Fiel a La Vega
Friday, April 4 at 8pm at Lynn Auditorium
Fiel a La Vega is a Rock en Español band from Puerto Rico formed in 1994. The band consisted of members Tito Auger and Ricky Laureano, who come from the northern city of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, along with brothers Pedro and Jorge Arraiza, who come from the neighboring city of Vega Baja. For ticket information, click here.
M.E.S.A. Featuring Towana Wright, Artist & Writer
Wednesday, April 9 at 12pm via Zoom from LynnArts
Join Lynn Museum & Arts Center on the second Wednesday of each month at noon for MESA (Museum Enrichment Series for All). This lecture series covers wellness, genealogy, and current events and features local experts, community members, Museum staff, and others.
As part of North Shore Community College’s “Arts in April” celebration, we are delighted to have Towana Wright, writer and artist, join us. She will discuss her latest creative project featuring The Douglass Family. The conversation will take place over Zoom.
Solaya + The Effect
Thursday, April 10 at 6pm at MFA Boston
A fully Black and Caribbean group, these Berklee College of Music students are committed to preserving and representing their cultural lineage in every space they inhabit. Their performance draws from the current MFA exhibition “Deep Waters: Four Artists and the Sea” to explore water as both metaphor and vessel that carries memory, stories, and the profound knowledge of molecular ancestry. Through this dialogue with water, Solaya + The Effect channel music as a tool for collective healing and liberation.
This Sound Bites is free to college and university students as part of College Night at the MFA. On April 10 the Museum is inviting college students to the Museum for a special evening of art making, gallery talks, and more. For more event information, click here.
Celebrate Mother Earth w/Johnny Fireseed
Sunday, April 13 from 11:30-1:30pm at Peabody Essex Museum
Music in the Atrium series celebrates Planet Earth with live performances by Johnny Fireseed. A project of Framingham-based Fireseed Arts Studios, lead by artist and musician Patiño Vázquez in collaboration with local musicians and craftspeople, Johnny Fireseed uses instruments made entirely from upcycled trash and repurposed items to perform original music with an upbeat eco message. The band’s inspiring sound aims to spread a message of joy, fun and new ways of thinking about consumption and waste far and wide. For more information, click here.
Arabic Calligraphy: 10th Century to Today
Wednesday, April 30 at 1pm at MFA Boston
To appreciate Arabic-script calligraphy, an art form that has developed over 1,400 years, is to understand form and space. The MFA’s collection of Islamic calligraphic works, which spans mediums from paper to glass to metal, documents this history and shows us different scripts developed dynamically alongside one another. Unpack this history using a book arts rotation on view in the MFA’s Arts of Islamic Cultures Gallery for six months only. Probe questions of composition and proportionality and look at new acquisitions by living calligraphers to appreciate how Arabic-script calligraphy is still practiced today at the highest artistic level. For ticket information, click here.
The Japanese Garden and Beyond
Wednesday, April 30 at 1pm at MFA Boston
A Japanese garden is a gateway to all things Japanese: aesthetics, philosophy, religion, history, art, politics, style, national pride, and engagement beyond borders. Tenshin-en, the MFA’s Japanese garden, provides a bridge from Boston to these fruitful concepts. Explore Tenshin-en while you learn about how Japonisme took hold in Paris, the inspiration Vincent van Gogh took from the principles of Japanese design, and the ways Japanese perceptions of nature still condition aesthetic energies in the global world. For ticket information, click here.