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First Fridays are back! Tune in from your couch or get up and boogie. Boston dance duo The Davis Sisters are hosting and leading tutorials. Plus, don’t miss a lesson and performance by multi-hyphenate artist and performer Devlin G, cocktail-making, and community dance videos. Take a dancing break and make your own DIY Disco Ball. Plus, join us for an after party featuring 2019 Boston music awards DJ of the year, DJ Real P. Just dance!
Add some 70’s bling to your living room dance party with found household sparkle for a DIY Disco Ball. We suggest aluminum foil or upcycling your old, unused CD’s to create a reflective surface.
Cut your aluminum foil or CDs into small pieces (pro tip – soaking CD’s in a bucket of hot water makes them easier to cut!). Glue your reflective pieces onto a found spherical surface.
Try: Styrofoam ball, hard childhood rubber ball or an item of ANY shape or size to transform it into a dazzling dance party prop!
Feel like sharing? Upload your groovy creations and tag #ICAFirstFridays and #ICAfromHome
Gather the ingredients. Add the mint and lemon together in a mixing glass. Muddle thoroughly to reduce the juices and oils. Add the simple syrup, whiskey, and fill the glass with ice. Shake for 30 seconds. Pour into a glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with a mint sprig or a lemon twist, if you’re feeling fancy! Serve and enjoy!
First Friday: Digital Dance is free for all. If you are able, please consider supporting the future of visionary art and the artists behind it by making a one-time donation today.
Be inspired by ICA art and exhibitions right in your own home. For April School Vacation Week, ICA Kids presents an virtual art-making workshop for families via Zoom. Meet other families and dive into an interactive family art-making activity led by ICA educators – an opportunity to connect and create, even when we are all apart.
Families will create hanging mobiles inspired by Carolina Caycedo’s Cosmotarrayas. Mobiles often can be thought of as monuments or representations of home and experiences. Especially during these uncertain times, how are you coming together as a group or family? What materials are you using, recycling, collecting, and finding? What objects are special to you and that represent “home”?
There will be three sessions, all 11 to noon:
Here’s what you’ll need:
Registration required. Once registered, you will receive additional details, including a materials list and the access link. Space is limited to 5–10 families per workshop.
Questions? Contact us at familyprograms@icaboston.org.
Spice up your Sunday brunch at home with our new Instagram live series featuring DJ Guru Sanaal. Cook special weekly recipes while getting down to live music from local DJs. We are kicking off Sunday Brunch Jams with…jam!
Prep: 20 minutes
Total: 45 minutes
Stir together fruit, sugar, and pinch of salt in a large pot. Bring to a low boil over medium heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved and mashing the fruit. Add lemon juice; continue to boil, stirring frequently, until bubbles slow, chunks of fruit show at top, and mixture clings to a spoon but falls off in clumps. Once jam reaches desired texture, and continues to simmer, skim the foam from the top.
Ladle jam into clean containers, leaving ¾ inch of headroom. Let cool completely. Cover, label, and refrigerate up to 1 month, or freeze up to 1 year.
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Spice up your Sunday brunch at home with an out of this world DJ set by Saucy Lady. Cook special weekly recipes while getting down to live music from local DJs.
Prep: 5 minutes
Total: 30 minutes
Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a medium pan. Gently fry shallots, stirring frequently, until almost translucent. Add garlic and fry until softened.
Mix paprika, cinnamon/cumin into the shallot and garlic mixture and fry off gently for 1-2 minutes stirring the whole time.
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Spice up your Sunday brunch at home with our new Instagram live series featuring DJ Slick Vick. Cook special weekly recipes while getting down to live music from local DJs.
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Spice up your Mothers Day Sunday brunch with a live DJ set with Claude Money of Soulelujah on Instagram Live. You bring the eggs, we’ll bring the beats.
Heat the olive oil and onion. Saute over medium heat for 5 minutes. Add the dry lentils, water, and diced tomatoes and stir. Cover and allow to simmer for about 10 minutes on low. Remove from heat and stir in salt, pepper, and parsley leaves. Top with your favorite type of egg. We recommend poached.
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DJ Yung Towfu of All You Can Eat serves up some delicious tunes on Instagram live while you cook your all you can eat Sunday Brunch. Try a tofu scramble.
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Presented in collaboration Boston’s queer underground house and techno party Boudoir, don’t miss an evening of live drag performances by Kurt Fowl, Mt. Hart, Severity Stone and Civilization, hosted by Pristine Christine. Plus, learn how to mix the perfect cocktail with Ryan Lotz. Don’t miss a dance party featuring Chicago based DJ/Producer Hijo Pròdigo, and Boudoir resident DJs Math3ca and James Cerne on Zoom. Check back for the details.
Since so much of this year’s Pride is going to be spent finding ways to be together while being alone, this drink is a dressed up version of a drink nearly every one of us has ordered at a club: the Vodka Soda with a Splash of Cranberry. This is a pretty easy way to make this drink a little more celebratory than your everyday beverage using sparkling wine and a bright tart cranberry syrup.
