A one-night-only art experience at Warehouse XI turns creativity into action to support artists displaced by the devastating LA wildfires.

🌟 What to Expect:

• A stunning gallery showcasing powerful 2D art from impacted artists.

• Opportunities to directly support artists through QR codes to purchase prints or tip them directly.

• A vibrant atmosphere with music, community, and creativity at its core.

💡 Why It Matters:
Dark Phoenix Gallery isn’t just an event—it’s a movement to help artists rise from the ashes and share their work with the world.

Come together to celebrate art, resilience, and community. Be part of something bigger.

Join the Somerville Community Growing Center at Union Square's newest commercial building - 10 Prospect Street - where the Friends will share accomplishments from the 2024 calendar year, including visitor and volunteer numbers and statistics & fundraising and financial data like the final numbers from our 30-30-30 campaign; present the budget for the year ahead; and approve the proposed slate of Board Members and Officers.

They will also share administrative changes in store for 2025, opportunities to get involved, and related reflection/planning activities for the coming year.

All are invited - please join for camaraderie, refreshments, gorgeous city views and our latest updates! Contact volunteer@thegrowingcenter.org with any questions.

Head to Aeronaut Somerville for another Puzzle Day! Compete against other teams to finish a 500-piece puzzle for amatuer teams and a 1000-piece puzzle for speed-puzzle teams. The winning teams will each receive a $50 Aeronaut gift card.

There will also be a Puzzle Swap! Bring your used (but complete) puzzles to give away and pick up a few new-to-you ones to try out! All leftover puzzles will be donated to local libraries.

Tickets are $30 per team; no more than 6 people on each team. This is a 21+ event.

Get your tickets here!

Join in for a fun foodie adventure through Union Square, Somerville - a neighborhood bursting with culture, historical significance, and an exploding food scene! Home of the infamous Fluff Festival, Union Square celebrates its diversity with many community events.

What's included

• Visit Union Square, one of the hottest neighborhoods in Boston, with a friendly guide

• 4 stops with delicious eats (including items such as: delectable famous Union Square Donuts, indian street food, peruvian chicken, quesadillas and fried grasshoppers, and tasty Himalayan rice pudding.)

• Tour of historical Union Square including local landmarks

• Dietary restrictions and allergies can often be accommodated

• After the tour, a Somerville Digital Guide will be sent to guests!

Highlights

Our Union Square Food Tour has been running since 2017, and it's one of the best things to do in Boston. The friendly and knowledgeable guides are local to the area and top-notch. Many live in the neighborhood.

Tours are great for a fun night out with friends, co-workers, family, guests in town, birthdays, anniversaries, date nights, bachelorette or bachelor parties, and just because.

Book your tour here!

Watch cult classic "The Craft," bring your own craft or buy a crafty kit, sip a themed drink and live your best crafty, witchy life.

Get your tickets here.

Join in for a fun foodie adventure through Union Square, Somerville - a neighborhood bursting with culture, historical significance, and an exploding food scene! Home of the infamous Fluff Festival, Union Square celebrates its diversity with many community events.

What's included

• Visit Union Square, one of the hottest neighborhoods in Boston, with a friendly guide

• 4 stops with delicious eats (including items such as: delectable famous Union Square Donuts, indian street food, peruvian chicken, quesadillas and fried grasshoppers, and tasty Himalayan rice pudding.)

• Tour of historical Union Square including local landmarks

• Dietary restrictions and allergies can often be accommodated

• After the tour, a Somerville Digital Guide will be sent to guests!

Highlights

Our Union Square Food Tour has been running since 2017, and it's one of the best things to do in Boston. The friendly and knowledgeable guides are local to the area and top-notch. Many live in the neighborhood.

Tours are great for a fun night out with friends, co-workers, family, guests in town, birthdays, anniversaries, date nights, bachelorette or bachelor parties, and just because.

Book your tour here!

Brighten up your day with a touch of artistry! All skill levels welcome, "anyone can paint" à la Remy 😉.

Experience the beauty of delicate hand-painted pottery with Marcy, a talented local artist who specializes in porcelain pieces. Each goldie ceramics piece is individually made on the wheel or by hand, by one person.

As you paint on this unique, handmade vase, please understand that slight variations, minor imperfections, and signs of its handmade nature are to be expected. 

The items are dishwasher and microwave safe, however, hand washing and skipping microwaving is recommended for long-lasting results. 

Pitch-A-Friend is a one-of-a-kind event that celebrates friendship by allowing friends to give short slide presentations about their remarkable single friends to a lively audience of available singles at breweries, bars and other event locations!

How Does it work?

