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TODAY: 12:30pmEST @icateens @ICAinBOSTON Fast Forward Film Students in Conversation With @colintrevorrow watch.eventive.org/scoutfilmfesti…

.@icateens are back (virtually) on Appian Way! Please join us on 1/21 at 4p.m. as the artists discuss their photographs for this year's exhibition: Stress, Pressure, & Release. Register here: bit.ly/ICA_Teens and view the virtual exhibition here: bit.ly/Gutman_Gallery

Our friends at @ArtsinBoston want your ideas on the future of the Emancipation Group statue and the future of the site it was on. Details at boston.gov/departments/ar…

Thanks to GIB DJ for sharing your knowledge and work today on Beat Wave, our speaker series for music listeners and makers. Don’t miss the next session with NEON BLK on Tuesday 7/28 at 4 PM. DM us or text/call (339) 236-3039 for info.

Materials for Expression: Creating 2D&3D Patches! Tomorrow 4PM on Zoom! Recycle, reuse and rethink everyday materials. Create patches as a form of self-expression in activism. DM us or text/call 339-236-3039 for Zoom info. (1st in Visual Art&Writing Series) 🖼: Mithsuca Berry

@BPSiCreate Thank you!!!

ICA Teen Programs @icateens has several drop in workshops running this summer! Details on opportunities (free for teens 13+) and applications here: teens.icaboston.org/programs

Tomorrow at 3 PM, make non-conventional portraits with us on Zoom! The first of our summer photography drop-in sessions. DM us for the link or text/call (339) 236-3039. 📷: Jessica D.

Staying Creative. Make an object seem like it has human parts. Snap a photo. Tag us. Inspiration pictured second: Laurie Simmons, Walking Camera (Jimmy the Camera / Gift to Jimmy from Laurie), 1987.

Pass the brush. Get creative. Featuring TAC members Zuzu, Be, Jazz, Raf, Scania, Saraphym, Mia, and Derek, plus alumni assistant Aric and Nohemi's Plants. Edited by: Derek & Zuzu. Song: Commes Des garçons by Rina Sawayama. Remix by: Kyla, a member of AMP and DJ Collective.

Tonight at 7 pm! A-Town Teen Film Festival, featuring films by three of our amazing filmmakers! Find it on the Regent Theatre Arlington Facebook live and on the Arlington Community Media public and educational channels and YouTube channel

Staying Creative. Create an alter ego that highlights an aspect of society you’d like to change. Design a costume for this persona using materials in your space. Find inspiration in these photos of Lorraine O’Grady’s first public performance. Learn more: icaboston.org/art/lorraine-o…

Staying Creative: Episode 5. Get inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s infinity room LOVE IS CALLING (1st image). Find or create the largest infinity in the smallest space. Snap a photo. Tag us. (See examples by Director of Teen Programs Betsy featuring 🤠 by alum Ren. Polka dots added.)

Staying Creative: Episode 4. Watch the video by artist @racyperry where she lip-syncs to voicemail messages left in error: icaboston.org/rachel-perry-k… Create your own video that expresses something about communication in our time. Tag us.

Our TAC is hosting an open mic/art showcase that teens virtually anywhere can attend and be a part of!So that spoken word, painting, or song you’ve been working on this long quarantine can be appreciated by teens! Sign up to share: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…. DM us for the zoom code

Bored in quarantine? Enjoy this Friday Feature on Zuzu, a member of our Teen Arts Council. Listen to her new song of enchantments & magic called wonderland at m.soundcloud.com/zuzuadi/wonder…. And follow her on Instagram @planetzuz.

Staying Creative. Find a collaborator. Write a short film with two characters. Following social distancing guidelines, shoot your character’s scenes. Have your collaborator do the same. Edit them into one film. Tag us to share. Examples: m.youtube.com/playlist?list=…

This week’s Friday Feature is Montero! He’s a photographer, author, gamer, guitarist, and more who is part of our Advanced Photography group and Artists & Writers Collective. These are photos he took around Malcolm X Park. Follow him on Instagram at @larenz_media and @larenz_art

Staying Creative: Watch the video (youtu.be/5-FGR3HLU8gof) us with artist Nari Ward installing his work We the People, made of hundreds of shoelaces. Find some shoelaces. Make something that expresses how you feel about where you live.

Staying Creative: Grab a camera/camera phone. Set the self-timer button for 10 seconds (grab a helper if yours doesn’t have one). Run away from the camera and into the shot. Repeat. Inspired by photographer John Divola’s series As Far As I Could Get. 1: Alaska 2: Brian 3: Emmett

Thanks so much for spending time with us @marty_walsh !