Past Events

Join GBH supporters in celebration of International Jazz Day. GBH Music and JazzBoston present Cuban pianist, composer and arranger Zahili Gonzalez Zamora.

Immerse yourself in the soulful melodies and vibrant rhythms that pay homage to the rich heritage and cultural nuances of Afro Cuban music. Experience the fusion of traditional jazz elements with the captivating beats of Cuban percussion, creating a harmonious blend that will transport you to the heart of Havana. This performance aims to celebrate the power of music to unite and uplift. Get ready to tap your feet, sway to the groove, and be moved by compositions based on personal experience of resilience, mixed with the irresistible energy of Afro Cuban rhythms.

This event will be hosted by Callie Crossley, host of Under the Radar with Callie Crossley and co-host of The Culture Show on GBH 89.7.

You have two ticket options:

* $50 in-person event experience from 7:15-9pm, includes wine and cheese pre-reception or
* Virtual Tickets (Free) from 8-9pm. The performance can be streamed for free with an advanced RSVP

Please note by registering for this event your name and email will be shared with GBH and JazzBoston.

About Jazz Boston JazzBoston connects, promotes and advocates for the musicians, audiences and venues of Greater Boston’s dynamic and diverse jazz community. The nonprofit organization spreads the music and message of jazz and celebrates Boston as one of the world’s great jazz cities. Find more information at jazzboston.org.


This event is presented with support from our sponsor The Goldstein Family Fund.


Photo credit: Robert Torres

China’s economic rise and its current policies of increasing the role of the state in the economy have led some U.S. policymakers to seek to deny China access to U.S. technology and investment. This is seen as a necessary corrective to decades of predatory Chinese economic policies. Is this a wise strategy, and how effective can it be?

Join us for a timely discussion of this topic with Wendy Cutler, Vice President and Managing Director of the Asia Society Policy Institute, Washington D.C. office. The program will feature expert remarks from Ms. Cutler, live audience Q&A, and time for networking and discussion with other globally-oriented participants.

Embark on a leisurely stroll through nature’s aviary with past president of the Association of Field Ornithologists, Elissa Landre. Learn the secrets of chirps and tweets, as you travel through this wildlife sanctuary. You will discover a symphony of sights and sounds from our feathered friends. Unplug, unwind and let the wings guide you on this enchanting adventure.

We will explore field, forest and wetlands looking for resident nesters like Black-capped Chickadees (our state bird), migrants like Palm Warblers, and occasional visitors including the Bald Eagle. Wear good walking shoes, bring binoculars, cameras and your curiosity. Insect repellent recommended.

Location
Both bird walks will take place in Natick, MA. Parking is easy and abundant.

About Mass Audubon
Mass Audubon is the largest nature-based conservation organization in New England. Founded in 1896 by two women who fought for the protection of birds, Mass Audubon carries on their legacy by focusing on the greatest challenges facing the environment today: the loss of biodiversity, inequitable access to nature and climate change.

With the help of our 160,000 members and supporters, we protect wildlife, conserve and restore resilient land; advocate for impactful environmental policies,; offer nationally recognized education programs for adults and children; and provide endless opportunities to experience the outdoors at our wildlife sanctuaries.

About Your Guide Elissa Landre
Elissa is the former director at Broadmoor, past president of the Association of Field Ornithologists, and has led international tours for Mass Audubon for years. She especially enjoys introducing new people of all ages to the fun of birding and all are welcome to join Elissa in the field during the peak of bird migration.

This event is in partnership with Mass Audubon Society

Join GBH News’ daily show live at the library! GBH Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen and a rotating panel of co-hosts and cultural correspondents provide an expansive look at society through art, culture and entertainment, driving conversations about how listeners experience culture across music, movies, fashion, TV, art, books, theater, dance, food and more.

This event is in partnership with Boston Design Week.

Registration is encouraged for this free event.

