The School of Fashion Design

Immerse yourself in the art and history of Sashiko, a traditional Japanese stitching technique rooted in practicality and beauty. Learn Sashiko's origins and its cultural significance as a form of mending, storytelling, and creative expression. Then, roll up your sleeves for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn to master this timeless technique.

Whether you're new to sewing or a seasoned artisan, you’ll leave with a deeper appreciation for this heritage craft—and your very own Sashiko masterpiece. Let’s honor AAPI heritage through art and tradition—reserve your spot today!

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Local Event: Sashiko Stitches Japanese Mending Workshop

Suffolk County

Boston

Massachusetts

Sashiko Stitches Japanese Mending Workshop

Immerse yourself in the art and history of Sashiko, a traditional Japanese stitching technique rooted in practicality and...

Station Street

On the 1st Saturday of May each year Station Street in Brookline becomes a pedestrian way as over 70 artists and makers set up to share their work, plus a live music variety show event late in the afternoon.&nbsp; Fully accessible.&nbsp; Great fun for all ages.

Local Event: Brookline Village Arts Festival

Norfolk County

Brookline

Brookline Village Arts Festival

On the 1st Saturday of May each year Station Street in Brookline becomes a pedestrian way as over 70 artists and makers set up...

Strand Theatre

On May 2, 2026 at 3pm, the historic Strand Theatre comes alive with performances spanning ballet, modern, jazz, and beyond. Dancers of all ages and backgrounds take the stage in a joyful celebration of everything our community has to offer — exactly the spirit that Tony Williams has championed throughout his legendary career as founder of the Urban Nutcracker. &nbsp;Admission is free. &nbsp;Reserve your spot here:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dorchester-dance-fest-tickets-1987276438323?aff=oddtdtcreator" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Dorchester Dance Fest on Eventbrite</a>

Local Event: Tony Williams' Dorchester Dance Fest

Jamaica Plain

Tony Williams' Dorchester Dance Fest

On May 2, 2026 at 3pm, the historic Strand Theatre comes alive with performances spanning ballet, modern, jazz, and beyond....

Boston Common

BOSTON – Registration is now open for Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger, the organization’s signature community fundraiser and one of Massachusetts’ most enduring anti-hunger events, turning compassion into action. Set for Sunday, May 3 on the Boston Common, the one-day celebration will bring together thousands of walkers for a family-friendly 3-mile loop featuring food, entertainment, and activities for all ages.
Now in its 58th year, the Walk for Hunger remains a beacon of hope for local families, raising $1 million to support Project Bread’s proven, statewide approach to advancing food security and ensuring access to nutritious food for children and families across Massachusetts.
Like-minded anti-hunger organizations are also invited to participate through Project Bread’s co-fundraising program, The Commonwealth. Participating nonprofits can form teams to raise funds for their own missions while contributing to Project Bread’s broader statewide impact.
Ready to get involved? Register to walk in-person or virtually,&nbsp; start a personal or team fundraising page, or make a donation at <a href="https://projectbread.org/walk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">projectbread.org/walk</a>. For more information, email <a href="mailto:walk@projectbread.org">walk@projectbread.org</a>.

Local Event: Project Bread’s 58th Annual Walk for Hunger Opens Registration Community Fundraiser 

Project Bread’s 58th Annual Walk for Hunger...

BOSTON – Registration is now open for Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger, the organization’s signature community fundraiser and...

Project Bread’s 58th Annual Walk for Hunger Opens Registration Community Fundraiser 

Shirley-Eustis House

Delve into the fascinating history of Franklin’s musical circles, both at home in America and in Paris at the soirées of composer Anne Brillon de Jouy. Enjoy an alluring bouquet of songs and instrumental works by Francis Hopkinson, John Antes, James Oswald, C.F. Abel, Brillon de Jouy, and Franklin himself! With soprano Emily Siar.

Local Event: Musicians of the Old Post Road Presents: Ben Franklin's Musical Curiosity

Musicians of the Old Post Road Presents: Ben...

Delve into the fascinating history of Franklin’s musical circles, both at home in America and in Paris at the soirées of...

