Postering the city with literature and Black feminism
By Natachi Onwuamaegbu Globe Correspondent,Updated January 26, 2021, 1:05 p.m.
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Arielle Gray celebrates Black feminism with her âThe Roots That Bindâ citywide poster project.Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff
A year ago, Arielle Gray set to work on her love letter to Black feminism: a citywide poster project.
The artist and writer wanted to take up space in a seemingly white city. She wanted to open a conversation between her art and the city, her art and other Black artists, her art and everyday Bostonians.
âBlack people have been pushed out of a lot of neighborhoods in Boston,â said Gray, 29. âThese posters are a reminder that weâre here. Weâve been here, weâre still here, and weâre still building community spaces and thriving.â
Marblehead School of Ballet opens New Year with e new workshops
Classes include a monthly dance adventure, modern dance and knitting
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The Marblehead School of Ballet started the New Year with three new workshop series to beat the winter blues, try new skills, and keep dancing and moving. The three workshops feature Knitting for Beginners and Advanced Beginners, the Monthly Dance Adventure featuring specialty dances, and Modern Dance.
Knitting for Beginners and Advanced Beginners
For dancers and non-dancers wanting to stay active during the COVID-19 pandemic or others seeking to add another skill to their tool kit or to brush up their technique, Marblehead School of Ballet presents an online, live knitting series. Three sessions will be offered from January 14 through March 25 for beginners and advanced beginners.
We’re only two weeks into January, and with all that unfolded last week (was that just last week?), I think we’re all in need of some magic in our lives, and definitely some rest. For this weekend’s event picks, we gathered some things that will take you somewhere else on this upcoming long weekend (virtually, of course).
Friday, Jan. 15
If you’re like me, and have been missing the feeling of being at a live show this one is for you! BCA Launchpad residents, Castle of our Skins, have put together a musical performance that will be livestreamed from the black box theater at the Boston Center for the Arts, making it feel like an intimate show that you can watch right from your home TV. This performance highlights the “lengthy and complicated intermingling of African American composers and European aesthetics.”
Wicked Local
On Jan. 6, the Massachusetts legislature passed S.2931, An Act to ensure safe patient access to emergency care, also known as “Laura’s Law,” which would require every hospital emergency department in the state to have entrances that are properly monitored by security, clearly marked, and easily accessible, particularly to patients in acute distress. The law was inspired by the tragic death of Laura Beth Levis, a 34-year-old woman who died of an asthma attack just steps from a Somerville emergency-room door in 2016.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives passed the bill late last night, after the State Senate approved the bill in October 2020. Representative Christine Barber (D-Somerville) and Senator Pat Jehlen (D-Somerville) were the bill’s lead sponsors.