2016-2017 Events
COOS is the 2017 Cultural Ensemble-in-Residence at the Roxbury YMCA!
Visit our Roxbury YMCA Residency page to learn more about our Cultural Days programming.
Visit our Roxbury YMCA Residency page to learn more about our Cultural Days programming.
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Pretty Little salmaIn storytelling through music, participants get to be part of the show in Pretty Little Salma, the Africanized retelling of the popular children's tale A Little Red Riding Hood. Be prepared to vocalize, sing, clap, and lend your thoughts and interpretive ideas while learning about storytelling!
August 26th: 11:30am & 1:30pm - Museum of African American History |
a veil of liquid diamonds is supported by
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a veil of liquid diamonds
Castle of our Skins kicks off its season with its first ever portrait concert featuring Boston's new, contemporary music string trio Sound Energy, violinists Annegret Klaua and Janny Joo, and the kaleidoscopic music of Jeffrey Mumford. Ranging from solo violin to string duos, trios and his monstrous a veil of liquid diamonds string quartet, this program will bring a healthy dose of this uniquely rich African American voice to Boston.
September 24th: 7:30pm - Roxbury Community College Media Arts Center Tickets: $15 General Admission; $10 Student/Senior (60+) Purchase HERE
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UmojaAn “edu-tainment” recital as part of Art Week Boston featuring string quartets by Black composers Jessie Montgomery, Florence Price, Valerie Coleman, William Grant Still and Chevalier de St. George.
October 1st: 12:30-1:30pm - Copley Library Courtyard Guastavino Room |
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FRANKLIN PARK ART GROVEAs part of Franklin Park Art Grove's outdoor festival, Castle of our Skins is proud to present A House of My Own. This musical and poetic performance explores the concept of home through a Black lens: home of the Black body; home of the Black mind; home of the oppression through the walls of a prison cell; and the home found within one’s community and culture. COOS is proud to feature writer, activist, freelance journalist and poet Didi Delgado for this performance.
CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER - Franklin Park |
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A house of my ownCOOS presents a repeat performance of A House of My Own in sculptor artist Sam Durant's newly created installation: The Meeting House. Designed as an interactive pavilion for racial justice dialogue on the historic Old Manse grounds, COOS lends its thought provoking mix of music and spoken word to the conversation.
October 8th: 4:30pm - The Old Manse, Concord, MA |
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UmojaAn “edu-tainment” recital as part of the Isabella Stewart Gardner's Indigenous Day celebrations featuring string quartets by Black composers Jessie Montgomery, Florence Price, Valerie Coleman, William Grant Still and Chevalier de St. George.
October 10th: time 10:30 & 11:30am - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
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Gettysburg College ResidencyNational Slam Poet champion Amber Rose Johnson joins COOS in Pennsylvania for lectures, workshops and an Oh, Freedom! repeat performance.
November 13-15, 2016 - Gettysburg College, PA |
Nicholas Hlobo: Tyaphaka (detail), 2012
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TyaphakaCastle of our Skins blends music, dance & visual art in this one-of-a-kind showcase of Black artistry. String quartets by Florence Price & Jessie Montgomery share the stage with world premiere works inspired by African masks & South African artist Nicholas Hlobo’s “Tyaphaka” sculpture - a larger than life exploration of the submerged. MORE INFO HERE & HERE.
March 24, 2017, 7:30pm - Hibernian Hall, Roxbury TIX: Purchase HERE $15 General Admission $10 Student/Senior (60+) FREE Children 12 and under 
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency which
is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, administrated by the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, and the Harvard Musical Association.
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massquerade ball 2017: ConvergenceImagine an art event where instead of looking at objects on walls we look at each other; where instead of going to see art, we become it; where people can convene, converge and celebrate what makes us both unique and unified. This is the inspiration behind MassQuerade Ball 2017: Convergence, an inter-generational, cross-cultural exhibition of the arts. Join us in honoring the diverse artistic expressions of Boston’s communities of color in a shared appreciation for arts, culture, and our collective humanity.
The MassQuerade Ball was made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts' Creative City Program, with funding from The Barr Foundation and with additional support from the Boston Foundation, and the Harvard Musical Association.
April 30, 2017, 6:30pm Hibernian Hall, Roxbury Tix (online only!): Purchase HERE $25, General Admission | $10, Children 10 and under, Seniors 65+ |
This program is made possible with support from
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#Resistance #Resilience#RESISTANCE #RESILIENCE is a program that celebrates known and unknown heroes, activists, and everyday people found within marginalized communities. As civil liberties continue to be in peril for women, the disabled, LGBTQ, and communities of color, #RESISTANCE #RESILIENCE reminds us that the strength of humanity can be a powerful opponent in the face of injustice.
June 8, 2017, 6:00-8:30PM - Museum of African American History Tickets: Purchase HERE $10 Non-MAAH Members $5 MAAH Members
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