For Presenters:

Want to pitch your friend? Reserve a pitch spot by filling out our online form. Once you’re confirmed, create a 3-5 minute slide presentation showcasing why your friend is an incredible catch. Describe their best qualities, share a few fun facts, and include what they’re looking for in a relationship. This isn’t a roast but a chance to uplift your friend in a positive way, with the aim of helping them find a connection. Pitch slots are limited per event!
Presenter Rules, Guidelines & Examples »

For Attendees (Free!):

Simply come and enjoy! As an attendee, you can watch the presentations, cheer on the participants, and then join everyone in a relaxed mingle session to chat and connect. With around 6-11 presentations per event, you’ll have the chance to meet singles in a warm, friendly environment without any pressure.
Attendee Code of Conduct »

Whether presenting or just attending, Pitch-A-Friend is a unique way to connect, celebrate friendship, and maybe even spark something special!
Check out the FAQs »

Head to Rococo for Winter Plant Care 101 (+ Plant Swap) and learn the key steps to maintaining happy and thriving indoor plants, especially during the colder months.

The workshop will cover the essentials of year-round houseplant care, so you can confidently keep your plants healthy and thriving. Discover helpful tips for caring for your plants during the winter months, including light, watering, humidity, and troubleshooting common issues. 

Event leaders will bust popular plant care myths to help you build confidence in your plant care routine. Things will wrap up with a live repotting demonstration, with an opportunity to ask questions along the way. Perfect for plant parents of all levels!

Post-session, there will be a plant swap raffle, where everyone will get to take home a plant!

Join in for a fun foodie adventure through Union Square, Somerville - a neighborhood bursting with culture, historical significance, and an exploding food scene! Home of the infamous Fluff Festival, Union Square celebrates its diversity with many community events.

What's included

• Visit Union Square, one of the hottest neighborhoods in Boston, with a friendly guide

• 4 stops with delicious eats (including items such as: delectable famous Union Square Donuts, indian street food, peruvian chicken, quesadillas and fried grasshoppers, and tasty Himalayan rice pudding.)

• Tour of historical Union Square including local landmarks

• Dietary restrictions and allergies can often be accommodated

• After the tour, a Somerville Digital Guide will be sent to guests!

Highlights

Our Union Square Food Tour has been running since 2017, and it's one of the best things to do in Boston. The friendly and knowledgeable guides are local to the area and top-notch. Many live in the neighborhood.

Tours are great for a fun night out with friends, co-workers, family, guests in town, birthdays, anniversaries, date nights, bachelorette or bachelor parties, and just because.

Book your tour here!

>> Movement ~ Music ~ Connection ~ Restorative play ~ Rest ~ Revolution <<

Join in for the next monthly BIODANZA and welcome in this new year together!

Aula bilingüe en inglés y español. No experience needed, all ages 18+ welcome. Come as you are, with your curious heart and a desire to connect with yourself and others, for two hours of play, great music and connection that will lift up your month!

Biodanza is a gentle and powerful integrative system promoting human development both personal and collective, originally developed in Chile during the 1960's and now a global movement. Each class journeys through life-affirming exercises that take the form of dances and other everyday movements, paired with carefully-chosen, inspiring music from around the world and building upon each other. These are invitations into vivencia, experiences of being completely alive in the present moment, that open up new ways of relating with ourselves, each other, and the world around us.
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Space limited -- sign up early!
Sliding scale $20-35 early bird through 1/3, $25-40 onward; $60-100 for a Jan/Feb/Mar pass. Register through www.venmo.com/u/ClaraRSM or paypal.me/ClaraRubinSmith >>> be sure to include your email address for information and updates on this event.

Join in for a fun foodie adventure through Union Square, Somerville - a neighborhood bursting with culture, historical significance, and an exploding food scene! Home of the infamous Fluff Festival, Union Square celebrates its diversity with many community events.

What's included

• Visit Union Square, one of the hottest neighborhoods in Boston, with a friendly guide

• 4 stops with delicious eats (including items such as: delectable famous Union Square Donuts, indian street food, peruvian chicken, quesadillas and fried grasshoppers, and tasty Himalayan rice pudding.)

• Tour of historical Union Square including local landmarks

• Dietary restrictions and allergies can often be accommodated

• After the tour, a Somerville Digital Guide will be sent to guests!

Highlights

Our Union Square Food Tour has been running since 2017, and it's one of the best things to do in Boston. The friendly and knowledgeable guides are local to the area and top-notch. Many live in the neighborhood.

Tours are great for a fun night out with friends, co-workers, family, guests in town, birthdays, anniversaries, date nights, bachelorette or bachelor parties, and just because.

Book your tour here!

