Spoken Word of Lifers in Massachusetts Prisons
Poems written by men and women confined within Walpole, Shirley, Norfolk, Bridgewater, Framingham, Gardener and Concord. Join us and bring friends. Refreshments will be available/Contributions greatly appreciated. 7-9:30 p.m., Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St., Boston. (Copley Square T Stop) For more information on this event and Through Barbed Wire 617-576-5367 or www.through
barbedwire.com.
Lowell Folk Festival
Free. Downtown Lowell, MA, July 27-29. The Revolving Museum will host a series of workshops, performances, culminating in a public artwork that will be illuminated for night-time viewing and activation. Workshops Include: Make Art Lanterns that will be on display at night as part of the Folk Festival; Make artwork with Community Teamwork’s Artship Enterprise, an interactive art mobile designed and created by artists Nora Valdez and Persi Narvaez; Transform a Mill Girl Dress with mixed media and celebrate a part of Lowell’s important textile past; Paint a Carnival Side-Show Banner that focuses on important positive changes in our neighborhoods, country, and world; Be a Movie Star and perform in your first short movie that will be screened as part of the ARTventures program. www.LowellFolk
Festival.org. For more information please contact: Lowell National Historical Park, 67 Kirk St., Lowell, 978-970-5200.
Addicted to Failure: Exporting the Drug War Overseas
First Church of Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, Parish Hall, 6 Eliot St., Jamaica Plain. This event is free and open to the public. 7 p.m. The Jamaica Plain Forum presents Sanho Tree, international expert and advocate of fundamental drug policy reform. The “War on Drugs,” both at home and abroad, is failing to address the root causes of the drug problem: racism and poverty. Sanho Tree engages in advocacy by reaching out to non-traditional allies and employing innovative tactics to promote sustainable, constitutional, and humane drug control policies. Learn more about this and other events at the Jamaica Plain Forum: www.jamaicaplain
forum.org.
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Music and Storytelling with Scott Kepnes
2 p.m. in the Grove Hall Branch Library meeting room. Please join us for an hour of funny, funky, folk-rock music and storytelling for children and families. Get ready to sing, clap, hop and dance along to the conga drum and the guitar. All are welcome to this free program.
SAT., JULY 28
Kid’s Festival in Codman Square
Join the fun at the Second Church in Dorchester’s Kid’s Festival. Children aged 12 and younger are invited to the Church Lawn at the corner of Washington St. and Talbot Ave. in Codman Square for this free event. 12 noon to 2 p.m., Rain date is August 4. For more information about the church and its services call 617-825-2797, email info@second
churchnaz.org or visit the website at www.second
churchnaz.org.
Neighborhood Family Festival
Gladtidings Pentecostal Church, 573 Norfolk St., Dorchester, 12-5 p.m. A day of fun for everyone. Free food, games, give-a-ways, health screenings, rides and raffle.
RAP Brings Jazz to Eliot Square
The MAKANDA JAZZ PROJECT appearing at 3 and 5 p.m. Included on the program: Local poets and “The Music of Makanda Series” Part II. On the grounds of the First Church in Roxbury in Eliot Square. Free of charge. Sponsored by: The Music Drives Us Foundation, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, Bringing Ideas to Life, Roxbury Action Program. For information call RAP at 617-442-4400 or rapnroxbury@verizon.net
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