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Boston Convention & Exhibition Center Community Meeting
May 16th
Title: Boston Convention & Exhibition Center Community Meeting
Date: May 17, 2012
Start Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Condon Elementary School 200 D Street, South Boston
Description: South Boston’s elected officials invite the public to attend an informational meeting about possible legislation required for hotel development around the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.
State Senator Jack Hart, State Representative Nick Collins, District 2 City Councilor Bill Linehan, Jim Rooney, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, and MCCA staff will discuss possible hotel development around the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.
Cross Roads Initiative Update
May 16th
Title: Cross Roads Initiative Update
Location: TBD
Description: Update from BRA regarding Cross Roads Initiative for Summer and Congress Street.
Start Time: 6:30 p.m.
Date: June 6, 2012
Thank you
May 8th
Thanks so much for your help on Friday! What a lovely group of volunteers we had this year. It was a pleasure working with old and new friends. Thanks also to Danielle Pillion (Friends of Fort Point Channel) for helping to coordinate a very ambitious event. There was lots of great company,delicious food and making Fort Point look like home this year.
Special thanks to:
Barlow’s
Channel Cafe
Southie Liquors
Amrhiens
Hint Water
Metro Cafe
Sagarinos
Boloco
Warm regards,
Cam Sawzin & Charles Joseph, Boston Shines coordinators
Fort Point Arts Community ARTWALK
May 8th
Title: Fort Point Arts Community ARTWALK
Location: Fort Point, Boston
Link out: Click here
Description: Spring Art Walk: May 11-13, 2012
Friday May 11th: 4:00-7:00pm
Saturday & Sunday May 12th & 13th: 12:00-5:00pm
Open Studios Events are free to the public,
with free parking thanks to Gillette/P&G and Central parking
Explore the historic waterfront warehouses that are home to painters, sculptors, ceramicists, jewelers, performance artists, fashion designers, printmakers, book artists, photographers, and more. Meet local artists and craftspeople, and get a behind the scenes look at where Boston artists create their work. Find established artists, and discover new emerging talents. Stroll, ponder, and browse. Buy original art from the people who make it.
Visitors to Open Studios can explore 10 buildings in the Fort Point neighborhood, plus galleries and creative design shops. All buildings are in easy walking distance of each other. Free participatory art-making activities for all ages will take place at Made in Fort Point, FPAC’s store and gallery at 12 Farnsworth Street.
Start Date: 2012-05-11
End Date: 2012-05-13
The Boston Tree Party Planting Event
May 8th
Title: The Boston Tree Party Planting Event
Location: Binford Park
Link out: Click here
Description: The Boston Tree Party has given FPNA two lovely semi-dwarf apple trees. Gillette is enthusiastically supporting this project. They have committed to a daily watering schedule and have even paid the fee for the tree planting kit, which includes an animal protection system. Their landscaper is testing the soil to be sure it is appropriate for the trees and we are told the fruit will be safe to eat. The two varieties are Roxbury Russet and Esopus Spitzenburg. Heartfelt thanks go to Gary Hall at P&G.
The tree planting will be Sunday May 20th at 1:00 in the Gillette park off of Binford Street. You are invited to bring snacks and beverages for a picnic in the park. We encourage young arborists to attend and the children will get to dig the first shovel fulls (great family photo opportunity). For more information visit: http://www.bostontreeparty.org
Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2012-05-20
End Time: 14:00
Midway Studios Meeting
Mar 8th
Title: Midway Studios Meeting
Location: Artists for Humanity, 100 West 2nd Street, South Boston
Description: The community meeting will discuss the conversion of Midway Studios’ theater into moderate-hazard industrial production facility (operated by Gentex/Ops-core). The meeting will be led by Chief Planner Kairos Shen.
Start Time: 6:00 p.m.
Date: March 13, 2012
End Time: 8:00 p.m.
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center Expansion Plans and Community Input
Feb 3rd
BCEC meeting Jan. 18th 2012
BK Boley of ADD Inc kindly hosted. ADD Inc is involved in some of the preliminary planning for the expansion.
Partial list of non-resident attendees:
Jim Rooney Executive Director BCEC, Senator Jack Hart, Representative Nick Collins, Bob O’Shea Community Liaison BCEC, Howard Davis (BCEC)
Moderator: FPNA board member Cam Sawzin
1. Senator Hart was introduced and made some useful comments, which included:
- The desire to work more closely with the community and promise to approve the legislation only when he and the community were comfortable with the plan.
