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- Good morning Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, August 29th - September 1st
Good morning Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, August 29th - September 1st
THURSDAY - AUGUST 29th
Red Sox vs Blue Jays @ Fenway Park @ 7:10PM Promotion: Roberts 'Steal' Bobblehead
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.
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.
Strawberry Guy @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM With Johanna Samuels
FRIDAY - AUGUST 30th
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.
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong @ Palladium @ 5:30PM With Andy Frasco & The UN and Dogs In A Pile
Coral Moons @ The Sinclair @ 8:30PM With Talk Chalk & Lady Pills
Codefendants @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM With Teenage Halloween & The Punk Cellist
SATURDAY - AUGUST 31st
DISPATCH & The Boston Pops @ Koussevitzky Music Shed @ 7PM With Kaia Kaiter
Incubus @ TD Garden @ 7:30PM With Coheed and Cambria
Goth Babe @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM With Ritt Momney
Gable Price and Friends @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With Carver Commodore
SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 1st
Summer Send Off Pride Market @ Time Out Market @ 12PM Come shop LGBTQ+-owned businesses and a curated selection of unique and thoughtful gifts.
The Roots @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM With Arrested Development & Digable Planets
Summer Festival @ Palladium @ 2PM Featuring Maiara & Maraisa and Bell Marques
ALL WEEKEND
FRIDAY & SATURDAY - Boston Jazz Festival @ Maritime Park This year, BJF features performances by some of the best jazz musicians in the the business! Enjoy a vendor market and beer garden on site for ultimate weekend relaxing!
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - New England Renaissance Festival @ King Richard’s Fairgrounds King Richard’s Faire is the premiere fall entertainment event for all things Renaissance.
All weekend - The Spencer Fair The Spencer Fair is an old-time, traditional country fair including live music, farmer’s market, cattle shows, contests, kids tent, & more!
All weekend - ‘Hello, I’m Shelley Duvall’ Film Program @ The Brattle Enjoy a selection of some of cinema’s most iconic films in this special tribute program dedicated to actress Shelley Duvall.
All weekend - Campfire. Music Festival @ Club Passim
See your favorite local artists and discover new emerging talents at this 25-year old Boston tradition.
All weekend - RPM Fest @ Montague Experience this heavy music and culture campout festival in Montague!
All weekend - ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Play @ Loeb Drama Center All-star cast and production team including Rudy Pankow and Emilia Suarez stage Shakespeare’s iconic love story.
All weekend - ‘Next to Normal’ Musical @ Boyd-Quinson Stage Complete with an emotional pop/rock powerhouse score, this deeply moving piece of theatre explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness.
ONGOING
Ongoing - Boston Lights: A Lantern Experience @ Franklin Park Zoo
Prepare to be dazzled by the magic of all-new lantern displays, immersive walkthroughs, enchanting interactive displays and Instagrammable moments at every turn.
Ongoing - The Lawn on D @ South Boston Waterfront This playground for adults offers interactive installations, foodie-friendly bites and drinks, community events, fitness classes, and fun lawn games all summer long!
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. Ends 9/22.
Ongoing - Artisan Market @ Rose Kennedy Greenway @ 11AM *Saturdays and Sundays. Ends 10/26.
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 LAST CHANCE - 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 - ‘Tau Lewis: Spirit Level’ Exhibition @ ICA NEW - Inspired by different social, cultural, and physical landscapes from her life, Tau Lewis upcycles found materials into intricately detailed soft sculptures, quilts, masks, and other assemblages. Ends 1/20/2025.
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 - ‘Dalí: Disruption and Devotion’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition juxtaposes nearly 30 paintings and prints by the outlandish and iconoclastic artist Salvador Dalí. Ends 12/1.
Ongoing - ‘Dress Up’ Exhibition @ MFA LAST CHANCE - 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 - ‘Hyman Bloom: Landscapes of the Mind’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition invites visitors in the imagination of Hyman Bloom as he strived to capture the wilderness and mysticism of the natural world and its connection to the human psyche. Ends 12/1.
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.