Past Events

GBH is joining the Refugee Supper Club for their second Cambridge Refugee Food Festival! A vibrant outdoor food market featuring bites from around the world, all crafted by talented refugee chefs and cooks living in Greater Boston.

Taste flavors from Cuba, Haiti, Morocco, Somalia, Ukraine, Venezuela, and more while learning about the rich cultures, traditions, and journeys behind each dish. In addition to global eats, the festival will highlight local organizations supporting refugee communities, with educational activities, storytelling, and resources for deeper engagement.

Kick off summer with GBH at our studio at the Boston Public Library on June 20 at 11 AM for a free community celebration! We’re marking our nation’s upcoming 250th birthday with the launch of America’s Awesome Kids, a new series of mini‑docs featuring real kids from across the country—highlighting their diverse geographies, talents, traditions, and experiences.

Enjoy hands‑on activities, face painting, photo ops with your favorite PBS KIDS characters, and plenty of awesome kids in the spotlight.

As we look ahead to America’s 250th anniversary, we’re excited to celebrate the next generation of leaders—kids who are helping their communities, sharing their stories, and flexing their civic skills. Come celebrate summer, our community, and the awesome kids shaping tomorrow!

Wars and borders divide us, but the World Cup brings us together. It is the greatest unifying force on the planet, capturing the hearts of over five billion viewers who gather to celebrate passion, teamwork, and the beautiful game. For one spectacular month every four years, the globe becomes a single, cheering stadium.

Here in Boston, as one of several hosts cities in the US, seven matches will have been played, and millions will have visited Beantown. Even if you don’t understand the game, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement. To help us explore the significance of Boston hosting the event, we'll speak to a few journalists who have been covering the action on and off the pitch.

Guests:

Omar Cabrera
Mass Latino and NE Revolution Spanish Announcer

Caleb Pongratz
Major League Soccer Lead content contributor for Spotrac

Esteban Bustillos
Reporter for GBH News

Esteban is a reporter for GBH News. Born and raised in Texas, he interned at the San Antonio Express-News, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and The Dallas Morning News before coming to Boston. He’s a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the student newspaper, The Mercury, and was a DJ for Radio UTD.

GBH Amplifies is a community conversation series focused on expanding the reach of local voices from Greater Boston and beyond. The series features community leaders hosting public conversations in the GBH Studio at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square, providing a platform for inclusive perspectives on the issues that matter most to New England communities. GBH Amplifies happens weekly on Thursdays from 12:30-1:30pm at the GBH BPL Studio. This event is free and open to the public.

GBH Amplifies is also being supported by the Barr Foundation.

Registration is encouraged for this free event.

Limited seating is available on a first come, first serve basis. If you require a seat, we encourage you to arrive before the start time of this event.

7:15-7:50pm Pre-event reception

7:50-7:58pm Guest are seated in Fraser Performance Studio

8:00-9:00pm Live performance in Fraser Performance Studio

The two-time Grammy-nominated Neave Trio closes out GBH Music’s 2025-2026 season with "American Mosaics," a program celebrating the diverse voices that have shaped, and been shaped by, American musical traditions. As a musical cornerstone of America 250, the concert contributes to GBH’s organization-wide examination of national identity leading up to and beyond the semiquincentennial on July 4, 2026. The performance explores the uniquely American sound of composer Aaron Copland and his influential teacher, Rubin Goldmark, and introduces the Boston premiere of "A Vast Palette," a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Jennifer Higdon. The concert opens with works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Black British composer who drew deep inspiration from African American spirituals, and closes with pieces by Astor Piazzolla, whose nuevo tango style was informed by his upbringing in New York City during the height of the Jazz Age. “American Mosaics" is hosted by Brian McCreath, host of CRB's Boston Symphony broadcasts. The performance will be recorded for future broadcast on GBH 2 and as part of In Concert on CRB Classical 99.5. The program is funded by the Mattina R. Proctor Foundation.

The Charlestown Historical Society welcomes GBH for an in-person screening of the Bunker Hill battle as depicted in Ken Burns’ new film American Revolution. Following play of a 30-minute section of the film, stay for a discussion hosted by GBH News Features Editor Jennifer Moore, who will sit down with authors Christian Di Spigna, Donald Ryan, Dr. Timothy Reardon, and Boston Archaeologist Joe Bagley.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to meet descendants of those who fought the Battle of Bunker Hill and get a first look at a new exhibit of rare family artifacts, journals, weapons and more from their family archives.