- · Work to prevent the “Innovation district” from changing the unique character of Fort Point.
2. Representative Nick Collins was introduced and supports the community’s open dialog with the BCEC regarding the expansion.
3. Presentation by Jim Rooney, Coe BCEC
4. Presentation by Howard Davis, Director of Capital Projects, BCEC Oversaw BCEC construction 1999-2004
5. Discussion and questions
Magnificent Waste presented by Fort Point Theatre Channel
Jan 23rd
Title: Magnificent Waste presented by Fort Point Theatre Channel
Location: 10 Channel Center Street, Boston
Link out: Click here
Description: Sunday, January 29, 7:00 pm. FREE
An informal night of friends getting together to read a play about art, consumption, and modern society. http://www.fortpointtheatrechannel.org/productions/2012/1/16/magnificent-waste.html
Fort Point Theatre Channel is launching a series of informal readings of full-length plays, both new and established works. For the first in the series, we are excited to offer Magnificent Waste, introducing Boston to Latina playwright Caridad Svich, winner of the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize.
The reading of Magnificent Waste,
featuring some of our favorite actors, will take place at
10 Channel Center Street
Fort Point, Boston
About The Play
Lizzie B makes shock art. Arden buys beautiful things. A young man wants to be famous. In a modern world addicted to sex, drugs, fashion, and celebrity, three friends make a pact that will change their lives. “Magnificent Waste” explores America’s appetite for excess and presents an unsettling portrait of its own undoing: a glittering but brutal exploration of modern society’s superficiality and the objectification of the human body.
Magnificent Waste had its world premiere in 2011 at Factory 449, a theatre collective in Washington, DC.
About The Playwright
Caridad Svich has been short-listed for the PEN Award in Drama three times. She has received the National Latino Playwrighting Award, the Whitfield Cook Award for New Writing, the HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwrighting, the Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women, and the Rosenthal New Play Prize. Her theatre pieces and songs, written in English and Spanish, have been presented across the U.S. and abroad at diverse venues, including Denver Center Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Main Street Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Women’s Project, Repertorio Espanol, INTAR, 59East59, Victory Gardens, McCarren Park Pool, and 7 Stages.
About FPTC’s Reading Series
Fort Point Theatre Channel is launching a series of readings of full-length plays to explore both new works and established works we rarely get to read, let alone see. When we say informal, we mean informal: the model is a group of friends getting together to read a play together.
100 Acres Plan Meeting
Jan 23rd
Title: 100 Acres Plan Meeting
Location: 10 Channel Center Street, 2nd floor Boston
Description: The community open space 100 Acres Plan meeting with just the neighborhood has been scheduled for Jan 30th at 6:30 on the second floor of 10 Channel Center. We thank Commonwealth Ventures for providing this venue for the meeting. Residents of the community familiar with the 100 Acres Plan and Seaport planning process will provide an update and facilitate further discussion. This meeting is focused on the 100 Acres Plan and open space/public realm issues (including parks, dog runs and tot lots.)
Start Time: 6:30 p.m.
Date: January 30, 2012
Boston Redevelopment Authority meeting regarding 49/51/63 Melcher Street
Jan 20th
Title: Boston Redevelopment Authority meeting regarding 49/51/63 Melcher Street
Location: Bargmann Hendrie + Archetype, Inc., 300 A Street, South Boston, MA 02210
Link out: Click here
Description: The Proponent filed a Notice of Project Change
proposing to change the phasing and size of the previously approved project.
49/51 Melcher Street is now proposed to be two separate projects, one located at 51 Melcher Street (Phase II) and another at 49 Melcher Street
(Phase III). The previously-approved rooftop addition and two infill additions are to be eliminated. Phase 1 located at 63 Melcher Street is to remain unchanged except for using less basement space as gross floor area.
Close of Comment Period: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Geoff Lewis, Boston Redevelopment Authority
One City Hall Square, 9th Floor, Boston, MA 02201
phone: 617.918.4297
fax: 617.742.7783
email: Geoffrey.Lewis.BRA@CityofBoston.gov
Start Time: 6:30 p.m.
Date: January 26, 2012
