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allo allo, #boston, the weekend fast approacheth. What to do?
Its your weekly #BostonWeekend 🧵 1/x

New to the thread? I take a look at different events calendars for things going on in #NewEngland and compile the highlights. This is my little 'community building' project, because we should have nice things here.

My focus is primarily on things close to home for me - #SomervilleMA primarily and the #greaterBoston region too - but if I know about something big going in #Vermont or #Maine, I'll let you know about it. Suggestions and recommendations are welcome! Follow me or the BostonWeekend tag to keep this in your feed every week. I hope this helps to encourage you to get out and recharge so you're well prepared for whatever comes next week.

#BostonWeekend 2/x

and for funsies, a winter vacation poll for you - what's your personal preference?
#BostonWeekend 3/x

head into snow (ski, hike, sled)

16.2%

head to warm weather (beach, disney, mardi gras)

8.1%

nah, take time off in summer

24.3%

nah, take time off in spring/fall

51.4%

Poll ended at Mar 9 at 9:20pm.

Thu-Sat - #Chiptune festival, dozens of bands, 5 venues venues. Friend's band #Minusworld playing too? Tickets start at $24, 3 day full festival pass ~130$.

https://www.bostonbitdown.com/schedule #BostonMusic
#BostonWeekend 4/x

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Friday - daytime, Ecology Now symposium at #Tufts, #MedfordMA free
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T1vP3H6Mig40TLZ93MjvxkTU_KQZI3B8yWbmF9IFkMQ/edit?tab=t.0
#BostonWeekend 5/x

Ecology Now! Symposium Program

Welcome to “Ecology Now!” Symposium! If you have any questions about this event, feel free to reach out to Professor Markus Wilczek (markus.wilczek@tufts.edu) or Professor Dingru Huang (dingru.huang@tufts.edu) Following please find our schedule, presentation abstracts, and presenters’ bi...

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Friday midnight movie: #HundredsOfBeavers in a 35mm print, costumes encouraged, $15 #SomervilleMA theatre
https://www.somervilletheatre.com/production/hundreds-of-beavers-in-35mm
#BostonFilm
#BostonWeekend 6/x

Hundreds of Beavers in 35mm - Somerville Theatre

In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

Somerville Theatre

Sunday, 5pm - #KODO at the BSO, (taiko drumming etc) $55+
https://www.bso.org/events/celebrity-series-of-boston-kodo?performance=2025-03-09-17:00
#BostonMusic
#bostonWeekend 7/x

Celebrity Series of Boston presents KODO

BSO

Sunday 7pm, #RufusWainwright at the #SomervilleArmory in #SomervilleMA, sold out
#BostonMusic
#BostonWeekend 8/x

Thu, 7pm, #MariaBamford (standup) at the Wilbur, sold out, https://thewilbur.com/artist/maria-bamford/
#BostonComedy
#BostonWeekend 9/x

Thu 7pm #Flow screening, at the MFA #Boston 15$
(this just won Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards)
https://www.mfa.org/event/film/flow?event=136301
#BostonFilm
#BostonWeekend 10/x

Flow

Directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia, Belgium, and France, 2024, 85 min.). No dialogue.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Sunday 730 #TreyAnastasio acoustic set, sold out, Boch center
https://www.bochcenter.org/events/detail/treyanastasio
#BostonMusic
#BostonWeekend 11/x

An Acoustic Evening With Trey Anastasio | Boch Center

Fri-Sun - Boston Comiccon in #Boxborough, $13 kids ticket friday, adults a bit more.
https://necomiccons.com
#BostonGeek #toys #collectibles #Comics
#BostonWeekend 12/x

Fri 3pm, 730pm - #keytarbear documentary premiere at suffolk, free, but tickets req'd
https://ci.ovationtix.com/34432/production/1230725
#BostonFilm
#BostonWeekend 13/x

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sat 2 & 4pm, #Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers performance, #CambridgeMA Free. https://www.celebrityseries.org/productions/wampanoag-nation-singers-dancers-2pm/
#TurtleIsland #native
#BostonWeekend 14/x

Wampanoag Nation Singers & Dancers

Official site for tickets to Wampanoag Nation Singers & Dancers at Multicultural Arts Center presented by the Celebrity Series of Boston.

