GBH offers a wide variety of in-person and virtual events. From live music recordings, lectures and screenings to our virtual Book Club, tasting events and more, stay connected to our community. Whatever you’re interested in—news, history, the arts or music, we’ve got you covered. Fill your calendar with this rich diversity of events and be inspired, informed and entertained.
If you have questions about any of our events please reach out to Audience Member Services by phone 617-300-3300 or email info@wgbh.org
Featured Events
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In PersonVirtualA Conversation with Connie Chung
Join us Sunday evening, March 30, for an up-close conversation with the iconic journalist Connie Chung. With a 50+ year career working for every major TV news network and interviewing countless notable global figures of her time, Connie reached the pinnacle of journalism as the first AANHPI woman to co-anchor the CBS Evening News. Hear about her amazing rise despite the many hurdles and her thoughts about the attacks on journalism today.
GBH President and CEO Susan Goldberg moderates this journalist-on-journalist interview. General Manager of GBH & WORLD Liz Cheng hosts the evening.
Join us for this very special event.
7-8pm ET Formal Program in Yawkey Theater (hybrid)
8-9pm ET Dessert reception in the Atrium (in-person only)
This event is open to the public but registration is required. You have two ticket options:
In-Person Experience from 7-9pm ET includes a networking opportunity with area AANHPI leaders and non-profit partners and a dessert reception.- $25 In-person admission ticket
- $75 In-person admission ticket including a signed copy of Connie: A Memoir
- Virtual ticket (7-8pm ET) (Free) Once you register a Zoom Webinar link will be provided
- $75 Virtual ticket (7-8pm ET) with Zoom link plus an autographed copy of Connie: A Memoir and GBH Membership. The book will be shipped to the address you provided at point of registration (shipping costs are included in this price)
Photo credit: Connie Armaki/Coco Foto
Special thanks to our sponsor Bernadine Tsung-Megason of Compass Real Estate
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Virtual
Beyond the Page with Marie Benedict
Beyond the Page is excited to welcome and celebrate another illustrious author – Marie Benedict!
Marie Benedict is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Known for her engaging mysteries and use of real-life events as inspiration, Marie has written a number of novels including The Milford Affair, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, The First Ladies, and The Personal Librarian. Her recently released mystery is The Queens of Crime. Her books have been chosen for the Good Morning America Book Club and Target’s Book of the Year, among other distinct honors.
Join us as Marie shares her knowledge, dives deeper into her compelling stories, and answers your burning questions!
This event offers two ticket options:- Attend the event $0
- Attend the event + receive a SIGNED copy of The Queens of Crime + GBH membership $60
More GBH Events
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In PersonChampions Circle Presents: MASTERPIECE Watch Party for Wolf Hall: The Mirror snd the Light
GBH Champions Circle presents a spectacular sneak peek event! Champions Circle patrons are invited to attend an early screening of the first episode of MASTERPIECE’S Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. Guests will enjoy movie theater-style snacks and drinks with family and friends. Be part of the excitement before the official broadcast premiere on Sunday, March 23.
May, 1536. Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife, is dead. As the axe drops, Thomas Cromwell emerges from the bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. But how long can anyone survive under Henry’s cruel and capricious gaze?
1:30pm Doors Open
2pm Program Begins
This is a private event for Champions Circle patrons who contribute $900-$2,399 annually. Champions Circle membership includes numerous benefits, including advance and exclusive access and discounts to select GBH events, including this MASTERPIECE Wolf Hall Watch Party. Not a Champions Circle donor, but curious to learn more about this membership program? Please contact sandy_chin@wgbh.org , Associate Director of Champions Circle.
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Virtual
Megan Marshall talks with Janice Nimura about “After Lives”
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of celebrated American women, Megan Marshall has been hailed as a “gifted storyteller” (New Yorker) at “the front rank of American biographers” (New York Times).
Join us to hear about her latest work “After Lives: On Biography and Mysteries of the Human Heart” and gain insight from her discussion with fellow biographer Janice Nimura. Don’t miss their conversation about remarkable women in history and their own lives and work. Special for Women’s History Month.Partner:American Ancestors -
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Great Decisions | U.S. Changing Leadership in World Economy
Under President Biden, the U.S. has advanced new ideas about trade, technology, industrial policy, competition with China, and the organization of the world economy. For most of the postwar era, the U.S. has tied its global leadership to cooperative agendas aimed at creating a more open-world trading system, but that has apparently come to an end.
