Past Events

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.

Join American Ancestors for the tale of one family spanning centuries and continents. Inspired by the discovery of a mysterious manuscript in an old Massachusetts farmhouse, the celebrated author John Kaag follows eight menbers of the Blood family from seventeenth-century England through the founding of the colonies and the American Revolution to the beginning of the twentieth century.

The Bloods were one of America’s first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers—geographic, political, intellectual, and spiritual—that would become the very core of the United States. They were active participants in virtually every pivotal moment in American history, coming into contact with Emerson, Thoreau, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Victoria Woodhull, and William James. The genealogy of the family tracks the ebb and flow of what Thoreau called “wildness,” the untamed spirit of Americans. John Kaag’s remarkable account reminds us of the risks and rewards that were taken in laying claim to the lands that would become the United States and shows how each family member embodied the elusive ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.

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!

Registration is encouraged for this free event.

The 2020 book, Climate Crisis and The Global Green New Deal, by Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin is recognized as a major source of information about the climate change crisis and also the best solution, which involves science, politics and economics: "A survival manual for civilization" as Daniel Ellsberg called it. Dr. Pollin is an internationally recognized expert on the economics of the climate change crisis, the billions of people who will be affected, and the economic steps necessary for restoring our planet and civilization. Here, he explains in very accessible terms, the problem and the solution.