The ARTery's Weekend Preview

Our team rounds up the best of arts and culture for the weekend ahead.

The Emily Dickinson Museum. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

5 things to do this weekend, including the Boston Film Festival and the Emily Dickinson Museum’s poetry festival

Plus, Indigenous Heritage Day at the Cape Ann Museum and Emerald Necklace Park Fest.

Arts & Culture

Sep 22, 2022

People took flight on an amusement ride at the Big E in West Springfield, MA on September 23, 2021. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

5 things to do this weekend, including The Big E and Museum Day

Plus, a concert by the Fabiola Méndez Sextet and Bouncy House Time Machine in Worcester.

Arts & Culture

Sep 15, 2022

Erin Genia's "Tuȟmaǧatipi" installed on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. (Courtesy Mel Taing)

5 things to do this weekend, including public art on the Greenway and an arts festival

Plus, a free writers workshop at Grub Street and live music in Lenox.

Arts & Culture

Sep 8, 2022

A set rendering of "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992" with projections by David Bengali. (Courtesy of Riccardo Hernandez)

5 things to do for Labor Day weekend

Plus, Art Battle Boston and a block party at The Charles River Speedway.

Arts & Culture

Sep 1, 2022

Attendees from Film at the Gates Festival 2021. (Courtesy Lee-Daniel Tran)

5 things to do this weekend, including Films at the Gate and tango in the park

Plus the African Festival of Boston and a performance from Trio Let’s Vamos.

Arts & Culture

Aug 25, 2022

Gregory Groover and the Negro Spiritual Project. (Courtesy Anyelo Flores/Berklee College of Music)

5 things to do this weekend, including a Gregory Groover Jr. performance and Fisherman's Feast

Plus, a BAMS Fest pop-up and the South Asian-American Theater Festival.

Arts & Culture

Aug 18, 2022

Ricardo Garcia and Vanessa Becerra star in "Romeo & Juliet." (Courtesy Olivia Moon/BLO)

5 things to do this weekend, including a 'Romeo & Juliet' opera and Lakou Mizik in concert

Plus, a free public art gathering hosted by DS4SI and a play at the Gloucester Stage Company.

Arts & Culture

Aug 11, 2022

Foyer section of the exhibition "PLEASE LET ME IN" at the BCA. (Courtesy of the artists and BCA)

5 things to do this weekend, including an art exhibit at BCA and a block party at EXIT Galleries

Plus, a derby racing event for miniature cars and an "informal" and intimate dance performance.

Arts & Culture

Aug 4, 2022

Visitors enter the Watershed at the ICA. (Courtesy Mel Taing/ICA)

5 things to do this weekend, including family day at the ICA Watershed and the Rat City Arts Fest

Plus, a performance of the play “can i touch it?” and a screening of "Sharknado" at the New England Aquarium.

Arts & Culture

Jul 28, 2022

"The Shift Show" artists. (Courtesy Olivia Moon Photography)

5 things to do this weekend, including 'The Shift Show' and 'Jazz in the Park' at The Greenway.

Plus, a puppet show at Puppet Showplace Theater and a special screening of the award-winning film “City As Canvas: Above the Free Walls.”

Arts & Culture

Jul 21, 2022

A still from Federico Fellini's 1960 film "La Dolce Vita." (Courtesy Harvard Film Archive)

5 things to do this weekend, including ArtBeat 2022 and a Federico Fellini film screening

Plus, an event at the “YEAR OF THE TIGER” installation and an all Handel performance at the Aston Magna Music Festival.

Arts & Culture

Jul 14, 2022

The awning for rock club Great Scott. (Courtesy Great Scott/Facebook)

5 things to do this weekend, including a Great Scott pop-up and a Mission Hill Arts Festival jazz performance

Plus, a rock performance at Time Out Market Boston and Saturday Open Studio at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Arts & Culture

Jul 7, 2022

Fireworks explode over the Hatch Shell during rehearsal for the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular in 2019. (Michael Dwyer/AP)

5 things to do this weekend, including Boston's 246th Independence Day Celebration and SoWa First Fridays

Plus, the Roxbury International Film Festival and Ana Roxanne live in concert at the Peabody Essex Museum.

