Love Your Block Neighborhood Cleanup!
Sign up to be a part of our Hyde Park neighborhood cleanup!
Ford Hall Forum: Living in Pryde
As part of the Ford Hall Forum series, please join LGBTQ Senior Housing at The Modern Theater for a special screening of Living In Pryde on Monday, May 4th at 7:00pm ET . Following the screening, Pascale Florestal, associate artistic director, Front Porch Arts Collective will be in conversation with residents of The Pryde.
This event is free and open to the public but registration is required. Can't make it in person? Join on zoom instead!
District E-18 Community COMPSTAT Meeting
Please join the Boston Police Department & The Boston Regional Intelligence Center for this community meeting. COMPSTAT has traditionally been an internal meeting where Boston Police Department leaders discuss current crime trends and patterns in all of the City’s districts and coordinate our planning to strategically address them. In 2023 BPD began incorporating the community as a key partner in these important efforts. This process ensures the BPD will continue to improve our work to address the continually changing needs of the communities we serve. Your participation will allow BPD the chance to review critical information and to explain what we do and why, and it is also a chance for you to help us better understand the issues and resources that are most important to you and the members of your community.
Age Strong Office Hours
Meet one-on-one with a trained Age Strong Advocate to receive personalized support and information. Advocates can assist with applications for benefits such as SNAP (formerly food stamps), LIHEAP (fuel assistance), housing, and more. You can also learn about citywide events, programs, and activities for older adults. If needed, Age Strong offers referrals to legal, financial, and medical professionals, as well as protective services in cases of elder abuse, self-neglect, or financial exploitation. Additionally, your can be connected with meaningful volunteer opportunities to stay active and involved in the community.
John Paul McGee Concert
Pianist and organist John Paul McGee brings his signature “Gospejazzical,” an entertaining and uplifting blend of gospel, jazz, and classical music to The Pryde. With harmonies that soothe the spirit and rhythms that get toes tapping, his music is both deeply moving and irresistibly joyful.
Brewing Connections
Join us for Brewing Connections, an intergenerational LGBTQ+ café where our community gathers to share experiences, listen deeply, and connect across generations.
‘Rediscovering The T’ Training
Rediscovering the T is a presentation by the MBTA Travel Training team geared towards older adults who would like an introduction or refresher on using MBTA services, including the subway, bus, commuter rail, ferry, and paratransit, as well as other transportation resources available. After the presentation, staff will stay to answer questions as well as to sign individuals up for any of our reduced fare options, including the Senior CharlieCard, available to adults age 65 and up.
Authentic Selves Gallery
Created by Family Diversity Projects, Authentic Selves Gallery is an award winning traveling photo-text exhibit developed in collaboration with PFLAG National and Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund. The exhibit explores gender identity while offering a compelling look at the challenges and the triumphs of remarkable trans and nonbinary people, and their loved ones.
Served with Pryde: Silent Spring Institute
Join us for our Served with Pryde Community Lunch and Conversation with The Silent Spring Institute. Founded in 1994, Silent Spring Institute is the leading scientific research organization dedicated to uncovering the links between chemicals in our everyday environment and women’s health, with a focus on breast cancer prevention.
MusicWorks Music and Mobility Class
Music and Mobility is a program run by our friends at Friendship Works that utilizes a personal trainer and includes a group mobility workout alongside of your choice of musical hits
Living While Mortal Conversation Circle
Living While Mortal Conversation Circles provides a safe space where members of the community can gather and speak freely about death with warm beverages and snacks provided.
Ethos Out2Brunch
Out2Brunch is a seasonal monthly brunch and social for older lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women. All are welcome, so bring friends, partners, and allies! RSVP required.
Living and Thriving Support Group
A peer-support group for older adults living with chronic or life threatening illness. Designed with the intention of supporting older adults with chronic illness build connections and reduce isolation, learn coping tools to strengthen resilience, share stories in a safe, inclusive, affirming space and thrive while aging with dignity and empowerment.