Celebrity Series of Boston

Sunday 2-4, Practical Organizing knowledge share, #LucyParsonsCenter in #JamaicaPlain, #Boston - free, part of the Escaping Liberalism series.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DG1NNgYBIJx/
#BostonWeekend 15/x

Lucy Parsons Center on Instagram: "Join us this Sunday 3/9 from 2-4 for the last panel in our Escaping Liberalism series: Practical Organizing. Hear from Mass Bail Fund, Material Aid and Advocacy Program, Warm Up Boston, and the Greater Boston Tenants Union. Practical Organizing: Everyone keeps saying “get organized”, but what does that look like? Boston - like many other US cities - continues to throw incarceration at problems like poverty and homelessness. Join us in conversation with seasoned organizers about our city’s ever-increasing criminalization of unhoused people, how to combat it, and how it affects us all. Masks required and provided."

325 likes, 2 comments - lucyparsonscenter on March 5, 2025: "Join us this Sunday 3/9 from 2-4 for the last panel in our Escaping Liberalism series: Practical Organizing. Hear from Mass Bail Fund, Material Aid and Advocacy Program, Warm Up Boston, and the Greater Boston Tenants Union. Practical Organizing: Everyone keeps saying “get organized”, but what does that look like? Boston - like many other US cities - continues to throw incarceration at problems like poverty and homelessness. Join us in conversation with seasoned organizers about our city’s ever-increasing criminalization of unhoused people, how to combat it, and how it affects us all. Masks required and provided.".

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Sat noon-5 The Village Marketplace in #WorcesterMA (local vendors, #shopsmall) https://www.instagram.com/p/DG0mFtzA3J5/
#BostonWeekend 16/x

The Village Worcester on Instagram: "This Saturday will be full of all kinds of fun, magic, and more at The Village! Be sure to stop by The Village Marketplace to shop with a few amazing local vendors, creators, and entrepreneurs. Then, join us for an evening Tertulia Julia de Burgos in Celebration of International Women’s Day! Local artists, poets, musicians, and performers will share what they do in solidarity with the women of the world! All are welcome to join both events! The Village Marketplace Saturday, March 8th, 2025 12 to 5 pm 4 King Street Tertulia Julia de Burgos - International Women’s Day Celebration Saturday, March 8th, 2025 7 pm 4 King Street"

52 likes, 0 comments - thevillageworcester on March 5, 2025: "This Saturday will be full of all kinds of fun, magic, and more at The Village! Be sure to stop by The Village Marketplace to shop with a few amazing local vendors, creators, and entrepreneurs. Then, join us for an evening Tertulia Julia de Burgos in Celebration of International Women’s Day! Local artists, poets, musicians, and performers will share what they do in solidarity with the women of the world! All are welcome to join both events! The Village Marketplace Saturday, March 8th, 2025 12 to 5 pm 4 King Street Tertulia Julia de Burgos - International Women’s Day Celebration Saturday, March 8th, 2025 7 pm 4 King Street".

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Sunday 130 - 90 minutes just on #GARLIC at the #SomervillePublicLibrary in #SomervilleMA - free, seats available
https://somervillepubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/herb-of-the-month-with-mo-katz-christy/
#herbalism #Boston
#BostonWeekend 17/x

For the next 39 days: we #Boycott #Target for their reverting of diversity initiatives.

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/114110947453409719
#CambridgeMA #PorterSquare #CentralSquare #SomervilleMA #EverettMA #Boston #BeaconHill #PackardsCorner #Fenway #MedfordMA #WatertownMA #SouthBay #Revere #FieldsCorner #Dorchester #Roslindale #Stoneham #Saugus #BurlingtonMA #QuincyMA #Woburn #Braintree #SalemMA
#BostonWeekend 18/x

Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online)

After backtracking on DEI efforts and programs, Target is now facing a 40-day consumer boycott, starting today. ✊ https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/business/target-boycott-jamal-bryant/index.html #DEI #boycott #target

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Friday noon-4 #boston #protest - #StandUpForScience #bostoncommon

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-for-science-2025-boston-ma-tickets-1256026401779
#bostonWeekend 19/x

Stand Up for Science 2025 - Boston, MA

Stand up for science with us on March 7th, 2025, because science is for everyone! More info at www.standupforscience2025.org

Eventbrite

Saturday 12-3 #boston #protest / #rally - #InternationalWomensDay at the State House

https://action.womensmarch.com/events/international-women-s-day-unite-resist-boston
#BostonWeekend 20/x

International Women's Day - Unite & Resist Boston

📢 Protest/Rally On International Women’s Day, we’re taking to the streets to fight back against the fascist takeover. Join us to defend our rights, our bodies, and our future. No permission needed—just show up and bring others. Starting on the Boston Common in front of the state house and we will march through the city to make our voices heard!

