GBH offers a wide variety of in-person and virtual events. From live music recordings, lectures and screenings to our virtual Book Club, tasting events and more, stay connected to our community. Whatever you’re interested in—news, history, the arts or music, we’ve got you covered. Fill your calendar with this rich diversity of events and be inspired, informed and entertained.
If you have questions about any of our events please reach out to Audience Member Services by phone 617-300-3300 or email info@wgbh.org
Featured Events
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In PersonOutspoken Saturdays (September 2025)
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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GBH Jazz Nights at the BPL with the Fred Lipsius Trio Featuring Gerry Beaudoin
GBH Music and JazzBoston co-host a concert series to showcase the breadth of incredible jazz talent in the Greater Boston area. The event is held on the second Thursday of every month through May.
Tickets are free, but registration is encouraged. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis, so arrive early! Please note that by registering for this event you agree to receive email communications from GBH Music.
GBH Jazz Nights are made possible by the Goldstein Family Fund.
More GBH Events
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In PersonOutspoken Saturdays (September 2025)
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!
Registration is encouraged for this free event. -
In Person
Ricardo Nuila: The People's Hospital
Nuila’s stunning debut "The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine," which details the stories of five Houstonians unable to access healthcare in his hometown of Houston, TX, was selected as a semi-finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon, Kirkus Reviews, and The Washington Post.
Dr. Nuila is an associate professor of medicine, medical ethics, and health policy at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Humanities Expression and Arts Lab (HEAL) program. His work and research on the use of arts and humanities in medical practice have been supported by the Association of American Medical Colleges, and he has received fellowships for his writing from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Logan Nonfiction Program, and the Texas Institute of Letters. His features and essays have appeared in Texas Monthly, The New York Times Sunday Review, VQR, The Atlantic, and The New England Journal of Medicine. His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, Guernica, and other magazines.
Cosponsored by the Park Street Corporation Speaker Series.
The Lowell Humanities Series is sponsored by the Lowell Institute, Boston College's Institute for the Liberal Arts, and the Provost's Office.Partner:Boston College -
In PersonVirtual
France as Freedom: The Paris Years of Richard Wright
Join award-winning author, director, producer, and independent filmmaker Zachary James Miller, who will discuss the acclaimed author Richard Wright. This will be a historical look at Wright's life and time in Paris, his legacy, along with his work, both literary and political, and the times he lived in. Miller will be in conversation with Barbara Abrams, PhD, professor and chair, History, Language, Global Culture Department, and Philosophy Department, Suffolk University.Partner:Ford Hall Forum -
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GBH Jazz Nights at the BPL with the Fred Lipsius Trio Featuring Gerry Beaudoin
For the first GBH Jazz Night of the season, welcome multi-Grammy-award-winning saxophonist Fred Lipsius and his trio, featuring guitarist Gerry Beaudoin and bassist Justin Meyer.
GBH Music and JazzBoston co-host a concert series to showcase the breadth of incredible jazz talent in the Greater Boston area. The event is held on the second Thursday of every month through May.
Tickets are free, but registration is encouraged. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis, so arrive early! Please note that by registering for this event you agree to receive email communications from GBH Music.
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In PersonVirtual
Diplomacy Now | The U.S., China, and the Great Powers
Join WorldBoston for their signature Diplomacy Now program, an opportunity to consider American diplomacy within the context of U.S. national interests. This year’s program will focus on “The U.S., China, and the Great Powers.”
For this discussion, we are honored to host Nicholas Burns (ret.) Ambassador to China, and the Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.Partner:WorldBoston -
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Open Streets Boston - Dorchester
Join GBH at the 2025 Open Streets event series, where neighborhood streets are closed to vehicular traffic to create room for community and play. The events allow local businesses to expand into the street and to safely make space for music, games, bicycling, community tabling, and more. On September 14, join us on Dorchester Ave. from Ashmont St. to Adams St. -
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Boston Public Library Lowell Lecture: Paola Mendoza
The Boston Public Library welcomes Paola Mendoza as a speaker for the Lowell Lecture Series. As a Latinx film director, best-selling author, and film director, Mendoza will speak to the BPL community about her own experience as a community organizer and change-maker, sharing her personal journey.