Musicians of the Old Post Road Presents: Ben Franklin's Musical Curiosity

Loring Greenough House

Come along with the JP Historical Society to tour a residential area that includes a National Historic District. View architecture that spans three centuries, the oldest community theater company in the United States, and an elegant 18th-century mansion that once served as the country’s first military hospital. Learn about the monument commemorating fallen Civil War soldiers from West Roxbury and about Pauline Agassiz Shaw, who established the class that became the model for continuous free kindergarten education. We will visit a house dating to 1716 that once served as a tavern, the Eliot School dating back to 1689, the home of the first woman to graduate from MIT, and the First Church Burial Ground.
All tours are free to the public and are offered on dates shown. Tours last between 60 and 90 minutes and are canceled in case of heavy rain. No reservations are required, just meet the guide at the starting location.
Cannot make this time or date? Our tours are available online via an app as well: <a href="https://www.youraudiotour.com/tours/4635/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">youraudiotour.com/tours/4635/</a>

Local Event: Walking Tour of Monument Square, JP

Walking Tour of Monument Square, JP

Come along with the JP Historical Society to tour a residential area that includes a National Historic District. View...

This National Historic District includes one of the finest collections of Victorian houses in the area. The district includes the ancestral home of the Dole Pineapple Company founder and the homes of progressives who were active as abolitionists and women suffragists. All tours are free to the public and are offered on dates shown. Tours last between 60 and 90 minutes and are canceled in case of heavy rain. No reservations are required, just meet the guide at the starting location. Cannot make this time or date? Our tours are available online via an app as well: <a href="https://www.youraudiotour.com/tours/4655/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExcDJGdzRHeXdFaEZFRlVJbnNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR656FXtT0fnF4nqo5YIm9up4bfQB6t5H2s89Y3nlaoLXe6ador6J7nBbzsfqw_aem_m2FrYaLUEuVe6nzspD8sUQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.youraudiotour.com/tours/4655/</a>

Local Event: Walking Tour of Sumner Hill

Walking Tour of Sumner Hill

This National Historic District includes one of the finest collections of Victorian houses in the area. The district includes...

Brendan Behan Pub

Join the JP Historical Society to learn about 1840s Hyde Square when German and Irish immigrants transformed the neighborhood with their businesses, schools, and institutions. See how in the early 1960s, Hyde Square changed again when Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican immigrants transformed it into Boston’s first predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. This tour also takes us to the home of Maud Cuney Hare, a prominent music historian and one of only two black women students at the New England Conservatory of Music in 1890. You will also learn about the property currently housing the MSPCA’s Angell Animal Medical Center, which was once a site of the Perkins School for the Blind. The tour will also walk through the Sunnyside neighborhood, the site of homes built by philanthropist Robert Treat Paine from 1889 to 1899 as a “worker’s utopia” for working families. All tours are free to the public and are offered on dates shown. Tours last between 60 and 90 minutes and are canceled in case of heavy rain. No reservations are required, just meet the guide at the starting location. Can't attend the in person tour? We also have an online version you can take anytime (in English and Spanish) <a href="https://www.youraudiotour.com/tours/hyde-square/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExTFU5ZGF5ZkpQbkFoMUFHbXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5fkoN1S4hdbTzuHFBRXx7gsnlbg8AocQ97gq3VL2D_j4Bisrz9P3j835tPNg_aem_KKIlub7OtErX-wtpCTovVA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.youraudiotour.com/tours/hyde-square/</a>

Local Event: Walking Tour of Hyde Square

Walking Tour of Hyde Square

Join the JP Historical Society to learn about 1840s Hyde Square when German and Irish immigrants transformed the neighborhood...

Explore a fascinating industrial area at the geographic heart of Boston that includes 19th-century tannery and brewery buildings, the homes of early German settlers, and today’s Boston Beer Company, the brewers of Samuel Adams. In the 1970s, a coalition of community groups joined together to block construction of the Southwest Expressway through Jamaica Plain and other Boston neighborhoods. Today, the Southwest Corridor Park that runs through the Stony Brook neighborhood stands as a testament to the power of community activism. All tours are free to the public and are offered on dates shown. Tours last between 60 and 90 minutes and are canceled in case of heavy rain. No reservations are required, just meet the guide outside the T Stop. Cannot make this time or date? This tour is available (in English and Spanish) online via an app as well: <a href="https://www.youraudiotour.com/tours/4667?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExbEF5eTJUMWlROFBqZ2IxUXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4wer6gSGJiqmm4mEur1VnZcxXxN_5qvm7chmTaFECkwx6d5xnPgdvHaGx41g_aem_PNPpLZUy5RRqtdyhLAd0ag" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.youraudiotour.com/tours/4667</a>

Local Event: Walking Tour of Stony Brook

Walking Tour of Stony Brook

Explore a fascinating industrial area at the geographic heart of Boston that includes 19th-century tannery and brewery...

