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Boston Scenes

Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week

Jamaica Plain-based printing company Red Sun Press created this poster, made from a drawing of political leader Nelson Mandela by artist Kim Berman, to advertise the former South African president’s historic 1994 visit to Boston. Celebrating 35 years in business, Red Sun hosted an exhibit of its posters during last weekend’s Jamaica Plain Open Studios. For more, click here. (Photo courtesy of Red Sun Press)

Jamaica Plain artist Matthew Hincman (right) looks on as 8-year-old Cori Evans of Roxbury explores the unusual park bench he built and placed — at first surreptitiously and now officially — at Jamaica Pond. (Jon Seamans photo)

Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley (fourth from left) delivers a check for $2,500 in seized drug money to Executive Director Abdirahman A. Yusuf (second from left) and young members of the Somali Development Center in Jamaica Plain. The funds are part of an annual program that diverts drug dealers’ cash and assets to community-based youth groups. (Photo courtesy of Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office)

 

Michael Davis, a resident of Roxbury, is sworn in as a student member of the Boston School Committee on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009. Davis is a senior at East Boston High School who works on the Mayor’s Youth Council and serves as a peer listener at the Mayor’s Youthline. (Photo courtesy of the Mayor’s Press Office)