This year, our annual event celebrates the important role that Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) artists play in their communities by sharing personal stories about their culture and history through film, writing, and dance.

The evening will feature a conversation with Celeste Ng, the bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, and Ju Yon Kim, the Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English at Harvard University, reflecting on the ways their Asian heritage and their life experiences have informed and shaped their successful academic and writing careers. They will compare and contrast how Asian Americans are portrayed in film, literature, and American media and how their work has influenced and impacted the narrative about representation in culture.

The Wah Lum Kung Fu & Tai Chi Academy Dance troupe will also perform and GBH WORLD will preview upcoming program highlights from the May schedule celebrating AANHPI Heritage Month.


Special thanks to our participating community partners:

• Asian Community Fund
• Coalition for Anti-Racism and Equity, Inc. (CARE)
• Friends of Indian Senior Citizen’s Organization (FISCO)
• Panethnic Pourovers
• Philippine American Mainstream Advocacy for Nonpartisan Associations (PAMANA)
  

Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng is the bestselling author of three novels, Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts. Celeste grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio. She graduated from Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan (now the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan). Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and many other publications. She is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors.


Ju Yon Kim
Ju Yon Kim is the Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English at Harvard. Her research and teaching interests include modern and contemporary American literature and theater, with a particular focus on Asian American culture. Her first book, The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday, received the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize from the New England American Studies Association. She is currently working on a project titled Paper Performance: Suspicion and the Spaces of Asian American Theater.

 
This event is free and open to the public but registration is required. You have two ticket options:

In-Person Experience (free) from 6-8:30pm ET is SOLD OUT.

The Virtual Experience (free) from 6-7:30pm ET. Once you register we will send you a Zoom Webinar link

$75 Ticket includes an autographed copy of Celeste Ng's newest book, Our Missing Hearts, and GBH Membership.

Photo credit: GBH Creative Department
 


Thank you to our sponsor, Bernadine Tsung-Megason of Compass Real Estate.

Join Beck Mordini and Jenny Pell for a lively conversation about facing our pretty scary future with integrity, hope, plenty of know-how, and a great sense of humor.  We'll dive into climate reality, appropriate technologies, skill-building, local food, and neighborhood solutions that will inspire you to jump into your own community-based projects with both feet.  The dearth of leadership on the coming climate crises is insane, so what do we do, and what are you bringing to the table?  There's plenty of good news and lots of do, and who knows, maybe the suburbs will save the world.  

GBH is proud to present award-winning author Téa Obreht for April’s virtual Beyond the Page event! Obreht is the international bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife (2011) and Inland (2020), as well as an accomplished short story writer whose work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper’s Magazine, among many others.

Obreht will answer audience questions about her writing and creative processes, and give insights on the publishing industry. She will also be sharing more about her latest novel, The Morningside.

The Morningside expands on her short story published by New York Times Magazine for a COVID-19-related anthology. The novel follows 11-year-old Silvia and her mother as they flee their war-torn home and arrive in Island City, a near-future city ravaged by coastal flooding. With her past shrouded in mystery, Silvia embarks on an adventure to find out more about herself, the interesting characters in her new apartment building, and the magical, yet impoverished city around her.

Attending tonight and can't find your Zoom link? Please see below.
LINK: https://wgbh.zoom.us/j/99765691845?pwd=QUNVN25hWDA5WHNwVTZFSEtab3d4dz09
Passcode: 761033


At Beyond the Page, we believe in the power of knowledge, the magic of stories and the beauty of shared experiences. This event series features interactive sessions with renowned authors discussing their latest work and their writing process. Whether you're seeking profound discussions or heartfelt emotions, these events offer something truly special for everyone.

This event offers two ticket options:
Attend the event $0
Attend the event + receive a SIGNED copy of Morningside + GBH membership $60


Please note that books will be shipped out following the event.

Recording
This event will be recorded and shared with anyone who RSVPs for this event.

