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I SPOKE to end HIV
2023-12-01 12:00 - 2023-12-02 00:00 (America/New_York) | Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, 02116, United States
Join us for our

32nd ANNUAL DAY WITH(OUT) ART WORLD AIDS DAY

Vigil

noon -midnight December 1, 2023

National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD),
2023-10-11 06:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Connected Boston, 56 Warren Street, Suite 201, Roxbury, MA, 02119, United States
In Observance of National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD), Spoke and Connected Boston (Multicultural Aids Coalition) will present a hybrid discussion panel about arts and the health equity gap in the Latinx. a.e.o / Hispanic community.
We invite you to join us for a delicious Latine dinner during the panel generously sponsored by New England AETC

In Honor of Latinx. a.e.o / Hispanic Heritage Month
2023-09-27 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | SPOKE, 844 Summer Street, Boston, United States
In honor of Latinx. a.e.o / Hispanic Heritage Month, SPOKE and Connected Boston (Multicultural Aids Coalition) will present a hybrid discussion panel about arts and the health equity gap in the Latinx. a.e.o / Hispanic community.
We invite you to join us for a delicious Latine dinner during the panel generously sponsored by Fenway Health Institute and GLAD.
If you can join us in person, RSVP with Raymond J. Rodriguez by emailing him at rrodriguez@spoke.org or call/text him at 774-225-5366.

CRUCIALESQUE
2023-09-11 12:00 - 2023-10-27 17:00 (America/New_York) | SPOKE, 844 Summer Street, Boston, United States
Work by Domingo Barreres

September 11th – October 27th 2023

Reception: Thursday, September 14th 6-8pm

Hybrid Gallery Talk: Thursday, September 14th 6:30-7pm

From the Monastery
2023-07-12 12:00 - 2023-08-15 17:00 (America/New_York) | SPOKE Gallery, 844 Summer Street, South Boston, Massachusetts, 02127, United States
New works by 14 talented Artist
Italy Show
July 12 – August 15, 2023
Reception: Wednesday, July 12th
6:00 to 8:00pm
Please visit www.spokeart.org
For Spoke gallery hours, and for information about free events in conjunction with the exhibition.
SPOKE Gallery
844 Summer Street
Boston, MA 02127

OUTRAGE
2023-05-15 12:00 - 2023-06-30 17:00 (America/New_York) | SPOKE, 844 Summer Street, Boston, United States
New works on paper by Michela Griffo
Spoke Gallery is honored to present the first solo exhibition in Massachusetts by acclaimed artist and activist Michela Griffo. For her exhibition entitled OUTRAGE, Griffo is showing new and recent small works on paper that she refers to as “Observations”. She has also exhibiting four drawings on paper from an on-going series that draws upon well-known imagery from Disney animated fairy tales.
Reception: Thursday, May 25th 6:00 to 8:00pm
Hybrid Gallery Talk (Zoom & in-person): Thursday, May 25th 6:30-7:00pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Friday 12 to 5pm & Saturdays by appointment (For a Saturday appointment- please email at least two days in advance: info@spokeart.org)
Spoke address: 844 Summer Street, Boston MA 02127

Spirit of Radicalism, Peter Ansin
2023-05-15 08:00 - 2023-06-30 17:00 (America/New_York) | SPOKE Gallery, 844 Summer Street, South Boston, Massachusetts, 02127, United States
Peter Ansin, a former manager of business development for Twentieth Century Fox, died of AIDS at 34 in 1992. The Ansin Building in Boston is the largest facility ever constructed by an organization with a specific mission to serve the LGBT community. It was dedicated in memory of Peter Ansin.

Artist Retreat to TUSCANY
2023-04-10 08:00 - 2023-04-26 17:00 UTC | MA
You are invited to step out of your day-to-day life and to be part of this artistic retreat. This retreat asks you to recognize that the role of the artist is meaningful enough to nurture. This retreat is a practice of bringing the creative into our daily lives, permitting your life to revolve around your creative self.

POST-PANDEMIC
2023-03-23 08:00 - 2023-04-24 17:00 (America/New_York) | SPOKE Gallery, 844 Summer Street, South Boston, Massachusetts, 02127, United States
Spoke Gallery is honored to present a solo show by Robert Peters who is a celebrated Mashpee Wampanoag artist, poet, and author.
For his exhibition, POST-PANDEMIC, Peters is exhibiting work he created during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The title of his show is multi-layered in reference. The title doesn’t just refer to the current global epidemic, but it also makes reference to the pandemic that caused wide-spread fatalities to the indigenous peoples due to the diseases brought by the foreign traders and colonists when they came to the shores and lands of what is presently called North America.

Mardi Gras: a threshold to a room where we all belong
2023-02-21 18:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Publico, 11 Dorchester Street, South Boston, United States
On Tuesday February 21st , we will be hosting our second annual fundraising event, Mardi Gras: a threshold to a room where we all belong. Join us at Publico, 11 Dorchester Street in South Boston. You have been a valued believer in our mission, and we would be honored if you would be part of our krewe!
DJ, Special Guests, Music, Food, Cocktails, Community!
GET YOUR TICKET HERE!

