Where:
Union Square Plaza
90 Union Square
Somerville, MA 02143
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
< 21, Art, Festivals & Fairs, Innovation, Kid Friendly, LGBT, Music, Performing Arts, Social Good
Event website:
www.facebook.com/events/1877136695868853
The How To Fix The World Festival brings together art and activism to consider ways we can improve our communities and the larger world. The FREE event will be presented by the Somerville Arts Councill in the city’s Union Square from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 18 (raindate: July 8).
The festival will showcase music (including Tef Poe, the St. Louis rapper and current Harvard University fellow who rose to national prominence as an activist at the forefront of the 2014 Ferguson, Missouri, protests), dance, visual art, talks, sign-making, letter-writing and other participatory activities. The festival also will offer ways to engage with local activist groups and community organizations addressing racism, sexism, global warming, the flaws of capitalism and other major problems.
The How To Fix The World Festival will culminate with a 3 p.m. parade, which all are invited to join. It will be led by the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band, Asociación Carnavalesca de Massachusetts, and the Boston Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The parade will end with a 3:30 p.m. rally in which artists, activists and community groups will lead participatory chants.
See the facebook event page (www.facebook.com/events/1877136695868853/) for full line-up!
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