Gun Violence Memorial Project Opening

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2:00pm

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Gun Violence Memorial Project Opening

Please join us to welcome The Gun Violence Memorial Project to Boston.

Dec

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Dec

7:30PM

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10:30PM

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About the Event

This event will include a tour of the memorial house and presentations from core team members - highlighting the collaboration between the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, and the Gun Violence Memorial Project team, including MASS Design Group, Songha & Company, and Purpose over Pain, along with readings by Boston-based spoken word artists.

Program

6:00pm

Gathering

Join us on the 3rd floor mezzanine as we gather prior to the speaking program.

6:10 pm

Mayor's Office Welcome

Karin Goodfellow | Mayor's Department of Arts & Culture and Isaac Yablo | Senior Advisor for Community Safety within the Mayor’s Office

6:20pm

Project Welcome

Jha D Amazi, Sam Giarratani, Pamela Bosley, and Annette Nance-Holt |

MASS Design Group, Songha & Company, Purpose over Pain

6:30pm

Remarks

Ruth Erickson | Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

6:45pm

Interlude

Spoken word artist Jarvis Subia will perform a reading

7:00pm

Remarks

Rev. Art Gordon, Director of Community Engagement, Office of Governor Maura T. Healey

7:10pm

Closing Words

Chaplain Clementina Chery | Louis D. Brown Peace Institute

7:30-9pm

Reception at MASS Design Group (following the event)

Please join us at the MASS Design Group office in the South End following the opening event for food and refreshments. Address on the map below.

Our partners

This project is presented in partnership with the ICA/Boston; Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, City of Boston; Purpose over Pain, MASS Design Group; and Songha & Company led by artist and creative director Hank Willis Thomas, with programming support from the City of Boston’s “Un-monument | Re-monument | De-monument: Transforming Boston” program, which brings temporary monuments and free public programming to neighborhoods across Boston through a multi-year grant from the Mellon Foundation.