Women's March

Sunday noon-2 #boston #protest - #TeslaTakedown
888 Boylston St

https://actionnetwork.org/events/tesla-takedown-boston-downtown-2
#bostonWeekend 21/x

Tesla Takedown - Boston Downtown

We are taking action at Tesla. ⚡ Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines. ⚡ Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk. ⚡ Stopping Musk will help save lives and our democracy. The stakes couldn’t be higher. No one is coming to save us—not politicians, not the media. #TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla

Saturday 3pm - #SomervilleMA #rally - Immigrants are Welcome Here - #SomervilleForPalestine - east branch #SomervillePublicLibrary

https://www.instagram.com/somervilleforpalestine/

#BostonWeekend 22/x

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Saturday 1pm rep Clark and AG Campbell #TownHall in #WalthamMA

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/town-hall-with-rep-katherine-clark-and-attorney-general-andrea-campbell-tickets-1268910689029
#mapoli #waltham
#BostonWeekend 23/x

Town Hall with Rep. Katherine Clark and Attorney General Andrea Campbell

Democratic Whip Katherine Clark and Attorney General Andrea Campbell will be in Waltham to take questions from the community.

Eventbrite

Saturday 3pm #boston #protest Parkman Bandstand on #BostonCommon

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGV3WFLp1iv/
#BostonWeekend 24/x

Mass Feminist Struggle Committee on Instagram: "Join us at 3pm on Saturday, March 8th at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common for a red and antifascist International Working Women's Day! Unleash the fury of working women as a force for revolution! In the face of the Trump administration's ruthless attacks on the democratic rights of women, transgender people, migrants and the entire working class, we say: WORKING WOMEN, GIVE THEM HELL! IT IS RIGHT TO REBEL!"

195 likes, 1 comments - massfeministstrugglecommittee on February 21, 2025: "Join us at 3pm on Saturday, March 8th at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common for a red and antifascist International Working Women's Day! Unleash the fury of working women as a force for revolution! In the face of the Trump administration's ruthless attacks on the democratic rights of women, transgender people, migrants and the entire working class, we say: WORKING WOMEN, GIVE THEM HELL! IT IS RIGHT TO REBEL!".

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Friday - #protest - bully SC-01 house rep #NancyMace and call her out as a terf - if you have a Harvard.edu address, else demonstrate outside

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/6/mace-iop-interview/

https://iop.harvard.edu/events/study-group-joe-mitchell-next-generation-empowering-gen-z-women-run-office
#cambridgeMA #harvard
#bostonWeekend 25/x

Rep. Nancy Mace Mocks Harvard Students. And She Can’t Wait To Talk With Them. | News | The Harvard Crimson

One day before Rep. Nancy R. Mace’s planned talk at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, the firebrand South Carolina Republican was still lacing into the University online and in an interview with The Crimson.

Saturday 1pm ma sen Markey #townhall #MaldenMA

https://www.markey.senate.gov/townhall
#bostonWeekend 26/x

Malden Town Hall with Senator Ed Markey | U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts

Monday and Tuesday - 6pm - Know Your Rights trainings at #SomervillePublicLibrary east and central branches, respectively.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QgBGgz4UKdlqKJsW3wJgJRbElNDU3T2l/view?emci=b78a3446-b4fa-ef11-90cd-0022482a9fb7&emdi=4fed5dc8-c5fa-ef11-90cd-0022482a9fb7&ceid=2728423&pli=1
#mapoli #somerpol #SomervilleMA
#bostonWeekend 26/x

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Monday 6pm #Somerville #DSA monthly neighborhood meeting, #SomervillePublicLibrary
#SomervilleMA #BostonDSA
#bostonweekend 27/x