A virtual writing circle honoring Black Love Day & Toni Morrison — exploring love, intimacy, and passion as resistance.
Sacred Ink: Black Love as Resistance is a virtual, stay-at-home writing circle created for witnessing, nurturing, loving, liberating, reflecting, and expressing in community.

Held in honor of Black Love Day (February 13) and the birthday of Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931), this gathering celebrates love, intimacy, and passion as acts of resistance. We honor Toni Morrison as an ancestor whose work fiercely upheld Black love in its fullness — tender, complex, sacred, and liberatory.

Sacred Ink is not a workshop focused on polish or performance. It is a communal space for truth-telling and presence. Through guided writing prompts, reflection, and optional sharing, participants are invited to write from where they are — whether arriving energized, needing rest, or winding down for the day.

This virtual format allows participants to join from wherever you are, making space for those navigating time zones, caregiving, illness, disability, or limited access. Cameras on or off, sharing or listening, writing or resting — all ways of being are welcome.

Come as you are.

Bring your notebook, your breath, your tea or coffee, your quiet, your questions. This is a space to be witnessed and to witness others — rooted in Black love, memory, and care.

SOUL FOOD • CARD GAMES • OPEN SKATING & CHALLENGES BOARD GAMES • DANCING. Plus raffles. All ages (minors must be accompanied by an adult.

A Conversation with Dr. Nedra Lee & MAAH Chief Curator & Director of Collections Angela Tate
Hear the stories that history often leaves out. MAAH’s Chief Curator and Director of Collections and UMass Boston Professor Dr. Nedra Lee will discuss the process of assembling and curating our Black Voices of the Revolution exhibit. From rare found cowrie shells to interactive exhibits that allow visitors to dive deeper into the perspectives of key figures like Lucy Terry Prince, Phillis Wheatley Peters, Chloe Spear, among other important women in Boston & Nantucket's history.

Experience the conversation, honor these voices, and engage with history in a new way.

Let us come together as a diverse LGBTQ+ community across generations to share our stories, support each other, and stand strong in the face of today’s political challenges.

In honor of Black Heritage Month, the League is hosting a free online webinar to commemorate the life and legacy of renowned pianist, educator and activist Maud Cuney Hare, an early member of the League, Feb. 22 at 2pm, by Atlanta-based researcher and writer Jené Watson. "Afternoon Tea for the Soul" will educate, dazzle and inspire you on the life of this remarkable American hero.

In Full Bloom Book Club is a three-session floral and literary experience designed for thoughtful conversation, creativity, and connection.

Over the course of three gatherings, guests will come together in the Pilon Fleur studio to discuss a selected book while creating a floral arrangement inspired by its themes, mood, and emotional undercurrents. Each session builds on the last, allowing relationships, ideas, and creativity to deepen naturally.

Guided by Pilon Fleur, participants will work with seasonal blooms while engaging in meaningful, guided discussion. This is not a traditional book club. It is a curated experience where storytelling unfolds through both words and flowers.

Designed for readers, creatives, and anyone seeking a slower, more intentional rhythm, In Full Bloom Book Club offers space to reflect, create, and be in community.

No floral experience required. All materials are provided.

DSNI is holding down a 2-session People's Budget Housing Working Group to make proposals that will go into Boston's People's Budget-- a democratic, people-led version of the City Budget.

The Housing Working Group will be a group of residents, with support from the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, that will meet twice in February to draft proposals on how the city budget should support affordable housing. Meetings are on Feb 4 and Feb 25, from 5:30-7:30 pm at 550 Dudley Street, Roxbury. Childcare, interpretation, travel reimbursement, and food will be included.

On February 27, individuals who were wrongfully convicted share their journeys of resilience, accountability, and rebuilding life after injustice. This event centers truth-telling, human dignity, and hope us to listen, learn, and witness what it means to reclaim life and the pursuit of happiness.

Join "Magical Thinking, of Systems and Belief" artist Jonathan González for a new, site-specific performance.
Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG), in partnership with the Museum of African American History (MAAH), will present suite for a minor meeting, a new, site-specific performance by artist Jonathan González, who works at the intersections of choreography, sculpture, text, and media.

González’s performance, inspired by their print series on view in the exhibition Magical Thinking, of Systems and Beliefs at TUAG / Boston (230 Fenway) through April 19, 2026, draws from a rich array of sources: Asher Benjamin’s architectural renderings; William Grant Still Jr.’s Harlem Renaissance compositions; Roland Hayes’ 1974 arrangement of the African American Spiritual Lit’l Boy; abolitionist legacies deeply tied to the Meeting House through Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Sarah Grimké; and contemporary scholarship on emancipation and the Black Commons by Rinaldo Walcott, Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, and J.T. Roane.

Staged within the historic African Meeting House—the oldest surviving Black church building in the United States—this collaboration underscores a shared commitment to stewarding Black cultural memory, celebrating artistic innovation, and activating historic sites through contemporary creative practices. The program, part of MAAH’s Black History Month calendar of events, is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and reservations are encouraged.

This collaboration juxtaposes González’s expansive research and interdisciplinary artistry with one of Boston’s most significant landmarks of Black community life, political organization, and abolitionist history.

Featuring vocalists Ifeanyi Epum, Ogechi Okoye, and Valentine Umeh, suite for a minor meeting unfolds as a guided experience through the architecture of the African Meeting House.

This Black History Month, MIDA is proud to host Community Through Hospitality Brunch at MIDA Fenway—celebrating culture, creativity, and community while supporting Jaylen Brown’s 7uice Foundation.

Three-course prix-fixe brunch.
One meaningful cause.
Limited seating available.

Unleash Your Inner Florist!

Celebrate the vibrancy of summer through color-rich, expressive floral design. In this workshop, you’ll create a hand-tied bouquet using lush seasonal flowers, focusing on balance, texture, and natural flow. You’ll learn approachable techniques that empower you to continue arranging confidently at home.

All materials are included, featuring a curated selection of summer blooms, floral tools, and finishing touches for presentation.

This session is open to all skill levels. Come to relax, create, and leave with a bouquet that reflects the joy and warmth of the season.