Past Events

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.

Join us for an evening of true stories about adventure, mishaps, and self-discovery—where the road traveled, both literal and emotional, takes center stage. Every journey has a story—some thrilling, some disastrous, and some life-changing. Maybe it was a dream vacation, a dreaded work trip, or a long-awaited family reunion. Or perhaps the real journey wasn’t just about miles traveled, but the transformation within. Enjoy these stories as you sit on set at Stories from the Stage.

At Stories from the Stage, produced by GBH WORLD, ordinary people share extraordinary experiences that you will not soon forget. You’ll hear stories of love and loss, amazing adventures, incredible surprises, and unexpected triumphs. In each taping, we get up-close and personal with storytellers about what inspires them and the craft of storytelling. Join us!

6:30pm Doors open to GBH's Atrium where the bar is open and samosas from SamosaManare available starting at just $3
7:00pm Doors open to GBH's Calderwood Studio for seating

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Event registration is required. Seating is general admission.
The maximum capacity of this event is 120.
Event registration is required. Seating is general admission.
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This event is presented with support from our sponsor Liberty Mutual Insurance.



This event is presented with support from Gordon's Fine Wines.

When Francis Cabot Lowell revolutionized industrial manufacturing, he could never have imagined that industrialization at scale would change everything about the way we work, live, and even eat. Join us for an eye-opening talk from NYU Professor Amy Bentley as she traces the development of the modern American diet as it became another sector of the mass manufacturing commercial economy. Food could be processed, packaged, and sold faster, more efficiently, and in huge quantities – but there were serious unintended consequences. Her case study – baby food.

By the 1950s, commercial baby food had become emblematic of all things modern in postwar America. Little jars of baby food were thought to resolve a multitude of problems in the domestic sphere, but these baby food products laden with sugar, salt, and starch also became a gateway to the industrialized diet that blossomed during this period.

Today, baby food continues to be shaped by medical, commercial, and parenting trends. Baby food producers now contend with health and nutrition problems as well as the rise of alternative food movements. All of this matters because it’s during infancy that palates become acclimated to tastes and textures, including those of highly processed, minimally nutritious, and calorie-dense industrial food products.

Under the leadership of Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch grew its staff to over 500 and conducted investigations in 100 countries, uncovering abuses and pressuring offending governments to desist. Roth has grappled with the worst of humanity, and persuaded leaders from around the globe to stand up to their repressive counterparts.

Roth was the son of a Jewish butcher who escaped Nazi Germany just before the war began. He grew up knowing how inhumane governments could be. His work took him all over the world to confront cruelty and injustice. Roth arrived in Rwanda shortly after their genocide; he scrutinized the impact of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, and he investigated and condemned Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians. He directed efforts to curtail the Chinese government’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims, to bring Myanmar’s officials to justice after the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, to halt Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

Roth’s strategies included the deployment of the ancient but powerful tool of shaming, and the anecdotes he shares illustrate its surprising effectiveness.

The Berklee Alumni Pass the Mic Podcast will interview Director of Industry Relations Latoya Lee, Dean of Musical Theater Krisha Marcano, and Berklee student Su Yavuz (including a live performance) for a live show at the GBH Boston Public Library Studio. The show will be 75 minutes and discuss topics around career paths, insights into success, and what it's like to work in the entertainment industry.


Registration is encouraged for this free event.

Limited seating is available on a first come, first serve basis. If you require a seat, we encourage you to arrive before the start time of this event.

Since 1985, John McNeill has taught history at Georgetown University. He has received two Fulbright awards, a Guggenheim fellowship, a MacArthur grant, and a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He has had visiting appointments at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Universities of Oslo, Bologna, Canterbury, Otago, and was a Guest Professor at Peking University. Since 2011, he has served as a member of the Anthropocene Working Group. He has served as President of the American Society for Environmental History and the American Historical Association.

He has authored or co-authored eight books including The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History and Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-century World, which was the co-winner of book prizes from the World History Association and the Forest History Society and runner-up for the BP Natural World Book Prize. It was listed by The Times among the best science books ever written and translated into nine languages. His book Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 won the Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association. His most recent books are The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene, 1945–2015, The Webs of Humankind, and Sea & Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean. He has edited or co-edited 17 other books. He is co-editor of the Cambridge book series Studies in Environment and History.

Cosponsored by the Boston College History Department and the University Core Curriculum.

With a 50+ year career working for every major TV news network and interviewing countless notable global figures of her time, Connie Chung 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.

This event is made possible by the GBH AANHPI Heritage Event Committee who helped to curate this important conversation.

Photo credit: Connie Armaki/Coco Foto

Special thanks to our sponsor Bernadine Tsung-Megason of Compass Real Estate.

Over the past thirty years, we’ve collectively seen a push for greater accessibility options in the arts such as (but not limited to) ASL interpreters, open captioning, audio descriptions, autism and sensory friendly performances, and veterans’ theater going programs.

Likewise, artists breaking the mold are getting their overdue spotlight. Not only have companies like Deaf West taken mainstream theater by storm and become household names, but last year’s Broadway shows showcased a more inclusive slate of talent: The Cost of Living starred Katy Sullivan, Paralympic athlete and amputee, and Gregg Mozgala, who is diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy; Camelot featured Anthony Michael Lopez, who wears a prosthetic leg and Marilee Talkington who is legally blind; In A Doll's House, Michael Patrick Thornton, a wheelchair user, played Dr. Rank.

How do we continue to move the needle to ensure that everyone can access the show and that the material we enjoy reflects humanity as whole - with a wide variety of abilities and differences? In this conversation, we’ll explore both the content and function of representation and accessibility. What does inclusive performance look like, and how do we get there?

Director of Artistic Programming Ronee Penoi discusses with noted bassist and host of the podcast, “Blind? So What?” Ciara Moser, audio describer, performer, and leader in the Spina Bifida community Cori Couture, groundbreaking founder and Executive Director of Abilities Dance Ellice Patterson, and managing director of Open Door Arts, Nicole Agois Hurel.

Join "Under the Radar" host Callie Crossley for a conversation with poet Tiana Clark, author of "Scorched Earth," as a special in-person edition of Bookmarked: the "Under the Radar Book Club" honoring poetry in celebration of National Poetry Month. This segment will be recorded for air.

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Did you know the scratch ticket was pioneered right here in Massachusetts? Did you know our lottery brings in more dollars per capita than any other state in the country? Join Ian Coss and the creative team behind “Scratch & Win” – plus surprise guests from the podcast – for an inside look at what makes MA the lottery capital of America.

“Scratch & Win” from GBH News is the true story of how the government got into the gambling business. It begins in 1970s Boston, with state bureaucrats going toe to toe with mafia bookmakers, but reaches all the way to the present moment, when legal gambling is more ubiquitous than ever. This event will feature behind the scenes insights from the team, stories from the cutting room floor, and a discussion of how state lotteries shaped the gambling industry of today.

Hear from:
Dawn Hayes, Former broadcaster for MA state lottery
David O’Reilly, Former Finance Director of MA state lottery
Paul Regan, Former Creative Director for Hill Holiday

“Scratch & Win” is made by the Peabody Award-winning team behind “The Big Dig,” and distributed by PRX. You can find the 8-part series wherever you get your podcasts.

Event registration is required. Seating is general admission.
The maximum capacity of this event is 200.