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Boston Center for the Arts (BCA)

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The Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts complex that supports working artists to create, perform and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to community.

Located in Boston’s South End, the largest landmark district in the United States covering more than 500 acres, the BCA is dedicated to incubating and showcasing the performing and visual arts of our time. Occupying an historic city block on a four-acre parcel of land bordered by Tremont Street, Clarendon Street, Warren Avenue and Berkeley Street, the BCA is a resource to Greater Boston providing a creative “home” for artists, a welcoming arts destination for audiences, and an art connection for city youth and communities.
 

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    Boston Center for the Arts (BCA)

    539 Tremont Street
    Boston, MA 02116

    Phone: 617-426-5000   |   Email   |   Official Website

  • Current Events

    There are no current events available for this organization at this time.

  • Upcoming Events

    06/09/12

    Shoe-making and shining workshop and Open Studio with Stacy Scibelli Mills Gallery at the BCA Shoe-making and shining workshop and Open Studio with Stacy Scibelli Presented by Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) at Mills Gallery at the BCA June 9, 2012 Drop-In Shoe-making/Shoe-shining Workshop and Open Studio | Saturday, June 9 1-4pm | Artist Studios Building BCA artist resident Stacy Scibelli will open her studio and share her work! Also, drop-in to create a simple slipper shoe out of paper and leather or learn some simple shoe-shining techniques.

    07/27/12- 08/25/12

    The Elaborate Entrance Of Chad Deity Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA The Elaborate Entrance Of Chad Deity Presented by Company One and Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) at Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA July 27-August 25, 2012 A Boston Premiere by Kristoffer Diaz Directed by Shawn LaCount Having just won the Obie for Best New American Play, this Pulitzer finalist is as hilarious as it is relevant. Mace is a professional wrestler. He’s a really good professional wrestler. He’s not the champion though — that’s the impossibly charismatic Chad Deity. When Mace discovers a young Indian-American Brooklyn kid whose charisma rivals that of the champ, Mace decides to get him a...

• Current &
  Upcoming Events

  • Current Events

    There are no current events available for this organization at this time.

  • Upcoming Events

    06/09/12

    Shoe-making and shining workshop and Open Studio with Stacy Scibelli Mills Gallery at the BCA Shoe-making and shining workshop and Open Studio with Stacy Scibelli Presented by Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) at Mills Gallery at the BCA June 9, 2012 Drop-In Shoe-making/Shoe-shining Workshop and Open Studio | Saturday, June 9 1-4pm | Artist Studios Building BCA artist resident Stacy Scibelli will open her studio and share her work! Also, drop-in to create a simple slipper shoe out of paper and leather or learn some simple shoe-shining techniques.

    07/27/12- 08/25/12

    The Elaborate Entrance Of Chad Deity Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA The Elaborate Entrance Of Chad Deity Presented by Company One and Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) at Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA July 27-August 25, 2012 A Boston Premiere by Kristoffer Diaz Directed by Shawn LaCount Having just won the Obie for Best New American Play, this Pulitzer finalist is as hilarious as it is relevant. Mace is a professional wrestler. He’s a really good professional wrestler. He’s not the champion though — that’s the impossibly charismatic Chad Deity. When Mace discovers a young Indian-American Brooklyn kid whose charisma rivals that of the champ, Mace decides to get him a...

