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- Good afternoon Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, January 30th - February 2nd
Good afternoon Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, January 30th - February 2nd
THURSDAY - JANUARY 30th
Lunar New Year Market @ Bow Market @ 5PM Shop from local AAPI makers, try out food and drink specials, and enjoy Lion Dance performances.
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.
Museums at Night @ Harvard Art Museums @ 5PM Get ready for an evening of art, music, food, and more! This event is free and open to everyone.
Christian Lee Houston @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With Allegra Krieger
Dhruv @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Tara Lily
FRIDAY - JANUARY 31st
Frank Black @ House of Blues @ 7PM With Reid Paley
Jamie XX @ Roadrunner @ 7PM With Villager
Blind Pilot @ Paradise Rock Club @ 7PM With Dean Johnson
((( O ))) @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With Notebook P & DJ Carbo
Fiddlehead @ The Sinclair @ 7:30PM With Linda Claire, Glare, Prize Horse, & Pet Fox
SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 1st
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.
Winter Festival @ Downtown Worcester @ 1PM Enjoy a full-day of winter fun including ice skating, alpine slides, arts & crafts, and favorite local food vendors.
Zishi Liu Chinese New Year Concert @ Regattabar Jazz Club @ 7:30PM Led by bandleader and saxophonist Zishi Liu, this special concert features talented Asian musicians performing a unique blend of traditional and innovative jazz sounds.
Something In The Way Fest @ Roadrunner @ 1:30PM Featuring Balance and Compromise, Sweet Pill, American Football, Dazy, Soccer Mommy, & more.
Winter Reggae Splash @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM Featuring Mighty Mystic, Nomad-I, & DJ 4eign
Drop Nineteens @ The Sinclair @ 9:30PM With Horse Jumper of Love & Wishy
SUNDAY - FEBRUARY 2nd
Something In The Way @ Roadrunner @ 1:30PM Featuring Slowdive, Fiddlehead, Glare, Mini Trees, One Step Closer, & more.
Destroy Lonely @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM With Lil 88
TX2 @ Brighton Music Hall @ 6:30PM With tiLLie & Flat Out
GASH - Bite Club! Party @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM Enjoy a celebration of creepy artisans, monster drag, gorelesque, and cult classic films!
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ALL WEEKEND
THURSDAY & SATURDAY - ‘The Dead City’ Opera @ Symphony Hall Hear Eric Korngold’s tender and romantic opera featuring outstanding soprano Christine Goerke.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - ‘The Simon & Garfunkel Story’ in Concert @ Emerson Colonial Theatre ‘The Simon & Garfunkel Story’ is a critically acclaimed concert-style theater show about two young boys from Queens, New York who went on to become the world’s most successful music duo of all time.
All weekend - The Boston Festival of Films from Iran @ MFA Enjoy some of the best, award-winning films from and about Iran.
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 - ‘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 - ‘Space’ Play @ Central Square Theater ‘S P A C E’ intertwines imagined scenes with Congressional transcripts, and feats of endurance with the historical record, to interrogate the story of the Mercury 13 female pilots, their ancestors, and descendants. Ends 2/23.
All weekend - ‘Life & Times of Michael K’ Play @ Emerson Paramount Center Based on J.M. Coetzee’s award-wining novel, this international phenomenon show brings the gripping and heart-rending story of Michael K and his mother to life through stunning marionettes. Ends 2/9.
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 6/1.
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 LAST CHANCE - 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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