sign-Up Needed

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Practice speaking English with other adult ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) learners in a relaxed, welcoming conversation group led by a volunteer instructor. Participants should have a basic level of spoken English, recommended as Level 2 or higher, so they can participate comfortably.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 2:00 PM

Music Production with Hamstank: Beats, Recording, Mixing, & Mastering [#teencentral]

Featuring: Tony “Hamstank” Hamoui

Music Production with Hamstank is a hands-on Friday afternoon session for teens at the Lab in Teen Central’s Makerspace Lab. Whether participants are new to music creation or already developing as artists, resident producer and educator Tony “Hamstank” Hamoui can help them make beats, record, write songs, and mix and master their work.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 3:30 PM

Poetry Workshop for Teens with Boston Youth Poet Laureate Ailin Sha

Featuring: Ailin Sha

Ailin Sha, the 2026–2027 Boston Youth Poet Laureate, leads teens in a hands-on poetry creation workshop. Participants can develop ideas for their next poem while receiving writing tips, advice, and inspiration.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 3:30 PM

LEGO Club (Ages 3-12)

Castle Hill / Crane Estate (The Trustees)

LEGO Club invites children ages 3–12 to build, play, and explore their creativity with LEGO and DUPLO blocks. The session takes place in the Children’s Library’s Rey Room at the Central Library in Copley Square.

Crane Estate Art Show Soiree: SEIZE THE MOMENT

290 Argilla Road, Ipswich, MA 01938

Crane Estate Art Show Soiree: SEIZE THE MOMENT is the opening-night celebration of the 23rd Annual Crane Estate Art Show. Guests can preview artwork displayed across two floors, enjoy live music, meet participating artists, and take part in an evening with hors d’oeuvres and an open bar. The 2026 theme, “Seize the Moment,” draws inspiration from Jeff Whittum’s sculpture *Osprey Hunter*, which won the 2025 People’s Choice Award.

Chelmsford Center for the Arts

The Artist's Gala

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 5:30 PM

1A North Road, Chelmsford, MA 01824

Featuring: Dacey Zouzas, Michael Viera, Chrissy Theo Hungate, Pamela Wamala, Trina Teele, Katie Schopp, Cindy Hughes, Donna Berger, Lolita Demers

The Artist’s Gala is an evening of live artistic transformation presented by Dacey Zouzas, creator and host of *Dacey’s Divas*, in partnership with the Chelmsford Center for the Arts. Local artists will turn blank garments, including gowns and jackets, into unique wearable-art creations before the finished pieces are auctioned at the close of the event. A full bar and hors d’oeuvres will be available throughout the evening, with proceeds supporting future Chelmsford Center for the Arts programming.

A Morning of Music with Phoebe Neilsen

Featuring: Phoebe Neilsen

A Morning of Music with Phoebe Neilsen is a joyful, family-friendly music and movement program led by Phoebe Neilsen, the Boston Public Library’s new Children’s Musician-in-Residence. Drawing from folk, jazz, and musical theater, Neilsen’s energetic sets invite young children to sing, dance, and participate in music at their own pace. The program is designed to create a warm, whimsical environment where children can explore how music brings people together.

Gordon Michaels

Featuring: Gordon Michaels

Gordon Michaels presents a mini concert followed by an open mic in Club Café’s Napoleon Room. Known for a smooth, powerful baritone and an easygoing delivery, Michaels performs across a broad range of styles, including Broadway ballads, jazz standards, blues, R&B oldies, gospel, and country. The evening offers a chance to hear his featured performance and participate in the room’s open-mic tradition.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 12:00 PM

Chop It Up with Chef Jermaine McNeil!

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Join Executive Chef Jermaine McNeil for a hands-on cooking workshop focused on making chopped cheese sliders. Ingredients and other materials will be supplied, and advance registration is not required. The program is intended for teenagers and includes an introduction to Chef McNeil’s culinary background and work with Boston youth.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 9:30 AM

Playspace

Playspace is a Friday-morning gathering for babies, toddlers, and their caregivers. Children can enjoy open-ended play with toys designed to encourage imagination, build fine motor skills, and support early development. The event is categorized under Story Time, Children (Birth–Age 5), and English-language programming.

ESOL Conversation Group

ESOL Conversation Group is a drop-in opportunity for people learning English to practice speaking with fellow learners. Participants can build their conversation skills, meet new people, and enjoy an informal social setting.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 1:00 PM

Materials Lab Workshop: Making an Impression

Materials Lab Workshop: Making an Impression is a hands-on exploration of printmaking through the combined perspectives of art and conservation. Assistant paper conservator Abby Schleicher and research curator Francesca Bewer will guide participants through experiments with different tools, pressures, inks, and papers, demonstrating how technical decisions leave identifiable physical marks and why impressions are never exactly alike.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 2:00 PM

First/Hand Fridays: Suit Up! Textiles in 20th-Century American Memory

Featuring: Talia Fader Idelson

First/Hand Fridays: Suit Up! invites Harvard students to examine a group of American textiles as everyday objects, works of art, and carriers of personal and cultural memory. During this seminar, participants can view original works that are not normally on display in the galleries and discuss the selections with museum staff.

Free Art Critique

Free Art Critique is a salon-style gathering where artists can present work in progress, exchange constructive feedback, and connect with others who understand the challenges of developing an artistic practice. The discussion is intended to provide new ideas, encouragement, and practical support as participants work toward their creative goals.

HCA Open Mic Night (Nov.)

HCA Open Mic Night is an welcoming evening for singers and other performance artists of all experience levels. Guests may take the stage or simply enjoy the music, games, trivia, sing-alongs, and relaxed social atmosphere. The event is designed as a judgment-free opportunity to share art and connect with the Hopkinton community.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 6:00 PM

First Fridays: The Colors of Rhythm

Featuring: Baile Tropidélico, Lady Avocado, Secret Guerrilla, 6senses

First Fridays: The Colors of Rhythm is an adults-only evening of Latin sound system culture, tropical vinyl, dancing, and contemporary art at the ICA. The program features music from Baile Tropidélico, Lady Avocado, Secret Guerrilla, and 6senses, along with dance lessons, a soundsystem design activity, a photo booth, gallery access, and food and drinks for purchase.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Morning at the Museum

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Morning at the Museum invites guests to experience the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum before it opens to the general public, when the galleries are quieter and visitor capacity is reduced. The program offers time to unplug, pause, and take in the Museum’s spaces at a more intimate moment, including a meditation session centered on the calm of the waking Museum.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 9:30 AM

ESOL Conversation Club

Join a group of community volunteers for a weekly ESOL Conversation Club at Lower Mills. Each session centers on a discussion topic, with questions guided by the table lead. Participants can practice building confidence in English, connect with neighbors, and form friendships with other learners. Basic conversation skills are required.

