Boston artists (left to right) Nahdra Ra, Kendra Hicks, Ngoc-Tran Vu, Melissa Alexis, Latifa Ziyad and Letta Neely meet with Toshi Reagon (center) at Dorchester’s Oasis Vegan Veggie Parlor to discuss the Parable Path Boston.
(Photo: Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo)
Organizations
Emerson College
Boston Public Library
Elma Lewis Center, Emerson College
Office of the Arts, Emerson College
The Resilient Sisterhood Project
New England Aquarium
Resist Inc.
New Roots Church
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Artists
Craig BaileyNejem Raheem
Letta Neely
Kendra Hicks
Melissa Alexis
Latifa Zyad
Ngoc-Tran Vu
Nahdra Ra
Upcoming Events
Watch Past Events
Viet Family Stories - Chuyện Gia Đình 2.0
Viet Family Stories, Chuyện Gia Đình 2.0 is an intergenerational multimedia storytelling project that brings together a group of Vietnamese American elder and young artists to co-create a series of monthly bilingual gatherings and dialogues grounded in Boston's Dorchester community. The project aims to explore and unpack themes of diaspora, resiliency, memories, mental health and healing practices in Vietnamese families. #VietFamStories
Climate Change, Survival, and Deepening Our Humanity
Toshi Reagon, Reverend Mariama White-Hammond, and Porsha Olayiwola discuss how the belief systems that define and maintain our societies impact the planet and influence our survival.
Call and Response: A Black Lives Matter Q&A for Young People
This forum is an opportunity to hear from young people their thoughts and feelings, to listen to their questions about where our community--our country--goes from here, and what their role is.
PARABLE PATH BOSTON CONVERSATIONS
On May 22nd, ArtsEmerson hosted a livestream presentation of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower where nearly 4500 people from all of the world joined us to listen to the powerful music of Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon, performed by a cast of amazing artists at the NYU Abu Dhabi production in 2015. This special evening marked the launch of Toshi’s Parable Path Boston, her year long artist residency at Emerson College.
