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Experience something unexpected with interactive and innovative workshops, lectures and demos in the visual and performing arts. Experiment with wax in the Mills Gallery, learn how theatre companies bring imaginary worlds to life, delve into the artistic process with BCA studio artist demos and more!
Current Programs:
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 Sew What? Improv Quilting with Dee Mallon
Saturday, June 1 | 10am – 1pm | Mills Gallery
Free and Open to the Public, Registration Required
Create you own small, one-of-a-kind quilt by hand! Explore basic improvisation quilting techniques surrounded by artist Anna Von Mertens’ ethereal hand-stitched quilts. Workshop programmed in conjunction with the current exhibition, Anna Von Mertens: GOLD AND OTHER FALLEN EMPIRES on view in the Mills Gallery until June 16, 2013.
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 Anna Von Mertens: GOLD! AND OTHER FALLEN EMPIRES
Closing Reception
Friday, June 14 | 6-8pm | Mills Gallery
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Exchange Economy Community Photo Day with current Artist Resident Edie Bresler
Saturday, June 15 | 2-5 pm | Artist Studio Building Lobby
Free and open to the public
During her 15-week residency, Bresler will be developing her interactive project Exchange Economy. Using photography, she will examine ideas of value by creating an alternative economic model built on systems of recycling, trust and trade-exchange.
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Summer Teen Art | Beyond the Walls: Public Art
July 22-26 | 2:30-5:30 pm | Artist Studios Building
$25 per week
Take your art practice out of the studio and gallery and onto the BCA plaza. For teens ages 12-15.
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Summer Teen Art | Outside the Lines: Focus on Drawing
July 29 - August 2 | 2:30-5:30 pm | Artist Studios Building
$25 per week
Immerse yourself into the world of drawing with the BCA’s summer exhibition. For teens ages 12-15.
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Summer Teen Art | Wordplay: Text and Image
August 5-9 | 2:30-5:30 pm | Artist Studios Building
$25 per week
Blur the lines between poetry, spoken word and the visual world. For teens ages 12-15.
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Summer Teen Art | Mix-tape: Pop-culture Remixed
August 12-16 | 2:30-5:30 pm | Artist Studios Building
$25 per week
Be inspired by hip-hop culture of the late 80s from poetry, rap battles and DJs. For teens ages 12-15.
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Previous Programs:
 Artist Talk with Siobhan Rigg
Wednesday, September 19 | 6-7 pm | Mills Gallery
Current Artist Resident Siobhan Rigg discusses her upcoming project After Now.
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The Future of the Past: Encaustic Art in the 21st Century
Mills Gallery Opening Reception
Friday, October 5 | 6-8 pm | Mills Gallery
Come celebrate with the BCA and MassWax as we open this expansive exhibition of 37 encaustic artists.
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Using Dance in Peacebuilding
Interactive Dance Lecture
Sunday, October 21 | 3-4:30 pm | Calderwood Pavilion
This interactive lecture describes how and why dance is well-suited to achieve peace-building goals such as healing trauma and building community.
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 Move! With Quicksilver Dance
Families Connect Movement Workshop
Saturday, October 27 | 10-11:30 am | Calderwood Pavilion
$5 per family /$15 for the whole series
Learn to tell a story or show an emotion through movement.
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The Future of the Past: Encaustic Art in the 21st Century
Artist Talk and Panel Discussion
Thursday, November 1 | 6-7 pm | Mills Gallery
Judith Tannenbaum, curator of the RISD Museum of Art, leads a discussion with artists Eunice Choi and James Meyer.
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 Cloud Point
Multi-Media Dance Performance
Friday, November 2 | 7 pm | Mills Gallery
Liz Roncka, Nicole Colella, Amir Milstein and Haggai Cohen Milo explore the qualities of wax and create an evolving sound and movement landscape set against The Future of the Past: Encaustic Art in the 21st Century exhibition.
