Free First Thursday - December, 2024

DJ KNSZWRTH is a multifaceted event curator, DJ, photographer, and creative powerhouse rooted in Boston, MA. With an unparalleled ability to seamlessly blend genres, KNSZWRTH's DJ sets transcend musical boundaries, traversing from the soulful beats of Hip Hop and RnB to the infectious rhythms of Dancehall and Afrobeats. Delving into a myriad of House and Dance music variations from across the globe, KNSZWRTH crafts a distinctive sonic tapestry that defies expectations.With navigating the spectrum between the anticipated and the unexpected, KNSZWRTH's unique style invites you to revel in the magic of music and embrace the joy of togetherness. Through the universal language of music, he creates a space for community, where the art of dance and the joy of shared experiences converge.

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Amanda Shea is a two-time Boston Music Award-winning Spoken Word Artist. Shea is an artist, performer, educator, artivist, film producer, host, and curator. She co-founded and curated six iterations of Activating ARTivism, a community festival to amplify POC through art, activism, and resistance. Her work can be found in the Museum of Fine Arts, The Boston Globe, TEDX, TEDXRoxbury, Netflix, Prime Video, BBC News, GBH, and much more. Shea is the curator and host of GBH’s Outspoken Saturdays. Shea is the recipient of The Boston Foundation LAB Grant 2024. Shea will be releasing her first book, Pieces of Shea in 2025. Amanda's work examines her personal life experiences, social justice issues, and healing through trauma, utilizing art as the tool.

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Wylsner Bastien is a musician, producer, engineer, arranger, poet, and artist. He's had the pleasure of teaching Music theory at Bunker Hill Community College’s music club. While studying there, he shifted his life’s focus to music. After his departure from Bunker Hill, he went on to be the Jazz Ensemble Director for his ensembles at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Music has been in his family for generations and is something he immerses himself in every day. He’s been in multiple bands, performed with many artists around Boston, and much more. Wylsner is a music director and teaching artist and believes that music education is something that can help us all grow.

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Born in Santiago, Chile, Daniela Rivera received her BFA from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1996 and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston in 2006. She is currently Professor of Studio Art at Wellesley College. She has exhibited widely in Latin American cities including Santiago, Chile, as well as in the United States at the Davis Museum, the Fitchburg Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She was awarded residencies at Surf Point, Proyecto ACE in Buenos Aires, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Skowhegan School of Paintings and Sculpture. She was the recipient of notable fellowships and grants including The Rappaport Prize, Now + There, the Massachusetts Cultural Council Award, VSC, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, The FONDART in Chile, and the Saint Botolph Club Foundation Distinguished Artist Award. Recent exhibitions include: Donde El Cielo Toca La Tierra/Where the Sky Touches The Earth at Matucana 100 in Santiago, Chile;, Praxis of Local Knowledge at the San Francisco Art Commission; and New Worlds: Women to Watch at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, as well as an upcoming solo exhibition at MASS MoCA. Rivera works from the experience of displacement and from her reality of cultural hybridism. She is a cultural producer who challenges the construction of stereotypes or categories that discriminate, isolate, and violently define other's identities. She works with ideas of displacement, memory, and cultural migration to celebrate difference and reject categorization. Rivera builds, paints, and draws spaces to be vulnerable together where she hopes to celebrate difference and cultural exchange.