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- Good evening Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend - July 11th - 14th
Good evening Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend - July 11th - 14th
THURSDAY - JULY 11th
Red Sox vs Athletics @ Fenway Park @ 7:10PM Promotion: Hawaiian Shirt
After Dark @ MIT Museum @ 6PM Enjoy an adult-only lively evening of entertainment, science, and tinkering.
Harborwalk Sounds @ ICA @ 6PM Grab a drink, enjoy the cool ocean breeze, and hear some of Berklee College of Music’s outstanding musicians perform on the waterfront.
Mates of State @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Al Menne
The Taxpayers @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM With Crazy & The Brains
FRIDAY - JULY 12th
‘Danny Go!’ Kids Show @ Chevalier Theatre @ 5PM From a viral trio of creators comes this live-action educational children’s show filled with music, movement and silliness.
Vinyl Nights @ ICA @ 5PM Dance, chill, and enjoy an evening with great music, art, and creative vibes featuring DJs from Boston’s innovative nightlife scene.
Stravinsky and Rimsky-Korsakov in Concert @ Koussevitzky Music Shed @ 8PM The Boston Ballet and its artistic director Mikko Nissinen join Andris Nelsons and the BSO for an evening celebrating dance and storytelling.
Candlelight: Space Movie Soundtracks in Concert @ Old South Church @ 7PM / 9PM Hear your favorite melodies from ‘Dune,’ ‘Interstellar,’ ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ ‘Star Trek,’ ‘The Martian,’ and many more!
The Saw Doctors @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM With The Coronas
SATURDAY - JULY 13th
City Splash City Splash is a community event that provides the public the rare opportunity to swim in the Charles River and raise awareness to bring river swimming back to Boston!
Brew at the Zoo @ Franklin Park Zoo @ 5PM This beer-tasting event will take you on a journey through the animal kingdom!
Boston Little Saigon Market @ Fields Corner @ 4PM This night market-style festival includes street food vendors, a beer garden, photo opp, games, and other fun family-friendly activities.
ArtBeat Festival @ Davis Square @ 11AM The annual festival presents over 100 craft, community, and food vendors on the street, as well as music stages and a dance showcase.
Watershed Block Party @ ICA @ 11AM Visit the ICA Block Party in the East Boston Shipyard and Marina for live music, performances, art activities and more!
Stephanie Miller Comedy Show @ Shubert Theatre @ 8PM Join Sirius XM and podcast host Stephanie Miller along with her comedic friends John Fugelsang, Hal Sparks, and Frangela in the iconic ‘Sexy Liberal Save The World’ Comedy Tour.
IMBM Comedy Show @ Lyric Stage @ 8PM The viral friend group bring their best dark, weird, hilarious sketches in this unique comedy evening.
Ellington and Beethoven in Concert @ Koussevitzky Music Shed @ 8PM Pianist Yuja Wang brings her powerhouse artistry to Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto and Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in two pieces by the seminal Duke Ellington.
Third Eye Blind @ Xfinity Center @ 6:30PM With Yellowcard
The Saw Doctors @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM With The Coronas
The Felice Brothers @ The Sinclair @ 8:30PM With Dead Gowns
Bim Skala Bim @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8:30PM With Duppy Conquerors & Some Ska Band
SUNDAY - JULY 14th
Red Sox vs Royals @ Fenway Park @ 1:35PM Promotion: Kids Run The Bases
Ongoing - Open Market @ SoWa @ 11AM One of the largest open-air farmer and artist markets returns this summer season!
Art Making and Brews @ Forsyth Park @ 12PM The MFA is providing free art materials to decorate a fabric square during this beer and food garden pop-up in Forsyth Park.
Charles River Jazz Festival @ Herter Park @ 12PM This free festival offers a fantastic lineup of local musicians performing jazz and blues, plus a market with food and art vendors.
Snider, Prokofiev, and Dvorák in Concert @ Koussevitzky Music Shed @ 2:30PM Hear Sarah Snider’s meditative ‘Forward into Light,’ as well as Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 and Prokofiev’s intense Violin Concerto No. 2.
Daryl Hall @ MGM Music Hall @ 7PM With Elvis Costello & The Imposters
ALL WEEKEND
FRIDAY & SATURDAY - Boston JerkFest @ Harvard Athletic Complex Boston JerkFest is a family-friendly Caribbean-style food festival offering two days of fun in the sun and featuring Jamaican jerk spiced food, musical performances, rum & brew tasting, and more!
FRIDAY & SATURDAY - Worcester Youth Speak Honestly Project @ Hanover Theatre The WYSH Project is an original piece of theater by Worcester students sharing their experiences, struggles, and their visions for creating a better future in Worcester and beyond.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY - ‘Rough Magic’ Play @ Emerson Paramount Center Christopher Rivas and Annie Gonzalez take audiences through the maze of a tangled and complicated romantic relationship.
All weekend - The Boston French Film Festival @ MFA The BFFF returns with a hand-picked lineup of the year’s most lauded Gallic cinema, ranging from stirring dramas to star-studded comedies.
All weekend - ‘Gatsby’ Musical @ Loeb Drama Center F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ comes to new life in this world-premiere grand musical with a score by international rock star Florence Welch from Florence + The Machine.
All weekend - ‘Frozen’ Musical @ North Shore Music Theatre Thrilling and moving, this musical features the songs you know and love from the original Oscar-winning film, plus an expanded score with a dozen new numbers.
ONGOING
Ongoing - Summer Market @ Seaport Seaport’s summer bazaar returns with a mix of popular returning artisans and new entrants, all offering a unique assortment of products from clothing to home décor, pet goods, food, and much more.
Ongoing - Artisan Market @ Rose Kennedy Greenway @ 11AM *Saturdays and Sundays
Ongoing - ‘Portraits from Boston, With Love’ Exhibition @ ISG Museum The summer exhibition explores how portrait photographs by artists from New York City, Boston, and Dallas reflect and refract multifaceted LGBTQIA+ experiences. Ends 9/8.
Ongoing - ‘Firelei Báez’ Exhibition @ ICA One of the most exciting painters of her generation, Báez explores the multilayered legacy of colonial histories and the African diaspora in the Caribbean and beyond. Ends 9/2.
Ongoing - ‘Wordplay’ Exhibition @ ICA Highlighting the rich interplay between imagery and text, the exhibition showcases how contemporary artists have played with words to animate and expand their art practices. Ends 1/5/2025.
Ongoing - ‘Hallyu! The Korean Wave’ Exhibition @ MFA Enjoy an immersive and multisensory journey through Korea’s fascinating history, and celebrate its contemporary vibrant creative force. Ends 7/28.
Ongoing - ‘Dress Up’ Exhibition @ MFA Through more than 100 works from the MFA’s collection including 20th- and 21st-century clothing, jewelry, accessories, illustrations, and photographs, this exhibition explores adornment and its role in the creation of a look. Ends 9/2
Ongoing - Ancestors and Place: Indigenous North American Prints’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition features more than 30 works by Indigenous artists from the United States and Canada that explore the nuanced ideas of stewardship, history, colonization, and community. Ends 10/16.
Ongoing - ‘Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale’ Exhibition @ MFA Featuring 15 intriguing objects from 17th-century Netherlands such as paintings, prints, silver medals, and books, this exhibition compels viewers to reconsider their relationship to the world around them. Ends 11/3.
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 1/4/2025.
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.