Music at the Blissful with Evan Haller

Featuring: Evan Haller

Evan Haller brings his nationally touring Music at the Blissful program to the Lower Mills branch of the Boston Public Library. A six-time Boston Parent Paper Family Favorite, Haller leads a high-energy, interactive musical experience filled with movement and designed for the whole family, including young children and early readers.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 10:00 AM

The Art of Everyday Things: Age Strong Painting Workshop

The Art of Everyday Things: Age Strong Painting Workshop is a welcoming, eight-week painting program focused on creativity, self-expression, and seeing ordinary objects in new ways. Participants will create landscapes, still lifes, and collaborative abstract works while experimenting with traditional art supplies and everyday materials. The workshop is designed as a supportive space for both first-time painters and people returning to a longtime artistic practice.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 12:00 PM

Creative Chats! November 2026

Featuring: Abigail Jean Lucas

Creative Chats! is an in-person gathering for people interested in creativity and creative work. Attendees can mingle, hear a featured conversation about creative life, and contribute their own thoughts to the discussion. The event is intended as an opportunity to find inspiration, reflect on one’s artistic path, and connect with other creative people.

North End Branch Library

Boston Age Strong Commission's Memory Café

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 11:30 AM

Boston Age Strong Commission’s Memory Café is a welcoming gathering for people living with memory loss, their loved ones, and care partners. Participants can connect with others while taking part in sound therapy, mindfulness, and light movement designed to support overall wellbeing. The session is facilitated by musician and integrative practitioner Moira Lo Bianco and presented by the City of Boston Age Strong Department.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 9:30 PM

Explore and Play (Ages 0-2)

Explore and Play invites babies and toddlers to move through activity stations featuring rattles, bells, mirrors, play dough, and other toys. The program is designed for children ages 0–2 with their caregivers and offers an open-ended opportunity for hands-on exploration.

Play Group

Play Group is an open-ended play session for young children, offering a variety of toys and books to explore. The program gives children opportunities to socialize while practicing gross- and fine-motor skills.

November Claybies

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November Claybies takes place at The Umbrella Arts Center on November 6. No additional event description, schedule, performers, age guidance, accessibility information, or logistics are available.

Citizenship Preparation Class

Citizenship Preparation Class is an 11-week course for aspiring U.S. citizens, presented by the Boston Public Library in partnership with St. Mark Communication Education. The course helps participants prepare for the Naturalization interview by strengthening English skills and covering all 128 questions in the civics portion of the citizenship exam. Experienced, trained instructors lead the class, with individual tutoring available during each session to review the lesson material.

Audio Production Drop-In Day

Audio Production Drop-In Day offers individualized, hands-on help for people working on podcasts, voice recordings, music, or other audio projects. Staff at the InnoLAB in the Kirstein Business Library & Innovation Center can assist with recording, editing, music production, and the use of audio equipment and software. The session is suitable for both beginners and experienced creators, including those troubleshooting an existing project or learning the basics. No prior experience is required.

Signing YOUTH with Signing Basics (Ages 6-12)

Featuring: Theresa King

Signing YOUTH with Signing Basics is an interactive American Sign Language (ASL) workshop for children ages 6–12. Theresa King, founder and director of Signing Basics, leads participants through games, signing challenges, and other activities. Each session explores a different vocabulary theme while reviewing signs from the previous month, and children may attend one, two, or all three sessions in the series.

ESOL Conversation Group

Practice speaking English in a welcoming, informal setting with other adult learners. This in-person conversation class is led by a volunteer teacher and is intended for adults with basic English-speaking skills. It is offered in partnership with the St. Mark Community Education Program.

Many Faces Create Our Greatness

Many Faces Create Our Greatness is a creative community event celebrating the diverse faces, cultures, and personal stories that bring the community together. Participants will create artwork honoring this shared diversity and the unique contributions of local residents.

Connolly Branch Library

Spanish Language Conversation Group

433 Centre Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Practice Spanish in a relaxed conversation setting at the Connolly branch. The group is intended primarily for intermediate speakers, while advanced speakers are also welcome. It is a conversation group rather than a formal class, and no registration is required.

Drop-In Knitting

Drop-In Knitting is a casual knitting group at Faneuil for adults of all experience levels. Participants should bring their own needles and yarn. The group meets every Saturday at 11:00 a.m.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 3:00 PM

Queer Crafts and Book Club

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Queer Crafts and Book Club invites adults to gather at the Faneuil Branch for a shared crafting session followed by a discussion of *Stag Dance* with the Queer Book Club. Attendees may bring their own project or try one of the branch’s crafts, and they are welcome to continue crafting during the book discussion.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 11:30 AM

Bloom & Blossom - Community Wellness Program

Bloom & Blossom is an afternoon community wellness program focused on healing, movement, and conversation for the mind, body, and spirit. The program includes yoga, acupuncture, sound bowl sessions, and chair massage.

My Grown Up & Me Ceramics Workshop

My Grown-up & Me Ceramics Workshop invites children ages 5 to 8 and their grown-up to spend time creating together. The session begins with a reading of *Dragons Love Tacos* by Adam Rubin, followed by a hands-on ceramics project in which participants make dragon friends and miniature food while learning hand-building techniques. Adults and children work side by side, with plenty of opportunity to get creative—and a little messy.

Fixit Clinic

Fixit Clinic is a hands-on repair workshop where participants bring broken household and personal items for help from volunteer Fixit Coaches. Coaches provide their time, tools, and practical expertise to diagnose problems and, when possible, repair items such as bicycles, blenders, small appliances, computers, toys, clothing, and other textiles. The program is co-presented by the Hyde Park Branch Library, Keep Hyde Park Beautiful, and the City of Boston.

Saturday Open Studios

Mosesian Center for the Arts Sold Out

Saturday Open Studios presents “Textile Talismans: Printed Pockets,” a hands-on activity inspired by the ways pockets and pouches carry cherished objects across countries and generations. Participants will make small fabric pouches decorated with diasporic Jewish textile motifs from the era of Rembrandt, considering what sentimental or sacred items they might keep close during a journey.

Medium Lantern Making Workshop #2 Fall 2026

Instructor and artist Fritz Smith leads this hands-on lantern-making workshop inspired by the “Starry Night” theme. Participants will create glowing lanterns from natural materials, including willow branches, tissue paper, and LED lights, while exploring brightness, hope, and connection during the darker season. The workshop is designed for a range of skill levels and focuses on both artistic learning and community participation.

Art Supply Swap Fall 2026

Art Supply Swap Fall 2026 is an all-ages community exchange at the Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts. Participants can bring unused or gently used art supplies they no longer need and take home new-to-them materials from another person’s collection. The event offers a chance to declutter art supplies while discovering materials for future creative projects.

Miscast 2026

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Sold Out

Miscast 2026 is a playful theatrical fundraiser supporting tuition assistance for Mosesian Arts’ Education Programs and Watertown Children’s Theatre. Students, alumni, and staff perform songs and take on roles outside their usual casting, creating an evening of unexpected performances that celebrates creativity, community, and a love of theater.