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Smashing Crayons
Families Connect Visual Arts Workshop
Saturday, November 3 | 10-11:30 am | Mills Gallery
$5 per family /$15 for the whole series
Experiment with wax and transform it into art.
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The Physics of Dance
Dance Workshop
Sunday, November 4 | 3-4 pm | Calderwood Pavilion
Come learn what Physics can explain about dance and the natural forces that are a dancer’s invisible best friend!
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XX PlayLab: The Splendor Lit Beneath Their Bones by Kristen Greenidge
Public Reading
Sunday, November 4 | 7 pm | BCA Plaza Theatres
Join us for the first public reading and talk back of the latest work by OBIE-award-winning Playwright and Huntington Theatre Company Playwriting Fellow Kirsten Greenidge.
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Ear Wax
Families Connect Music and Visual Arts Workshop
Saturday, November 10 | 10-11:30 am | Mills Gallery
$5 per family /$15 for the whole series
Spend the morning discovering connections between visual arts and music and create your own wax instrument to play.
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Writing Movement/Moving Words: Translation for Writers and Dancers
Dance and Literary Workshop
Sunday, November 11 | 3-4:30 pm | Calderwood Pavilion
Through a mix of writing and movement exercises, we will discover new ways of seeing and perceiving from the perspective of a different art form and then channel that into our writing or dancing for newfound inspiration.
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 The Future of the Past: Encaustic Art in the 21st Century
Artist Demo and Studio Visit hosted by Nan Tull
Monday, November 12 | 1 pm | 249 A Street Cooperative # 46, South Boston
Participating artist Nan Tull opens her studio and shares the encaustic process with the public.
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The Future Looks Like This: An evening of rational and irrational charette and conversation
Thursday, November 15 | 7 pm | Mills Gallery
Free and open to the public
How is the economic crisis changing what is possible?
Draw the landscape of the future as you imagine it using the science fiction strategy of world building to (no artistic virtuosity is expected!). Part of the After Now, Artist Residency Project.
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Lions, Tigers & Bears!
Families Connect Theatre Workshop
Saturday, November 17 | 10-11:30 am | Mills Gallery
$5 per family /$15 for the whole series
Imagine a world where your favorite animals can talk, laugh and play just like you. As a group we will create our own story and bring characters to life.
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XXPlayLab: The Old Ship of Zion by Natalia Naman
Public Reading
Sunday, December 9 | 6 pm | Calderwood Pavilion
Join us for a public reading and talkback of a new play by Boston playwright and actress Natalia Naman.
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Process Goes Public: ASB Artists at Work in the Mills Gallery
Opening Reception
Friday, December 14 | 6-8 pm | Mills Gallery
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Process Goes Public: Artist Demo with Selina Narovlansky
Saturday, January 12 | 2-3 pm | Mills Gallery
Current exhibiting artist Selina Narovlansky demonstrates the use of ink and rice paper.
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Cyclorama Story Hour - Spooky Stories
Storytelling with massmouth, inc. and imaginary beasts
Friday, January 18 | 4 pm | Cyclorama
For kids ages 5 and up. Join us for an afternoon of scary tales and legends. Be sure to bring your flashlights and blankets.
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Cyclorama Story Hour - After Dark
Storytelling with massmouth, inc. and imaginary beasts
Friday, January 18 | 10 pm | Cyclorama
The Cyclorama becomes the site for macabre storytelling for those brave enough to stay out after dark.
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Process Goes Public: Artist Demo with Ruth Ginsberg-Place
Saturday, January 19 | 2-3 pm | Mills Gallery
Current exhibiting artist Ruth Ginsberg-Place demonstrates printing techniques.
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Process Goes Public: Artist Demo with Silvia López Chávez
Saturday, January 26 | 2-3 pm | Mills Gallery
Current exhibiting artist Silvia López Chávez demonstrates monoprinting on gelatin plates.