Arts & Culture

Jun 30, 2022

Helmut Newton, "Jack," 1984. (Courtesy Joan and Jack Quinn Family Collection)

5 things to do this weekend, including 'On the Edge' at the Armenian Museum and Pit-A-Palooza

Plus movie night on "Old Ironsides" and a mini-music festival for Ukrainian relief.

Arts & Culture

Jun 23, 2022

The gallery “Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas,” part of the new installation "Stories Artists Tell" in the Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

5 things to do this weekend to celebrate Juneteenth

Including free museum admission at the MFA and a unique poetry reading and film screening at the Longfellow House.

Arts & Culture

Jun 16, 2022

Pride flags decorate Christopher Park on June 22, 2020 in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

5 things to do this weekend to celebrate Pride

Including "Amm(i)gone," a new play at Pao Arts Center, Pop-Up Pride on the Boston Common and BAMS Fest.

Arts & Culture

Jun 9, 2022

Lia Cirio in Mikko Nissinen's "Swan Lake." (Courtesy Rosalie O'Connor/Boston Ballet)

5 things to do this weekend, including Boston Ballet's 'Swan Lake' and the Coolidge Corner Arts Festival

Plus, a chamber orchestra performance celebrating Pride Month and a world premier from Guerilla Opera.

Arts & Culture

Jun 2, 2022

Aerial view of Boston Calling in 2017. (Courtesy Boston Calling)

5 things to do this weekend, including the return of Boston Calling and the ICA's Watershed

Plus, a massive display of American flags for Memorial Day and New Rep's New Voices Theatre Festival.

Arts & Culture

May 26, 2022

Artwork by Leah Sobsey for “In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss” exhibition. (Courtesy of Harvard Museum of Natural History)

5 things to do this weekend, including 'Free Ferry Day' and a Thoreau-inspired exhibition

Plus the PEM Prize Festival and new murals in Jamaica Plain.

Arts & Culture

May 19, 2022

A still from the film "Within These Walls." (Courtesy Robbie Sweeny/ArtsEmerson)

5 things to do this weekend, including a dance festival and a virtual screening of 'Within These Walls'

Plus, an autobiographical musical performance about a child prodigy escaping Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and the FABRIC Arts Festival in Fall River.

Arts & Culture

May 12, 2022

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5 things to do this weekend, including the Boston Film Festival and the Emily Dickinson Museum’s poetry festival

5 things to do this weekend, including The Big E and Museum Day

5 things to do this weekend, including public art on the Greenway and an arts festival

5 things to do for Labor Day weekend

5 things to do this weekend, including Films at the Gate and tango in the park

5 things to do this weekend, including a Gregory Groover Jr. performance and Fisherman's Feast

5 things to do this weekend, including a 'Romeo & Juliet' opera and Lakou Mizik in concert

5 things to do this weekend, including an art exhibit at BCA and a block party at EXIT Galleries

5 things to do this weekend, including family day at the ICA Watershed and the Rat City Arts Fest

5 things to do this weekend, including 'The Shift Show' and 'Jazz in the Park' at The Greenway.

5 things to do this weekend, including ArtBeat 2022 and a Federico Fellini film screening

5 things to do this weekend, including a Great Scott pop-up and a Mission Hill Arts Festival jazz performance

5 things to do this weekend, including Boston's 246th Independence Day Celebration and SoWa First Fridays

5 things to do this weekend, including 'On the Edge' at the Armenian Museum and Pit-A-Palooza

5 things to do this weekend to celebrate Juneteenth

5 things to do this weekend to celebrate Pride

5 things to do this weekend, including Boston Ballet's 'Swan Lake' and the Coolidge Corner Arts Festival

5 things to do this weekend, including the return of Boston Calling and the ICA's Watershed

5 things to do this weekend, including 'Free Ferry Day' and a Thoreau-inspired exhibition

5 things to do this weekend, including a dance festival and a virtual screening of 'Within These Walls'