Past Events
Climate Convening 2025: Building the Somerville Area’s Capacity to Respond
Community Gathering for Racial Justice
Exploring: The Cost of Forgetting: Why Anti-Blackness Still Defines America
Somatic Therapy for Queer Self Care
Act for Change: New Short Plays on Climate Action
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Theater as Climate Action: A Conversation with Arts & Climate Initiative Artistic Director Chantal Bilodeau
Theater as Climate Action: A Conversation with Arts & Climate Initiative Artistic Director Chantal Bilodeau
Now is Still Here: Climate Change Theatre Action 2026
Theater as Climate Action: A Conversation with Arts & Climate Initiative Artistic Director Chantal Bilodeau
Poet and Naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, Reading from Her Latest Collection SOFAR
Poet and Naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, Reading from Her Latest Collection SOFAR
Poet and Naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, Reading from Her Latest Collection SOFAR
Saturday 3 May 2025
Climate Convening 2025: Building the Somerville Area’s Capacity to Respond
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
The Somerville Community Growing Center 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA
Saturday 3 May 2025
Climate Convening 2025: Building the Somerville Area’s Capacity to Respond
A call for mutual aid!
When a fire breaks out, emergency response teams call on each other to come to their aid.
That time is now, as Trump...
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
The Somerville Community Growing Center 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA
Wednesday 11 June 2025
Community Gathering for Racial Justice
7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
The Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville MA
Wednesday 11 June 2025
Community Gathering for Racial Justice
Exploring: The Cost of Forgetting: Why Anti-Blackness Still Defines America
This event will be conducted in English.
Join us for an evening of...
7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
The Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville MA
Wednesday 18 June 2025
The Challenges of the Anthropocene: Climate Change and Ancestral Black Communities
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Via Zoom - RECORDING AVAILABLE!
Wednesday 18 June 2025
The Challenges of the Anthropocene: Climate Change and Ancestral Black Communities
RECORDING AVAILABLE!
The recording ...
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Via Zoom - RECORDING AVAILABLE!
Sunday 22 June 2025
Somatic Therapy for Queer Self Care
10:00 - 11:15 a.m.
The Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA
Sunday 22 June 2025
Somatic Therapy for Queer Self Care
Join Monia (she/they) for an exploration of embracing self care and nervous system regulation. This workshop offers practices that help ai...
10:00 - 11:15 a.m.
The Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA
June - July 2025
Act for Change: Playwriting Workshops on Climate Action
Various times
Online
June - July 2025
Act for Change: Playwriting Workshops on Climate Action
Led by Alicia Hyland
Whether you're an experienced playwright or a first-time writer, this series will guide you in crafting short plays that...
Various times
Online
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Theater as Climate Action: A Conversation with Arts & Climate Initiative's Chantal Bilodeau
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Via Zoom - RECORDING AVAILABLE!
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Theater as Climate Action: A Conversation with Arts & Climate Initiative's Chantal Bilodeau
RECORDING AVAILABLE!
Theater as Climate Action: A Conversation with Arts & Climate Initiative's Chantal Bilodeau
Meet Chantal Bilodeau, Found...
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Via Zoom - RECORDING AVAILABLE!
Friday 29 -Sunday 31 May; Friday 5 June 2026
Now is Still Here: Climate Change Theatre Action 2026
Various Times
The Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville MA
Friday 29 -Sunday 31 May; Friday 5 June 2026
Now is Still Here: Climate Change Theatre Action 2026
Directed by Tom King
Produced by: Anneke Reich
Stage Manager: Maggie Hastings
Production Assistant: Carolina Alcantara
Movement director: Fiona ...
Various Times
The Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville MA
Thursday 18 June 2026
Climate Convening Series 2026: Can We Address the Climate Crisis without Addressing Anti-Blackness?
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
The Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville MA
Thursday 18 June 2026
Climate Convening Series 2026: Can We Address the Climate Crisis without Addressing Anti-Blackness?
Join Diane Wong, founder and director of the Racial Justice Collaborative, and Somerville-area activists to explore why solving the climate ...
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
The Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville MA
Saturday 27 June 2026
Climate Convening Series 2026 A Council of All Beings
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
The Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA
Saturday 27 June 2026
Climate Convening Series 2026 A Council of All Beings
When you think of our current climate and biodiversity crises, how do you feel? How do you navigate grief, anxiety, exhaustion, and rage whi...
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
The Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Poet and Naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, Reading from Her Latest Collection SOFAR.
6:30- 8:00 p.m.
The Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Poet and Naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, Reading from Her Latest Collection SOFAR.
Co-hosted by Porter Square Books
In SOFAR, poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield attends our current ecological and historic moment, her decade...
6:30- 8:00 p.m.
The Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA
“Urban Pastorals” is co-sponsored by the Racial Justice Collaborative (Diane Wong, founder and leader) and the Somerville Community Growing Center.
This project is supported in part by a Public Humanities/Community Engagement Grant from the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.; and by a 2026 National Arts Strategies, Creative Community Fellows: New England fellowship.
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