Every New Year’s Day, Somerville commemorates an important moment of the American Revolution: The First Flag Raising.

The event re-enacts the one that took place on Prospect Hill on January 1, 1776. General Washington raised a new American flag on that day over the highest point in the land, Prospect Hill in what is now Somerville.

Numerous city officials, the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts based out of Faneuil Hall (Boston), and re-enactors participate in the ceremony and parade. This year Phillis Wheatley and Martha Washington will be welcomed at the festivities.

The event starts at Somerville City Hall at 11:30 and proceeds to Prospect Hill for an hour long program, from noon till 1pm.

Date: January 1st
Admission: Free
Start Location (11:30): City Hall Concourse – 93 Highland Ave. Somerville, MA 02143
End Location (12-1pm): Prospect Hill Somerville, MA
Parking: Public Lots & On Street Parking
Public Transportation: Bus 90 Davis Sq
Directions Hwy Exit: RT 93 to Fellsway Exit

GM-less and facilitated games, new friends, and inevitable chaos! Sign up for your chosen game. Hosted by Side Quest Books & Games at Upstairs at Bow.

Get your tickets here!

ABOUT THE EVENT

• Games will get fully underway by 6:30, and will end around 9:30.

• Materials will be provided for all games.

• Parking around Union Square can be tough. Please take public transport if you're able — the Union Square T stop is less than 10 minutes away, and there are several bus stops near by. If you need to drive, there is paid parking on Somerville Ave until 8pm, at which point it's free.

• Upstairs at Bow is the second-floor event space at Bow Market in Union Square in Somerville. To get there, walk up the Bow Market driveway, go to the lobby past Rebel Rebel on your right, and go up either the elevator or the stairs. The entrance to Upstairs is to your right.

• Masks are optional, but please let us know and stay home if you're feeling unwell.

• Drinks are available from Nook, the bar associated with Upstairs. (Please do get a drink, alcoholic or otherwise! We have a minimum to meet!) Food from Bow Market vendors can be brought in.

Spread the holiday cheer and build your own winter wonderland Gingerbread House at Aeronaut Somerville!

Grab your kit, order a beer, and start the cookie construction! You are invited to join Aeronaut Brewing Compant on SUNDAY 12/15 for GINGERBREAD HOUSE BUILDING!

Building will take place in sessions.

$20 tickets include (1) gingerbread house kit and are available for the below times:

Session 1: 2pm - 3:30pm

Session 2: 3:30pm-5pm

Session 3: 5pm-6:30pm

Cheers to the holidays and the sweets that come with them!

*Maximum 2 people per gingerbread house to ensure we have enough space for all guests!

Get your tickets here!

Sweets & Santa Holiday Soiree is Sunday, December 15th from 12-6pm.
Hosted by maca boston & Tiny Turns Paperie in Upstairs at Bow

Enjoy tasty treats, seasonal drinks, holiday crafts, photos with Santa & a mini pop-up market with local makers!

Join Certified Biodanza Facilitator, Clara Rubin-Smith McKie at MOTA for ~ Movement ~ Music ~ Connection ~ Restorative play ~ Rest ~ Revolution ~

Biodanza is a gentle and powerful integrative system promoting human development both personal and collective, originally developed in Chile during the 1960's and now a global movement. Each class is tailor-made for the group, and journeys through life-affirming exercises that take the form of dances and other everyday movements, paired with carefully-chosen, inspiring music from around the world and building upon each other.

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ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED
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Sliding scale $40-77 for Dec/Jan pass; for just December, $20-35 early bird through the 6th, $25-40 after the 6th. Register through www.venmo.com/u/ClaraRSM or paypal.me/ClaraRubinSmith >>> be sure to include your email address for information and updates on this event.

Pitch-A-Friend is a one-of-a-kind event that celebrates friendship by allowing friends to give short slide presentations about their remarkable single friends to a lively audience of available singles at breweries, bars and other event locations!

How Does it work?

For Presenters:

Want to pitch your friend? Reserve a pitch spot by filling out our online form. Once you’re confirmed, create a 3-5 minute slide presentation showcasing why your friend is an incredible catch. Describe their best qualities, share a few fun facts, and include what they’re looking for in a relationship. This isn’t a roast but a chance to uplift your friend in a positive way, with the aim of helping them find a connection. Pitch slots are limited per event!
Presenter Rules, Guidelines & Examples »

For Attendees (Free!):

Simply come and enjoy! As an attendee, you can watch the presentations, cheer on the participants, and then join everyone in a relaxed mingle session to chat and connect. With around 6-11 presentations per event, you’ll have the chance to meet singles in a warm, friendly environment without any pressure.
Attendee Code of Conduct »

Whether presenting or just attending, Pitch-A-Friend is a unique way to connect, celebrate friendship, and maybe even spark something special!
Check out the FAQs »

The wintry season is here, so it's time to lean into your cozy, crafty, witchy era!

