Weekend kickoff!
11:30 AM–12:30 PM | Sunday Brunch Jams with DJ YVNG PAVL + ICA Teens DJ Collective
Join us for a special (free for all) Sunday Brunch Jams on Instagram Live @icaboston! Boston-based YVNG PAVL, with help from the ICA Teens DJ Collective, spotlights the role music and musicians play in helping us navigate this pandemic while also being faced with longstanding issues of racial injustice. Remixing conversations with the Teen Collective and incorporating their music playlist, YVNG PAVL kicks off this week-long series of events organized and led by teens. This event is open to all ages!
12:30 PM | The Playlist
Discover your new favorite playlist, a collaboration by the DJ Collective. Available now
5:00–6:00 PM | Creative Making Mini Series
Join TAC to create together and respond to this moment. What is creativity now? What empowers you? This is a choose-your-own-adventure space! We will have four offerings you can choose from: Writing, Collage, Painting, and Drawing. For teens!
6:00 PM | Virtual Exhibition: Artists & Writers Collective
See and hear work by teens in our Artists & Writers Collective. Available on Instagram @icateens starting at 6 PM
3:00 PM | Photography in Focus
Tune in to an open conversation between Advanced Photography members Andre and Sam and local Boston photographers Lauren Miller and OJ Slaughter. Available on Instagram @icateens and the ICA Teens YouTube channel starting at 3 PM.
5:00 PM | Virtual Exhibition: Photography
View photography by teens in our Special Focus and Advanced Photography programs. Available on Instagram @icateens starting at 5 PM.
3:00-4:00 PM | Join us for a Virtual Open Mic
Hosted by TAC via Zoom! Interested in performing? Sign up here
DM us on Instagram @icateens, text or call (339) 236-3039, or email teens@icaboston.org for the info to join.
4:00 PM | New Music
Hear the latest beats by the teen music producers of AMP, our music production group. Available on Instagram @icateens and the ICA Teens YouTube channel starting at 4 PM.
3:00 PM | Mindfulness Stretching
Tune in to a mindfulness stretching session with TAC member Be. Available on Instagram @icateens and the ICA Teens YouTube channel starting at 3 PM.
5:00 PM | Fast Forward Film Fest
Watch the latest films by teens in our Fast Forward program. Available on Instagram @icateens and the ICA Teens YouTube channel starting at 5 PM.
3:00 PM | Creatives in Our Community
TAC connects with local artists who identify as Black and who create art that brings people together in community and pushes for a more just world. To acknowledge that this intergenerational convening of creatives falls on Juneteenth, a day to commemorate Black liberation from the institution of slavery and highlight the resilience, solidarity, and culture of the Black community, we will ask these artists about what this day means to them. Available on Instagram @icateens and the ICA Teens YouTube channel starting at 3 PM.
8:00-9:00 PM | Dance Party
Celebrating the communities that we have created together, join us for a virtual dance party hosted by TAC via Zoom. Help us mark the end of Virtual Teen Week!
Lead support for Teen Programs provided by Wagner Foundation.
Teen Programs are made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Award Number 10-19-0390-19.
Support for Teen New Media programs is generously provided by John Hancock and Vertex.
The ICA’s Teen Arts Council and Teen Nights are generously sponsored by Vertex and MFS Investment Management and are made possible, in part, through the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
The Artists & Writers Collective is generously sponsored by Vertex.
WallTalk is supported in part by the Nathaniel Saltonstall Arts Fund.
Fast Forward is supported in part by The Angell Foundation and by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which receives support from the State of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Support for Teen New Media programs is generously provided by John Hancock and Vertex.
Additional support is provided by the Surdna Foundation; the Rowland Foundation, Inc.; The Corkin Family; the William E. Schrafft and Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable Trust; The Willow Tree Fund; the Robert Lehman Foundation; Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Fund, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee; the Plymouth Rock Foundation; the Jean Gaulin Foundation; BPS Arts Expansion Fund at EdVestors; and the Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation, Inc; and Santander.
