Coming this September!
Multicultural Arts Center presents
The Immersive Afrofuturism Experience
Friday, September 29, 2023 at 8pm
Multicultural Arts Center presents
Dvidha
Friday, October 13, 2023 at 7:30pm
Other Upcoming Events
Join us for Singer Mali's
Album Release Concert for
Lodestone
Friday, September 22, 2023
Boston-based Singer Mali, of avant-rock band Jaggery, releases her solo album, Lodestone, with a special concert and celebration. Lodestone explores humanity’s dichotomy, the destructive and restorative, love and conflict, individual, familial and societal, and the introspective and external struggles that comprise the wide-ranging aspects of those experiences. All of this is done with the inventiveness Mali is known for through blending and juxtaposing the familiarity and accessibility of pop music with elements more often associated with jazz, classical, musical theater, world music, and the avant-garde.
For this concert, Mali will be joined by Jaggery bandmates Tony Leva on bass/es, Dylan Jack on drums, and string quartet — Brian Urra and Rachel Panitch on violins, Jaggery bandmate Rachel Jayson on viola, and Michael Frontz on cello.
Writer, musician, and Cambridge treasure Charles Coe opens the night with songs, poems and prose, “writing like a man with polished wings, flying above it all while watching the high and low tides of life” (Poet Lore magazine).
Juventas New Music Ensemble
Song in Flight
Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 8pm
Juventas New Music Ensemble is a contemporary chamber group with a special focus on emerging voices sharing classical music as a vibrant, living art form. They bring audiences music from a diverse array of composers that live in today’s world and respond to our time. Song in Flight is an homage to avian life and includes music by Oliver Caplan, Libby Meyer, Mari Kotskyy, Angus Davison, Joshua Shank, Beth Ratay, and Christina Rusnak.
Cambridge Jazz Foundation's Winter Concert Series
Celebrating John Coltrane Featuring Tia Fuller
Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 8pm
When Grammy-nominated Mack Avenue recording artist, composer, and bandleader Tia Fuller picks up her saxophone, something amazing happens. Blending technical brilliance, melodic creativity, and the performing precision drawn from both her academic and stage experience, Fuller is a force to be reckoned with in the worlds of jazz, pop, R&B, and more. Currently, Fuller balances the worlds of performance and education, fulfilling a demanding schedule as both a busy touring and recording artist and a full-time professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Maitreyee Chakraborty (Tagore, Me and You) presents
Women, Gender, Caste and Colorism
in Tagore's Compositions
Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 5pm
Women's stories, gender issues, caste and colorism will be explored in Tagore's songs, stories, dances and acting in a feast for the senses. Come watch this amazing show with vocals, live music, dance and drama (with English subtitles).
This program is supported and funded by The Cambridge Arts Council , a part of Mass Cultural Council, and hosted at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge. It is also supported by NEBAF (New England Bangladeshi American Foundation).
In the Gallery
Braided Memories
Photographs by Samuel Shats
Poetry by Marjorie Agosin
August 21 - September 29, 2023
Chilean-American poet, novelist, essayist and human rights activist Marjorie Agosín, pays homage to her great grandmother, Helena Broder, who escaped Austria shortly after the Night of the Broken Glass in 1938, in a compelling series of poems paired with photographs by Chilean photographer Samuel Shats, in a journey across time and space and across thresholds between life, death and dreams to discover Helena's lost voice.
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