Lani Asuncion is an artist participating in the Somerville Museum’s current Community Curator exhibition, Sanctuary City by Julia Csekö.

Duty-Free Paradise is a performance by multimedia Boston Filipinx artist Lani Asuncion and mezzo soprano Pauline Tan. This work is part of a new series SONGS for LAND far away at SEA by Asuncion that focuses on connections between Hawaii and the Philippines and the Trans-Pacific connections between the Pacific, West Coast, and New England histories of ecotourism, biopolitics, and militarism; it aims to find points of healing of ancestral intergenerational trauma narratives through the work. In this performance both artists will take an approach of improvisation with Lani doing experimental voice work and playing the ancient kulintang gong from the Philippines while Pauline will sing traditional Filipino Folk songs in the Ilocano operatic style.

Meetings for all seven wards will be held in October  

Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and the Somerville City Council invite residents to attend the fall Community Meetings of 2022. After a hiatus during the pandemic, this twice-yearly meeting series, formerly known as the ResiStat program, will return to each of Somerville’s seven wards to share the latest city progress and neighborhood updates with residents, while also providing an opportunity for residents, elected officials, and city staff to talk with one another.  

Update: Somerville Arts Council ‘s Ignite 2022 Festival will be moving to their rain date, Sunday, October 2 from 6-10pm. Check  schedule and performance updates here

To celebrate Union Square’s sizzling food landscape, Somerville Arts Council is bringing you the IGNITE Festival! Expect an evening of international eats, fire throwers, roving entertainment, and a raucous celebration of global culture. Sunday, October 2, 6:00 – 10:00 p.m. Union Square, Somerville. $2 donation.

For the first time in his life, Stephen will have a home of his own. After living on the streets for over 19 years, we are so proud of how hard he has worked with us to secure housing; a place where all of his belongings are under one roof; where he can sleep well at night; improve his mental health and re-build a stable life.

This Saturday, October 1, from 9 to 10 a.m., the annual road race benefiting the Somerville Homeless Coalition will be held in and around the Davis, Teele, and Ball Square areas.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts brought Service Day to Food For Free!
This amazing crew packed 9 pallets of Just Eats boxes with beautiful fresh produce, rice and beans. Our partners will distribute these 25lb. boxes to 360 households.

Today, nearly 3,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (“Blue Cross”) employees are volunteering to support 90 service projects across Massachusetts focused on creating more equitable, just, and healthy communities as part of the company’s 12th annual Service Day. 

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

With all the changes in traffic patterns and bike lanes and speed bumps, driving in Somerville is a challenge. Gotta keep calm!

When I let a driver into traffic and they don’t acknowledge it I don’t get mad and beep like I used to. I have drastically changed the way I drive today. There’s a lot of nuts out there!  I asked the readers how they handle their level of road rage as they drive through the detours of Somerville?