Arts & Culture

Arts curator Luisa Harris and musician and educator Kevin Harris launched the Mission Hill Arts Festival in 2021 to provide community members with safe outdoor entertainment during the pandemic. The multi-month concert series was so successful, it’s now back for the third year. The 2023 festival will feature performances by two local artists each month, June-August.

The circus is back in town, but without the big top this time. Cirque du Soleil presents “Corteo” at the Agganis Arena June 8–11.

Award-winning Boston-based journalist Carmen Fields grew up in a house full of music. Her father, Ernest (Ernie) Lawrence Fields, was a trombonist, pianist, musical arranger and bandleader who toured in the Southern United States with an orchestral territory band.

Sista Creatives Rising has put out a global call for artists for their “Art & Mind: I Know Who I Am!” exhibition. The exhibition will center the impact art can have on healing trauma and BIPOC women-identifying and femme-expressing artists are encouraged to apply.

“The Little Mermaid” was mired in controversy when it was announced that singer and actress Halle Bailey was cast as Disney’s new Ariel last year. Critics and internet trolls were enraged that the fantasy creature and former animated character was played by an African American actress. The sad thing is the trolls took the movie more seriously than necessary.

The ICA Watershed in East Boston opened for its 2023 season last week with “Guadalupe Maravilla: Mariposa Relámpago,” a monumental, healing sound and sculpture installation exploring the artist’s migratory journey from El Salvador to the United States.

“The Harlem Suite” is the latest album (released March 31 on the Ropeadope label) from Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Berklee professor, saxophonist and composer.

For the first time since 2016, African Fashion Week will bring vibrant prints and innovative silhouettes to the Boston runway.

On Saturday, June 3, more than 55 local musicians will flood the streets of the Ashmont Adams area of Dorchester, strumming guitars and belting out vocals from porches around the neighborhood. Dorchfest, in its second year, is a celebration of musical talent in Dorchester.

Every month from April to October, The American City Coalition (TACC) will host vibrant cultural and community events in Nubian Square as part of the Savor the Square initiative.

Argentina’s legendary first lady Eva Perón has a life story that was always destined for the stage. From an impoverished childhood in the 1920s she found a passionate romance and became one of the most powerful figures in Argentine history, both beloved and reviled.

A new celebration of culture is coming to town in the form of the Greater Roxbury Arts & Cultural Center, a long-awaited space in Nubian Square that will celebrate Black and Latino culture and art.