Beyond the Spectrum Kids

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 10:30 AM

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Beyond the Spectrum Kids is an art program for children on the autism spectrum, ages 8–12. This session focuses on artist’s books, an experimental form that transforms two-dimensional artwork into three-dimensional books. Participants will view artist’s books by well-known abstract artists in the exhibition “Picasso, Miró, Dalí: Unbound,” then create their own mixed-media 3D art books in the studio.

Peabody Essex Museum Sold Out

PEM Gala 2026: Where Wonder Takes Us

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 5:30 PM

161 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970

PEM Gala 2026: Where Wonder Takes Us is an evening fundraiser at the Peabody Essex Museum inspired by boundless curiosity, cross-cultural exchange, and the spirit of East India Marine Hall. The gala celebrates journeys, innovation, and the perspective-changing experience of looking beyond time and place.

Rocky Neck Art Colony

Opening Reception: The Great Marsh Starts Here!

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 4:00 PM

6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

The opening reception for *The Great Marsh Starts Here! A Living Landscape in Motion* brings together artists from the Manship Artists Residency and the Great Marsh Artist Fellows. Guests can meet the artists, explore the exhibition, and take part in conversations over refreshments.

Citizenship Exam Prep Class

This free citizenship exam preparation program, presented in partnership with the St. Mark Community Education Program, helps participants prepare for every part of the naturalization process. Instruction covers the USCIS N-400 interview, all 128 civics questions, and the reading and writing portions of the exam. St. Mark also works with Project Citizenship and MIRA to offer free technical and legal assistance with completing the citizenship application.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 10:30 AM

Mister Vic's Family Music Series

Featuring: Mister Vic

Mister Vic’s Family Music Series is an interactive live-music event for children and their grown-ups at Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center. Hosted by Mister Vic, the performance features familiar favorites, playful original songs, singing, dancing, laughter, and plenty of audience participation.

Light the Kitchen with Diwali Favorites

Featuring: Suman Shah

Diwali is a festival centered on light, family, and food, and this hands-on cooking class explores the traditions behind the holiday. Chef in Residence Suman Shah will guide participants in preparing a crisp, golden fried snack and a slow-cooked, spiced dessert from scratch. The class is designed to help attendees bring festive cooking into their own kitchens, whether or not they celebrate Diwali, while enjoying the experience with fellow participants.

Healing Sound Workshop (with Lisa Provenzano of Coming Home Connections)

Featuring: Lisa Provenzano

Healing Sound Workshop is a one-hour sound bath led by Lisa Provenzano of Coming Home Connections. The session is designed to encourage a conscious slowing down and support nervous-system regulation through Deep Reiki and Deep Rest.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 7:10 PM

Symphony Hall Pre-Concert Tours

Symphony Hall Pre-Concert Tours offer performance attendees a shorter version of the venue’s regular walk-up tour. The 30-minute experience begins in the Cogan-Cornille Corridor, near the musician photographs, and is available only to people holding tickets for that evening’s concert.

The Platform Opening Day

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Featuring: BANDALOOP

The Platform welcomes the public for its opening day with live music, activities designed for families, and two chances to watch a performance by BANDALOOP’s dancers. The event is free and open to everyone.

THE BLACK BOX

The Gala

15 West Central Street, Franklin, MA 02038

Featuring: Franklin Performing Arts Company

The Gala is a fundraising evening hosted by The Rescignos at THE BLACK BOX in downtown Franklin. The celebration features cocktails, dinner prepared by 3 Restaurant, live and online auctions, interactive raffles, and performances by Broadway, New York City, and Franklin Performing Arts Company artists.

Private Event

The Lilypad will be closed to the public for a private event. The venue invites guests to consider booking the Lilypad for their own private event or party.

Campus2Care Volunteer Info Session + Workshop

Campus2Care’s Volunteer Info Session + Workshop is a community meeting for new and prospective volunteers. The session introduces Campus2Care’s volunteer orientation and explains how the organization helps college students prepare for and navigate hospital volunteer opportunities, offering mentorship and community support from the application process through service.

Danforth Art Museum

Drop into Art – November

14 Vernon Street, Framingham, MA 01701

Drop into Art – November invites children, caregivers, and adults to explore the art of coil pottery through a hands-on clay activity. After viewing Margaret Tafoya’s *Wedding Vase* and other ceramic works in the Danforth Art Museum’s Permanent Collection, participants can learn to roll, stack, and join coils of Model Magic to make a one-of-a-kind vessel without using a pottery wheel.

Fuller Craft Museum

Professor Gizmo: Forest of Here

455 Oak Street, Brockton, MA 02301

Featuring: Professor Gizmo

Professor Gizmo: Forest of Here is a family-friendly public program at Fuller Craft Museum featuring returning favorite Professor Gizmo. Inspired by Jeila Gueramian’s exhibition “Forest of Here,” the program invites participants to make something beautiful, get messy, learn something new, and spend an afternoon creating together. Makers of all ages are welcome.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Handweaving Workshop

Unwind with a full-day, hands-on handweaving workshop led by award-winning weaver Dahlia Popovits. Participants will use a rigid heddle loom to explore color, texture, luxury yarns, and natural fibers while creating a distinctive woven tote bag.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 9:00 AM

Drop-In Life & Portrait Drawing Session

Drop in for a welcoming Sunday-morning life and portrait drawing session at the Marblehead Arts Association. Participants can work from a live female model, practice capturing the model’s essence on paper, and connect with other artists while sharing tips and techniques. The session is open to everyone, from experienced artists to beginners.

Drawing with Paint and Colored Pencils Workshop Fall 2026

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Explore mixed-media drawing with artist and instructor Cat Bennett in this hands-on workshop. Participants will combine watercolor and colored pencil, using pencil to create lines, shading, fine details, and more expressive images. All required supplies are provided.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Sold Out

Landscape Painting Two-Day Workshop

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 – Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 12:30 PM

This two-day studio art workshop explores landscape painting in acrylic and oil, using favorite places and personal photographs as starting points. Participants will build dynamic compositions while studying light, value, scale, color, depth, and atmospheric perspective. The class is open to painters of all levels.

Peabody Essex Museum

Noguchi-Inspired Playground Collages

161 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970

Noguchi-Inspired Playground Collages is a drop-in art-making activity at the Peabody Essex Museum’s Create Space Studios. Inspired by Isamu Noguchi’s imaginative playground designs, participants create collages of dream playgrounds using flowing shapes and silhouettes. The activity connects to the exhibition *Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer”* and is developed and led by PEM art educators.

Powers Music School

String Day

160 Lexington Street, Belmont, MA 02478

String Day is a dedicated afternoon for string players of every age and experience level at Powers Music School. The program combines practical instruction, creative music activities, technique-focused workshops, discussion with string educators, and a concluding all-play orchestra rehearsal and concert. Students can learn how to care for their instruments, improve their playing habits, perform for peers, and connect with a wider community of string musicians.

Adams Street Branch Library

Children's Cooking Club: Cinnamon Apple Dip

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 4:30 PM

690 Adams Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Featuring: Miss Sarah

Join Miss Sarah for a hands-on children’s cooking activity featuring cinnamon cream cheese dip. Participants will prepare the dip and taste different apples to decide which varieties pair best with it.