Massachusetts soil holds two stories. One is celebrated every July 4th. The other, older, bloodier, and deliberately buried, is the one we need to understand first.

One hundred years before the American Revolution, King Philip’s War engulfed the Indigenous nations of southern New England,Wampanoag, Nipmuc, Narragansett and others, in one of the deadliest conflicts in North American history relative to population. When it ended, the colonial winners didn’t just claim the land, they also claimed the story. A narrative of inevitable destiny, of brave but doomed resistance, of a continent naturally passing from one civilization to the next. A story designed to be mourned, not questioned.

But what happens when you question it? In Wampanoag country, the war’s end was total: leaders killed, survivors enslaved. Or was it? What did colonists find when they arrived, and what did they dismantle? What was lost that we still don’t fully understand? The Indian wars didn’t end in New England; they migrated westward with the expanding nation. Was the logic of dispossession already present in the Pilgrims’ earliest encounters with the First Nations? Does Mary Rowlandson’s celebrated captivity narrative tell us as much about the making of American racial and gender identity as it does about war?

Hosted by journalist Phillip Martin, this conversation features Indigenous panelists from local tribal communities and asks what it means that we still carry this story, and what it costs us that we’ve never fully told the other one.

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.

Limited seating is available on a first come, first serve basis. If you require a seat, we encourage you to arrive before the start time of this event.

As Massachusetts prepares to honor the city’s vibrant heritage, join us for a special look into the history, culture, and communities that define Boston.

From immersive storytelling experiences to dynamic cultural gatherings, we explore a statewide celebration featuring over 250 cultural organizations across the Commonwealth. Tune in as we honor the people, places, and diverse voices that have shaped—and continue to shape—our incredible city.

Guests:

Bryon Rushing 
Historian
Former MA State Representative  

Edmund Barry Gaither, PhD
Executive Director Emeritus
Museum of the National Center of Afro-AmericanArtists

Nerissa Williams
CEO & Lead Producer, That Child Got Talent Entertainment
Executive Producer, Echoes of Liberty

Kyera Singleton, PhD
Executive Director
Royall House and Slave Quarters

GBH Amplifies is a community conversation series focused on expanding the reach of local voices from Greater Boston and beyond. The series features community leaders hosting public conversations in the GBH Studio at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square, providing a platform for inclusive perspectives on the issues that matter most to New England communities. GBH Amplifies happens weekly on Thursdays from 12:30-1:30pm at the GBH BPL Studio. This event is free and open to the public.

GBH Amplifies is also being supported by the Barr Foundation.

Registration is encouraged for this free event.

Limited seating is available on a first come, first serve basis. If you require a seat, we encourage you to arrive before the start time of this event.

Join NOVA at Aeronaut Brewing Company on Monday, June 8th for a night of NOVA science trivia! Get ready for creative categories that test your knowledge of science, from the depths of the universe to the history of science and more!

Join Jimmy Hills and social impact entrepreneurs Anthony and Errin Davis, CEO and COO of The Davis System, for a timely conversation on today's political landscape and its impact on marginalized communities. Drawing from their extensive experience working on successful political campaigns and helping shape local and national programs and policies, Anthony, Errin, and Jimmy will explore how government decisions affect everyday lives. Together, they'll examine politics through both a national and local lens, offering real-world insights on policy, power, advocacy, and community impact.

Guests:

Anthony Davis
CEO, The Davis System

Errin Davis
COO, The Davis System

GBH Amplifies is a community conversation series focused on expanding the reach of local voices from Greater Boston and beyond. The series features community leaders hosting public conversations in the GBH Studio at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square, providing a platform for inclusive perspectives on the issues that matter most to New England communities. GBH Amplifies happens weekly on Thursdays from 12:30-1:30pm at the GBH BPL Studio. This event is free and open to the public.

GBH Amplifies is also being supported by the Barr Foundation.

Registration is encouraged for this free event.

Limited seating is available on a first come, first serve basis. If you require a seat, we encourage you to arrive before the start time of this event.