knizerThis weekend of May 17th-19th, what's going on, #Boston ? What's the can't-miss event(s) you hope to enjoy?
(The #BostonWeekend Thread 1/?)
Probably rainy Saturday 5/18, but like a 1/4 inch - highs in the upper 60s Friday, upper 50s Saturday & Sunday. Pack a poncho and/or the goretex, and don't forget your daytime SPF, despite the cloudy forecast. #mawx
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Through Sunday, its #Brimfield #Antiques Shows out in #HampdenCounty (kinda Between #SpringfieldMA and #Worcester, at least a 70 minute drive from #boston depending on the 'pike).
They have everything, not just antiques, across huge grass fields. If you like haggling with vendors and unique goods. The May sale is usually the best of the year as vendors unload their winter finds.
#InmanSquare's delightful shop #GatherHere hosts the #Makers Market of #Handmade crafts in #CambridgeMA this Sunday from 1-4pm - Food and vendors abound, and live #BostonMusic https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inman-eats-crafts-2024-tickets-875422200367
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#BostonMusic at the #SomervilleArmory Friday Night has Seattle's #EARTH.
If you like droning #metal and standing around with nodding battlejacketed longhair types, the Armory's a spectacular event space in #SomervilleMA (RIP #ONCESomerville).
Doors at 7, #EstherBlue opens at 8, tickets ~$30, All ages show!
https://earthsl.bandcamp.com/album/the-bees-made-honey-in-the-lions-skull
https://artsatthearmory.org/events/get-to-the-gig-presents-earth/
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The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull, by Earth
7 track album
Free live music in #SomervilleMA for #JoyFest Saturday afternoon 1-6 at (my absolute favorite outdoor space in the entire city), #ProspectHill -
'Part block party, part #DIYmusic festival, JoyFest is both a community celebration and a call to support the arts! ' #BostonMusic
https://partiful.com/e/o0C4VXs4IcCDKiGg2rIB
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RSVP to JoyFest | Partiful
✨Part block party, part DIY-music festival, JoyFest is both a community celebration and a call to support the arts! ✨ Featuring!! 🎶 amazing local bands and an open-mic hour (see line-up below!!) 🤝opportunities to learn about and support local arts advocacy and housing affordability initiatives 🤸🏾♀️participatory art stations and workshops ✌️We're a group of arts-loving friends, and we'd love to grow JoyFest together with you. 🌱 Want to perform at the open-mic hour, run a participatory workshop, sell your art, feature your organization?🫶 ✨Fill out this Google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegimNTU-g5U6nMrrVFbN8uroFI68RfBp4z6BpJmkz8RHD9TA/viewform
RESCHEDULED to SUNDAY: More free live music plus vendors etc, in #SomervilleMA for the #NewEngland #HongKong Fest in #UnionSquare 4-8pm Sunday
https://newenglandhkfest.com/
#NewEnglandHKFest #BostonMusic
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https://newenglandhkfest.com/
#NewEnglandHKFest #BostonMusic
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New England Hong Kong Festival is a community-run festival dedicated to bringing the Hongkonger community together and celebrating Hong Kong culture. Through food, music, performances, games, and interactive activities, we hope to create a space for people to gather and build connections, exchange stories and experiences, and for those with a connection to Hong Kong to find a sense of home and belonging.
#BostonMusic & Free - #Malden's #Porchfest starts at noon Saturday, til 7pm, still on despite the rain as of Saturday @10am, but check the wobsite. No Guster, though.
You're well positioned getting off at #MaldenCenter on the #OrangeLine if you're taking the #MBTA (h/t @DemonHusky ) https://www.maldenporchfest.org/
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Go Fly a kite! #BostonMusic & Free & #kites & #bikes at Saturday's #FranklinPark (#Boston) festival noon-4pm #JamaicaPlain #Roxbury https://www.franklinparkcoalition.org/featured-events/kite-bike-festival/
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Go fly a #kite again on Sunday at #RevereBeach (#Revere) for the Kite Festival 10-1pm #Boston #BlueLine #MBTA
https://www.reverebeachpartnership.com/events/kite-festival/
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https://www.reverebeachpartnership.com/events/kite-festival/
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#BostonMusic & free - #Watertown has a #porchfest this weekend too if that's closer than #Malden for you.
Noon-5pm Saturday https://watertownporchfest.org/
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Live concerts in # Boston this weekend/#BostonMusic
Friday
EARTH (#SomervilleArmory)
Buck Meek of #BigThief (Crystal Ballroom)
Saturday
#StringCheeseIncident (MGM Music Hall)
#ORGY (Brighton Music Hall, and yes, this is the #industrial band from '98, the provocatively named 'Candyass' album, omg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvFGckYZP1k&list=PLMFPRByCwtcXGMW0Q8zUVIIbY41QCi0O9&index=7)
Sunday
#BigBadVoodooDaddy
(Wilbur)
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Friday
EARTH (#SomervilleArmory)
Buck Meek of #BigThief (Crystal Ballroom)
Saturday
#StringCheeseIncident (MGM Music Hall)
#ORGY (Brighton Music Hall, and yes, this is the #industrial band from '98, the provocatively named 'Candyass' album, omg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvFGckYZP1k&list=PLMFPRByCwtcXGMW0Q8zUVIIbY41QCi0O9&index=7)
Sunday
#BigBadVoodooDaddy
(Wilbur)
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Orgy - Blue Monday
#Dorchester - #Polish Festival Sunday noon-6pm at the Polish Americans Club in #DorchesterMA (#MBTA #RedLine - #Andrew) - food, beer, live music, artisans, vendors.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5zAHyPviUt/
#Boston #PolishTriangle #Poland #Polska #Kielbasa #pierogi #BostonMusic #Polka
https://bostonpolishfest.com/
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Dear reader, if you've found this or past #Boston weekend threads useful, holler - especially if you end up at one of these events.
