Community Kids & Families

Steriti Rink Public Skating Starts Dec. 5

Public Skating at the Department of Conservation & Recreation (DCR) rinks, including the North End’s Steriti Rink located at 561 Commercial Street, begins Saturday, December 5, 2020. Steriti Rink hours are as follows: Sunday: 3pm – 6:50pm Monday, Tuesday & Thursday: 12pm – 2:20pm Wednesday: public stick time 10am – 11:50am; public skating 12pm – 2:50pm; Friday: 12pm Read More…

Featured Schools

Eliot Students Take to the Ice

The Eliot School in Boston’s North End recently launched ice skating as a classroom activity. Students spent time at the Steriti ice rink on Commercial Street learning and enjoying a new winter activity together. Eliot Principal Traci Walker Griffith extended a special “shout out” to the families who were able to stop by and lace Read More…

Arts & Culture Featured

Boston Lyric Opera Transforms Steriti Rink Into Carnival Fairground for Pagliacci

Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) previewed the well-known opera, Pagliacci, to viewers during their final dress rehearsal on Wednesday evening. Scheduled to officially begin on Friday, September 27th, the opera will run until October 6th with a fully immersive installation within the DCR Steriti Memorial Rink. The experience includes access to an indoor fairgrounds—complete with acrobats, Read More…

Arts & Culture

Boston Lyric Opera to Perform at North End’s Steriti Ice Rink

The Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) will perform its season opener, R. Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (Sept 26 – Oct 6, 2019) and its season closer, G.F. Handel’s Giulio Cesare (May 8 – 17, 2020) at the DCR Steriti Memorial Rink in the North End. BLO used the Steriti Rink in 2018 for their performances of Trouble in Tahiti and Arias & Read More…

Featured Kids & Families Sports

Santa Skate and Toy Drive Fills Steriti Skating Rink

The holiday event season continues throughout the North End! Steriti Rink was the sight for the annual Santa Skate & Toy Drive. Loads of toys were collected during the free skating event. A raffle with several prizes also helped contribute to the cause.  Toys piled in along with kids who laced up their skates to get on the ice! Read More…

Community Event Notices

Santa Skate & Toy Drive December 1

Join Santa and his North End elves at the Steriti Rink on Commercial Street on Saturday, December 1 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. for the annual Columbus Day Committee’s Santa Skate and Toy Drive! Enjoy skating, holiday music & caroling, face painting, refreshments, and a try your luck at a raffle. Please bring an unwrapped toy Read More…

Community Event Notices

Public Skating at the Steriti Rink Starts November 23

Public skating is back at the DCR Steriti Memorial Rink on Commercial Street in the North End for the 2018-2019 winter season! Beginning Friday, November 23, the rink will be open for public skating during the following hours: Sundays: 3 p.m. – 6:50 p.m.Mondays, Tuesdays & Thursdays: 12 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.Wednesdays : public skating Read More…

Arts & Culture

North End’s Skating Rink Transformed for the Opera

The North End’s Steriti Skating Rink was transformed into a cabaret theater for the Boston Lyric Opera performances of Trouble in Tahiti and Arias & Barcarolles, works of Leonard Bernstein. BLO’s Production & Technical Director Anna Labykina discussed the unconventional venue choice in a BLO article, Opera in an Ice Rink? The Boston Lyric Opera previously used the Steriti Read More…

Featured Food & Drink Photos & Videos

Taste of the North End Celebrates 25 Years; Honors Pam Donnaruma and Paolo D’Amore

Celebrating 25 years, the annual Taste of the North End was a fabulous festival of food, charity and commemoration of the rich history of the neighborhood. Held on Friday, April 27th, the destination event set an attendance record with over 800 patrons coming out to the neighborhood’s largest fundraiser at the Steriti Memorial Ice Rink in Boston’s Read More…

Arts & Culture

Boston Lyric Opera to Perform at the DCR Steriti Memorial Rink

The Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) will present a first-time pairing / blending of two Leonard Bernstein works, Trouble in Tahiti / Arias and Barcarolles as a cabaret at the DCR Steriti Memorial Rink at 561 Commercial Street in the North End. Performances will be at 8 p.m. on May 11, 12, 16, 18 and 19; and at 3 Read More…