This coming weekend check out the Revere Beach Sand Sculpting Festival. If you’ve never been I can assure you that you will be impressed by these sculptures.
Last year’s festival attracted over 600,000 attendees and included 20 sculptors invited from around the world compete for the top prize.
Revere Sand Sculpture Festival is at Revere Beach from July 24-26
Christopher Columbus Park is showing movies for free on a large screen each Sunday starting at sunset. Last week they showed Driving Miss Daisy. This week catch Toy Story. Make a night of it by ordering a pizza from Ernesto’s Pizzeria on Salem Street in the North End and walk over with it to enjoy a movie outside.
Below is the calendar of movies for the rest of the season. Definitely make it a point to come down and check out a show and enjoy a nice night outside.
Sunday, July 12th – Driving Miss Daisy
Sunday, July 19th – Toy Story
Sunday, July 26th – Shrek 2
Sunday, August 2nd – Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Sunday August 9th – Money Ball
Sunday August 16th – Sabrina
The Magic 106.7 Family Film Festival started last week at the Shops at Prudential Center. Tonight, that film series continues with Frozen.
Note that this family-friendly event that includes children’s activities that start at 6pm. The movie will begin Saturday at sundown. (Rain date is Wednesday, July 22nd). No plans tonight? Head over to the Shops at Prudential Center and sing along.
The Coolidge Theater is partnering with the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy hosting free outdoor screening series this summer. All screenings start at sunset at the Greenway’s Wharf District Park (located between Milk and India Streets) with films screened in 35mm.
Food, drinks, and lawn chairs are allowed at the event. Make it a date or bring a group of friends to enjoy this classic thriller.
Tonight’s show is the 1963 Hitchcock horror, The Birds.
More details are available here.
Boston’s Outside the Box is back after a year + hiatus to rethink and retool the 6-day festival. Starting tomorrow, July 14th, and running through the 19th, over one hundred artists and organizations from Boston and beyond will gather on Boston Common. Transforming Boston Common into a massive performing arts festival designed to engage, educate and most importantly, entertain the citizens of Boston.
FREE – Outside the Box Festival on Boston Common July 14-19
You can get more details about this free music festival which kicks off tomorrow by visiting their website at, otbboston.com.
Christopher Columbus Park is showing movies for free on a large screen each Sunday starting at sunset from July 12 through August 16th. Order a pizza from Ernesto’s Pizzeria on Salem Street in the North End and walk over with it to enjoy a movie outside under the stars.
Sunday, July 12th – Driving Miss Daisy
Sunday, July 19th – Toy Story
Sunday, July 26th – Shrek 2
Sunday, August 2nd – Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Sunday August 9th – Money Ball
Sunday August 16th – Sabrina
The World Naked Bike Ride takes place in 70 cities tonight. This marks the event’s 11th year, and is meant as a protest dependence on oil, promote bike safety as well as a positive body image, according to the organization’s website. The Boston world naked bike ride actually leaves from Cambridge at 9PM. See below for more details.
Saturday, July 11th at 9PM
North Point Park Common in Cambridge
This marks Boston’s sixth year participating. Bicyclists will convene in various degrees of undress at 9 p.m. Saturday at the North Point Park Common in Cambridge. The ride will go through Cambridge, Boston, and Somerville.
The Sinclair in Harvard Square has launched their first annual Summer Movie Night series. The series started last month on June 9 with a showing of “Spaceballs”.
Later this week a screening of 1980s film“The Goonies” will take place on Wednesday, July 8 and “Dirty Dancing” will be shown on Saturday, August 11. Doors will open at 8 p.m. and the movie will begin at 8:30 p.m. Space is limited, so we recommend getting there early to snag a spot. The Sinclair is located at 52 Church Street in Cambridge.
This summer nine parks in Boston will host FREE fitness sessions that are open to the public. Participating parks include:
Blackstone Park – South End (BP)
Boston Common Frog Pond – Downtown (BCFP)
Christopher Columbus Park – North End (CCP)
Franklin Park – Dorchester (FLP)
Gertrude Howes Playground – Roxbury (GH)
Harambee Park – Dorchester (HP)
Jamaica Pond Pinebank Promontory – Jamaica Plain (JP)
Madison Park – Roxbury (MP)
Symphony Park – Fenway / Kenmore (SYP)
Use the park codes that I’ve included in bold above to check out the rotating schedule of free fitness activities in these Boston parks this June. Click on calendar below to enlarge. 
Boston is a ghost town – that is unless you are in the Back Bay and Beacon Hill in which case it seems like the city is bursting at the seams as final preparations are made for the annual Boston Pops fireworks spectacular. Earlier today Sergio and I visited the Hatch Shell and walked the Esplanade, and I was impressed by the incredible security and how efficient everything was operating.