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Process Goes Public: ASB Artists at Work in the Mills Gallery
Closing Reception
Friday, February 1 | 6-8 pm | Mills Gallery
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Me Love You Long Time (MLYLT)
Curated by Edwin Ramoran
Opening Reception
Friday, February 15 | 6-9 pm | Mills Gallery
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Video Screening with artist Larilyn Sanchez
Friday, March 1 | 7-8 pm | Mills Gallery
Current Exhibiting Artist Larilyn Sanchez will present and discuss her video Absorption, from the exhibition Me Love You Long Time.
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Video Screening with artist Matthew de Leon
Friday, March 15 | 7-8 pm | Mills Gallery
Current exhibiting artist Matthew de Leon will present and discuss his video Out There, from the exhibition Me Love You Long Time.
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Artist Talk with Edie Bresler
Wednesday, March 20 | 7-8 pm | Mills Gallery
Current Artist Resident Edie Bresler discusses her current project Exchange Economy.
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Any'ting We Want
Saturday, March 30 | 6-8 pm | Mills Gallery
Video Screening from the exhibition Me Love You Long Time
Curator talk with Edwin Ramoran to follow
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MLYLT Performance Night with Zavé Martohardjono and Rico J. Reyes
Friday, April 5 | 7-8 pm | Mills Gallery
The evening will feature Marohardjono’s Butoh-inspired brother honeyqueen's dance of darkness, Reyes’ Dance Jeopardy and Filipino-influenced Barrionics, as well as a moderated conversation with the artists.
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Exchange Economy Community Photo Day with current Artist Resident Edie Bresler
Saturday, April 6 | 2-5 pm | Artist Studio Building Lobby
Free and open to the public
During her 15-week residency, Bresler will be developing her interactive project Exchange Economy. Using photography, she will examine ideas of value by creating an alternative economic model built on systems of recycling, trust and trade-exchange.
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Reverberations: Anna Von Mertens
Friday, April 26 | 7pm | Mills Gallery
In collaboration with Community Music of Boston
Part of the John Kleshinski Concert Series
Enjoy the interplay of live improvisational piano, saxophone, electronic music and percussion amidst Von Mertens’ ethereal, hand-stitched quilts.
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Families Connect | Schoolhouse Rock with Boston Children’s Theatre
Saturday, April 27 | 12-1:30 pm workshop and tour | 2 pm performance | Artist Studios Building
Explore the world of musical theatre with Schoolhouse Rock!
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Families Connect for Toddlers | Movement and Storytelling
Saturday, May 4 | 9:30-10:30 am | Calderwood Pavilion
How can we use everyday movement to tell a story?
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Families Connect | Movement with Navarasa Dance
Saturday, May 4 | 10:30-12 pm | Calderwood Pavilion
Learn to tell a story with your body using traditional Indian movement and gestures!
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Movement at the Mills
The Bang Group
Friday, May 10 | 8pm
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Families Connect for Toddlers | Shooting Stars
Saturday, May 11 | 9:30-10:30 am | Mills Gallery
Together we will look at how artist Anna Von Mertens uses stars in her quilts.
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Families Connect | Sound Quilting with Community Music Center Boston
Saturday May 11 | 10:30-12 pm | Mills Gallery
Join us as we experiment with sounds using our own voices.
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Artist Talk & Curator Talk with Anna Von Mertens and Kirsten Swenson, with reception to follow
Saturday, May 11 | 4pm | Mills Gallery at the BCA
Current exhibition artist Anna Von Mertens and current curator Kirsten Swenson will discuss her work from her solo exhibition at the Mills Gallery
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Exchange Economy Community Photo Day with current Artist Resident Edie Bresler
Wednesday, May 15 | 6:30-9:30 pm | Artist Studio Building Lobby
Free and open to the public
During her 15-week residency, Bresler will be developing her interactive project Exchange Economy. Using photography, she will examine ideas of value by creating an alternative economic model built on systems of recycling, trust and trade-exchange.
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Families Connect | Patchwork Portraits
Saturday, May 18 | 10:30-12 pm | Mills Gallery
Be inspired by Anna Von Mertens’ colorful quilts.
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