Explore and Play (Ages 0-5)

Boston Public Library Cancelled

Explore and Play invites babies and toddlers to discover a variety of self-guided activity stations in a welcoming room environment. The program is intended for children from birth through age 5 and offers families an opportunity to explore and play at their own pace.

Meet your Age Strong Advocate! - Drop in Hours

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 12:00 PM

Meet the Age Strong Advocate for Boston’s Back Bay at a drop-in session focused on helping older Boston residents find and access city services, benefits, programs, and other resources. The advocate can provide one-on-one assistance with applications for services and benefits such as SNAP, Medicaid, and Medicare; connect visitors with local programs and resources; help them find events and activities; and identify volunteer opportunities. The event is listed as canceled.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 3:00 PM

Design and Sew: DIY Hair Scrunchies [#teencentral]

Design and Sew: DIY Hair Scrunchies is a beginner-friendly sewing workshop in the Makerspace Lab at Teen Central. Participants will design and sew a hair scrunchie while learning basic hand stitches that can also be used for garment repairs, hemming, and replacing buttons. No previous sewing experience is required, and all materials are supplied.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 4:00 PM

STEAM Team (Ages 6-12)

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Join the STEAM Team for a weekly, hands-on exploration of science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Each session focuses on a different STEAM concept through activities designed for children ages 6–12.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 1:00 PM

Baby Music Class with Music at the Blissful

Featuring: Evan Haller

Join Evan Haller, a local musician and teacher with Music at the Blissful, for an interactive music class designed for babies and their caregivers. The program offers an intimate small-group setting for infants ages 0–12 months.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 12:30 PM

City Voices: Finding Your Voice Poetry Workshop Series

Featuring: Dr. Monique-Adelle Callahan D.

City Voices: Finding Your Voice is a welcoming poetry-writing workshop series led by award-winning poet and Emmanuel College professor Dr. Monique-Adelle Callahan D. Participants will read inspiring poems, respond to writing prompts, and consider how poetry can help them notice, feel, imagine, and understand the world in new ways.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 4:30 PM

Late-Day LEGOs

Chinatown Branch Library Cancelled

Late-Day LEGOs invites children and families to spend an evening building with LEGOs and foam blocks at the Chinatown Branch. The open-ended activity encourages creativity while helping participants develop STEM skills.

Peer-Led Mandarin Conversation Circle

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 6:30 PM

This canceled in-person Mandarin Chinese conversation group was scheduled at the Chinatown Branch of the Boston Public Library. It was intended for learners who want to practice speaking, build confidence, and connect with other Mandarin learners in a relaxed setting.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 4:00 PM

LEGO Club (ages 5-12)

LEGO Club invites children ages 5–12 to enjoy open-ended LEGO building at Codman Square. Participants can use their imaginations to create spaceships, castles, garden parties, and other projects. Creations made during the week may be displayed in the library for others to admire, as space permits.

Preschool Singalong

Preschool Singalong invites young children and their families or caretakers to participate in songs, fingerplays, and action rhymes. The program is recommended for children ages 2–5 and is presented in English.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 3:00 PM

Teen Crafternoon

Teen Crafternoon is a weekly arts program for teens at the Grove Hall Teen Space. Each session features a different craft, with materials supplied by the library. Attendance and supplies are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 1:30 PM

The Art of Everyday Things

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The Art of Everyday Things is a six-week art series led by artist Joseph M. Chéry. Participants will create landscapes, still lifes, and collaborative abstract artwork while trying new techniques and developing fresh ways of seeing everyday life. Attendees are encouraged to participate in the full series.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 3:30 PM

Lots of Blocks

Lots of Blocks invites children and families to spend an afternoon creating freely at the library. Participants can build anything they imagine with a wide selection of materials, including wood and foam blocks, magnetic blocks, KAPLA planks, DUPLOs, and Bristle Blocks. The program is intended for children from birth through age 12, with family participation welcome.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 4:45 PM

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Conversation Group

Practice speaking English in a relaxed, welcoming conversation group for adult learners. A volunteer teacher leads the session, which is intended for participants who already have basic English-speaking skills.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 1:00 PM

Mosaic Workshop (Four-Class Series)

Learn the ancient art of mosaics in this hands-on beginner workshop at Lower Mills. Participants will design and create a glass mosaic art panel to take home, bringing their own ideas for a design while the workshop provides the remaining materials and supplies.

Powers Music School

Modal Music Session

160 Lexington Street, Belmont, MA 02478

Featuring: Tev Stevig

Modal Music Session is a participatory gathering led by Tev Stevig for musicians and singers interested in learning and playing modal music together. The session welcomes people of all experience levels and backgrounds, whether they want to perform, sing along, or simply listen, while building a shared repertoire drawn from Turkish, Greek, Armenian, Persian, Arabic, and other modal traditions.

Children's Concert with Yoni Gordon

Featuring: Yoni Gordon

Yoni Gordon brings an interactive children’s concert to the Roslindale Library, centered on joy, singing, and movement for infants and toddlers. Rather than focusing primarily on early literacy or math instruction, Gordon’s performances invite young children and caregivers to share stories, songs, and spirited participation.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 6:00 PM

Open Mic Night: Hosted by Alan Goodrich

Featuring: Alan Goodrich

Open Mic Night at Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center offers a relaxed, welcoming setting for performers and listeners alike. Hosted by Alan Goodrich, the evening invites guests to enjoy live music, have a drink, and take the stage themselves.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 4:00 PM

Boston Teachers Union: Homework Help

Visit the Shaw-Roxbury library for drop-in homework assistance provided by a Boston Public Schools teacher. No registration is required. The program is offered through the Boston Public Library’s partnership with the Boston Teachers Union (BTU).

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 3:30 PM

Kids' Craft

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Drop in for a hands-on art-making session at the South Boston branch. Kids can create their own artwork in an informal program that does not require advance registration.

Rockwell Open Mic @ Saloon

Uphams Corner Branch Library

Rockwell Open Mic returns at Saloon, The Rockwell’s sister bar next door. The all-ages showcase welcomes performers of every kind, including musicians, comedians, poets, magicians, and even sword swallowers.

Fall Prevention

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 11:00 AM

500 Columbia Road, Boston, Massachusetts

Fall Prevention is a workshop at the Uphams Corner Branch Library focused on staying safe when walking or feeling unsteady, especially during winter. Participants will learn safer stepping techniques, how to navigate obstacles, and how to reduce the risk of injury if a fall becomes unavoidable. The program is part of the library’s Senior Fridays series, although this workshop is scheduled on two Mondays in November. Light refreshments will be provided.

ESOL Chorus

Featuring: ESOL Chorus

The ESOL Chorus is a welcoming singing program for adult English-language learners. Participants make vocal music, build basic singing skills, learn songs in English, strengthen their language abilities, and connect with other community members, including singers from the Back Bay Chorale. No previous musical experience is needed, and all English learners are welcome. Each class also includes an opportunity to practice conversational English and make new friends.