Southern Jamaica Plain Community Health Center

Come along with the JP Historical Society to walk along Green Street. Laid out in 1836, the street played a key role in Jamaica Plain’s development, functioning as a residential, commercial, and transportation conduit in the lives of the district’s residents. Although Green Street was subdivided as early as 1851 for stores, factories and houses, it was not extensively developed until the late 1870s with construction continuing until the early 1900s. The Bowditch School was completed in 1892, and early in the 20th century, the United States Post Office moved from its location on Call Street at Woolsey Square to its new location at the corner of Green and Cheshire Streets. All tours are free to the public and are offered on dates shown. Tours last between 60 and 90 minutes and are canceled in case of heavy rain. No reservations are required, just meet the guide at the starting location. Can't attend the in-person tour? We also have an online version you can take anytime <a href="https://www.youraudiotour.com/tours/4672/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExTFU5ZGF5ZkpQbkFoMUFHbXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5nao3e3vFYN2k92ZPRV7dCneHwB_QvXS7xV8Tw1Q5xwEUtwRg-j9ysmqRKSQ_aem_ufOxRlBCtr63-8ZFrW-tXg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.youraudiotour.com/tours/4672/</a>

Local Event: Walking Tour of Green Street

Walking Tour of Green Street

Come along with the JP Historical Society to walk along Green Street. Laid out in 1836, the street played a key role in Jamaica...

Bethel AME Church

Join the Jamaica Plain Historical Society to tour this part of the JP neighborhood which developed from 19th-century summer estates into a model suburban enclave. It contains examples representative of New England architecture with designs by local architects and builders. It also contains an unusual garden city model housing development by the Boston Dwelling House Company, which was founded in 1912. All tours are free to the public and are offered on dates shown. Tours last between 60 and 90 minutes and are canceled in case of heavy rain. No reservations are required, just meet the guide at the location listed.Cannot make this time or date? Our tours are available online via an app as well: <a href="https://youraudiotour.com/tours/woodbourne/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExVHlYMFdtTk5BZXhFcUZNd3NydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR7fjem7QqWcPOqEaFfP8v-Ewsxuz4cdQU818yL9_r_6B1lCleqCS8apYGSGkw_aem_7tghPl7D6cIOyy80izNxJA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://youraudiotour.com/tours/woodbourne/</a>

Local Event: Walking Tour of Woodbourne

Walking Tour of Woodbourne

Join the Jamaica Plain Historical Society to tour this part of the JP neighborhood which developed from 19th-century summer...

This National Historic District includes one of the finest collections of Victorian houses in the area. The district includes the ancestral home of the Dole Pineapple Company founder and the homes of progressives who were active as abolitionists and women suffragists. All tours are free to the public and are offered on dates shown. Tours last between 60 and 90 minutes and are canceled in case of heavy rain. No reservations are required, just meet the guide at the starting location. Cannot make this time or date? Our tours are available online via an app as well: <a href="https://www.youraudiotour.com/tours/4655/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExU29VYXU1elcwcG95UVVndnNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR7ueviyXbUZFwsqf5Qnj8GLhWHh-36DE06GAYW0LhwxODZf5opAJ5RTfbVHCg_aem_fIQ6tfkd8rMB53kHWuriTg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.youraudiotour.com/tours/4655/</a>

Come along with the JP&nbsp;Historical Society to learn about 1840s Hyde Square when German and Irish immigrants transformed the neighborhood with their businesses, schools, and institutions. See how in the early 1960s, Hyde Square changed again when Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican immigrants transformed it into Boston’s first predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. This tour also takes us to the home of Maud Cuney Hare, a prominent music historian and one of only two black women students at the New England Conservatory of Music in 1890. You will also learn about the property currently housing the MSPCA’s Angell Animal Medical Center, which was once a site of the Perkins School for the Blind. The tour will also walk through the Sunnyside neighborhood, the site of homes built by philanthropist Robert Treat Paine from 1889 to 1899 as a “worker’s utopia” for working families. All tours are free to the public and are offered on dates shown. Tours last between 60 and 90 minutes and are canceled in case of heavy rain. No reservations are required, just meet the guide at the starting location. Can't attend the in person tour? We also have an online version you can take anytime (in English and Spanish) <a href="https://www.youraudiotour.com/tours/hyde-square/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExTFU5ZGF5ZkpQbkFoMUFHbXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5fkoN1S4hdbTzuHFBRXx7gsnlbg8AocQ97gq3VL2D_j4Bisrz9P3j835tPNg_aem_KKIlub7OtErX-wtpCTovVA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.youraudiotour.com/tours/hyde-square/</a>

Come along with the JP Historical Society to learn about 1840s Hyde Square when German and Irish immigrants transformed the...

