BOSTON – Organizers of City Hall's cultural planning initiative, Boston Creates, reached out for feedback on a draft plan to develop and sustain Boston's diverse arts community over the next decade, pushing toward a release of the final version next month.
Headed by Julie Burros, the chief of the city's office of arts and culture, the plan was outlined after months of meetings with community members at local events, starting with the Boston Creates Town Hall in June 2015. The staff pooled the collected data and inputs to find the areas of greatest concern for the community, and created a plan that focuses on a reasonable approach to Boston's cultural needs.
BOSTON – The sound of prayer emanated from the red-brick St. Peter Lithuanian Parish church in South Boston Sunday as the unfamiliar language of Lithuania took hold.
The prayer song concluded as short line of newly minted almuni of the Lithuanian School, dressed in traditional garments, trooped out into the sunny afternoon. They had come from around Boston to spend Saturdays at the school over the past academic year, learning the language and studying the culture of their ethnic homeland.