Cambridge Forum takes a look at three French female visionaries who led a revolution against women’s garments, that had previously limited and restricted their bodies.  By releasing women from their physical “prisons” they were able to accelerate the political liberation of their minds.

Anne Higonnet, author of Liberty Equality Fashion, is professor of art history at Barnard College and teaches an incredibly popular course on the history of clothing.
This new book grew out of Higonnet's class and archival research she did at the Morgan Library in Manhattan, where she discovered a complete set of Journal des dames et des modes fashion plates - the rarest fashion plates in the world - from the French revolutionary era, providing the ultimate evidence for what was generally fashionable, week by week, during the years dominated by Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France, Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe, and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals.

The discovery of these plates upended the dominant understanding of the era.
From one year to the next, these fashion revolutionaries led a rebellion against corsets, petticoats, and enormous skirts. Their flowing garments not only embodied freedom for modern women, but also marked the emergence of global capitalism, shopping culture, and the rise of powerful style influencers. In their starred reviews, Publishers Weekly says the book is “as rigorous as it is fun” while Kirkus commends Higonnet’s “meticulous research [and] energetic prose.” 

Join Cambridge Forum and Anne Higonnet in examining how politics, economics, and identity merged during the French Revolution and heralded a new feminism that is the antecedent to current, popular modes of self-expression and self-empowerment.


 

Join us for a panel discussion with journalist, author, and star of the film “Have You Heard About Greg”, Greg O’Brien, along with experts from the film and the world of Alzheimer’s research: best-selling authors Lisa Genova (“Still Alice”) and David Shenk (“The Forgetting”), Meg Smith, CEO of Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, dedicated solely to the purpose of funding the most promising research leading to the cure of Alzheimer’s, and Dr. Rudy Tanzi, Director of the McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General Hospital, best-selling author and co-discoverer of the first three genes identified as the cause of a rare, familial “early-onset” form of Alzheimer’s. The panel will share a thoughtful, intimate discussion about what it’s like to live with Alzheimer’s, the current state of the fight to stop it, and steps everyone can take to protect and preserve their brain health. You’ll also receive three insightful, informative books: On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s by Greg O’Brien, Decoding Darkness: The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer’s, and The Healing Self, both authored by Dr. Rudy Tanzi.

Attending tonight and can't find your Zoom link? Please see below.
LINK: https://wgbh.zoom.us/j/92963038513?pwd=ZVhtREo4VUVkUGhjcGhpcFIyTkVZdz09
Passcode: 820856


With a gift of $20 a month, you’ll receive virtual access to the discussion plus three books with more information and ideas on how to fight Alzheimer’s and keep your brain healthy.

Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum; Communication, Journalism & Media, English, and the History, Language & Global Culture Departments, and Women’s & Gender Studies Program; present:

An evening with award-winning author Nancy A. Nichols, upon the publication of her new book Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car. She will be joined in conversation by Amy Monticello, MFA, associate professor and chair, English Department, Suffolk University.

About Women Behind the Wheel

The invention of the automobile a little more than a century ago created a new and movable arena in which women’s struggle for power and autonomy would play out in myriad and often unexpected ways. Cars shaped the way women live, the way women work and date and dress, the way they care for their families, and the way they approach the elusive dream of work-life balance.

Yet despite its dramatic impact on the lives of women, few have stopped the speeding automobile in its tracks to document the impact this technology has had on women. The car may have been “born in a masculine manger,” but beyond this persistent men-and-machine myth lies a different story: women, too, have always loved their cars and the exhilarating freedom of the open road.

Blending cultural analysis, biography, literary criticism, and memoir, Women Behind the Wheel reclaims a neglected history and reveals how the car—and all that surrounds it—has become our most gendered technology.

Praise for Women Behind the Wheel
“Fascinating, funny, enraging and often very moving. For all its hard-edged machinery, gender warring and auto-business shenanigans, the emotional engine of this book is Nichols’s own poignant story.”—The New York Times