What are America’s options and opportunities as a leader of the world economy? How will America’s “foreign policy for the middle class” and strategic competition with China impact its leadership role? How can the postwar rules and institutions of the world economy be made safe for economic nationalism and great power competition?
Join WorldBoston for a timely discussion of this topic with Dr. Daniel Drezner, Distinguished Professor of International Politics and Associate Dean of Research at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.Partner:WorldBoston -
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Katherine McKittrick: “A Poetics of Declension”
atherine McKittrick is Professor of Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, where she researches in areas of Black studies, anti-colonial studies, and critical-creative methodologies. She has authored multiple articles and is a former editor at Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. Her books include Dear Science and Other Stories and Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. She also edited and contributed to Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis. Recent and forthcoming projects include the limited-edition boxset Trick Not Telos, a collaboration with Liz Ikriko and Cristian Ordóñez, and the tryptic honoring NourbeSe Philip On the Declension of Beauty. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies from York University.
Cosponsored by the Boston College Program in African and African Diaspora Studies.Partner:Boston College -
In Person
March NOVA Science Trivia Night
Join us at the GBH Studios at the Boston Public Library for a nerdy night of NOVA science trivia! Get ready for creative categories and exciting prizes as we test your knowledge of science, from the depths of the universe to the history of science.
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Beyond the Page with Marie Benedict
Beyond the Page is excited to welcome and celebrate another illustrious author – Marie Benedict!
Marie Benedict is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Known for her engaging mysteries and use of real-life events as inspiration, Marie has written a number of novels including The Milford Affair, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, The First Ladies, and The Personal Librarian. Her recently released mystery is The Queens of Crime. Her books have been chosen for the Good Morning America Book Club and Target’s Book of the Year, among other distinct honors.
Join us as Marie shares her knowledge, dives deeper into her compelling stories, and answers your burning questions!
GBH's Craig LeMoult will moderate this conversation.
This event offers two ticket options:- Attend the event $0
- Attend the event + receive a SIGNED copy of The Queens of Crime + GBH membership $60
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In Person
The Greater Boston School of Harpsichord Building
Join The Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation for the kickoff of their special exhibition, 'Rediscovering Waltham’s Harpsichord History', which will examine the story of Frank and Diane Hubbard, founders and operators of Hubbard Harpsichords manufacturers of instruments and kits for almost 50 years.
Through their work, Greater Boston became a center of the revivial of the harpsichord as an instrument and Early Music as a genre. Mark Kroll has written the definitive book on chronicling this important period of music history and collected dozens of firsthand accounts of the principal players, workers, and artisans associated with the ‘Big Three’ harpsichord shops in Greater Boston – Hubbard in Waltham, William Dowd and Eric Herz, both in Cambridge.
Kroll will give a talk that sets the context in which the Hubbards’ shop at the Lyman Estate carriage house expanded to the old Cotton Picker Building of the Boston Manufacturing Factory site on Moody Street. Hubbard Harpsichords pioneered the use of DIY kits that became popular in the 1960s and 70s, many of which were built in this mill complex.
This Mill Talk marks the grand opening of Rediscovering Waltham’s Harpsichord History, a special exhibition on the artisanship, industry, and art of designing and building harpsichords, exemplified by those of the Hubbard shop. This three-month exhibition will include a full harpsichord, wood-bending frames, tools and materials of the trade, and imagery from the Hubbard shop that centers the workers who created instruments and kits for decades on site. Over the course of its installation, the program will include music, informational talks, panel discussions, and other special events to bring this almost-forgotten part of Waltham’s and Greater Boston’s music history back to the forefront.Partner:Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation -
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Putting People First: The 15-Minute City
Last year, Boston drivers spent an average of 79 hours sitting in traffic. Those hours could have been spent going to the gym, visiting a library, or having lunch with a friend. How different would our lives be if everything we needed was only 15 minutes away on foot?
The 15-Minute City is an urban planning framework in which people live within 15 minutes of the essentials they need by walking or biking. Cities around the world - Barcelona, Paris, Singapore, and Bogota - have adopted this concept for sustainability and to improve general quality of life. As this concept gains popularity, we explore how our cities might leverage this global movement.