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
2023-02-07 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | SPOKE, 844 Summer Street, Boston, United States
Join us February 7th — National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day— for a panel discussion and performances at Spoke.
HIV disproportionately affects Black people in the United States. According to the CDC, “In 2019, Black people accounted for 13% of the U.S. population but 40% (479,300) of people with HIV.”
February 7th is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day! First observed in 1999, the goal of this day is “dedicated to raising awareness about the disproportionate impact of HIV on Blacks/African Americans, and the importance of increasing access to HIV prevention, testing, and treatment services to reduce this burden. (National Institute of Health)”
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4 CORNERS 6 CONTINENTS- A continuum of photographs by Lou jones
2023-01-09 08:00 - 2023-02-24 17:00 (America/New_York) | MWproductions/SPOKE, 95 G Street, South Boston, Massachusetts, 02127-2920, United States
January 9th to February 24th, 2023
Reception: Thursday, January 19th 5:30 to 7:30pm
Hybrid Gallery Talk: Thursday, January 19th 7:00pm
Gallery & Connected Events are Free and Open to the Public
Photo Credit: Mannequins
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
February 2017
Photo courtesy of Lou Jones

Day Without Art installation for World AIDS Day 2022
2022-12-01 | Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, 02116, United States
Out of the Ashes 31st annual Day Without Art installation for World AIDS Day 2022
Our work at SPOKE began 31 years ago to create a place where people gather to reflect and remember those lost to the AIDS pandemic. This mission remains just as urgent today as we face multiple pandemics of COVID-19, racism, and addiction, alongside the continuing scourge of HIV/AIDS, particularly among vulnerable populations. Days Without Art will be a series of cultural events and actions connecting World AIDS Day, Dec 1st with National Black HIV Awareness Day, Feb 7th.

Healing Walk to Mark Toll of Concurrent Pandemics: AIDS, Covid, Addiction, & Racism
2022-11-30 22:30 - 2022-12-01 06:00 (America/New_York) | MA
Days Without Art Healing Walk: Greater Bostonians of all backgrounds will join artists, dancers, musicians, friends, and collaborators in a procession from City Hall to the Boston Center for the Arts’ Cyclorama. There they’ll formally open SPOKE’s 31st Annual World AIDS Day art installation and vigil, marking the effects of multiple pandemics on our lives and our communities. City Hall will be lit red in honor of those lost to HIV/AIDS from dusk Nov. 30 until dawn Dec. 1. Participants will walk from City Hall, holding small bowls that will honor the lives of our dear ones, and a 150 foot stream of red satin, evoking the AIDS Red Ribbon and the beauty of the thread of human connection.
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I Am the Observer and Nature is My Teacher Panel Discussion
2022-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | MA
Join us for this lively discussion on the importance of and how to support native plants in the ecosystem.
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LATINX
2022-10-14 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | SPOKE / Medicine Wheel Productions, 840 Summer Street, South Boston, Massachusetts, 02127, United States
Celebracion De LA Herencia – LATINX En SPOKE
Ven a Celebrar la herencia Latinx/Latina, Latino, Latine/Hispana en SPOKE in South Boston.
DIA DE LA RAZA
Come celebrate Latinx/Latina, Latino, Latine/Hispanic Heritage at SPOKE at
844 Summer Street, South Boston

Taking Back the Hill, We are all works in progress
2022-09-22 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | MWproductions/SPOKE, 95 G Street, South Boston, Massachusetts, 02127-2920, United States
Join us for our annual End of Summer Event at No Man’s Land for Community, Art and FoodWe will be showcasing works by over 60 young men and women who worked with us this summer in our acclaimed YouthSPEAK Program.

I Am the Observer and Nature is My Teacher: Liliana Folta
2022-09-12 12:00 - 2022-10-22 17:00 UTC | MA
I Am the Observer and Nature is My Teacher : a new site specific installation by Liliana Folta

Reception: Wednesday, September 14th 6 to 8pm. Hybrid Gallery Talk: Wednesday September 14th 7pm

Title:“Iris versicolor” (Northern blue flag)Medium:Acrylic, recycled glass, handmade ceramic, genuine stones & found objectsMounted on birch wood panelDimensions:16” Dim.Year: 2022

Gallery Hours:Wednesdays – Fridays from 12 to 5pm and Saturdays by appointment (For a Saturday appointment-email please at least two days in advance: kbitetti@mwproductions.org)

A Discussion
2022-08-17 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Glace_Bay) | Online
A Discussion: Dyslexia, Civil Rights, and Social Justice

Dyslexia, according to the Mayo Clinic’s website, is a learning disability“that involves difficulty reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and learning how they relate to letters and words.” It is important to understand that one does not “grow out of or age out of having dyslexia. It is a life-long condition. MassGeneral Brigham’s webpage dedicated to dyslexia states the following, “Dyslexia is the most common learning disability. It affects 2 out of every 10 children.”

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Caroline Coolidge
2022-07-11 12:00 - 2022-08-19 12:00 (America/New_York) | SPOKE Gallery, 844 Summer Street, South Boston, Massachusetts, 02127, United States
For her solo show, re/de/constructed language, Caroline Coolidge has reconfigured her multi-media Spring 2022 undergraduate thesis exhibition for Spoke Gallery. The installation consists of video projection, sound, and six wall-mounted abstract drawings. Each drawing is accompanied by a corresponding bound manual. This installation, like her most recent works, “follows (her) interest in exploring her relationship to the written word and captures the way (her) mind engages with text, processing, and sound.” In her art she “is visually translating the tension between connecting and isolating meaning as (she) transform these concepts into a spatial, dynamic process foregrounded by my creative intuition.”