Served with Pryde: SpeakOUT Boston
Sharing the Power of LGBTQ+ Stories and Poetry
Join us for a Pride-inspired gathering of storytelling and poetry over lunch that celebrates the strength, resilience, and diversity of LGBTQ+ lives. For over 50 years, SpeakOUT Boston has been amplifying queer voices through personal testimonies and fostering dialogue within schools, colleges, businesses, and community spaces across the region and online. This event will feature moving personal stories alongside readings of queer poetry that captures the emotional and cultural tapestry of LGBTQ+ experience since Stonewall.
Living While Mortal Conversation Circle
Living While Mortal Conversation Circles provides a safe space where members of the community can gather and speak freely about death with warm beverages and snacks provided.
Living and Thriving Support Group
A peer-support group for older adults living with chronic or life threatening illness. Designed with the intention of supporting older adults with chronic illness build connections and reduce isolation, learn coping tools to strengthen resilience, share stories in a safe, inclusive, affirming space and thrive while aging with dignity and empowerment.
Living While Mortal Conversation Circle
Living While Mortal Conversation Circles provides a safe space where members of the community can gather and speak freely about death with warm beverages and snacks provided.
Pryde Yard Sale
We are turning The Pryde Community Center into the ultimate community yard sale! Save the date and stop by to load up on treasures being passed on and sold by residents of The Pryde.
Movie Screening: Come See Me In The Good Light
Free public screening of Oscar nominated documentary “Come See Me in the Good Light”.
Lower Neponset River Superfund Site Public Information Meeting
Join this community meeting for an update from the EPA on the Neponset River project.
Silver Sapphics
A drop-in group created to offer a safe, affirming, and inclusive space for Lesbian, Bi, Queer, Trans and Non-Binary women, who self-identify as an older adult.
Served With Pryde: Mass Audubon Community Lunch & Conversation
Served With Pryde: Mass Audubon Community Lunch and Conversation
Time: Tuesday, April 14th 11:30AM-1:00PM
Location:The Pryde Community Center, 59 Harvard Ave, Hyde Park, MA 02136
Spring is coming and the tree buds and leaves are about to burst! Learn how to identify trees by recognizing basic leaf types, flowers, fruit, bark, and other structures. We will also discuss how climate change is impacting the trees of Boston and changing the forest compositions in Massachusetts.
Enjoy a free lunch and this engaging presentation by our friends at Mass Audubon.
Registration is required to ensure a meal is available. Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7hSawyR4wCRuxW2tGeSz6jRExj60maWnS2i13vfAEXp3wxA/viewform
MusicWorks Music and Mobility Class
Music and Mobility is a program run by our friends at Friendship Works that utilizes a personal trainer and includes a group mobility workout alongside of your choice of musical hits
Little Brothers Friends of The Elderly Social Hour
Join your friends at LBFE, local college students, and older neighbors for weekly social activities to build connections with your community! Activities vary from board games, card games, arts and crafts, fun conversations, tech help, and more!
Little Brothers Friends of The Elderly Social Hour
Join your friends at LBFE, local college students, and older neighbors for weekly social activities to build connections with your community! Activities vary from board games, card games, arts and crafts, fun conversations, tech help, and more!
Wicked Queer Film Festival: Stories from our Community
Catch a screening of the documentary “Living in Pryde” at the Coolidge Corner Theater!
Climate Justice Passover Seder
Hosted by Jewish Climate Action Network MA, this will be a vegetarian potluck Passover Seder.
Little Brothers Friends of The Elderly Social Hour
Join your friends at LBFE, local college students, and older neighbors for weekly social activities to build connections with your community! Activities vary from board games, card games, arts and crafts, fun conversations, tech help, and more!
Living and Thriving Peer Support Group
A peer-support group for older adults living with chronic or life threatening illness. Designed with the intention of supporting older adults with chronic illness build connections and reduce isolation, learn coping tools to strengthen resilience, share stories in a safe, inclusive, affirming space and thrive while aging with dignity and empowerment.
