RESCHEDULED TO THURSDAY, MARCH 5TH!

Join Caribbean Bostonians for an evening of creative play, music, memory-sharing, Caribbean games, and collective catharsis.

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Last summer, the inaugural Air Out Your Laundry (AOYL) public art experience brought Caribbean Bostonians from Mattapan and surrounding neighborhoods into a beautiful urban farm to regenerate the jovial, communal spirit that is so familiar to our cultures yet sometimes hard to find in everyday city spaces. Through reflective story-shares 🗣️, one-on-one conversations 💬, and energizing musical moments 🎶, we built solidarity around the joys and struggles of living Caribbean in Boston. Then, everyone designed their own blank white T-shirt to uniquely express these lived experiences, crystallizing our voices in the neighborhood to continue the conversation and dream of lasting change. 

After much positive feedback and desires for more communal Caribbean spaces, AOYL is expanding into a series of workshops that will culminate in Round 2 of the interactive, public art experience, this time hosted at Loesch Family Park in partnership with Boston Public Art Triennial. The new, additional workshops are designed to nurture community bonds among Caribbean Bostonians, provide outlets for collective healing, and allow participants to find their artistic voice in a safe, low-stakes environment in preparation for the final outdoor event!

An Evening of Joy, Healing, and Togetherness is simply that! A place to meet fellow Caribbean Bostonians, share cultural memories, laugh and play, and experience catharsis with Scream Box Therapy and other activities.

Join a conversation with the Arts & Business Council Executive Director, Jim Grace, for a workshop designed to align your strategy for legacy planning and what comes next.

This workshop is presented in partnership with the Connecticut Office of the Arts.
This is an online event. REGISTER HERE.

For some artists, their creative legacy includes continuing important community service, stewardship, or advancing some other charitable goal. In those cases, founding or aligning with a charitable nonprofit might be appealing. In this session, we’ll discuss how creative nonprofits can be part of your legacy plan. 

Presented by Luke Blackadar, Deputy Director, Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston, Inc.

This is an in-person event. Register here.

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Humanity as a Praxis brings together artists whose work interrogates, challenges, and reimagines what it means to resist through literature, documentation, and art action. Across cultures and generations, art has served as a fugitive thread that pushes back the rhetoric of those who inflict suffering and are in power; at the same time, creative work ignites a sense of collective hope in times of oppression and struggle.

This exhibition witnesses the transformative power of artistic practices as a continuous testament to reclaiming humanity as a praxis of collective resilience. Palestinian artists Hanah Azaiza, Ahmed Jarbou, Ahmad Al-Daalsa, and Osama Hussein—alongside their Syrian friend, Kawthar Al-Qabbani—will be showing a selection of photographs, drawings, and installations documenting life and resistance in Gaza.

Hanan Azaiza: A 19-year-old Palestinian writer and visual artist from Gaza, Hanan weaves together threads of personal experience and collective memory, reclaiming the silence of reality through words and images that speak what cannot be said. She published her first book, Threads of Life, a delicate poetic reflection on life under the weight of war and occupation. And the novel “The Empty Chair”, a fragmented narrative pulsing with absence, identity, and the struggle to survive amidst cruelty—where words become windows into the fragility of memory and the breaking of the spirit.

In this exhibition, she presents a series of personal photographs that bear witness to moments of war, telling a story of light amid the shadows of pain. Her installation, also titled The Empty Chair, serves as a visual extension of the novel, embodying absence as a tangible presence and inviting viewers to contemplate the void left by loss and the stories yet untold. Hanan believes that writing and art are inseparable twins—one language speaking in the silence of pain and the ache of memory.

Ahmed Jarbou is a 24-year-old Palestinian photographer and filmmaker from Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. His work focuses on documenting daily life under siege through a lens that conveys warmth and humanity. He is known for his narrative visual style, telling stories through photographs and films that reflect memory, resilience, and identity.

Ahmad Al-Daalsa is a 26-year-old visual artist and photographer from Gaza. He uses art as a powerful means to document and capture the challenges and hardships faced under difficult circumstances. Throughout his artistic journey, he has held numerous local and international exhibitions that showcase the reality of life and shed light on critical issues. He continues to dedicate his efforts to highlighting stories of hope and resilience emerging from amid these challenges, conveying a message that reflects the spirit of determination and strength in the face of adversity.

Osama Hussein is a visual artist from Khan Younis, Gaza, born on November 14, 1996. His work explores body language and inner conflicts, aiming to create transformative change through art. He invites viewers to feel every detail and line within the artwork, rather than seeing it merely as an image hanging on the wall. Hussein has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including his solo exhibition Stories from Gaza in Bahrain, as well as exhibitions and museums in Mexico, Italy, Canada, and France.

Kawthar Al-Qabbani is a visual artist who paints to preserve memory— to defy forgetting. She sees art not as mere expression, but as an act of resistance against absence. She joins this exhibition under the title: "Can One Who Paints Life Ever Be Erased?" A tribute to the souls of the martyrs, as if they never left. For she believes their lives were never truly extinguished. In her canvases, life continues, laughter returns, and the pulse endures. Her art is no farewell, her art is an uprising.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.