Computers for Beginners Series: Using Windows 11

This four-session class series is designed for people who are new to computers or want a refresher on essential skills. Participants will build confidence using Windows 11, starting with computer basics and progressing through internet use, file management, and online safety. The course is taught in English, with a Spanish-speaking teaching assistant available to answer questions and provide help; the event information also notes that the assistant speaks Portuguese.

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 1:00 PM

Exploring Short Stories: A Class for Adult English Learners

Exploring Short Stories is a weekly reading class at the Boston Public Library for adult English learners. Participants should have an intermediate to advanced level of English. Registration is required because space is limited.

Drawing Club (Ages 6-12)

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 4:30 PM

Drawing Club invites children to practice drawing through video tutorials, books, and playful drawing games. Each session includes time for independent drawing and a chance to share artwork with other participants.

Brighton Branch Library

LEGO Club (ages 5-12)

40 Academy Hill Road, Boston, Massachusetts

LEGO Club invites children ages 5–12 to spend an hour building freely at the Brighton library. Participants can use their imaginations to create spaceships, castles, garden parties, and other projects. LEGO creations made during the week may be displayed in the library lobby for others to admire, as space allows.

School-Age STEAM Club (Ages 6-12)

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School-Age STEAM Club is a weekly Tuesday-afternoon workshop for children ages 6–12. Participants can learn, build, and create while exploring science and art through hands-on building projects, art making, and science experiments. The program is an opportunity to visit the library after school, learn something new, and express creativity and curiosity.

Chill on Park

Library Drop-In Hours at Chill on Park

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 1:00 PM

142 Park Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Library Drop-In Hours at Chill on Park brings Fields Corner Branch librarians to an alternate location while the branch may be closed. Visitors can get help with computers, cell phones, tablets, eBooks, and the Boston Public Library’s online resources using a BPL card. Staff can also create library cards, assist with requesting books, and provide access to a selection of Lucky Day books for checkout. Laptops and limited free printing will be available.

Chinatown Branch Library Cancelled

ESOL Conversation Group

This canceled ESOL Conversation Group was scheduled as an informal, friendly opportunity for adult English for Speakers of Other Languages learners and other new English speakers to practice conversational English together. The group is led by a native English speaker, and advance registration is required because space is limited.

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Job Help Walk-In

Job Help Walk-In offers one-on-one employment assistance with Career Counselor Lauren Butler at the Codman Square Branch. No reservation is required. Lauren can answer job-related questions, connect attendees with relevant services, and help create a follow-up plan or appointment. Resume reviews are also available by request.

Little Groove Concert

Little Groove Concert is an interactive music program designed for babies, toddlers, and preschool-aged children. The event is supported by The Friends of the East Boston Branch Library and is presented in English.

Tea Cup Flowerpots

East Boston Branch Library Cancelled

Teens ages 13–18 can celebrate the upcoming holidays at the East Boston Library by decorating a ceramic teacup and saucer set to create a flowerpot-style craft. Supplies are limited, and although advance registration is not required, available space is limited.

Knife Skills for Teens

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 4:30 PM

Egleston Square Branch Library

Knife Skills for Teens is a canceled Boston Public Library program for teens ages 13–18 at the East Boston Library. The session introduces basic knife safety and three cutting techniques for dicing fruits and vegetables, followed by preparing a fruit salad and a smoothie.

Community Caring Clinic: Meet Outreach Coordinator Farhia

2044 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts

Meet Farhia, an Outreach Coordinator with Community Caring Clinic, at Egleston Square. Community Caring Clinic is a community-based organization offering behavioral and mental health services, HIV prevention and testing, health education, and other health resources. Farhia helps community members learn about these services, find useful information, and connect with available support.

BTU Homework Assistance

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BTU Homework Assistance offers students a chance to visit the Faneuil branch and get help with their homework from a Boston Public Schools teacher. The program is a drop-in session, so registration is not required. It is presented through a partnership with the Boston Teachers Union.

Tarot & Intuition: Tapping your Inner Wisdom

Featuring: Katie Martin

Tarot & Intuition: Tapping Your Inner Wisdom is a 90-minute workshop led by Katie Martin of the Wellness Consortium. The session explores how tarot and somatic practices can help participants access insight they may already hold within themselves, particularly when seeking clarity during uncertain or transitional moments.

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 1:00 PM

Homeschool Hangout

Homeschool Hangout brings homeschooling families together for an afternoon of play, creativity, learning, and reading. Children can play board games, build with blocks, take part in STEM activities, and enjoy books while connecting with other homeschooled children and their caregivers. The program is intended for children ages 6–12.

Boston Teachers Union: Homework Help

Honan-Allston Branch Library

Boston Teachers Union: Homework Help offers drop-in homework assistance from a Boston Public Schools teacher at the Grove Hall library. No registration is required, making the program available to students who need help with their schoolwork during the scheduled hours. The program is provided through a partnership with the Boston Teachers Union (BTU).

English (ESOL) Conversation Group

English (ESOL) Conversation Group is an informal, welcoming opportunity for adult learners to practice speaking English with others. No registration or advance sign-up is required.

Tech Help (By Appointment)

Tech Help is a one-on-one technology assistance service offered by a Hyde Park librarian by appointment. Patrons can bring questions about phones, computers, the internet, online Boston Public Library resources, or other technology topics. The 30-minute session may focus on completing a specific task or provide general instruction in computer use.

Tech Help by Appointment

Tech Help by Appointment offers individual assistance from a Boston Public Library librarian for basic computer questions and technology needs. Get help using a laptop or cellphone, learn about eBooks and audiobooks, or explore other BPL online resources. You may use a library laptop or public desktop, or bring your own device.

LEGO CLUB

LEGO Club is a hands-on, self-directed program for children. The Jamaica Plain location provides a large collection of LEGO bricks for kids to use however they like, encouraging them to build, play, and have fun in a relaxed setting.

S.T.E.A.M. Club

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S.T.E.A.M. Club invites children and tweens to explore science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics through a hands-on craft project. For Native American Heritage Month, participants will create paper wetus, traditional homes of the Wampanoag people.

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 3:00 PM

Boston Teachers Union: Homework Help

Boston Teachers Union: Homework Help offers students a chance to visit the Mattapan library for one-on-one or small-group homework assistance from a Boston Public Schools teacher. The program is drop-in, so advance registration is not required, and it is presented through the Boston Public Library’s partnership with the Boston Teachers Union.

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 5:00 PM

LEGO Club

North End Branch Library Cancelled

LEGO Club invites children to stop by the Mattapan library and create something of their own using the library’s collection of LEGO bricks. The program is intended for children ages 6–12 and welcomes families.

Adult Craft Time: Pumpkin Pie Garland

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 2:00 PM

Get ready for Thanksgiving by creating a pumpkin pie garland at this adult craft program. All materials are provided, and adults of any age can participate. Registration is not required. The event has been canceled.

