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.

Start Time: 6:30 p.m.
Date: June 6, 2012

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

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

Start Time: 6:00 p.m.
Date: March 13, 2012
End Time: 8:00 p.m.

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

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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.