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Boston SPEL interns setting off to kayak at the Piers Park Sailing Center

July 30, 2025Boston Community,Boston Team,SPEL Stories

Eastie Week: sharing art, songs and neighborhood bonds makes this annual festival special

COMMENTARY This year was my first time participating in Eastie Week, and honestly, I couldn’t have wished to be with......

Katty Huertas painting her mural for NoMa in Color

July 29, 2025Arte-Art,Arts & Humanities Team,Murals,SPEL Stories

Getting to know Katty Huertas: from Colombia to making art in the District

Multidisciplinary artist Katty Huertas moved from Bogotá to Miami at age 19. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Florida International......

July 28, 2025Arte-Art,Arts & Humanities Team,SPEL Stories

Tinta, agua y asombro: las exploraciones artísticas de Irene Pantelis

*Read in English. La artista local Irene Pantelis tiene un agudo sentido de la exploración impulsado por su rica experiencia......

Jeronimo, Mary, and Diego, our stellar oral history team for the Tide Talks project

July 23, 2025Boston Community,Oral Histories

Talking about changing tides, and times, in East Boston

Rising tides and rents: changing times in East Boston, oral history project This summer, we’re launching Tide Talks, our latest......

July 22, 2025Health,Environment,SPEL Stories

How to stay healthy in extreme heat

With D.C. experiencing an unusually hot and steamy summer and another heat emergency forecast for later this week, today we......

July 21, 2025Literature-Literatura,Reseñas

Crucero de otoño: reseña

“Leamos todos”, reseñas de libros que se pueden encontrar en las Bibliotecas Públicas al alcance de todos. Nos encontramos en......

Sidewalk Stories: Voices from East Boston graphic, “The Voice Above the Roar"

July 16, 2025Oral Histories,Boston Community

East Boston’s Sidewalk Stories reflect on shared histories and humanity

Today, enjoy the final installment of Hola Cultura’s “Sidewalk Stories,” made in partnership with the Boston Research Center (BRC). In......

July 14, 2025Literature-Literatura,Reseñas

Cinco Esquinas, reseña

“Leamos todos”, reseñas de libros que se pueden encontrar en las Bibliotecas Públicas al alcance de todos. Con una portada......

Sidewalk Stories: Voices from East Boston graphic, “A Neighborhood Under Seige"

July 9, 2025Boston Community,Oral Histories

East Boston: A neighborhood under siege

Did you know East Boston could have been completely wiped off the map in the 1970s to make room for......

Cute gray rat stands looking out on a rock

July 8, 2025Environment,Community,Society & Culture Team,SPEL Stories

Rodent Boom: how climate change is leading to more rats in cities nationwide

Getting used to rats is a big part of urban living. Cities like New York have even incorporated these animals......

Cover of “Dreams in Times of War” by Oswaldo Estrada

July 4, 2025Literature-Literatura,Immigration

The immigrant experience in ‘Dreams in Times of War’

In a time when Latine communities nationwide live under the looming threats of ICE raids and the erasure of their......

Sidewalk Stories: Voices from East Boston graphic, “Everybody wants a piece of East Boston"

July 2, 2025Boston Community,Oral Histories

Celebrating our everyday histories

“Everybody wants a piece of East Boston,” Eva Biscegli observed in an oral history interview recorded in the late 1990s.......

Spring interns and fellows gather for a weekly SPEL session on Zoom

March 18, 2025SPEL Stories,Hola Cultura

SPEL storytellers start the spring 2025 session!

After another lengthy and chilly winter, Hola Cultura’s interns begin the Storytelling Program for Experiential Learning’s (SPEL) spring semester! The......

Recording interviews for ArteVoce at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in D.C.

March 11, 2025Arte-Art,Hola Cultura

ArteVoces coming in April!

Direct from the podcast room last Friday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in downtown D.C., we wrapped......

Mural from the Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral). Both the mural and the church were destroyed in the 2010 earthquake.

March 4, 2025Arte-Art,Arts & Humanities Team,Exhibitions,SPEL Stories

Catch “Spirit and Strength: Modern Art From Haiti” at the National Gallery of Art before it closes

Amid the gray stone walls of the East Building at the National Gallery of Art, the exhibition “Spirit and Strength:......

Main cast members in the film Emilia Pérez

February 27, 2025Film-Video-TV,Society & Culture Team,SPEL Stories

Emilia Pérez: The most controversial film of the year?

Director Jacques Audiard’s film, “Emilia Pérez,” skyrocketed to success after its release last November. But after winning multiple Golden Globe......

Graphic: Celebrate Afro-Latinidad this Black History Month (music instrument mash up background)

February 25, 2025Cultural Events-Eventos,Afro-Latino Culture,Arts & Humanities Team,SPEL Stories

Events and activities to celebrate Afro-Latinidad this Black History Month

Founded in 1926 and initially a week-long celebration, Black History Month honors Black communities’ rich legacies and achievements. This observance......