‘Tis the time of year for NEMPAC recitals! We at NEMPAC love our student recitals and take great pride in watching our students demonstrate all they learned over the session. You have three opportunities to watch NEMPAC students perform. They are: December 5th, 4 pm- ABCD outreach recital: NEMPAC students will perform a holiday themed, Read More…
No Rest for the Wicked Funny is a 24-hour improvised performance held at Improv Asylum. This amazing event is filled with celebrity guests, live auctions and the best part… all monies generated go directly to Globe Santa. We have a “Kids On Stage” portion on Saturday, December 6th at 10am. Kids under 17 enter free! December Read More…
St. John School’s Honor Choir, in partnership with NEMPAC, joined the Friends of Christopher Columbus Park, Mayor Marty Walsh, Miss Massachusetts and Santa Claus for the Annual Trellis Lighting Monday night. The students sang three songs for the overflowing crowd.
You have heard people say books are going away, that we’ll all be reading on Kindles, etc. for the foreseeable future. The more extreme prognosticators declare that whole libraries are in demise, and with the cloud, their books are destined for landfill. (They obviously haven’t read the statistics on the increased use of libraries, and Read More…
Kicking off the holiday season, the Friends of Christopher Columbus Park hosted its annual trellis lighting on Monday night. A tradition in its 13th year, the iconic trellis was set aglow with blue and white lights, funded entirely by the all-volunteer FOCCP group and its sponsors. The warm weather brought out hundreds to the park to enjoy the Read More…
Photo mystery: The North End once had a Jewish enclave. The photo above looks like it was taken in the early Twentieth Century and the legend said it was the corner of North Bennet and Salem Streets. But, I think that isn’t accurate. Can any of our urban sleuths who read NorthEndWaterfront.com identify the location? At the Read More…
The best thing about Christmas tree lightings are that you can go the next day and see it all! On Saturday night, Faneuil Hall was packed shoulder to shoulder to see Mayor Walsh flip the switch. On Sunday, the crowds were gone, but it was just as beautiful. This year’s Faneuil Hall tree comes from Nova Scotia Read More…
Nearly 5o0 Eliot students visited the Art of the Brick exhibit at Faneuil Hall this week thanks to a generous ticket donation from Boston Exhibits and The Gold Group! Almost all Eliot students made the trip and got to see a Lego dinosaur, Lego Starry Night, and dozens of other Lego creations by artist Nathan Read More…
The NEMPAC Children’s Music Theater Troupe delivered a captivating performance of Honk Jr. the Musical Thursday evening at Boston Harbor Community Church. It’s a modern day adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Ugly Duckling” that has many moments that will tickle your funny bone. The overall moral to the story reminds us that it is our Read More…
Featured in Part 3, the final cartoon throwback of our series, is the Prized Cartoon that took first place in the contest by Our Boston Magazine. Published in the August, 1926 issue, the cartoon speaks to a lot of similar issues that North Enders face with parking today, almost 100 years later. Traffic, street closings, narrow one-way streets, sporadic Read More…
NEMPAC is looking forward to celebrating Non-Profit Awareness Month of November with the North End Community this weekend! The organization is hosting an event at Boston Common Coffee, 97 Salem Street, in the North End on Saturday, November 15th from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Please join us for your morning or afternoon cup of Read More…
Acclaimed New England artist and longtime North End resident Sam Vokey has donated his artwork to be featured on holiday cards from Rosie’s Place, the first women’s shelter in the United States. Sales from the annual holiday card program help underwrite the vital programs and services Rosie’s Place provides for poor and homeless women in Read More…