Past Events

J. Courtney Sullivan is the bestselling author of the novels Commencement, Maine, The Engagements, Saints for All Occasions, and Friends and Strangers. Her latest novel, The Cliffs, was Reese Witherspoon’s July 2024 selection for Reese’s Book Club. Her work has been translated into 17 languages.

Sullivan's writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, New York, Real Simple, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among many others. In 2017, she wrote the forewords to new editions of two of her favorite classic novels— Anne of Green Gables and Little Women.

She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two children. Check out more about J. Courtney Sullivan here.

GBH News' Marilyn Schairer will moderate the conversation.

American Experience presents a virtual PAST FORWARD conversation exploring how competing narratives from politicians and the press can shape the public's understanding of the politics and policy. This conversation will be inspired in part by THE MOVEMENT AND THE "MADMAN" and CITIZEN HEARST, both of which are now streaming on the PBS app.



In this conversation, panelists will examine how politicians and the press compete for public attention, exploring how the battle for hearts and minds shapes the image of politicians and the coverage they receive. Panelists will also ask how citizens in democratic societies are affected when they're bombarded with multiple narratives. Finally, our experts will take a closer look at how competing political and institutional media goals can block or reframe information that is shared with the public, ultimately seeking to understand who decides what the public knows and why.



Panelists:

Yu Ouyang is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University Northwest. His research focuses on the American presidency and how presidents leverage their institutional advantages and powers to impact public policies.



Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor in the University's Department of History and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Professor Suri is the author and editor of eleven books on politics and foreign policy, most recently: Civil War By Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy.



The conversation will be moderated by Kelly McBride, Senior Vice President at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies.



This event will be livestreamed on our Youtube and Facebook pages.

Composite art source images from the National Archives and Wikimedia Commons.

Join us in our BPL Studio for a conversation about cultural responsive coaching with Positive Coaching Alliance. Daycia McClam will host a Q&A format panel discussion with guests Tiffany Alford, Anshi Moreno Jimenez, Jamaal Wornum, & Jason Harris.

Support GBH Music and get a front row seat to 6 immersive in-person music productions at our studios in Brighton. Guests who contribute $500 will receive a pair of tickets to 6 upcoming music events between December 2024 and June 2025.

All events take place in the GBH studios in Brighton.

These 6 events from the cross-genre GBH Music Presents concerts listed below:

• December 11, 2024 - GBH Holiday Spectacular in Calderwood Television Studio, (7:30-9pm)
• February 27, 2025 - GBH Music & Jazz Boston Present JazzNOW in Fraser Performance Studio,  (8-9pm)
• March 27, 2025 - GBH Music & JazzBoston Present JazzNOW in Fraser Performance Studio, (8-9pm)
• April 30, 2025  – GBH Music & JazzBoston Present JazzNOW Celebrating International Jazz Day, in Fraser Performance Studio, (8-9pm)
• May 29, 2025 - GBH Music & JazzBoston Present JazzNOW in Calderwood Television Studio, (8-9pm)
• June 3, 2025 – GBH Music Presents Classical Night, Boston Early Music Festival in Fraser Performance Studio, (8-9pm)

Your pair of tickets for these 6 GBH Music Presents events will include:

● Priority seating for the performance. Reserved seats in the first 3 rows in GBH Performance Studio for the live musical performance with the featured classical or jazz ensemble(s)

● Opportunity to speak with the musicians and GBH/CRB moderator/host after the performance concludes

GBH is proud to be the exclusive public media partner of Open Streets Boston! Join us and grab your bike, rollerblades, skateboard, or walk through the car-free streets of East Boston. On Sunday, September 15, Meridian St. from Maverick to Porter & Bennington St. from Porter to Day Square will be filled with live art, music, kid's activities, food trucks, resource tables and the opportunity to connect with neighbors and support local businesses!

The event is free and open to everyone!

The Boston Desegregation and Busing Initiative (BDBI) is hosting a walking tour on September 14 that will take participants to important sites of the Boston desegregation and busing history. The tour will start at 10-1/2 Beacon Street.