For decades, urban planning in the United States has advanced and prioritized automobile use, which led to the destruction and splintering of Black and brown neighborhoods. What resulted was the unprecedented surge of suburbia, which designated for generations of Americans separate spaces for living, working, etc. Now more than ever, the US is confronted with a physical and political landscape demonstrating the importance of connection and community.
In this talk, we explore the principles of the 15-Minute City, how it works, and how urban planning impacts our way of life and shapes how we live and move in our communities.
Christian MilNeil, editor-in-chief at StreetsblogMASS is moderating the discussion.Partner:Transportation for Massachusetts (T4MA) -
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Revolutionary Art: Gender and Racial Inequality in the Art World
Join the Boston Public Library for this Revolutionary Art talk with Guerrilla Girls member Frida Kahlo. Frida will present on the topic of gender and racial inequality in the art world as well as discuss the current and past work of the Guerrilla Girls.
Later during the program, journalist and 'The Culture Show' producer Kate Dellis will interview Frida Kahlo and then open the floor up to audience questions. The program will conclude with a meet and greet with Frida after the talk.
“Frida Kahlo” is a member of the Guerrilla Girls. The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous artist activists who use disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals and killer statistics to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in art, film, politics, and pop culture. They believe in an intersectional feminism that fights for human rights for all people. They undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair. They have done hundreds of unforgettable projects (street posters, banners, actions, books, and videos) all over the world. Their retrospectives and traveling exhibitions have attracted thousands. Currently their work is on display at Tate Modern, where 17,000 people came to meet them in person on January 31, 2024! Their latest book, Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly collects hundreds of our projects from 1985 to today, and was named one of the best art books of 2020 by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
Other exhibitions include the São Paulo Museum of Art; the Venice Biennale; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Military History, Dresden; Art Basel Hong Kong; Minneapolis Institute of Art; The Centre Pompidou, Paris; Toi o Tāmaki Museum, New Zealand; National Museum of World Writing, Korea; and hundreds more. The Getty Research Center, Los Angeles, is preparing an exhibition of their 40-year history for Fall 2025.Partner:Boston Public Library -
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Womanist Moral Imagination for Living in an Absolutist Culture
Anger and fear are anchoring our political and religious life. This anger fear has warped our sense of how to be national and religious community that is moral community. Political discourse is uncivil; religious discourse is confrontational. Whether members of Congress are holding their party’s line or members of denominations are holding a doctrinal line, there is partisan polarization. At the heart of this polarization is absolutist morality. Womanist moral imagination helps us to answer this question: How do we generate and facilitate authentic moral community?Partner:Boston University School of Theology -
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Levi Strauss: A Man, A Brand, and a Pair of Jeans
Join the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation for a captivating Mill Talk on the history of Levi Strauss, the man behind one of the most enduring names in American fashion, and the brand he built. Tracey Panek, Historian and Director of Archives at Levi Strauss & Co., will explore how a Bavarian immigrant in the 19th century built a brand that revolutionized workwear and became a global icon in fashion, culture, and everyday utilitarian clothing.
This talk is especially fitting at the Charles River Museum, the site of Francis Cabot Lowell’s first cotton textile mill, where America’s industrial revolution transformed fabric production and laid the foundation for the mass manufacturing of textiles—including the denim that would later become synonymous with Levi’s. Discover how industrial ingenuity, from early denim to Strauss’s patented riveted jeans, shaped the way we produce and wear clothing today – and how it continues to shape fashion worldwide.Partner:Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation -
Virtual
A Sensory Chocolate Tasting with Kakawa Chocolate House (virtual) event
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Bonnie Bennett, owner of Kakawa Chocolate House and an expert chocolatier, will guide participants through this one hour virtual class. Learn how to taste and pair different chocolates from around the globe. During the class, guests will have an opportunity to explore the distinctive looks, aromas, textures, and flavors that define different varietals and terroirs of chocolate-growing regions. In addition, Bonnie will share some of her extensive knowledge of the history of chocolate and expand upon some of the unique properties and unusual facts about cacao.
Each $75 ticket includes a chocolate kit that will be shipped directly to the postal address entered when you register. One interactive kit contains enough chocolate to serve two people, a sensory tasting wheel, and a note sheet to record your observations. Purchase multiple kits for an amazing Chocolate celebration with family and friends!
Space is limited for this tantalizing virtual adventure. Registration for this event ends on Friday, March 7, 2025 at 5pm EST, to provide ample time to ship the chocolate kits to your preferred shipping address.
