Turntable: Hear these new vinyl records from old jazz legends
These live performances from over 50 years ago haven't been heard since the concerts.
Music & Culture Events
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In PersonMay 2025 Outspoken Saturdays
The GBH BPL studio will host Outspoken Saturdays, a spoken word poetry event for emerging artists. Every first Saturday of the month, the series will be created in collaboration with spoken word artist Amanda Shea. Join us!
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Virtual
Explorers: A New History with Matthew Lockwood
Prize-winning historian Matthew Lockwood looks at the impulse to explore, the travels of Pocahontas, Columbus, Sacagawea, and Captain Cook alongside others who rightfully deserve the title of “explorers” including immigrants and fugitive slaves.
According to Lockwood, people of every background imagine new worlds. The impulse to seek new places is universal to humanity. In his new book, “Explorers,” he unfurls a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked travelers spanning forty centuries and six continents. His illustrated talk will share the stories of such seekers as David Dorr, born into slavery in New Orleans who embarked on a Grand Tour or Europe and Egypt, and the Viking female voyager Gudrid Far-Traveler, who sailed to North America in 1000 AD; among other pioneers.Partner:American Ancestors -
In Person
The Ulysses Quartet at The Boston Public Library (May 2025)
Join GBH Music's quartet in residence, the Ulysses Quartet, for a performance at the Boston Public Library!
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Culture in the News
The Genius Next Door: Artist Tony Cokes uses mixed-media videos to re-contextualize history
In the last installment of our annual series, "The Genius Next Door," Tony Cokes talks about his artistic process, what inspires him and more.
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'Cocaine Bear' and the re-imagining of the blockbuster
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The civil rights memorials that expose America's ugly history and warn of repeating the past
Jared Bowen travels to the South in search of history and humanity. -
Finding resilience in Black love, through good times and bad
Here's to love and here's to Blackness, all year long.
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More Culture Programs
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Episode 24, Season 10<br> "First Children," "Riveted," and more
"First Children: Caroline and John Jr. in the Kennedy White House," "Riveted," and more| 26:46 -
Episode 28, Season 2<br> Inside the Absurdist Mind of Kurt Vonnegut
We explore the life and work of Kurt Vonnegut.| 15:11 -
Episode 1, Season 3<br> The Wound-Dresser, by Walt Whitman
Tony Kushner, David Strathairn & more read Whitman’s “The Wound-Dresser” with Elisa New.| 25:11 -
"Heaven Help Us All"
Brandon Victor Dixon performs "Heaven Help Us All."