GBH Music and JazzBoston are co-hosting a new series to showcase the breadth of incredible jazz talent in the Greater Boston area. The event is held on the second Thursday of every month through February.

This month, pianist Hey Rim Jeon performs a mixture of original compositions and innovative solo piano arrangement of jazz standards and new repertoire from her upcoming album as well as her critically acclaimed albums Groovitude (2022) and Mona Lisa Puzzle (2009).

Despite its large size, Indonesia remains virtually invisible to most Americans. But as one of the world’s largest democracies, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, and as an economic driver of ASEAN, why does it fly below the radar? What are current issues in U.S.-Indonesian relations, and what role can the country play in Asia?

Join WorldBoston for a timely discussion of this topic with former Ambassador Robert Blake Jr. This program will feature an expert presentation, live audience Q&A, and time for networking and discussion with other globally-oriented participants in the Newsfeed Café.

Join the Paul Revere House for the first event in their 2024 Lowell Lecture Series. This three-part series focuses on the lesser-known express assignments Paul Revere completed. Speakers will share the importance of his courier work as part of a communications system that involved complex overlapping networks of leaders of all stations. The series will also explore the very practical aspects of long-distance horse journeys and the local colonial politics in key communities Revere interacted with.

In response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament not only shut down the port of Boston but also revoked the Massachusetts Charter of 1691, which guaranteed the people considerable say in their government. Their sacred rights withdrawn, the people rose up as a body and rebelled. They forced all crown-appointed officers to resign. Everywhere except Boston, where British troops were stationed, they shut down county courts, which administered British authority, executive as well as judicial, on the local level. To fill the vacuum, they formed a Provincial Congress that levied taxes, gathered arms, and raised an army. When British soldiers marched on Lexington and Concord the following spring, they were trying to take back a province they had just lost. That’s when other colonies joined in, broadening the Massachusetts Revolution of 1774 into the American Revolution of 1775.

Presented in partnership with GBH, the Suffolk University History Department, Milton Historical Society/Suffolk Resolves House (Milton, MA), Carpenters’ Hall (Philadelphia, PA), Fraunces Tavern Museum (New York, NY), and the Portsmouth Athenaeum (Portsmouth, NH), with funding from the Lowell Institute. For more information, please contact staff@paulreverehouse.org or visit paulreverehouse.org.

The New England Aquarium and GBH present a special behind-the-scenes look at NOVA’s three-part series Sea Change: The Gulf of Maine as part of the Aquarium’s Lowell Lecture Series. Featuring imagery by acclaimed film producer and veteran photojournalist Brian Skerry, the series examines the changes taking place in the Gulf of Maine, a body of water that is warming 97 percent faster than the global ocean. Blending science, exploration, natural history, and stories of human experience, Sea Change illuminates how the gulf may serve as a preview of what might happen in other parts of the world due to climate change.

Join us in person or via live stream for a screening of highlights from the series followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with Skerry and other members of the filmmaking team about their experiences documenting and studying this spectacular wilderness, and how the communities that live and work along along the gulf’s shores are working to sustain its future. Panelists include:

• Laurie Donnelly, Executive Producer, Sea Change, and Director of Lifestyle Programming, GBH
• Dr. David Fields, Senior Research Scientist, Bigelow Labs
• Brian Skerry, Photographer and Producer, Sea Change
• Chun-Wei Yi, Writer, Director, and Producer, Sea Change
• Moderated by Dr. Letise LaFeir, Chief of Conservation and Stewardship, New England Aquarium

Free of charge and open to the public, the Lowell Lecture Series is made possible due to the generosity of the Lowell Institute. This event is presented in partnership with GBH. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the program starts promptly at 6:30 p.m.

NOVA is the most popular primetime science series on American television, demystifying the scientific and technological concepts that shape and define our lives, our planet, and our universe. NOVA is a production of GBH.

In-person tickets are currently sold out.