• Past
  Events

  • Past Events

    05/17/12	Wearable Art Workshop with Stacy Scibelli Mills Gallery at the BCA
    04/21/12	Pickling Workshop with Stacy Scibelli Mills Gallery at the BCA
    02/25/12	Made with Love with Stacy Scibelli Interactive Artist Talk BCA Cyclorama
    02/10/12- 04/15/12	william cordova: this one’s 4U (pa’ nosotros) Mills Gallery at the BCA
    07/17/11- 07/22/11	Access to Theatre BCA Cyclorama
    07/15/11- 08/28/11	Close Distance Mills Gallery at the BCA
    07/08/11	Flow-tography Workshop Better Photos Now: The Curious Soul's Guide to Intuitive Photography
    06/09/11	Emerging Filmmakers Series: Benjamin Brewer Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA
    06/05/11	Open Studio: Zhangping
    06/04/11	Families Connect: Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery at the BCA
    06/02/11	UnTamed BCA Cyclorama
    05/20/11- 06/26/11	Bits + Pieces Mills Gallery at the BCA
    05/11/11	Occupy 539 BCA Cyclorama
    04/23/11- 04/30/11	Meditative Strokes: Introduction to Chinese Brush Painting with Zhangping BCA Cyclorama
    04/09/11	Meditative Strokes: Introduction to Chinese Brush Painting with Zhangping
    04/07/11	BCA's Emerging Filmmakers Screening Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA
    03/30/11	Conversation with Zhangping Mills Gallery at the BCA
    03/05/11	Nautical Body Series – Open Studio with Christy Georg
    03/02/11	Boston Center for the Arts stirs things up with second annual “Movers & Shakers” BCA Cyclorama
    02/18/11- 02/27/11	CycSpecific at the BCA: All Things Transformative BCA Cyclorama
    02/05/11	Families Connect at the BCA Mills Gallery at the BCA
    01/30/11	Workshop: Sailor’s Yarn: Decorative Knot-Tying and Stories of the Sea BCA Cyclorama
    01/23/11- 02/06/11	Workshop: Mapping Memories of Boston Harbor
    01/21/11- 02/27/11	Annual BCA Artist Studios Building Exhibition: This Must Be The Place and SWAP MEET Mills Gallery at the BCA
    01/10/11	Nautical Body Series - Artist Talk with Christy Georg
    12/03/10- 12/04/10	Holiday Open Studios
    11/20/10	Leaf A Message Workshop
    11/20/10	William Cravis Open Studio
    11/19/10- 01/02/11	Southern Exposure: Artadia Awardees 2009 Atlanta Mills Gallery at the BCA
    11/06/10	Leaf A Message Workshop
    10/23/10	Leaf A Message Workshop
    10/06/10	William Cravis - Boston Center for the Arts' Artist Talk Mills Gallery at the BCA
    06/03/10	UNINHIBITED @ 40 BCA Cyclorama
    05/14/10- 05/15/10	Kira Seamon Presents: THE TELL-TALE HEART BALLET BCA Cyclorama
    05/14/10- 06/12/10	Social Affects Mills Gallery at the BCA
    05/13/10	Kira Seamon Presents: ARIAS AND ARABESQUES, THE CARMEN SUITE BCA Cyclorama
    04/30/10	Movement at the Mills Mills Gallery at the BCA
    04/03/10	Families Connect @ the BCA
    04/03/10	Young Filmmakers Competition Screening and Reception BCA Cyclorama
    03/31/10	Movers & Shakers at The Boston Center for the Arts BCA Cyclorama
    03/26/10- 04/25/10	Artadia Boston
    03/24/10- 03/26/10	Shecky's Girls Night Out BCA Cyclorama
    03/24/10- 04/03/10	Minus 32 Million Words BCA Plaza Black Box Theatre
    03/16/10- 04/28/10	Boston Center for the Arts Presents: Artist Residency Workshops BCA Cyclorama
    03/13/10- 03/14/10	Boston Center for the Arts Presents: "overheard/underground"
    01/14/10- 01/30/10	Boyce & Melinda’s Investment Strategies for the Post-Money World Virginia Wimberly Theatre
    10/29/09	Movement at the Mills
    10/22/09	Overheard/Underground Featuring Jozef Van Wissem and Jay Sullivan
    09/19/09	Family Day Mills Gallery at the BCA
    09/10/09- 10/26/09	The Drawing Show
    08/12/09- 08/14/09	Shecky's Girls Night Out! BCA Cyclorama
    07/31/09	Access to Theatre BCA Cyclorama
    06/26/09- 08/15/09	And the fair Moon rejoices
    06/20/09	Summer Solstice BCA Plaza Theatre
    06/04/09	UNexpectED BCA Cyclorama
    05/15/09- 06/07/09	Things of That Nature
    05/02/09- 05/03/09	Celebrate the Diversity of the South End BCA Cyclorama
    03/25/09- 04/04/09	The Buddha - In His Own Words BCA Plaza Theatre
    03/06/09- 04/26/09	This is Not Happening
    01/28/09- 02/15/09	Silent Key Mills Gallery at the BCA

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  • Media Reviews

    • Event Name: Minus 32 Million Words
      Article: Dorchester native finds her voice in her comic one-woman show
      Patriot Ledger - Mar 25, 2010
      By Jody Feinberg

      On a nearly empty stage, actress and comedian Sue Costello is a teenager dreaming of a different life as she postures in front of a full-length mirror. “One of these days, I’m going to be somebody,” she fantasizes in her one-woman show, “Minus 32 Mil… Expand

      On a nearly empty stage, actress and comedian Sue Costello is a teenager dreaming of a different life as she postures in front of a full-length mirror. “One of these days, I’m going to be somebody,” she fantasizes in her one-woman show, “Minus 32 Million Words.” “I’m going to be pretty and rich and famous.”
      
      Ninety minutes later, Costello is an adult who wants self-acceptance more than stardom. Collapse

    • Event Name: Minus 32 Million Words
      Article: From Costello, ‘Words’ of wisdom, humor, tragedy
      Boston Herald - Mar 18, 2010
      By Jenna Scherer

      “Laugh or you’ll die.” That’s Sue Costello’s motto. If you see “Minus 32 Million Words,” you’ll know that she means it literally.
      
      Costello, a Dorchester native, doesn’t initiate you gently into her one-woman show. She digs right into her… Expand

      “Laugh or you’ll die.” That’s Sue Costello’s motto. If you see “Minus 32 Million Words,” you’ll know that she means it literally.
      
      Costello, a Dorchester native, doesn’t initiate you gently into her one-woman show. She digs right into her autobiography, starting as an eighth grader mouthing off to a priest in Savin Hill and winding up a grown woman mouthing off to a therapist in Los Angeles. Collapse

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  • Member Reviews

    • Event Name: Boyce & Melinda’s Investment Strategies for the Post-Money World
      "Disappointing"
      Review posted by: Zoey from Boston, Feb 01, 2010
      

      We were only 2 of 8 people who were in the audience, which made me feel very badly for the actors as there was not much for the actors to bounce off of in the audience reaction. while the title... Expand

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      We were only 2 of 8 people who were in the audience, which made me feel very badly for the actors as there was not much for the actors to bounce off of in the audience reaction. while the title sounded like it would be great with lots of fodder in the recent political arena, it was forced much of the time and the humor was not as keen as it should have been. One of the songs was great but the rest were not well integrated into the script and the melodies fell apart. Collapse

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