If you want to see the fireworks but not go to the Esplanade, take the Red Line to Kendall Square and walk back to the Charles River. You will be able to listen to the music, while watching the fireworks explode over Back Bay’s skyline.
7:00 PM WBZ NewsRadio 1030 AM broadcast begins
8:00 PM Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular broadcast begins on WBZ-TV
8:00 PM 99.5 WCRB Classical Radio Boston broadcast begins
8:30 PM Concert begins
10:30 PM Fireworks begins
11:00 PM Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular ends
More details about tonight’s celebration can be found here, july4th.org.
Photo by: Keith Krisa at the AMP Gallery at 148 Commercial Street
While tens of thousands have descended upon Provincetown for Independence Week parties and celebrations, a weekly tradition worth checking out (if only to take a break from all the revelries) is the Ptown Friday Gallery Walk.
While many think of the East End when they think of Provincetown’s art galleries, don’t overlook West End galleries like the AMP Gallery at 148 Commercial St. where Keith Krisa’s exhibit opened and will run through Wednesday, July 8th.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Ptown offers a little bit of something for everyone. While visiting try something you may not normally do. You might be surprised by how much you enjoy perusing Provincetown’s art galleries.
Posted in Art & Film, Free Stuff, Provincetown
Tagged BosGuy, Boston Guy, Photography, Provincetown
Thanks to the Highland Street Foundation, Free fun Fridays has returned to Boston this summer. The following venues will be open and free to the public:
BOSTON CHILDREN’S MUSEUM in Boston
HERITAGE MUSEUMS & GARDENS in Sandwich
FALMOUTH MUSEUMS ON THE GREEN in Falmouth
BERKSHIRE MUSEUM in Pittsfield
AMELIA PARK CHILDREN’S MUSEUM in Westfield
NAUMKEAG, TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS in Stockbridge
OLD MANSE, TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS in Concord
Much thanks Highland Street Foundation.
The Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s 20th season of free Shakespeare on the Boston Common, presents one of the bard’s most famous tragedies, King Lear.
King Lear – July 22 – August 9
All performances are free and open to the public
This tragedy tells the journey of an aging king, faced with his own mortality and mental decline, who tries to secure the legacy of his kingdom by dividing it amongst his three daughters. Only through loss—of status, love and loyalty—does King Lear learn what is truly resonant at the end of a life. Mark the dates in your calendar and plan on spending an evening on the Common to catch a performance.
Thanks to the Highland Street Foundation, Free fun Friday’s has returned to Boston this summer. Starting Friday, June 26th the following venues will be open and free to the public:
TANGLEWOOD in Lenox, MA
NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM in Stockbridge, MA
THE MOUNT: EDITH WHARTON’S HOME in Lenox, MA
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM in Worcester, MA
MIT MUSEUM in Cambridge, MA
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM in Salem, MA
THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES in Salem, MA
Much thanks Highland Street Foundation.
From free boot camp sessions on the Greenway to Zumba on the Esplanade there are summer outdoor fitness classes through out the city of Boston in the morning and evening. Below I’ve compiled some of the classes currently available and open for you to join so get outside and give one of them a try.
MONDAY
6:30-7:30 AM November Project’s Destination Deck
7:15-8:15 AM Pilates at Post Office Square
7:30-8:30 AM HIIT Workouts at Madison Park in Roxbury
5:30-6:30 PM Yoga at Post Office Square
6-7 PM Zumba at Christopher Columbus Park in the North End
6:30-7:15 PM Pilates at Rose Kennedy Greenway (every other week)
TUESDAY
7:15-8:15 AM H.I.I.T. at Post Office Square
10-11 AM Tai Chi at Symphony Park in the Fenway
5:30-6:30 PM Zumba at Post Office Square
6PM Running Group starts at City Sports in Back Bay
6-7 PM Zumba at the Hatch Shell in the Esplanade (Starting 7/15)
WEDNESDAY
6:30-7:30 AM November Project at Harvard Stadium
7:15-8:15 AM Pilates at Post Office Square
5:30 -6:30 PM Boot camp at Post Office Square
6:30-7:30 PM Line Dancing at Franklin Park
THURSDAY
7:15-8:15 AM Morning Stretch & Renew Yoga at Post Office Square
5:30-6:30 PM Zumba at Post Office Square
FRIDAY
6:30-7:30 AM November Project Hill Training (Summit Ave Brookline)
I’m sure there are more classes than those mentioned above. Share any other free outdoor summer classes that you know about by adding them (along with a web link) in the comments section, and I will add them to this list.
BosGuy 