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If you’re looking for something wild and out of the ordinary for your Saturday night, look no further than the intersection of McGrath Highway and Washington Street, outside of Union Square. This unexpected location is where you will find the fifth and final Project MUM tonight from 9pm-1am. An outdoor dance party presented by ARTSomerville,…
A little piece of Providence, RI makes its way to Somerville this Saturday from 3pm-7pm when the Providence Rock and Roll Yard Sale hits Union Square. The Yard Sale, a market of vinyl records and DIY handmade goods, is organized and promoted by Chris and Jennifer Daltry of What Cheer Antiques and Vintage. For the…
Davis Square festival ArtBeat starts tonight. Each year the festival, organized by the Somerville Arts Council, centers on a theme that will get the community’s creative juices flowing…and that’s a particularly apt metaphor for this year’s theme: water. The fruits of that creative flow will flood Davis Square, starting tonight with musical performances from Walter…
Looking for the perfect quirky accessory to add to an outfit? New hand-crafted knick-knacks for empty shelf space? Some one-of-a-kind artwork to liven up your living room? then you should head over to Union Square tomorrow for the Boston Handmade Somerville Marketplace. From 3pm-7pm, the marketplace will feature work by New England artists, craftspeople and…
The past two weekends, the Armory Café was the venue for the Gan-e-Meed Theatre Project’s production of Hamlet. Gan-e-Meed, based in Lowell, started in 2009. The project’s purpose is to advance the role of women in theater in order to reduce unseen and unintentional gender bias in the theater community, and to promote genuine career advancement…
We have much cause for celebration these days: it’s almost May, spring is in the air, the Celtics are winning, the Red Sox are…playing, and this weekend, May 1 and 2, Somerville is holding its annual Open Studios, a great chance to connect with the local arts community. Between studio hopping, you can support a…
On Friday, Feb. 19 at 8 pm, Theatre@First will host Dracula at the Elizabeth Peabody House (277 Broadway). Sourced from the 1897 classic by Bram Stoker, this production uses John Mattera’s adaptation from 1980. Theatre@First has operated in the Somerville area for six years (view a list of their past shows here). They’ve performed at…
On Tuesday, Feb. 9, from 7 pm to midnight, Nate Cantrell will host Project Night at Sprout (339R Summer St). The event gives people the opportunity to socialize with others while doing things such as repairing bicycles and making puppet shows. People are also free to stop by to help out, or see what other…
Third Life Studio (33 Union Square) will host Afro-Brazilian Percussion with Deraldo Ferreira on Monday, Feb. 8 from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. An ongoing weekly event, it aims to teach about samba rhythms from traditional forms of samba to modern forms. Some examples of instruments to play include the pandiero, surdo (drum), caixa (snare),…
The Somerville Arts Council and Somerville Community Access Television (SCAT) will host “An Evening of Haitian Film” on Thursday, Feb. 4 from 7 pm to 9 pm at SCAT (90 Union Square). The event will focus on short films and excerpts from longer films related to Haiti. Two featured films are Secondhand (Pepe) by Hanna…
