Each year, Mayor Walsh and the City of Boston celebrate the millennial contribution to our city with the Annual SPARK Impact Awards. Executive Director of the North End Music and Performing Arts Center, Sherri Snow, has been selected as a finalist in the category of Community Building and Neighborhood Improvement. Sherri Snow has been leading arts Read More…
The popular “High Tide” public art exhibit by Carolina Aragón is being removed this weekend, so take a final gander before it leaves the North End. The installation will be moving from its location across the Rose Kennedy Greenway to the Snug Harbor rotary in Quincy. Professors Carolina Aragón and Elisabeth Hamin, from the University Read More…
The North End Music and Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) is happy to announce a brand new partnership with the Improv Asylum. The two organizations will collaborate to offer a Youth Improv Class in our upcoming winter session for children ages 7-10 that will be led by staff from both organizations. Kelly Dooley from Improv Asylum Read More…
Boston’s North End: An Italian American Story had its neighborhood premiere Saturday night on Hanover Street at St. Stephen’s Church. The documentary film chronicles the North End from the immigration era to modern times. This is the first feature length, high definition film to chronicle the vibrant Italian American community that has called the North End Read More…
The Madonna Della Cava Society hosted North End families at its 65th Annual Outdoor Halloween Party on Saturday, October 29th. The highlight was the parade through the North End streets. Leading the parade were members from the Saint Alfio’s Band with music selections ranging from Ghostbusters, Mickey Mouse, When Saints Come Marching In and, of course, the Italian feast procession Read More…
The Madonna Della Cava Society hosted North End families at its 65th Annual Outdoor Halloween Party on Saturday, October 29th. The highlight was the parade through the North End streets. Leading the parade were members from the Saint Alfio’s Band with music selections ranging from Ghostbusters, Mickey Mouse, When Saints Come Marching In and, of course, the Italian feast procession Read More…
North End Residents Needed for FOCUS GROUP “Public Art and Climate Change: Learning from “High Tide” Professors Carolina Aragón and Elisabeth Hamin, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, are conducting a research project to understand to role of public art in communicating about climate change. We would like to invite North End neighborhood residents over Read More…
NEMPAC would like to give a big thank you to all who joined us on the Prado last Monday (10/24) for our Pumpkin Painting event. We hope to see you at our 11th Annual Halloween Party on October 31st from 5:30 – 7:00 PM on the Prado!
Congratulations Marshall Scholarship Recipients Alba-Lis Routhier-Gomez and Julianna Vitello The North End Music Performance and Arts Center (NEMPAC) is honored to continue to carry on the Geraldine Marshall Scholarship, and to preserve the legacy of a woman who loved children and the arts. The Geraldine Marshall Scholarship Fund enters its second year of awarding two Read More…
Video: Boston Stands With Italy fundraiser on October 23, 2016, Steriti Rink, Boston’s North End, featuring scenes from the event, official program and music by Scansonati. Boston’s Italian community and local restaurants raised over $60,000 at “Boston Stands With Italy,” a fundraiser held on Sunday, October 23rd at Steriti rink in the North End. A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit Read More…
by Terri Mazzulli A bronze plaque marks the site of ‘First Conservatory of Music in Boston” — the “American Conservatorio of Boston.” The conservatory was founded in 1800 by three immigrants: Filippo Trajetta (Italian, Francis Mallet (Frenchman) and Gottlieb Graupner (German). Julie Burros, Chief of Arts and Culture in Boston, recently held a presentation at the site to Franco Read More…
Artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo is just days away from completing Spaces of Hope, the latest giant mural on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. The work will be the fifth in an annual series of contemporary murals on the massive 70′ x 76′ tunnel vent building wall facing Dewey Square. “I want people to think of ‘hope’ when Read More…