Poetry and Motion: Boston Archives Film Festival

Name: Poetry and Motion: Boston Archives Film Festival
Start: 2026-12-17T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-12-17T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Museum of African American History: Boston Campus

Schedule

Thu Dec 17 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Museum of African American History: Boston Campus | Boston, MA

Eperience 60 years of Boston life at the free Boston Archives Film Festival with uncovered films & student performances.
About this Event

Join us at the African Meeting House for the Boston Archives Film Festival, featuring recently uncovered archival films and audio from the Hyde Park Historical Society, the Museum of African American History, Queer History Boston, UMass Boston, and the West End Museum. From oral history recordings to home videos, we’ll experience snapshots of life in Boston over the past 60 years.

Student performers from UMass Boston, poets, musicians, and more! We will present creative responses to the films, making this an engaging evening of art and archives.Doors open at 5:30pm. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Learn more here.

This project is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation under Prime Award no. 2105-10639 and The Regents of the University of California.