North End Movie Nights Off to a Great Summer

Boston Community Collaborative is thrilled that it’s North End Movie Nights are off to a fabulous start!  Movies are shown on the white part of the Italian Flag on the wall of Prince Street Park/Defilippo Playground/The Gassy.  Activities start at about 6, Regina Pizza comes at 7 and movies are shown at “dark o’clock’.  This lovely community event is free – all are welcome.

Week one saw us move the fun indoors to the Nazarro Center gymnasium due to crazy rain.  The rain did not dampen anyone’s spirits and we had a great time.  Thank you to Carl Ameno and Bruce for accommodating us.

Week two saw us at the Gassy for a beautiful weather evening.  It is so great to see friends and neighbors old and new gather for this community event.  Janine Martignetti gets the MVP award for the evening for running home for a bucket of white paint and step stool – she touched up the many bare spots on the wall making for a better movie experience for us all!

Next week we will show “Home Alone” for Christmas in July.  If you’d like to participate in the gift exchange, please bring a wrapped gift, less than $10.  If you bring one, you can take one.

Week four will see us as part of North End Against Drug’s Family Fun Festival and we will show Napoleon Dynamite.

This year’s movie nights have been generously sponsored by Northendboston.com, MSA Mortgage, Pilgrim Parking, City Councilor Candidate Stephen Passacantilli, State Senator Joe Boncore, State Representative Aaron Michlewitz, Pizzeria Regina, Boston Community Collaborative, and Denison Builders.

BCC was incorporated in 2013 and strives to create community by connecting people and resources.
BCC offers courses in Drama, Dance, Fitness and Engineering for Kids during the St John School afterschool program, courses in Drama in the North End, and at the Josiah Quincy afterschool program. BCC holds a Movers and Shakers class for babies and toddlers at the West End Community Center. BCC hosts a number of community events: Movie Nights in the Gassy during the summer, an annual Halloween Party for adults, and an annual Springtime Egg Hunt in Christopher Columbus Park. For more information, contact becca0923@yahoo.com.
Upcoming Events:
• Wednesday nights all summer long. North End Movie Nights in the Gassy
• August, 2017, Two – week long summer intensive theatre offerings for kids, “Hairspray”. A musical theatre intensive based on the music and book of the Broadway hit “Hairspray”, and “Of Monsters and Men:  Shakespeare’sVillians”  A Shakespeare Intensive.  Details of these 2 weeks being formalized now.
• Fall, 2017, Classes resume.
• October 28, 2017, Adult Halloween FUNraiser.
• October 31, 2017, Post Trick or Treat Dance party for kids and their caregiver.
• Spring 2018, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” – Next year’s youth/adult collaboration.  Auditions, February 2nd and 3rd.