Join Spark Media Foundation for Brunch & Burners, a one-day Basic Firearm Safety course designed for women who want to learn firearm safety and prepare for Massachusetts LTC/FID applications. Enjoy a guided, supportive class taught by a certified instructor, then relax and network over a catered brunch featuring Boston’s local chefs.

What you’ll get:
•⁠ ⁠Basic Firearm Safety Course (certified instructor)
•⁠ ⁠Documentation to support your MA LTC/FID application
•⁠ ⁠Brunch catered by local women-owned caterers
•⁠ ⁠Q&A on safe, responsible ownership and next steps to purchase

Join Eastie Farm to celebrate the return of the light, with food and music!

Enter 2026 the right way—with ice sculptures, hot beverages, holiday trolley ride, and a celebration of Roxbury! Join us at the Shaw-Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library (149 Dudley Street, Roxbury) from 12:00PM – 3:00PM on Wednesday, December 31.

In place of the usual grocery deliveries, there will be hot food to anyone in need, once in Boston, and once in Springfield. Accepting nonperishable food items to donate to other orgs who provide support to community all year round. This year, we're accepting goods on behalf of the Trans Emergency Fund and the Springfield Rescue Mission.

Freedom Sounds is a live music series occurring most Tuesdays. This particular event will feature DJ 411, a world traveling DJ creating dynamic experiences for listeners.

BE·COM·ING is a lecture-ish series curated by Porsha Olayiwola. BE·COM·ING invites artists and organizers to engage with the story of who they are, why they are and how they are. This particular event will center to the work and life of organizer Catherine Morris

Black women and Black femmes in Greater Boston are invited to Like One of the Family: a Book Circle to read together and help spark a new puppetry performance. Artists, makers and radical dreamers are especially encouraged to join.

Join the Art in Tune, the MFA’s annual celebration of art and music! Don’t miss this evening of live musical performances throughout the galleries, using instruments from the Museum’s collection.

Discover music from all over the world, performed all over the MFA by internationally celebrated musical artists. Curatorial staff from the Department of Musical Instruments have paired collection instruments with galleries and artwork that resonate with the genre of music being performed, spinning out a blend of musical and visual art unlike any other. Be sure to visit the Musical Instruments gallery after the performances to learn more about many of the featured instruments.

Join ICA Assistant Curator Tessa Bachi Haas for a final walkthrough of the 2025 James and Audrey Foster Prize exhibition, closing January 19. Learn about Haas’s process organizing the exhibition and the four local artists featured in it.

Embrace Honors MLK returns for its 4th year with an inspiring night of music, community, and celebration honoring the legacy of Dr. King and Coretta Scott King. Join us on January 18, 2026, as we uplift changemaking individuals and couples and immerse ourselves in music, dancing, food, and the fight for equity. This year, we are honored to unite with the historic MLK Memorial Breakfast, and the Boston Children’s Chorus MLK Concert to bring to Boston a signature series of events honoring the fight for equity.

Celebrate Dr. King's April 1965 visit to Boston & be moved to make our country's founding vision a reality - liberty & justice for all.
Brother Dennis and Friends and the Association of Black Citizens of Lexington come together to celebrate and honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 2pm at Follen Community Church.

The tribute to Dr. King and the civil rights movement will feature spirituals and freedom songs performed by a choir led by Dennis L. Slaughter, EdM, DLP. Borther Dennis is founding director of the Boston Community Choir and artistic director of the Boston Pops Orchestra Gospel Choir.

Join the annual MLK Day Open House. This year, the MFA offers free admission for Massachusetts residents. Celebrate the legacy of Dr. King by surrounding yourself with art making, performances, and talks with members of our community!

An annual tradition by The Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground and its partners.

Join the Afrimerican Academy , Embrace Boston & the 54th Regiment for People Before Highways Day, a commemorative meeting honoring Boston’s legacy of community resistance and visionary planning.

On Sunday, January 25th, 2026, at 2:00 PM, we’ll gather at the Massachusetts State House retracing the historic path of civic courage that helped stop the Inner Belt highway project and saved neighborhoods like Cambridgeport, Jamaica Plain, and Roxbury from destruction.