The Music Box Open Mic hosted by Brian Donnelly

The Music Box Open Mic, hosted by Brian “Dr. Spaceman” Donnelly, invites musicians to share their original artistic work in an intimate setting with professional sound support and an attentive audience. The event emphasizes camaraderie among musicians and a shared appreciation for live music. A grand piano is available for performers.

French Conversation Group

Practice speaking French in a welcoming conversation group for participants of all skill levels. The group is intended for mutual practice and support as attendees work to improve their French. It is a conversation group rather than a formal class, and the event information is provided in both English and French.

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 4:30 PM

LEGO Club

LEGO Club invites children to the Roslindale library to build with the library’s collection of LEGO bricks and DUPLOs. Participants can use their creativity to decide what to make. The program is intended for children ages 4 and up.

Crafternoon

Crafternoon invites children to spend time creating freely with a variety of craft supplies provided each week. Participants are encouraged to make anything they wish, making this a flexible arts-and-crafts program for children, especially those ages 6–12, though everyone is welcome.

Little Builders

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Little Builders is an open play session for babies and toddlers, with plenty of blocks for young children to explore. Families may arrive at any point during the program, and registration is not required.

Country Open Mic

West End Branch Library Cancelled

Country Open Mic is a country-focused open mic hosted by Nicolei Welsh at The Bebop. Performers can sign up to share original country songs or covers of artists such as Morgan Wallen, Luke Combs, and Zac Brown. The event is part of The Bebop’s weekly Tuesday music schedule.

Origami Club at the West End Library

151 Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Featuring: Wes Fiorentino

Origami Club at the West End Library is a weekly gathering led by librarian Wes Fiorentino. Participants can learn to fold paper animals and other creative shapes, or bring their own paper-art projects to share with the group. The November 10 session has been canceled.

French Conversation Group

Come to the French Conversation Group at the West Roxbury library to practice speaking French with other participants at all levels. This is an informal conversation group rather than a class, and the group meets every other Tuesday. The event description is also provided in French for prospective participants.

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 · 3:00 PM

Crafternoons at West Roxbury

Crafternoons at the West Roxbury Branch invites children and families to get creative in the Community Room. Miss Annette provides the craft materials, while participants bring their imagination. The activities focus mainly on upcycling everyday items, including toilet paper rolls, plastic lids, straws, and other reusable materials.

Tunefoolery Coffee House

Tunefoolery Coffee House is a monthly coffee house and open-mic gathering for the mental health recovery community and the general public. The event combines community participation with music in a welcoming setting at the Arts at the Armory.

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 6:00 PM

Boston - Vinofile VIP+ Pick Up Party

City Winery Boston’s monthly Vinofile VIP+ Pick-Up Party features a hands-on mulled wine class themed around seasonal flavors. Guests will explore spices and aromatic ingredients, learn how to create a warming mulled wine, and sample the wine of the month with a paired light bite while enjoying conversation with fellow Vinofile VIP+ members.

Brian Patton – Broadway Hump Day

Featuring: Brian Patton

Brian Patton’s Broadway Hump Day is an evening for Broadway enthusiasts of all kinds, including professional performers, emerging artists, aspiring singers, and anyone who enjoys show tunes. The program combines audience sing-alongs, an open mic, and additional musical entertainment, with Brian Patton providing piano and vocals.

Karaoke Wednesdays

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Karaoke Wednesdays at Club Café is a weekly midweek karaoke party hosted by AURORA. Guests can sing with the crowd, cheer on other performers, and enjoy drinks in the Moonshine Room. Karaoke begins at 8 p.m., and arriving early is recommended to sign up.

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 3:00 PM

LEGO Builders Club

Children ages 6–12 can drop in to LEGO Builders Club at Grove Hall to create with the library’s collection of LEGO bricks and Mega Blocks. The club is informal and does not require registration. LEGO books and building guides will be available for ideas, and participants’ creations will remain on display for two weeks after the program.

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 10:30 AM

Pre School Storytime

Featuring: Chris

Pre-School Storytime is a weekly early-childhood program led by librarian Chris at the Jamaica Plain branch. Children will enjoy three stories, songs, fingerplays, prop play, and parachute activities during this 45-minute session.

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 4:00 PM

After School Crafts

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 10:30 AM

After School Crafts is a weekly hands-on craft program at the Jamaica Plain branch library. Children can come make a fun craft in a welcoming library setting.

Rocky Neck Art Colony

Gelli Printing for Mixed Media Workshop

6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

Artist Maria Malatesta leads this hands-on workshop in experimental gelli-plate printing. Participants will learn to create unique mixed-media monoprints while exploring a range of techniques, with prints suitable for collage, further painting, or a combination of both.

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 4:30 PM

LEGO Club

LEGO Club offers open-ended building time for children and families at the Shaw-Roxbury location. Participants can challenge themselves to build the tallest tower, design the coolest car, or create anything else they can imagine. The program is best suited to ages 5–12, though everyone is welcome.

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 10:00 PM

The Lilypad Variety Show

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 4:00 PM

The Lilypad Variety Show is a weekly open-mic night featuring a broad mix of creative performances, including music, comedy, dance, poetry, art, film, and more. The event welcomes new talent and invites performers to take the stage while friends and audience members look on. It is hosted by Jesse Gallagher.

West End Branch Library

Construction Club: LEGO and More!

151 Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Construction Club invites children and families to explore creative building with LEGO, Duplo, wooden blocks, and other construction materials. The session is designed for both experienced builders and beginners, with open-ended challenges, opportunities to meet other participants, and plenty of room for imaginative play.

Adams Street Branch Library

Children's Playroom

690 Adams Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Children’s Playroom invites young children and families to spend time playing with toys selected to encourage imagination, fine-motor development, and other skills. The session is held in the Community Room at the Adams Street location of the Boston Public Library.

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Pub Sing

Boston Public Library Sold Out

Pub Sing is a welcoming group singing session inspired by the traditional English pub sing, with an American flavor. Participants join in on easy-to-learn chorus songs, including drinking songs, sea chanteys, and other selections from the British Isles and New England. Any song with a memorable chorus or refrain is welcome, and attendees are encouraged to bring a song to share.

Civics for ESOL Students

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 1:00 PM

Civics for ESOL Students is a fall class series for adult English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) learners. Participants will practice English while studying key ideas in civics and American government, learning how community members can participate more actively in their communities and exploring Boston’s history and its significance in the nation.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 3:00 PM

Photography Mix Media [#Teencentral]

Photography Mix Media is a hands-on photography workshop for teens that explores how light and perspective can transform an image. Participants will experiment with dramatic shadows, creative angles, and other small choices to make ordinary scenes look bold, surprising, and personal while developing their own visual style.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 3:30 PM

Art Afternoon (Ages 5-12)

Art Afternoon invites children ages 5 and up to drop in for a hands-on process-art project. Each week features a different creative activity, offering kids an opportunity to explore art through playful making.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 4:30 PM

The Adulting Academy: Resume Builders [#teencentral]

Featuring: Boston Public Library’s Office of Youth Employment and Opportunity (OYEO)

The Adulting Academy: Resume Builders is a career-readiness workshop for teens led by the Boston Public Library’s Office of Youth Employment and Opportunity (OYEO). The session focuses on demystifying the resume-writing process and teaching participants how to create a resume that stands out when applying for jobs.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 5:45 PM

Professional Headshots for Job Seekers & Entrepreneurs

Featuring: Arluah Wontan

A strong professional image can shape how job seekers and entrepreneurs are introduced to potential employers, clients, and collaborators. This program offers a guided professional headshot session for use on LinkedIn, company websites, professional profiles, applications, marketing materials, and other career or business platforms.

