Past Events

Alberto Vasallo, III, the CEO of El Mundo Boston, brings together Latino professionals who are philanthropic leaders in Boston. They share how Latinos are stepping into the gaps where traditional giving does not reach their communities. Learn more about where they recognize the opportunities to invest in positive growth.

With:
Elias Torres - Founder and CEO of Agency AI

Mary Skelton Roberts - CEO, Philanthropy MA

Aixa Beauchamp - Co-Founder of The Latino Equity Fund

Nora Moreno Cargie - President, Point32Health Foundation  

Join GBH for community conversations that amplify local voices from Boston and beyond. Recorded in front of the cafe audience at GBH’s studio in the Boston Public Library, GBH Amplifies features a rotating cast of well-known hosts from local media, community organizations, and more.

Last year, Boston drivers spent an average of 79 hours sitting in traffic. Those hours could have been spent going to the gym, visiting a library, or having lunch with a friend. How different would our lives be if everything we needed was only 15 minutes away on foot?

The 15-Minute City is an urban planning framework in which people live within 15 minutes of the essentials they need by walking or biking. Cities around the world - Barcelona, Paris, Singapore, and Bogota - have adopted this concept for sustainability and to improve general quality of life. As this concept gains popularity, we explore how our cities might leverage this global movement.

For decades, urban planning in the United States has advanced and prioritized automobile use, which led to the destruction and splintering of Black and brown neighborhoods. What resulted was the unprecedented surge of suburbia, which designated for generations of Americans separate spaces for living, working, etc. Now more than ever, the US is confronted with a physical and political landscape demonstrating the importance of connection and community.

In this talk, we explore the principles of the 15-Minute City, how it works, and how urban planning impacts our way of life and shapes how we live and move in our communities.

Christian MilNeil, editor-in-chief at StreetsblogMASS is moderating the discussion.

GBH welcomes CEO of El Mundo Boston, Alberto Vasallo, III back to the stage at our studio in the Boston Public Library.

This week he is joined by four women leading the way for Boston in fashion, modeling and events.

Marlena Garcia is the founder of Nouveau Networking, a group focused on helping young talent enter the modeling industry safely and with eyes wide open.

Sabrina Ortega Lopez is a fashion designer working with patterns, mediums and colors that highlight her own style and heritage. She is determined to make Boston better known for its fashion talent.

Keyla Williams is the co-founder of Bogosplit Boutique, a shop in Boston's Copley Place Mall dedicated to empowering emerging designers and creative entrepreneurs, providing them with a global stage to showcase their talents.

Juliana Hernández is the founder of DEZ Collective. She uses her opportunities to create glamours events as a way to build community and support others in the fashion and entertainment industry.

Join The Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation for the kickoff of their special exhibition, 'Rediscovering Waltham’s Harpsichord History', which will examine the story of Frank and Diane Hubbard, founders and operators of Hubbard Harpsichords manufacturers of instruments and kits for almost 50 years.

Through their work, Greater Boston became a center of the revivial of the harpsichord as an instrument and Early Music as a genre. Mark Kroll has written the definitive book on chronicling this important period of music history and collected dozens of firsthand accounts of the principal players, workers, and artisans associated with the ‘Big Three’ harpsichord shops in Greater Boston – Hubbard in Waltham, William Dowd and Eric Herz, both in Cambridge.

Kroll will give a talk that sets the context in which the Hubbards’ shop at the Lyman Estate carriage house expanded to the old Cotton Picker Building of the Boston Manufacturing Factory site on Moody Street. Hubbard Harpsichords pioneered the use of DIY kits that became popular in the 1960s and 70s, many of which were built in this mill complex.

This Mill Talk marks the grand opening of Rediscovering Waltham’s Harpsichord History, a special exhibition on the artisanship, industry, and art of designing and building harpsichords, exemplified by those of the Hubbard shop. This three-month exhibition will include a full harpsichord, wood-bending frames, tools and materials of the trade, and imagery from the Hubbard shop that centers the workers who created instruments and kits for decades on site. Over the course of its installation, the program will include music, informational talks, panel discussions, and other special events to bring this almost-forgotten part of Waltham’s and Greater Boston’s music history back to the forefront.

Marie Benedict is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Known for her engaging mysteries and use of real-life events as inspiration, Marie has written a number of novels including The Milford Affair, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, The First Ladies, and The Personal Librarian. Her recently released mystery is The Queens of Crime. Her books have been chosen for the Good Morning America Book Club and Target’s Book of the Year, among other distinct honors.

Marie shares her knowledge, dives deeper into her compelling stories, and answers the audience and GBH's Craig LeMoult 's burning questions!

Join us at the GBH Studios at the Boston Public Library for a nerdy night of NOVA science trivia! Get ready for creative categories and exciting prizes as we test your knowledge of science, from the depths of the universe to the history of science.

This month, we will be quizzing you on your knowledge of archeology, the science of love, and more!

atherine McKittrick is Professor of Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, where she researches in areas of Black studies, anti-colonial studies, and critical-creative methodologies. She has authored multiple articles and is a former editor at Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. Her books include Dear Science and Other Stories and Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. She also edited and contributed to Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis. Recent and forthcoming projects include the limited-edition boxset Trick Not Telos, a collaboration with Liz Ikriko and Cristian Ordóñez, and the tryptic honoring NourbeSe Philip On the Declension of Beauty. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies from York University.

Cosponsored by the Boston College Program in African and African Diaspora Studies.

Under President Biden, the U.S. has advanced new ideas about trade, technology, industrial policy, competition with China, and the organization of the world economy. For most of the postwar era, the U.S. has tied its global leadership to cooperative agendas aimed at creating a more open-world trading system, but that has apparently come to an end.

What are America’s options and opportunities as a leader of the world economy? How will America’s “foreign policy for the middle class” and strategic competition with China impact its leadership role? How can the postwar rules and institutions of the world economy be made safe for economic nationalism and great power competition?

Join WorldBoston for a timely discussion of this topic with Dr. Daniel Drezner, Distinguished Professor of International Politics and Associate Dean of Research at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of celebrated American women, Megan Marshall has been hailed as a “gifted storyteller” (New Yorker) at “the front rank of American biographers” (New York Times).

Join us to hear about her latest work “After Lives: On Biography and Mysteries of the Human Heart” and gain insight from her discussion with fellow biographer Janice Nimura. Don’t miss their conversation about remarkable women in history and their own lives and work. Special for Women’s History Month.

GBH Champions Circle presents a spectacular sneak peek event! Champions Circle patrons are invited to attend an early screening of the first episode of MASTERPIECE’S Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. Guests will enjoy movie theater-style snacks and drinks with family and friends. Be part of the excitement before the official broadcast premiere on Sunday, March 23.

May, 1536. Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife, is dead. As the axe drops, Thomas Cromwell emerges from the bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. But how long can anyone survive under Henry’s cruel and capricious gaze?

1:30pm Doors Open
2pm Program Begins


This is a private event for Champions Circle patrons who contribute $900-$2,399 annually. Champions Circle membership includes numerous benefits, including advance and exclusive access and discounts to select GBH events, including this MASTERPIECE Wolf Hall Watch Party. Not a Champions Circle donor, but curious to learn more about this membership program? Please contact sandy_chin@wgbh.org , Associate Director of Champions Circle.


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