Living While Mortal Circle
Living While Mortal Circles provide a safe space where members of the community can gather in person and speak freely about death with warm beverages and snacks provided.* All thoughts, perspectives, questions, fears, and wonderings about death are welcome. You are also welcome to attend the circle as a listener. LGBTQ safe. These events are free - come as you are!
Little Brothers Friends of The Elderly Social Hour
Join your friends at LBFE, local college students, and older neighbors for weekly social activities to build connections with your community! Activities vary from board games, card games, arts and crafts, fun conversations, tech help, and more!
Just Dance Class
It’s time to Just Dance! Join certified dance instructor Lisa Tharps for up to 40 minutes of freeform dancing. Chairs are provided.
Hyde Park Health and Wellness Summit
An exciting and empowering day that will include speaker panels, breakout workshops and a health resources fair. Hosted by Healthy Well Hyde Park, the brilliant minds behind the effort to bring a community health center to the Hyde Park neighborhood. Come to ready to both learn and share about what a healthy Hyde Park can look like! Stay tuned for a full schedule.
Abstraction in Action Art Workshop
A meditative workshop to encourage play and self expression! Visual artists Leila Simon Hayes and Joanna Muehleisen guide participants through an immersive experience drawn from their abstract art practices, using simple exercises in drawing, collage, and remixing.
Silver Sapphics
A drop-in group created to offer a safe, affirming, and inclusive space for Lesbian, Bi, Queer, Trans and Non-Binary women, who self-identify as an older adult. Whether you’re looking for community, conversation, or simply some company, this group is here for you. Enjoy coffee and meaningful connections. Come gather with us for friendly chats and new friendships!
Little Brothers Friends of The Elderly Social Hour
Join your friends at LBFE, local college students, and older neighbors for weekly social activities to build connections with your community! Activities vary from board games, card games, arts and crafts, fun conversations, tech help, and more!
Served With Pryde St. Patrick's Day Community Conversation and Luncheon
LGBTQ Senior Housing invites you to join us for our second annual free community lunch and conversation about the Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade litigation of the early 1990s (Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston (GLIB)). We will be joined by members of the courageous group that marched in the Parade despite death threats and Gretchen Van Ness, who was part of the first openly gay legal team to argue at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Alvin AileyDance for Active Aging: Afternoon Workshop
Experience the joy of dance with the Alvin Ailey Dance Company Education and Community Programs team. This program is designed to keep you moving through choreography that includes gentle stretching, mobility exercises, and creative expression. Whether you’re a lifelong dancer or a complete beginner, we invite you to join one of these incredible workshops!
Alvin AileyDance for Active Aging: Morning Workshop
Experience the joy of dance with the Alvin Ailey Dance Company Education and Community Programs team. This program is designed to keep you moving through choreography that includes gentle stretching, mobility exercises, and creative expression. Whether you’re a lifelong dancer or a complete beginner, we invite you to join one of these incredible workshops!
Abstraction in Action Art Workshop
A meditative workshop to encourage play and self expression! Visual artists Leila Simon Hayes and Joanna Muehleisen guide participants through an immersive experience drawn from their abstract art practices, using simple exercises in drawing, collage, and remixing.
Little Brothers Friends of The Elderly Social Hour
Join your friends at LBFE, local college students, and older neighbors for weekly social activities to build connections with your community! Activities vary from board games, card games, arts and crafts, fun conversations, tech help, and more!
Just Dance Class
It’s time to Just Dance! Join certified dance instructor Lisa Tharps for up to 40 minutes of freeform dancing. Chairs are provided.
AARP Tax-Aide Clinic
Trained AARP Tax-Aide volunteers will provide free tax assistance and preparation services to anyone of any age — especially if you are 50+ or can’t afford paid tax preparation. No AARP membership is required.
Tunefoolery Performance
The hour-long program entitled “Beatles to Broadway and Beyond” includes upbeat and familiar tunes that spark joy and inspire attendees to clap, tap, sing and dance along to.
Little Brothers Friends of The Elderly Social Hour
Join your friends at LBFE, local college students, and older neighbors for weekly social activities to build connections with your community! Activities vary from board games, card games, arts and crafts, fun conversations, tech help, and more!