Brighton Branch Library

Shut Up & Write!

40 Academy Hill Road, Boston, Massachusetts

Shut Up & Write! is a focused writing session for anyone working to overcome procrastination, quiet their inner critic, and make steady progress. The Brighton chapter welcomes writers working on poetry, fiction, a thesis, or even an unfinished email, with time for optional introductions, sustained individual writing, and an informal celebration of participants’ progress.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 4:30 PM

LEGO Club (Ages 5-12)

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LEGO Club invites children ages 5–12 to explore open-ended building with LEGO bricks and baseplates. Participants can create whatever their imaginations suggest, with additional materials available for different ages and building styles, including Duplo bricks, Lincoln Logs, magnetic tiles, and soft blocks.

Boston Food Drive & Happy Hour

Out in Finance’s Boston Food Drive & Happy Hour combines community support with professional networking. Attendees are encouraged to bring nonperishable donations—especially coffee, tea, and spices—for Boston’s Friday Night Supper Program (FNSP), which provides warm, healthy Friday-night meals and is one of the city’s oldest homeless supper programs. Monetary donations will also be accepted from guests who are unable to bring food.

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 – Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 10:30 AM

Senior Quilting Group

Senior Quilting Group is a welcoming gathering for older adults interested in quilting and other textile arts. Participants may bring projects such as quilts, sewing, crochet, or knitting for feedback and assistance from fellow group members. The gathering also includes snacks and time for conversation.

Perler Bead Creations

Create pixel art with Perler beads during this hands-on crafting program at Codman Square. Materials and easy-to-follow patterns will be provided, while participants can use them as inspiration for their own designs. The program is intended for children, families, and teens.

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Conversation Group

Practice speaking English in a welcoming, informal in-person conversation group for adult learners. A volunteer teacher leads the group, which is intended for participants who already have basic English-speaking skills. Beginners can contact Literacy Services for information about suitable beginner classes.

Baby Lapsit with Sherry Eskin

Honan-Allston Branch Library Sold Out

Featuring: Sherry Eskin

Join Ms. Sherry Eskin for a musical story time designed for babies and young children. The program features singable books, songs, and interactive props such as shakers and scarves. Caregivers are encouraged to participate. Preschools and daycares should contact Miss Caroline to arrange a separate visit or story time for their class, as this program is not intended for large groups.

Sewing Classes for Adults

Honan-Allston Branch Library Cancelled

Learn to sew in this six-week adult series with Miriam, an experienced instructor. Participants will learn how to operate a sewing machine and follow a simple pattern, creating several practical projects to take home and use. The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Honan-Allston Branch Library, Harvard University, and the Harvard Ed Portal.

Bilingual Storytime/ Hora de Cuentos Bilingüe

Bilingual Storytime / Hora de Cuentos Bilingüe is a weekly program at the Honan-Allston Library featuring songs, age-appropriate stories, crafts, and playtime in English and Spanish. The activities are designed to build early literacy skills, strengthen connections between children and their caregivers, and encourage a lifelong interest in reading.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 1:00 PM

Job Board Navigation Strategies to Supercharge Your Job Search

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This workshop teaches practical strategies for navigating major job boards and making an online job search more efficient. Participants will learn advanced search techniques and how to set up automated email alerts so they can keep up with newly posted opportunities.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 5:00 PM

An Evening with Esther

Featuring: Kantika, Tutti Druyan

An Evening with Esther celebrates Persian Jewish culture and the enduring figure of Queen Esther through food, music, storytelling, and conversation throughout the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Presented with CJP and Vilna Community Creative Fellows Tutti Druyan, Miriam Anzovin, and Sara Gardner, the evening connects centuries-old Persian Jewish traditions with contemporary artistic and cultural perspectives.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 5:30 PM

Exhibition Opening Reception — Rachel King: At the Water's Edge

Rachel King’s *At the Water’s Edge* explores the changing shoreline of Jamaica Pond through photography. The exhibition opening reception, hosted by the Friends of the Jamaica Plain Branch Library, offers an opportunity to view the work before the exhibit opens and speak with King about her photographs. Light refreshments will be served.

Drop in Zine Making

Drop in Zine Making is a recurring workshop for people curious about zines or interested in creating their own. Participants can learn zine-making techniques, work on projects, and connect with others who share an interest in zines. The program is intended for adults, teens, and tweens.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 11:00 AM

Music Hour

Featuring: Opetoritse “Ritse” Adefolalu

Children and families are invited to join Mr. Ritse for an interactive library jam session featuring singing, movement, play, classic nursery rhymes, upbeat jazz, and participant song requests when possible. Children who play any type of instrument are encouraged to bring it and join the musical group.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 – Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 3:00 PM

Senior Sewing

Senior Sewing is a recurring gathering for older adults to bring their sewing projects to the library and share them with other seniors. The group meets in the Community Meeting Room, and no registration is required.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 3:00 PM

Crafternoon: Tornado in a Jar

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 3:30 PM

Crafternoon: Tornado in a Jar is a hands-on arts and science activity at the Mattapan branch of the Boston Public Library. Participants will make a tornado in a jar, with all necessary materials supplied.

North End Branch Library

Crafternoon

Crafternoon invites children and their caregivers to spend the afternoon making a special craft with Ms. Ashley. Materials will be supplied, while participants are also welcome to bring their own creative ideas and projects to share.

A Night Out With NAGLY

Featuring: Ms. Mizery McRae, Kim Cherry, Emily Ruskowski

A Night Out With NAGLY is an evening of drag, live music, comedy, and community hosted by Ms. Mizery McRae, a prominent New England gender illusionist and drag performer. The event supports NAGLY’s work empowering LGBTQ+ youth to thrive as their authentic selves.

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Roslindale Branch Library Sold Out

Writing Your Personal Narrative

Writing Your Personal Narrative is a welcoming writing workshop led by Judy McClure for anyone interested in shaping life experiences into personal essays. Sessions use writing prompts, published essays, themed writing periods, and group support to help participants generate new work, practice revision, and experiment with ways to tell personal stories. Writers of all experience levels are welcome, including former participants who want to continue developing their work.

Mon, Nov 9, 2026 – Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 3:00 PM

Boston Teachers Union: Homework Help

Boston Teachers Union: Homework Help offers drop-in homework assistance at the South Boston library from a Boston Public Schools teacher. No registration is required, and the program is presented through the Boston Teachers Union (BTU) partnership.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 1:00 PM

Bead Therapy

Bead Therapy is an expressive arts workshop focused on making beaded jewelry while learning how semi-precious stones differ from precious stones. Using semi-precious stones and other natural jewelry materials, participants can explore creativity, self-expression, and a calm, meditative approach to artmaking.

