CITY GUIDE
Boston
Stephen Carter
Dennis Lehane
Elinor Lipman
Bill Littlefield
Book It
Feed the need to read
“There hasn’t been a book festival in
Boston for many years, and we have big
plans to make this an annual, world-class
event,” says Boston Book Festival founder
and president Deborah Porter. And there’s
no shortage of local authors to get the word-fest started. Among those participating in
the inaugural event are Ken Burns ( The
National Parks), Anita Diamant ( The Red
Tent), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Lincoln on Race
and Slavery) and Elinor Lipman (Then She
Found Me).
Venues throughout the city—including the
Boston Public Library, Old South Church and
Trinity Church, and Copley Square for outdoor
events—host presentations, panels, writing
workshops and publishing seminars as well as
spoken-word and musical performances.
Oct. 24. 617-252-3240; bostonbookfest.org.
No Small Roles
Fresh from her
smash Broadway
revival of Hair,
Diane Paulus takes
the helm of the
American Repertory
Theater. Her
freshman season
includes shaking
things up with The
Bard in an event
called Shakespeare
Exploded! The
three-play festival includes an
immersion theater
production of
Macbeth, retitled Sleep
No More, courtesy
of the avant-garde
British theater
company Punch-drunk.Oct. 8-31.
617-547-8300;
americanrepertory
theater.org.
ave
Date
JAMAICA PLAIN
the
A Forest in
Mind
Through
Sept. 13
Mixed-media paintings
by Terry Boutelle,
featuring the artist’s
vision of trees and
forests using acrylics
and pastels, as well as
twigs, leaves and other
elements from the
natural world.
arboretum.harvard.edu
SOUTH END
Berklee
Beantown Jazz
Festival
Sept. 18—26
Branford Marsalis head-
lines this multiday, mul-
ticlub event culminating
in the transformation of
Columbus Avenue into
an open-air jazz, blues
and funk stage.
617-747-2261;
beantownjazz.org
BOSTON HARBOR
Boston Harbor
Islands Regatta
Sept. 26
The slow boats make
a figure-eight “chase
race,” starting and
ending at Georges
Island, to raise funds
and awareness for the
Harbor Islands.
bostonharborislands
regatta.org
GREATER BOSTON
Hub on Wheels
Sept. 26—27
It’s a bike ride and
festival around the
city to raise funds for
technology education
in public schools.
hubonwheels.org
CHARLES RIVER
Head of the
Charles
Oct. 17—18
Rowers from around the
world dip their oars for
the annual Head of the
Charles regatta.
hocr.org
