Springtime, Sex & Baseball
Jeffrey Gibson: Love Song
Sat Jun 8
Boston | Boston University Theatre - Mainstage
Ongoing thru Sun Jul 14
Tony, Emmy, and Academy Award nominated cast members perform powerful, surprising, romantic, and funny stories by comic master Dorothy Parker, baseball writer W.P. Kinsella, and quirky contemporary humorists Aimee Bender and N.M. Kelby. Huntington Theatre Company | www. huntingtontheatre.org/
Visual Arts Holland on Paper:
Boston | Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Gibson’s paintings and sculptures combine geometric abstract painting with traditional craft materials of his Native American heritage. His recent paintings are composed on stretched animal hides, and mixed media sculptures combine drum heads, army blankets and flag poles. Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston | www.icaboston.org Editor's Pick
Nick Cave
Ongoing thru Mon May 27
In Conversation: Modern African American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Sat Jun 1 - Mon Sep 2
Salem, MA | Peabody Essex Museum
Meditations on art, identity, and the rights of the individual are presented in this collection of 43 prominent African American artists. Peabody Essex Museum | www.pem.org
Legacy of Change: Native American Art
Wed Jun 19 - Tue Jun 25
Salem, MA | Peabody Essex Museum
Pride 2011 photo Marilyn Humphries An installation conveying the dynamism and vitality of Salem, MA | Peabody Native artists. Selected from Essex Museum Ongoing thru PEM's Native American art Exhibition of fashion Sun Jul 7 collection, among the world's designer/dancer Nick Cave's Boston | Museum of oldest of its kind, the works renowned Soundsuits, equal Fine Arts/Boston parts sculpture, costume and include paintings, sculpture, Pride Day at Faneuil Early drawings by well-known performance. This installation ceramics, jewelry and textile Hall artists such as Mondrian and includes an immersive video created over the last 200 Sat Jun 1 Bart van der Leck as well as years. projection. Boston | Boston Pride many fascinating artists little Peabody Essex Museum | www.pem.org Peabody Essex Museum | www.pem.org known outside of Holland. Live music and performances from The Urban Ballet, South Museum of Fine Arts/Boston Ridley Howard: End Show Stopperz Dance | www.mfa.org Fields and Stripes Team, Crystal Foxx, Rolla Sat May 11, Sun Oct 27 and more. Hosted by Raquel Boston | Museum of Blake. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fine Arts/Boston Boston Pride | bostonpride.org Howard explores intense emoRoyal Pageant tion in his paintings, paring Mon Jun 3 down color and geometry into Boston | Machine delicately composed portraits, landscapes, and abstractions Lake Mondale and Raquel that recall the cool psycholBlake crown the king and Visit our online ogy of paintings by Edward queen of Boston Pride. 7 p.m. Hopper. calendar for the latest Boston Pride | bostonpride.org Museum of Fine Arts/Boston events and submit listings Boston Pride | www.mfa.org for upcoming events: BostonSpiritMagazine.com Festival Sat Jun 8
The Age of Art Nouveau
Boston Pride
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12 p.m. to 6 p.m. on City Hall Plaza, with vendors and live entertainment — including Boston-based headliner Karmin. (See interview this issue.) Boston Pride | bostonpride.org
Boston Pride Parade
Sat Jun 8
Boston | Boston Pride
Parade starts at 12 p.m., with celebrity marshal Denise Crosby (Star Trek) Boston Pride | bostonpride.org
ESME Women's Block Party
Sat Jun 8
Boston | Boston Pride
DJ Linda Lowell spins the annual women's favorite. 2 p.m. in the alley at 1 Boylston Place. Boston Pride | bostonpride.org
Pride Block Party: Back Bay Edition
Sat Jun 8
Boston | Boston Pride
12 p.m. to 8 p.m. at St. James Ave in the Back Bay. Boston Pride | bostonpride.org
Pride Block Party: JP Edition
Sat Jun 8
Boston | Boston Pride
12 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Perkins Street in Jamaica Plain. Boston Pride | bostonpride.org
Pride Beyond Boston North Shore Pride
Fri Jun 14 - Sat Jun 15
The second annual North Shore Pride Parade and Festival in Salem, MA. Parade through downtown, entertainment festival in Salem Common from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and after-party at Hawthorne Hotel. North Shore Pride| www. northshorepride.org
New England's second largest Pride celebration takes over Providence. The illuminated parade and waterfront festival. www.prideri.com/
Salem, MA
Out Night at Vic’s, Friday, May 31 at Victoria’s Station in Salem, Mass. Sponsored by LGBT North Shore group, Go Out Loud. Come for dinner, stay for drinks, meet new friends on the ocean-side dance floor. gooutloud.com
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RI Pride Weekend
Sat Jun 29
Providence