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Good afternoon Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, January 23rd - 26th

January 23, 2025

THURSDAY - JANUARY 23rd

Lunar New Year Celebration @ MFA @ 5PM Celebrate the Lunar New Year by exploring Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese art from the MFA collection and enjoy special traditional activities and live performances.

FRIDAY - JANUARY 24th

The Smiths Tribute (NYC) @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Staring at the Sea: The Cure Tribute

SATURDAY - JANUARY 25th

Made With Pride Market @ Time Out Market @ 12PM Shop local from more than a dozen LGBTQ+ owned businesses selling creative and unique gifts for any occasion.

Ongoing - Somerville Winter Farmers Market @ The Armory @ 9:30AM This new weekly winter market features 70+ local food vendors with the best locally grown and regionally produced foods.

‘The RESET’ Sound Healing Experience @ The Huntington Theatre @ 12PM / 4PM Created and performed by renowned singer and sound healing artist, Davin Youngs, this immersive take on a “sound bath” will elevate your mind, body and spirit.

Yamato @ Berklee Performance Center @ 8PM Based on ancient Japanese taiko tradition, this show features over 40 drums, bronze cymbals, vocals, and bamboo flutes—showcasing virtuosity, strength, spirit, and endurance.

Dylan Marlowe @ Royale @ 7PM With Brian Fuller

Stereo Mcs @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Haasan Barclay

SUNDAY - JANUARY 26th

Tall Heights @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Lau Noah & Farayi Malek

ALL WEEKEND

FRIDAY & SATURDAY - The Boston Festival of Films from Iran @ MFA Enjoy some of the best, award-winning films from and about Iran.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY - Candlelight: From Bach to The Beatles @ Old South Church Hear a unique program featuring Bach’s classics and favorites from The Beatles.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY - ‘Cat Kid Comic Club’ Musical @ Emerson Colonial Theatre Bring your kids to this hilarious musical adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man spin-off series.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Tết in Boston: Year of the Dragon Celebration @ Flynn Cruiseport
Celebrate the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, Tết Nguyên Đán, with special food, music, and other festivities.

All weekend - Chinese New Year Pop-Up Market @ Chinatown Trade Center Shop popular Chinese goodies and merch, flowers, and decorations at the Chinese New Year Pop-up Market. Ends 1/28.

All weekend - ‘Some of the Best of 2024’ Film Program @ The Brattle See 2024’s best releases including ‘Monkey Man,’ ‘Challengers,’ ‘Anora,’ ‘The Substance,’ ‘Flow,’ and more.

All weekend - ‘Beethoven & Romanticism’ Concert @ Symphony Hall
The BSO continues its exploration of Beethoven’s seminal works with ambitious and all-embracing symphonies No. 8 & 9.

All weekend - ‘Peter Pan’ Musical @ Citizens Opera House Full of excitement and adventure, this high-flying legendary musical is brought back to life in a new award-winning adaptation. Ends 2/2.

All weekend - ‘Hadestown’ Musical @ Company Theatre LAST CHANCE - This full-length Teen Edition of Anaïs Mitchell’s haunting, jazz-inflected folk opera follows Orpheus’ mythical quest to overcome Hades. Ends 1/26.

All weekend - ‘The Piano Lesson’ Play @ Hibernian Hall In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, ‘The Piano Lesson,’ writer August Wilson fashioned perhaps his most haunting and dramatic work about the black experience in 20th century America. Ends 2/16.

All weekend - ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ Play @ BCA Calderwood Pavilion SpeakEasy Stage presents Jordan E. Cooper’s blisteringly funny satirical play about Black American life, history, and identity. Ends 2/8.

All weekend - ‘Crumbs from the Table of Joy’ Play @ Lyric Stage Set in Brooklyn during the racially charged 1950s, a torn family tries to find new meaning in what makes a home. Ends 2/2.

All weekend - ‘A View from the Bridge’ Play @ Marblehead Little Theatre LAST CHANCE - Following an American family that takes in two illegal immigrant cousins, this timely play explores ideas such as the immigrant experience, heritage and roots, finding commonality in a new society, and more. Ends 1/26.

ONGOING

Ongoing - ‘Harry Potter: The Exhibition’ @ CambridgeSide Celebrate some of your favorite moments, authentic props and costumes, characters, and locations from the extended Harry Potter universe. Ends 4/27.

Ongoing - ‘Titanic: The Artifacts’ Exhibition @ The Castle at Park Plaza Embark on an interactive tour of the Titanic with incredible re-creations of the Ship’s interior and exterior, plus see authentic artifacts, recovered from below the surface of the North Atlantic. Ends 2/2.

Ongoing - ‘Charles Atlas: About Time’ Exhibition @ ICA Spanning 50 years of work, this immersive exhibition presents career-defining installations of interdisciplinary artist Charles Atlas, whose work explores the intersection of moving image, dance, and performance. Ends 3/16.

Ongoing - ‘Power of the People: Art and Democracy’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition highlights how artworks have expressed ideas about democracy throughout history and how artists have asked citizens to contemplate and participate in democratic processes. Ends 2/16.

Ongoing - ‘Landscape and Labor’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition explores works of The Hague School artists whose works offer an intimate and profound look at everyday life in the Dutch countryside. Ends 6/22.

Ongoing - ‘Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks’ Exhibition @ Peabody Essex Museum Explore a major presentation of exquisite Renaissance and Baroque paintings, sculptures and decorative arts created between the 15th and 17th centuries in the Southern Netherlands. Ends 5/4.

Ongoing - ‘Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums’ Exhibition @ Peabody Essex Museum Explore the essential role art and objects played for mediums and magicians “communicating” with the dead during the 19th- and 20th-century Spiritualism movement in the U.S. and Europe. Ends 2/2.

Ongoing - ‘Draw Me Ishmael: The Book Arts of Moby Dick’ Exhibition @ Peabody Essex Museum ‘Draw Me Ishmael’ is the first exhibition focused on the book arts of the hundreds of editions of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick - the most persistently pictured of all American novels. Ends 3/29/2026.

Ongoing - ‘AI: Mind the Gap’ Exhibition @ MIT Museum
MIT Museum presents its latest riveting, interactive exhibit exploring the tremendous promise, unforeseen impacts, and everyday misconceptions of AI.

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