Learn about 1840s Hyde Square when German and Irish immigrants transformed the neighborhood with their businesses, schools, and institutions. See how in the early 1960s, Hyde Square changed again when Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican immigrants transformed it into Boston’s first predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. This tour also takes us to the home of Maud Cuney Hare, a prominent music historian and one of only two black women students at the New England Conservatory of Music in 1890. You will also learn about the property currently housing the MSPCA’s Angell Animal Medical Center, which was once a site of the Perkins School for the Blind. The tour will also walk through the Sunnyside neighborhood, the site of homes built by philanthropist Robert Treat Paine from 1889 to 1899 as a “worker’s utopia” for working families. All tours are free to the public and are offered on dates shown. Tours last between 60 and 90 minutes and are canceled in case of heavy rain. No reservations are required, just meet the guide at the starting location. Can't attend the in person tour? We also have an online version you can take anytime (in English and Spanish) <a href="https://www.youraudiotour.com/tours/hyde-square/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExbEF5eTJUMWlROFBqZ2IxUXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4z0VLrJgOWy8Jnlr3i-91XSgcMWII2jP4wCFdOlw3I9NMkYJ3HHXB-vcrv0Q_aem_IxLizrCtsbqtfyQ4SJRMig" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.youraudiotour.com/tours/hyde-square/</a>

Learn about 1840s Hyde Square when German and Irish immigrants transformed the neighborhood with their businesses, schools, and...

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Local Greek Market Celebrates Greek Lenten Traditions

Greek International Food Market 

West Roxbury, MA — As the season of Lent begins for millions observing Orthodox Christian traditions, Greek International Food Market in West Roxbury is welcoming the community to explore the rich flavors and centuries-old traditions of Greek Lenten cuisine. Owner Katerina Iliades, whose family has served the Boston Greek community for decades, says many of the foods enjoyed during Lent reflect long-standing Greek culinary traditions. “Lent is a forty-day season leading up to Easter when many families embrace traditional fasting foods rooted in the Mediterranean diet,” says Iliades. “The dishes enjoyed during this time — from beans and vegetables to seafood and olive oil — have been part of Greek culinary traditions for centuries.” During the Lenten season, many Christians avoid meat and dairy, turning instead to a vibrant variety of Mediterranean dishes that are naturally plant-based and deeply rooted in Greek culinary tradition. At Greek International Food Market, customers can enjoy a wide selection of traditional homemade Lenten meals including: Okra in tomato sauce Greek string beans (fasolakia) Stuffed grape leaves (dolmades) Giant beans baked in tomato sauce (gigantes) Bean salads and Mediterranean vegetable dishes The market also carries a large variety of Lenten pantry staples and imported Greek products, including vegan Greek pies, Mediterranean vegetables, canned and dried beans, and an extensive olive bar featuring a wide selection of Greek olives. Seasonal Lenten specialties available at the market also include fresh-baked lagana bread, traditionally enjoyed on Clean Monday, along with beloved Greek sweets such as halva, loukoumia (Greek delights), and moustokouloura. periods. For more than 16 years, Greek International Food Market has served as a destination for authentic Greek foods, imported products and homemade Mediterranean specialties in the Boston area. “We love sharing these traditions with our community,” says Iliades.

West Roxbury, MA — As the season of Lent begins for millions observing Orthodox Christian traditions, Greek International Food Market in West...

Exterior Renovation Experts in Boston, MA

This Is The Way Construction

We’re a trusted exterior renovation company serving Boston, MA and surrounding areas. From siding and deck restoration to roof replacements and exterior painting, we take pride in delivering exceptional results with honest service and high-quality materials. Whether you’re upgrading your home’s look or tackling repairs, our licensed and insured team is here to help—because when it comes to your home, the right way is the only way.

We’re a trusted exterior renovation company serving Boston, MA and surrounding areas. From siding and deck restoration to roof replacements and...

Tax Prep and Bookkeeping with 20+ Years Experience

Taxit Financial Services

Taxit Financial Services is a Boston-based tax and financial services firm providing professional, accurate, and year-round support for individuals and small businesses. With over 20 years of experience, we specialize in tax preparation, bookkeeping, and tax resolution services. We go beyond simply filing returns—we help our clients understand their financial situation, stay compliant with IRS and state requirements, and make informed decisions throughout the year. Whether you need help filing your taxes, catching up on prior years, resolving IRS issues, or organizing your business finances, Taxit provides clear guidance and reliable support every step of the way. We are committed to accuracy, transparency, and making the tax process less stressful for our clients.

Taxit Financial Services is a Boston-based tax and financial services firm providing professional, accurate, and year-round support for individuals...

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