All are encouraged to join us for a BBQ on Friday, September 10 to celebrate the final Friday evening event of the 2021 summer. We’ll start at 6 pm, with wonderful music starting at 7 pm. First Parish will provide hamburgers, veggie burgers, hotdogs and lemonade. If you can, please bring a side to share: … Continue reading BBQ Celebration Friday Evening, Sept 10
Caleb McCoy is a Dorchester native, musician, rapper and producer who brands his style as OAK music (One of A Kind). Caleb likes to make music and tell his personal stories hoping they will connect with the audience. 6 p.m. activities for kids and picnicking 7-8 p.m. music by Caleb McCoy Grande Finale BBQ Evening on the Lawn – Friday, September … Continue reading Friday on the Lawn – Caleb McCoy
Filmmaker Raouf Zaki, movie producer and award winning director, will be joining us on the lawn at First Parish to screen three of his serious and humorous films, followed by a time for questions and discussion. The evening will include these short films: Not Your Average Arab (19 min), Santa Claus in Baghdad (25 min.) and Fireflies (12 min.). … Continue reading Friday on the Lawn 8/27: Short films by Raouf Zaki
Friday Evenings on the Lawn, August 20 from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pmKera M Washington will be leading us in Drumming for All Ages starting at 7pmKera is the Director of Yanvalou Drum & Dance at Wellesley College; a Music Teacher at Mather Elementary School;Leader of Zili Misik, an all female ensemble that performs an acoustic & … Continue reading Friday on the Lawn – Drumming
We are honored to welcome The Paradoxides String Quartet back to First Parish. The quartet features violinists Anna Fernandez-Buehrens and Liz Maloney, violist David Fastovsky, and cellist Paul Hall. The members of the quartet have been playing together in a variety of orchestras and chamber groups for more than 20 years. The evening will start at 6 p.m. … Continue reading Friday on the Lawn: Paradoxides
As part of the August 6 Summer on the Lawn series, we folded paper cranes to memorialize the victims of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. The film Paper Lanterns, was also shown, which is about the atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori and his lifelong effort to honor ten American POWs killed by the bombing. Among the … Continue reading Folding Cranes
July 9, 6-8pmSinger/guitarist Adam Gibbons (7-8pm)Local Dorchester community activist and singer/guitarist Adam Gibbons will be performing singer-songwriter folk/rock material by artists like James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, John Prine, Beatles, and others. A joint venture of First Parish, Bowdoin Geneva Main Streets, Fields Corner Main Street, and Four Corners Main Streets
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Barbara Greene on June 27. A longtime member of First Parish, including twenty-one years as Church Secretary, she was a great friend to her mentor the late Rev. James K. Allen and was instrumental in keeping the First Parish Church of Dorchester open and available … Continue reading Passing of Barbara Greene
This week’s artist is our own Anna Fernandez-Buehrens teaming up with Liz Maloney to make “Joyful Noise” with violin duets by Bach, Spoler, and others. 6-7 pm Children’s activities 7-8 pm Anna Fernandez-Buehrens and Liz Maloney, violinists 8-9 pm Socializing
Muhammad Seven & the Spring headline on June 11 at 7 pm (activities and socializing start at 6 pm)
