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Press Releases
Revolutionary Spaces Announces Tickets On-Sale for Boston Tea Party 250th Anniversary Commemoration
Limited Tickets Available to the Reenactment of the Meeting of the Body of the People at Old South Meeting House.
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Phillis In Boston, Play Celebrating African American Poet and Prodigy Phillis Wheatley’s Revolutionary Legacy, Opens Nov 3 at the Old South Meeting House
Free festival presented by Revolutionary Spaces kicks off 250th Tea Party Commemoration.
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Raising Voices Festival: A Celebration of Music, Art, and the Power of Protest to Provide a Weekend of Free Music & Arts in Downtown Boston on Sept 23 and 24
Free festival presented by Revolutionary Spaces kicks off 250th Tea Party Commemoration.
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Revolutionary Spaces Mounts New Exhibit Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
Impassioned Destruction: Politics, Vandalism, and the Boston Tea Party opens at the Old State House.
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Revolutionary Spaces Launches Two New Public Walking Tours
Massacre & Memory Tour and Beyond the Revolution Tour taking place daily starting June 16, 2023.
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Book Launch for Polly Sumner: Witness to the Boston Tea Party
Polly Sumner doll will be displayed at Old South Meeting House as part of the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.
Read More Recent Media Coverage
- November 21, 2023 - WBUR Radio Boston: Play at Old South Meeting House details Phillis Wheatley's life in Boston in 1773
- November 21, 2023 - The Sleepless Critic: The Wonder of ‘Phillis in Boston’ presented by Revolutionary Spaces
- November 17, 2023 - GBH Basic Black: Unpacking Phillis Wheatley’s life as she’s brought to the stage
- October 25, 2023 - The Bay State Banner: Phillis Wheatley comes to life at Old South Meeting House
- October 23, 2023 - Emerson Today: Regge Life Directing Phillis Wheatley Play
- October 22, 2023 - CityLine: Phillis in Boston - A revolutionary story as the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party approaches
- September 22, 2023 - The Boston Globe: At Raising Voices fest, Taylor Mac will dig into ‘24-Decade History of Popular Music’
- September 21, 2023 - NBC Hub Today: Citywide Raising Voices Festival to celebrate voices of arts revolution
- September 21, 2023 - CBS: Raising Voices Festival commemorates 250th anniversary of Boston Tea Party
- September 21, 2023 - New England Theatre Geek:You Can Lie Down or Get Up and Play: An Interview with Taylor Mac on judy’s “24-Decade History of Popular Music: Film Screening & Discussion with Taylor Mac” event at Boston’s 2023 Raising Voices Festival
- September 17, 2023 - WCVB: Discussing legacy of Boston Tea Party with 250th anniversary approaching
- August 4, 2023 - The Boston Globe: Old South Meeting House receives $480,000 in federal money to fix water damage
- August 4, 2023 - MassLive: Building where Boston Tea Party began to get $480K makeover funded by feds
- August 4, 2023 - boston.com: The Old South Meeting House is getting a glow-up, thanks to federal money
- July 18, 2023 - The Boston Globe: ‘Impassioned Destruction’: Exhibit offers new perspective on Boston Tea Party
- July 4, 2023 - AP: In a polarized US, how to define a patriot increasingly depends on who’s being asked
- July 3, 2023 - The New York Times: Will America Be Ready for Its 250th Birthday?
- July 1, 2023 - Boston Herald: The 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party a key focus during Boston’s Harborfest
- March 5, 2023 - GBH: Boston Recognizes the African and Indigenous heritage of the first person killed in the American Revolution
- January 11, 2023 - The Boston Globe: This Fish Swims Upstream-Sacred Cod is carried once again from Old State House to Beacon Hill
- August 7, 2020 – WBUR: A ‘Touchstone’ For Equality And Racial Justice: Reflecting On Crispus Attucks’ Legacy At Old State House
- July 15, 2020 – The Boston Globe: Founding Fathers increasingly viewed through modern lens in time of racial reckoning
- June 4, 2020 – AP: As nation confronts old demons, a 1770 slaying is recalled
- February 18, 2020 – Boston Neighborhood Network News: How Revolutionary Past Speaks to the Present
- February 16, 2020 – WCVB CityLine – CityLine: Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020: Crispus Attucks, fallen patriot
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