I curate these weekly threads, exclusively here for the fediverse. I'd like this subset of the fedi to grow beyond ~12 bostonians shouting about how much we love bikes.
Boosts, sharing local-ish events you're interested in, and tagging posts with #BostonWeekend help to that end, and 'favourites/likes' just make me feel seen (which keeps me motivated to spend time on this entirely non-commercial project). I don't have to remind you that there's no algorithm here serving up suggested content, and no paid content mills yet - If your feed doesn't have stuff you want in it, its up to you to make that happen by either boosting or posting, ideally with tags.
Be well and have fun out there, #NewEngland! ✌️ (#BostonWeekend 14/x)
Ampelios@knizer I really appreciate them. I live pretty much on the water in Eastie and often the first indication I get of ships dog-fighting is when I hear the cannons fire. Then two days later, "So that was a thing..."
?!! You couldn't have told me so I could walk down there?
@pelielios Thanks! As someone who lives on a hill in somerville but is separated from the mystic by a mile and a highway, I sometimes forget how close we are to the water - but also am blissfully unawares of cannons. Is there a 'local #eastie paper' anymore? We've got the #CambridgeDay which has a great Events listing now (and I regularly poach from that page), but with the death of free weeklies, I'm not sure where to find out about whats going on in #EastBoston.
@knizer There's the Eastie Times but I got out of the habit of collecting it during the pandemic, you fill in the rest...
So I appreciate them too but don't always get updates in a preliminary kind of way.
4sphereAs a local agoraphobe I love these threads! I wouldn't otherwise hear about what interesting things are happening around me. And while most of them aren't my thing, and I don't usually make it to the ones that are, it's still nice to feel like I have the option.
@4sphere thank you! And I hear you, crowds aren’t a great draw. I try to generally find events that are some combination of free/inexpensive, nerdy, Covid cognizant, iconic, transit-available, music-y, and accessible But few hit all the buttons. Are there any specific types of events that you hope to see that will tempt you to crowds?
That's a good question. Free/inexpensive, nerdy, Covid cognizant, transit-available, and accessible is a good start (I'm not entirely sure what you mean by iconic here, and music is nice but not usually enough of a draw for me).
Not crowded is probably also important. I like to learn, so lectures and interviews have been the biggest temptations so far (I did actually get to the interview with Cory Doctorow and Randall Munroe, and I've been to a few public lectures at Harvard). I love math. I want to learn more computer science. I have a professional and obsessive interest in language and how it works in society (ironic, I know).
Then again, most of that doesn't give much room for a third space -- I have trouble with the unstructured after-lecture conversations. That's part of why I like these threads: they give options I wouldn't normally think of or hear about
@4sphere oh, clarification on iconic - if some event is happening thats memorable/unique/annual/big draw (head of the charles, esplanade fireworks, fluff festival)
Yeah, that pluralistic/randall talk was great up until the ceiling caught fire, and then everybody crowded in the adjoining hallway for book signing, and we bolted.
I miss out on so many events in boston that I'd love to go to, so its now just habit to read through a couple emails and events listings, but there's a lot to filter out. Hence these threads to hopefully share the filtering. And hopefully others share cool things with me for when I miss stuff. like nothing I read Friday/yesterday mentioned the polish festival, but I had put it on my calendar a month ago so... ^_^
Crystal Huff (they/them)@4sphere @knizer in case it's of interest, a mutual aid garden near my house (organized with Mutual Aid of Medford And Somerville, aka MAMAS) is hosting an introvert reading party next Sunday (May 26th) from noon-3 pm at 17 Mossland St, Somerville. It should be small and some attendees are immunocompromised, so it'll be Covid-cautious -- masks encouraged & outdoors only. Part of the garden is wheelchair-accessible and most of it is stepless.
@crystalvisits Thanks! love the work that MAMAS has been doing, and I'm reminded that I was not on their newsletter - so now I am :) https://mutualaidmamas.com/ #MedfordMA #SomervilleMA
@knizer yay! Welcome to the newsletter! 😅 We are bad at talking about the stuff we do, but I think last count was redistribution of over $850k from contributors to requesters since 3/2020... so we are doing a lot! 😅
@crystalvisits It seems like much of the talking for MAMAS on Meta platforms (but not much on birdsite anymore, natch) - so I'm very grateful to find that there's a simple email newsletter.
@knizer yeah, I was one of two people who tended to post to the twitter, and I moved off twitter a while ago now.
I'm so sorry I couldn't make it today. Will there be a next one?
That sounds like my kind of gathering! Please do keep me posted!
Kate Nyhan is changing servers@knizer yes, I really appreciate that you post them!
John Foley@knizer I enjoy your event-sharing. Primarily because I miss living up in Boston and like to keep a pulse on happenings. But also, I'm right near the commuter rail and look for excuses to take a train trip to Boston 🚆
@yelof thanks! Similarly, it’s always nice to take the commuter rail down to Rhode Island - is there any good calendar of Ocean State events? I’m really out of the loop when it comes to the RI newspaper etc scene.
@knizer hmm not a comprehensive one, sadly. Motif is a free arts/culture paper that usually has a decent events section. But I just checked their website, which seems behind/not complete in regards to events.
Tris 👭🗺️🍞🔔@knizer I love these threads! lots of events I wouldn't otherwise know about, and for someone who is often short on things to do over the weekend that's very helpful :)