Mendoza will be in conversation with BPL President David Leonard and in addition to her film and activism work, she'll discuss her work as an author and will sign copies of her books at the end of the program. Mendoza’s talk on her life as an activist, artist and leader contributes to the library’s organizational artistic theme of Revolutionary Art.
After the main program, in-person audience members are invited to meet the speaker.Partner:Boston Public Library -
In PersonVirtual
American Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
Analysts of American policy in 2025 have the unusual advantage of being able to assess the new president’s likely policies regarding the Middle East against the backdrop of what he did in his first term, four years earlier.
Join WorldBoston for a timely Great Decisions discussion of this topic with Mona Yacoubian, senior adviser and director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
This program will feature an expert presentation, live audience Q&A, and time for networking and discussion with other globally-oriented participants.Partner:WorldBoston -
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Lost and Legendary Riders
With J.L. Bell, Historian.
Beyond Paul Revere and his companions, Americans have passed along stories of other notable riders on April 19, 1775. Historian J. L. Bell investigates the facts and fiction behind such figures as Hezekiah Wyman, the dreaded “White Horseman”; Abel Benson and Abigail Smith, children said to have helped raise the alarm in Middlesex County; and Israel Bissell, the post rider credited with carrying news of the fight all the way to Philadelphia.Partner:Paul Revere Memorial Association -
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Bookmarked LIVE! At Parkside Bookshop
Join us at Parkside Bookshop in Boston's South End for a live version of "Bookmarked: The Under the Radar Book Club." Callie Crossley, host of "Under the Radar," will be interviewing New York Times best-selling author B.A. Shapiro about her latest book, "The Lost Masterpiece," to learn more about the history behind the story, the author's inspiration and much more.
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Melissa Lane: "Plato’s Republic on Motivating Ecological Guardianship"
Melissa Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University, where she is also Associated Faculty in Classics and in Philosophy, and has received the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, the Stanley J. Kelley Teaching Award of the Department of Politics, and the Faculty Community Engagement Award of the Pace Center for Civic Engagement.
She currently also holds a three-year appointment dedicated to delivering periodic public lectures in London as the fiftieth Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College. She has held a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of Classics, as well as fellowships and visiting professorships at a number of institutions including the ANU, Auckland, Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, the American Academy in Rome, and the École Normale Supérieure. Lane was educated in Californian public schools, then at Harvard University and the University of Cambridge, where she received an MPhil and PhD in Philosophy and then taught for fifteen years before moving to Princeton in 2009.
Her most recent monograph, titled Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political and published in 2023 by Princeton University Press, was awarded the 2024 Book Prize of the Journal of the History of Philosophy; her 2012 book Eco-Republic continues to be widely discussed. Lane has appeared multiple times on ‘In Our Time’ on BBC Radio Four, and been published in periodicals in the US, UK, Italy and Germany.
This lecture is supported by an ILA Major Grant.
The Lowell Humanities Series is sponsored by the Lowell Institute, Boston College's Institute for the Liberal Arts, and the Provost's Office.Partner:Boston College -
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FORGOTTEN HERO: WALTER WHITE AND THE NAACP Screening & Discussion
You’re invited to a screening and discussion of the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP. The event features an extended clip from the film and a panel discussion with the filmmakers and special guests.
This event is presented by Harvard Film Archive, the Black Film Project at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, American Experience and GBH. Admission is free, and seating is limited.
Panelists:
Michelle Smawley – Director
Rob Rapley – Writer/Producer
Kenneth Mack – Film Participant
Ellis Monk – Film Participant
Moderator – Cameo George, American Experience Executive Producer
Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP traces the life of this neglected civil rights hero and seeks to explain his disappearance from history. Some of the NAACP leaders are familiar, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Thurgood Marshall, but Walter White, head of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955, has been all but forgotten. American Experience is produced by GBH with funding provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. #ForgottenHeroPBS
