Posts by Egleston Square Main Street
Marathon Reading of 100 Years of Solitude
Saturday, June 24th Noon til 6pm Egleston Square Peace Garden Corner of Washington & School Join us for this historic event as we read aloud Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s master work One Hundred Years of Solitude cover to cover and celebrate the 50 years of its publishing. ••••• Únase a nosotros para este acontecimiento…
Read MoreEgleston Farmers Market is back!
The Egleston Farmers Market is back in their warm weather location at the Brewery Complex parking lot in between the Urbano Project and Sam Adams entrances. Egleston Farmers Market is a volunteer, community-led initiative to make fresh, locally-grown food accessible to residents of Jamaica Plain and Roxbury while supporting the local economy. The market is a…
Read MoreFilms in the Garden: Window Horses
Rosie Ming (Sandra Oh), a young Canadian poet of mixed descent who grew up with her strict Chinese grandparents, believing that her father abandoned her. She’s been invited to perform her poetry at a festival in Iran, where she finds that what she’d been told as a child may not necessarily be the entire truth.…
Read MoreCommunity Reading: What to the Slave is the fourth of July?
“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” •••• What to the Slave is the fourth of July: A Community Reading / Thursday, July 6th • 6:00pm / Robert Lawson Place (Corner of Atherton, Washington & Columbus) / Egleston Square • Boston Join the Egleston Square Community in our…
Read MoreSummer of '16 in Egleston
Tuvinos un increible verano de eventos este año. Poesia, conciertos, peliculas y tambien reuniones de planificación. ¡Hicimos todos! Aqui se encuentra algunos de los videos de las experiencias…
Read MoreWake Up The Earth 2017
You know the drill! Join us for one of Boston’s pre-eminent community events, Wake Up The Earth Parade and Festival. Participating Barbershop and Salons Wake Up The Earth Egleston Parade Saturday, May 6 • gather at 10:00am Egleston Y | 3134 Washington Street
Read MoreEgleston Square Wins Boston Public Space Invitational
Egleston Square was announced as a winner of the City’s second Public Space Invitational, a civic design competition that challenged applicants to conceptualize projects that have the potential to reimagine and enhance public spaces in Boston. Egleston Square Main Street partnered with residents Dorothy Fennel and Sydney Hardin to propose #StreetMurals #MuralesenlaCalle, a community designed…
Read More#BehindTheCounter shows off Egleston Square
Egleston Square Main Street has embarked on a summer long collaboration with JP based photographer Leonardo March. #BehindTheCounter will explore Egleston Square through its merchants, residents and other stakeholders. If you have an Instagram account, just follow us at @eglestonsquare to follow along and introduce yourself to the people that make Egleston Square that “great…
Read MoreBodega Signs & Wonders project continues…
Our ongoing collaboration with Egleston Artist Denise Delgado continues with this bi-lingual writing workshop on Saturday, April 30th. We also created a Facebook Event here. POETRY IS NOT A LUXURY a bilingual workshop and story circle Saturday, April 30, 11:30am-1:30pm Egleston Square Branch of the Boston Public Library 2044 Columbus Avenue, Boston, 617-445-4340 FREE Poet…
Read MoreBoston Shines in Egleston Square
Join business owners, residents and other Egleston Square stakeholders as we take part in the annual Boston Shines citywide clean-up. Saturday, April 23rd | 10am | Egleston Square Peace Garden (Corner of Washington & School Street) Spring has finally arrived!!! Flowers have started to peek their heads out in the Peace Garden…and Egleston Square residents…
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