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We're partnering with the Fine Arts Work Center to offer scholarships to six emerging Boston-based poets who are looking to hone their craft at a week-long workshop in Provincetown, MA this summer. The scholarship covers tuition, lodging, and a stipend for
travel and food.
Apply by Monday, February 2, 2026 at 8 p.m.
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Bring poetry to life in Boston's schools! You can propose a reading, a workshop, a collaborative writing session, or any creative format that will help BPS students get excited about poetry.
Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis with a preference for applications submitted by
January 20, 2026.
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Calling all muralists! We’re partnering with BLKOUT Walls to bring a mural festival to Roxbury in June 2026. Each artist will be paid for their work plus lodging, meals, and transportation.
Share your artist bio, three work samples, and answer some quick questions at the link below. You do not need to submit a concept or rendering with your application!
Apply by February 10, 2026.
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How do you move through the city? Artists Yujin Cao and Wei Wu are now accepting portrait submissions to be part of CROSSROADS, an upcoming exhibition at Boston City Hall.
Share an image and a few words about movement from winter into spring. Selected submissions will be artistically interpreted and become part of a collective portrait of Boston, presented through a video projection at the opening reception of the exhibition.
Submissions are due by January 25, 2026.
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Studio | $1,600/month
This studio apartment at 567 Tremont St. in the South End is available to rent now. An Artist Housing Certificate is required to apply.
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1BR | $287,400 | Max income: 100% AMI
This first come, first served affordable homeownership opportunity is located at Brookley Flats in Jamaica Plain. This unit was designed specifically with artists in mind, and an Artist Housing Certification is
not needed to apply.
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Free
Workshops - Arts Action Consortium
The Arts Action Consortium is an initiative led by six Boston-based cultural organizations in collaboration with the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture that offers events, resources, and programming to strengthen and sustain Boston’s creative workforce.
Emerging
Boston Art Writing Fellowship | Apply by January 21, 2026
The Boston Art Review and Praise Shadows Art Gallery are supporting an Emerging Boston Art Writing Fellowship for three individuals based in Boston, ages 18-21, who are interested in expanding their knowledge of the city’s contemporary art community through
hands-on experience writing reviews, artist interviews, and exhibition texts. This is a curriculum-based program.
Artists,
Writers Residency | Apply by February 1, 2026
The Studios at MASS MoCA runs year-round, hosts up to 10 artists at a time for stays of 2 or 4 weeks, and primarily seeks applications from visual artists (painters, sculptors, installation artists, photographers, video/new media artists, fiber artists, printmakers,
etc.) and writers in all literary disciplines.
The
Mandel Cultural Leadership Program | Apply by February 13, 2026
This is a two-year fellowship designed to support artists in honing their visions for creative and social impact, developing their capacity as agents of change in the Jewish community and broader society.
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Find out who will be Boston's next Youth Poet Laureate
The City of Boston is getting a new Youth Poet Laureate! Join us on Saturday, January 31 at 1 p.m.
for a showcase at Boston Public Library's Rabb Hall featuring the 2026 finalists, and find out who will serve as the fourth Boston Youth Poet Laureate (BYPL).
Image: Boston's first Youth Poet Laureate, Alondra Bobadilla, performing at the BYPL Showcase in January, 2020.
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Boston's Poet Laureate Premieres "Boston Sonnet" at Inauguration
Mayor Michelle Wu and Boston City Council were inaugurated on January 5, 2026, and Boston's Poet Laureate Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah was commissioned to write and perform a new poem for the occasion.
Watch their performance and read the poem at the link below.
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More poetry events with Boston's Poet Laureate, Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah:
Just
Be(Loved) ft. Black Chakra
Friday, January 16 from 6 - 8 p.m.
A poetry slam and open mic curated by Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah (Boston's Poet Laureate) and Crystal Valentine (Director of Programming at Mass Poetry). This week's feature is Baltimore-based poet Black Chakra, a spoken word and hip-hop artist who embodies the
city of Baltimore through aggressive performance and incredible writing.
Celebration
in Honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, January 19 at 1 p.m.
Celebrate MLK Day with a moving program featuring performances by young musicians from the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras’ Intensive Community Program, alongside remarks, readings, and spoken-word tributes including a keynote address by Boston's Poet Laureate,
Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah.
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Our events are FREE and open to all. We hope you'll join us!
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Juliet
& Jul-Yingtai at the Strand Theatre
Friday, January 16, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Created through the Vermilion Bilingual Theater Incubator, this Mandarin and English production challenges traditional ideas of femininity, love, and agency across Western and Chinese literature by bringing together two heroines with parallel stories: Juliet
from Shakespeare’s classics and Jul-Yingtai from Chinese folklore. This production is free and open to all thanks to the City of Boston’s Strand Theatre Grant.
Truths
Our Bodies Tell
Saturday, February 7 from 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Truths Our Bodies Tell is an evening where movement carries memory. In this company concert, Danza Orgánica presents six original dance works drawing from our origins, our embodied landscapes, our dystopian realities, and the truths we carry forward.
Don't forget to mark your calendar for Boston Family Days! 🎨🫧🔭
Boston students and their families get free entry to 14 of Boston’s cultural institutions on the first and second Sunday of every month. Plus, enter the lottery for free tickets to performing arts events throughout the year.
To learn more and plan your visit, go to boston.gov/family-days.
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Boston City Hall, 1 City Hall Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02201, United States
Hours
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