Tip your drag queens and kings! Drag performers are freelance artists and often rely on tips to financially get by. Tips can be made before, during or after the livestream via the performer’s Venmo or Paypal.
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Join us for our first-ever virtual Play Date: Go with the Flow! During these trying times, we’re thinking about self-care, flexibility and taking care of each other. Join us for live programs on Fri, May 29 and explore our menu of self-guided activities on your own time! Explore on- and off-the-screen as you engage and create together. All activities are designed for adults and children to participate in together.
We are excited to partner and co-host this Play Date with our neighbor Boston Children’s Museum!
Virtual workshops will be held on Zoom.
Join Boston-based yoga teacher Marlene Boyette for a live family-friendly yoga session on Zoom. Stretch your body and your mind with these easy fun poses and meditative flow. Children and adults are invited to attend together.
Participate in an interactive art-making activity and weave your family narrative of life during quarantine. Reflect individually and work together on a sculptural artwork for your home as we explore ideas of time, sharing, and self-care. Children and adults invited to attend together, ages 5 and up recommended. You’ll want to collect and bring these recommended materials:
Join Boston-based theater group and play experts The Gottabees as they lead interactive movement-based activities. Shake it up and get ready to laugh! Children and adults are invited to attend together.
Registration for live workshops is now closed. Join us at our next Virtual Play Date. Sign-up for e-News to get the latest updates!
Explore self-guided activities
Boston Children’s Museum engages children and families in joyful discovery experiences that instill an appreciation of our world, develop foundational skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. Throughout the Museum’s closure, we have been providing online resources for children and their caregivers to continue playing and learning from home on a daily basis. During these uncertain times, it is more important than ever to care for and support one another. We are thrilled to co-host the ICA’s Virtual Playdate and provide families with activities that encourage care for oneself and for the community. We hope the weekend’s activities and resources will inspire fun, creativity, and connection at home.
“When you take care of your own well-being, it is important that you pay attention to various aspects that make you fulfilled as a person. Boston Children’s Museum encourages activities and ideas for self-care and wellness that focus on five areas of wellness — Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Environmental, and Social. Move your body, express your ideas, make space for rejuvenation, and work with what you have!” –Saki Iwamoto, our Health & Wellness Educator
Marlene Boyette is The Advent School‘s full time Yoga and Mindfulness teacher. She began her personal journey of practicing yoga in 2003, became certified to teach children’s yoga in 2013 and obtained her Trauma Informed 200 E-RYT after training with 4 Corners Yoga + Wellness in Dorchester, in 2016.
As community member and activist at heart, Marlene has founded Leela Yoga & Wellness and co-found of Peace In Boston and Black + Blonde, two initiatives focused on bringing yoga to underserved communities and prioritizing diversity, equity and inclusion within Boston area wellness spaces.
Marlene has collaborated with various agencies, organizations and programs such as The Boston Public Health Commission, Boston Public Library, The ICA, The Boston Children’s Museum, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Teachers Lounge, Breathe for Change, The Teacher’s Lounge and is dedicated to using yoga, meditation and overall wellness as catalysts for supporting, building and healing community.
The Gottabees are a Boston-based ensemble dedicated to creating inspirational, engaging and empowering theater for family audiences. The company is known internationally for uniting simple-but-elegant visual theater with astonishing technique. They aim to inspire community, connection, and autonomy by providing an outlet for families to giggle, gasp, sigh, and cheer in forty-five minutes or less. The Gottabees’ stories reflect children’s everyday aspirations, concerns and emotional experiences. Their wordless approach to storytelling removes language barriers and activates different aspects of the audience’s imagination.
Since their founding in 2013, The Gottabees have performed for over 35,000 people, in venues such as the Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta, GA), La MaMa E.T.C. (New York City), Detroit Institute of the Arts (Michigan), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland), Izmir International Puppet Days (Turkey), and Casteliers (Montréal). Their work earned a 2017 UNIMA-USA Citation of Excellence.
Your support helps keeps programs like this – both virtual and in-person – free and accessible in this time of uncertainty. If you are able, please consider becoming a member or making a one-time gift to the ICA Fund.
ICA Kids and Family programs are supported, in part, by Vivien and Alan Hassenfeld, the Hassenfeld Family Foundation, the Willow Tree Fund, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Raymond T. & Ann T. Mancini Family Foundation.
In times of challenge, we recognize the extraordinary power of the arts to heal, inspire, and unite us. Please join fellow Director’s Circle members as we come together for a virtual presentation with Jill Medvedow, Ellen Matilda Poss Director.
Space is limited, kindly reach out to dcevents@icaboston.org to RSVP. A link to access the Zoom video call will be provided upon RSVP, prior to the event.
This is a benefit for members at the Advocate level and above.