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Circus Up 2025 Benefit Show

Circus Up Annual benefit Show

Circus Up 2025 Benefit Show

Sun. Nov. 09, 2025 at 2:15 pm - 5:00 pm

UNIQUE AND EXCITING LIVE CIRCUS ACTS!

A NIGHT CELEBRATING EQUITY AND ACCESS IN THE ARTS!

2:15 PM doors open
3:00 PM show begins

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We encourage you to arrive early to check out our exciting raffle, have delicious treats from Moonshine 152, purchase refreshments, and take part in our circus scavenger hunt!

This year’s benefit will feature a live performance. We will showcase our community troupe, Kirkos, as well as acts by Circus Up coaches and outstanding local and national circus artists and dancers.

Kirkos is a team of youth circus artists who perform bold and uplifting shows in the greater Boston area. In the tradition of “social circus,” the Troupe comprises young people from underserved communities and celebrates what it looks like to courageously learn, play, and create together.

This event is our major annual fundraiser and all funds raised from this event will go towards supporting our mission to use circus arts to overcome social barriers and build community with people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities.

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Lady Ray and Her Jazz Birds

Lady Ray and her Jazz Birds at the Center for the Arts at the Armory

Lady Ray and Her Jazz Birds

Sun. Nov. 09, 2025 at 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Enjoy the sultry voice of Raynel Shepard, aka Lady Ray, with her fabulous troupe of instrumentalists, as she lends a unique interpretation to favorite jazz standards. With Ben Broder-piano; Mike Ball-bass; Mark Chenevert-sax and clarinet.; Dave Hurst-percussion; and Mark Torgenson-guitar.

Free, suggested donation of $15.

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Somerville Poetry Workshop

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Somerville Poetry Workshop

Sun. Nov. 09, 2025 at 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Somerville is a great town for poets and writers, of all levels. This discussion-based workshop aims to provide a forum for poets who have never stopped writing to new poets or poets who need to get back into writing and hearing new ideas.

Each session will begin with two city poets or summer poems, and classes will end with twenty minute readings by visiting poets. Topics will include form, line, structure, generative writing, and notebooks. Flexible pricing. Taught by local MFA faculty.

Dates: October 2, October 9, October 30, November 9

For more information, Email: dmclblair@icloud.com

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