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SEASON 11
Fri, Jun 28Jun 28, 2024, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PMMFA Boston's Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USAJun 28, 2024, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PMMFA Boston's Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USAJoin us for a special screening of Malcom X at the Roxbury International Film Festival. Produced in conjunction with our As Told By initiative, Malcom X invites viewers to discover Malcolm X’s relationship with race in America.
Sat, Jun 15Jun 15, 2024, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PMKroc Community Center, 650 Dudley St, Boston, MA 02125, USA
Sat, Jun 15Jun 15, 2024, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PMRoxbury of the Boston Public Library, 149 Dudley St, Roxbury, MA 02119, USA
Mon, Jun 03Jun 03, 2024, 4:00 PM – Jun 18, 2024, 8:00 PMJune 3-18, 2024 at 4:00pm on Instagram & FB
Thu, May 23May 23, 2024, 7:45 PM – 9:00 PMHoward Assembly Room Leeds, 32 New Briggate, Leeds LS1 6NU, UK
Sat, May 11May 11, 2024, 12:30 PM – 12:50 PMRoxbury of the Boston Public Library, 149 Dudley St, Roxbury, MA 02119, USA
Sun, Apr 21Apr 21, 2024, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PMIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115, USAApr 21, 2024, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PMIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115, USARoots explores the origins of inspiration, the anchors from where creativity is born. Castle of our Skins teams up with critically-acclaimed pianist Kyle P. Walker to explore this concept highlighting music from the African diaspora.
Sat, Apr 06Apr 06, 2024, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PMPrior Performing Arts Center, 1 College St, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
Sat, Mar 30Mar 30, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PMBrattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro, V, 72 Blanche Moyse Wy, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAMar 30, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PMBrattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro, V, 72 Blanche Moyse Wy, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USACastle of our Skins returns to the Brattleboro Music Center for a day-long celebration of composer Adolphus Hailstork complete with masterclasses, discussions, and a capstone portrait concert featuring chamber music from Hailstork's rich body of work.
Fri, Mar 29Mar 29, 2024, 7:00 PM – 7:45 PMPickman Hall, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Thu, Mar 21Mar 21, 2024, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PMBoston Public Library Central Copley , 700 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116, USAMar 21, 2024, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PMBoston Public Library Central Copley , 700 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116, USAVisionary Black composer Julia Perry (1924-1979) was a revolutionary artist whose groundbreaking operas, symphonies, and choral works innovatively combined musical idioms of the African diaspora with 20th century European techniques.
Sun, Mar 17Mar 17, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PMSimmons University, 300 Fenway, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Sat, Mar 16Mar 16, 2024, 11:50 PM – Mar 17, 2024, 1:30 PMRoxbury branch of the Boston Library, 149 Dudley St, Roxbury, MA 02119, USAMar 16, 2024, 11:50 PM – Mar 17, 2024, 1:30 PMRoxbury branch of the Boston Library, 149 Dudley St, Roxbury, MA 02119, USAVoices of Black Madonna celebrates three legendary singers who raised their voices for liberation: Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price and Mahalia Jackson. Geared towards families and young audiences (ages 12 and under)
Sat, Mar 09Mar 09, 2024, 11:50 PM – Mar 10, 2024, 1:30 PM149 Dudley St, Roxbury, 149 Dudley St, Roxbury, MA 02119, USAMar 09, 2024, 11:50 PM – Mar 10, 2024, 1:30 PM149 Dudley St, Roxbury, 149 Dudley St, Roxbury, MA 02119, USAThe songs and games we played as children helped us learn cultural stories and understood the rhythms and textures of our world. Join in play as we remember, celebrate, learn, and relearn Afro-American and Caribbean play songs and games! Family-friendly/youth ages 12 and under.
Sat, Mar 02Mar 02, 2024, 11:50 PM – Mar 03, 2024, 5:00 PMGoethe Institut (170 Beacon St, Boston, , 170 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02116, USAMar 02, 2024, 11:50 PM – Mar 03, 2024, 5:00 PMGoethe Institut (170 Beacon St, Boston, , 170 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02116, USAJoin us for a FREE, indigenous instrument building workshop with South African composer and researcher Monthati Masebe. For musicians, composers, historians, ethnomusicologists, students and those curious.
Mon, Feb 26Feb 26, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:30 PMNew England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston, MA 02115, USAFeb 26, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:30 PMNew England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston, MA 02115, USAThis 7th Annual concert, presented by NEC’s Black Student Union and co-curated with Castle of our Skins, honors one of the most notable graduates of New England Conservatory, the trailblazing activist and soprano Coretta Scott King.
Fri, Feb 23Feb 23, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PMBlack Market 2136 Washington St. Roxbury, 2136 Washington St, Boston, MA 02119, USA
Sun, Feb 04Feb 04, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PMBoston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116, USAFeb 04, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PMBoston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116, USACastle of our Skins' third annual BSU Intercollegiate Fellowship welcomes musicians from Black Student Unions at select Boston-area conservatories to collaborate and create, presenting opportunities to build a network of peers beyond institutional affiliation; a network informed by identity, experie
Sat, Dec 02Dec 02, 2023, 3:00 PM – 6:00 PMBethel AME Church, 38 Walk Hill St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130, USA
Thu, Nov 23Nov 23, 2023, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PMHibernian Hall, Roxbury, 184 Dudley St #200, Boston, MA 02119, USANov 23, 2023, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PMHibernian Hall, Roxbury, 184 Dudley St #200, Boston, MA 02119, USASince the beginning of the COVID-19 global pandemic, 2023-2024 Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence Jenny Oliver's work has centered on the questions of "What does it mean to belong to a person, to a place, to yourself?"
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