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Music & Culture Events
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In Person
May 2025 Outspoken Saturdays
The GBH BPL studio will host Outspoken Saturdays, a spoken word poetry event for emerging artists. Every first Saturday of the month, the series will be created in collaboration with spoken word artist Amanda Shea. Join us!
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Virtual
Explorers: A New History with Matthew Lockwood
Prize-winning historian Matthew Lockwood looks at the impulse to explore, the travels of Pocahontas, Columbus, Sacagawea, and Captain Cook alongside others who rightfully deserve the title of “explorers” including immigrants and fugitive slaves.
According to Lockwood, people of every background imagine new worlds. The impulse to seek new places is universal to humanity. In his new book, “Explorers,” he unfurls a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked travelers spanning forty centuries and six continents. His illustrated talk will share the stories of such seekers as David Dorr, born into slavery in New Orleans who embarked on a Grand Tour or Europe and Egypt, and the Viking female voyager Gudrid Far-Traveler, who sailed to North America in 1000 AD; among other pioneers.Partner:American Ancestors -
In Person
The Ulysses Quartet at The Boston Public Library (May 2025)
Join GBH Music's quartet in residence, the Ulysses Quartet, for a performance at the Boston Public Library!
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Culture in the News
Samara Joy takes nothing for granted.
Samara Joy is one of the most prominent voices in contemporary jazz. She was the first jazz artist in over ten years to win “Best New Artist” at the 2023 Grammy awards, and has since released the acclaimed album Portrait. She’s at he Berklee Performance Center on Saturday, May 3rd as part of the Boston Celebrity Series. Before the show, two of her biggest fans and hosts of Jazz on 89.7, Al Davis and Va Lynda Robinson, got to speak with Ms. Joy.
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Director Carson Lund on his quintessentially Massachusetts baseball film ‘Eephus’
“Eephus,” named after the iconic off-speed curveball, is Carson Lund’s feature-length debut. -
MFA announces new leadership
Pierre Terjanian will be the 12th director in the museum’s 155-year history. -
Mass. Museum of African American History loses federal grant
The president of the state’s Museum of African American History, which has locations in Boston and on Nantucket, is worried about the president’s call to reframe history.
GBH Music
More Culture Programs
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Jack Wolfe performs "I'm Alive"
A son (Jack Wolfe) tries to get the attention of his mother (Caissie Levy).| 3:40 -
Episode 15, Season 52<br> Next to Normal
Experience this Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical from London's Donmar Warehouse.| 2:09:46 -
Episode 26, Season 2025<br> Marygrove Conservancy Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series: Percival Everett
Marygrove Conservancy Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series featuring Percival Everett| 42:21 -
The Spanish Music that Inspired Agustín Barrios
Cyro Delvizio and Scott Yoo discuss the Spanish repertoire that influenced Agustín Barrios.| 3:55