Supporting Your Immigrant Neighbors: A Community Workshop with We Support South Boston

Featuring: We Support South Boston, Agencia Alpha

Supporting Your Immigrant Neighbors is an interactive community workshop for people who want to support immigrant neighbors but are unsure how to begin. The session focuses on practical, everyday ways to build solidarity, promote safety, and strengthen community care.

Open Mic Night at The Bebop

Uphams Corner Branch Library

Open Mic Night at The Bebop is a weekly open-mic event held on Thursday evenings. Performers can sign up through the event’s online registration page, with the signup sheet opening each Monday morning.

Boston Teachers Union: Homework Help

500 Columbia Road, Boston, Massachusetts

Visit the library for drop-in homework assistance from a Boston Public Schools teacher. The program is offered through the Boston Teachers Union’s partnership with the Boston Public Library, and no registration is required.

Storytelling: "On the Corner"

Through Mon, Nov 16, 2026

Featuring: Linda

Storytelling: “On the Corner” is the fourth session in a four-part Boston Public Library program led by Linda. The workshop explores how true, heartfelt stories—whether uplifting, poignant, or humorous—can help people connect with one another and find meaning in their experiences.

The Rockwell Sold Out

SOLD OUT – 8-Week Clown Class with Deby Xiadani

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SOLD OUT – 8-Week Clown Class with Deby Xiadani is an eight-session course exploring clown as a performance art and a tool for comedy, creativity, and connection. Open to all experience levels, the class is intended for stand-up comedians, improvisers, experienced clowns, and beginners alike. Participants will work in a supportive, collaborative setting designed to strengthen performance skills, deepen sensitivity to an audience, and reconnect with the energy and joy of performing.

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Fri, Nov 20, 2026 · 2:30 PM

Drop-in ESOL Conversation Group (Level 2 and higher)

Through Sun, Nov 22, 2026

Practice speaking English with other adult English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) learners in a relaxed, friendly conversation group led by a volunteer instructor. The group is intended for learners with a basic level of spoken English, rated Level 2 or higher, so participants can feel comfortable taking part and benefit fully from the discussion.

Charles Playhouse

‘Til Death Do Us Part: Late Nite Catechism

74 Warrenton Street, Boston, Massachusetts

‘Til Death Do Us Part: Late Nite Catechism is an interactive comedy class about love, marriage, and the Church’s opinions on both. A sharp-tongued, ruler-wielding nun leads the audience as her students, delivering humorous lessons, administering pop quizzes, correcting audience members, and staging a couples game that tests how well partners know one another. The show presents itself as an unconventional, laugh-filled couples counseling session.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 – Sun, Nov 22, 2026 · 1:00 PM

ICA Unlocked: Contemporary Art for the Curious

Featuring: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company

ICA Unlocked is a welcoming, two-part program for adults who are curious about contemporary art but may feel unsure where to begin. Led by approachable ICA staff, participants will explore the galleries, discuss works by artists including Rose B. Simpson, Yayoi Kusama, and Andy Warhol, and develop practical ways to look at and talk about unfamiliar art without specialized jargon.

Peabody Essex Museum

Noguchi-Inspired Light Sculptures

Fri, Nov 6, 2026 – Fri, Nov 27, 2026

161 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970

Create a one-of-a-kind paper lampshade or lantern in this drop-in art-making program inspired by Isamu Noguchi’s iconic Akari paper light sculptures. Participants can experiment with shape, pattern, and light while exploring how Noguchi combined traditional craftsmanship with a modern artistic approach. The activity is led by PEM art educators and connects to the exhibition *Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer,”* where the Akari sculptures are on view.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Sold Out

Preschool Studio Art, Ages 4-5 + Adult

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 – Sat, Dec 5, 2026 · 10:45 AM

Preschool Studio Art, Ages 4–5 + Adult is a hands-on course for preschoolers and their accompanying adults, with projects inspired by the Museum of Fine Arts collection. Children and adults create art together in the MFA’s Workshop Studio, with supplies provided. Registration covers one enrolled child and one accompanying adult.

Potluck Supper Club

Through Mon, Dec 7, 2026

Boston Public Library Sold Out

Potluck Supper Club is a monthly communal dinner at the Marblehead Arts Association, held in the association’s basement Tavern. The December gathering has an “Ugly Sweaters!” theme, inviting attendees to bring a dish, share a meal, and enjoy a casual evening with fellow members and guests.

TOEFL Prep Class and Academic English

Tue, Nov 10, 2026 – Tue, Dec 8, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Through Thu, Dec 17, 2026

TOEFL Prep Class and Academic English is an eight-week Boston Public Library course for adults preparing to attend an American university or strengthen their academic English. The class covers the TOEFL exam’s format and content, with practice in reading, listening, writing, speaking, and vocabulary. It also develops advanced English skills, emphasizing fluency and collocations. A high-intermediate English level is recommended.

Art Complex Museum

Thursday Nights at the Museum

189 Alden Street, Duxbury, MA 02332

Thursday Nights at the Museum is a weekly evening program at the Art Complex Museum offering art, conversation, music, and community in a relaxed after-hours setting. Each evening begins with a 5 p.m. reception and light refreshments, followed by featured programming and time to explore the museum’s exhibitions. Talks generally run from 6 to 7 p.m., while the museum remains open until 8 p.m.

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Sat, Nov 7, 2026 – Sat, Dec 19, 2026 · 9:00 AM

Realistic Painting in Watercolor with Todd Zalewski

Realistic Painting in Watercolor is a six-week adult class led by award-winning artist and Marblehead Arts Association member Todd Zalewski. Designed for beginners through advanced students, the class covers the tools, materials, studio setup, sketching practices, and painting methods needed to create realistic watercolor work. Instruction is adapted to each participant’s skill level.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 – Thu, Dec 24, 2026 · 2:00 PM

Opening Reception

The Opening Reception celebrates the Marblehead Arts Association’s 2026 Winter Exhibition, which runs from November 7 through December 24, 2026. The reception offers an opportunity to visit the exhibition at its opening.

My ICA Story

Through Sun, Mar 7, 2027

My ICA Story is an interactive installation created for the ICA’s 90th anniversary. It invites visitors to reflect on their own experiences at the museum by adding a memory to a response wall, reading stories contributed by previous visitors, and leaving a wish for the ICA’s next 90 years. Visitors can also share their ICA stories online.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 – Thu, Apr 8, 2027 · 6:00 PM

Art-Making After Dark

Art-Making After Dark invites visitors to spend an evening creating, exploring the galleries, and connecting through art. The November program, “To the Salon,” is inspired by Leilah Babirye’s exhibition *Embaga ya Naki ne Naki (Wedding of Naki and Naki)* and asks participants to make wearable sculptures from recycled materials while considering what dressing up means to them.

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 – Sun, Jun 13, 2027 · 11:00 AM

Family ART-trek