This is a small, casual movie night where you can BYO craft or purchase a kit from Homebody DIY, watch a favorite comfort movie, sip on a themed cocktail from Nook, and hang with some new friends. Hope you'll join in!

• Side Quest Books & Games is located on the Bow Market balcony, in the back left corner. There is an elevator for accessibility in the lobby of Bow Market, to the right of the driveway when you first arrive.

• Masks are optional. There is an air filter in the space.

• Popcorn and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided. Other outside food from Bow Market vendors is also welcome.

  Buy your tickets here!

Somerville Community Land Trust is hosting an "End of Year Celebration" that will be held on Wednesday December 11, from 6PM-9PM, at Upstairs at Bow in Bow Market, Somerville.

This celebration includes an election for SCLT's Board of Directors (any Somerville resident may vote- an online ballot will be made available), acknowledgments for standout volunteers and organizational accomplishments, visioning for 2025, a raffle, food and socializing.

Please RSVP to confirm your attendance.

WHO: Singles in the Boston area, ages 28-48
WHAT: A playful, relaxed opportunity to meet new people
WHERE: Aeronaut Brewing Company, Somerville, MA
HOW: RSVP by clicking this link and signing up for their database through the Google form. Signing up in advance allows them to match you with a potential date for the event and consider you for a more personalized match in the future.

Entry is free!

Social Hearts Club is back at Juliet with another chill night of quick dates and relaxed vibes!
Most speed dating events are stuffed into the corner of a bar or venue while this event is carefully curated to bring likeminded people together in a way that feels easy. Conversation prompts help the dates move along and prevent the same 'where are you from, what do you do' conversation over and over.
This night is geared toward heterosexual individuals, aged 27-38.
Small snacks will be included with your ticket and drinks will be at low, specialty prices! ($12 wine, $8 beer, $7 mocktails!)

Holiday Market @ Milk Row Studios
Sunday, December 8th
Building Wide Event

*60+ artist and crafters
*Free snacks and drinks
*All ages, no cover
*Food by Buenas

Stop by Boynton Yards for a cozy afternoon of free, festive fun as you stroll Union Square for the 10th Annual Holiday Stroll!

• FREE Hot Cocoa & Cookies

• FREE Crafts & Holiday Gift Making

• FREE Games & DJ Entertainment

• Local Artisan Market

• FREE 360 Photobooth Experience

Fun for ALL AGES!

A celebration of Union Square sparkle, discovery, and delight that is sure to jumpstart your holiday shopping and get you exploring all that the “38th coolest neighborhood in the world” has to offer! 

Make your way to Union Square in Somerville on Saturday, December 7 from 12-6pm (extreme weather date December 8) for the 10th Annual Holiday Stroll.

Revel in this festive neighborhood tradition and enter to win by conquering the Elfie Selfie and Stroll the Square Challenges while enjoying unique eats and rad retail around the Square from around the world! Delightful storefront decorations and incredible inflatables will dazzle you along the way.

Dozens of locally-owned businesses await with all you need to stuff your stockings, deck your halls, make your tastebuds celebrate, and MORE!

Bundle up and come on down to unwrap Union Square in all its wintry wonderment!

Hey Fleetwood Mac fans!

Join Little Lies at Warehouse XI in Somerville on Saturday November 30th (7pm-10pm) for an evening of romance, drama and of course, Rumours!

TICKETS

Little Lies is a touring tribute that captures the youthful spirit and classic sound of Fleetwood Mac. Join us for a evening of romance, drama and of course Rumours!

Doors 6pm

Show 7pm-10pm

Celebrate Small Businesses and kick off the holiday season in style at Bow Market on Small Business Saturday!

Featuring food & drink specials, entertainment, prizes and more!

10am-6pm - Annual Maker Market pop-up curated by Tiny Turns Paperie with locations in Union Tavern, Remnant Brewing, Upstairs at Bow and the Bow Market Courtyard (weather permitting)

10am-8pm Shopping & Specials with your favorite Bow Market Businesses (make sure to check individual shop hours to plan your day)

Win big with small business bingo & shop small instagram challenges!

Find the best gifts for your friends & family from visiting makers and the 25+ businesses that are residents at Bow Market!

Come by 11/30 to keep small strong and shop local for the holidays!

This event is free and open to all.

Pro-tip: The first 25 people to check-in at our prize booth Saturday and show their ticket tailor RSVP will receive a free gift!