Multicultural Arts Center

Multicultural Arts Center Supporting Diversity Through Visual & Performing Arts Jazz club shows, dance and theater events, festivals and family events!

We're a hidden gem in the heart of East Cambridge. Stop by for a look at the artwork in our gallery or catch a great performance. There's always something happening at the Multicultural Arts Center!

‼️Only two days left to get discounted tickets for the upcoming 2026–2027 Performing Arts Season! Save 20% with our Earl...
08/29/2026

‼️Only two days left to get discounted tickets for the upcoming 2026–2027 Performing Arts Season! Save 20% with our Early Bird Discount towards all season events purchased by August 31st. We have so many great programs to look forward to!

🎤 Lift Every Voice:
BIPOC Play Festival
October 1–2, 2026

✨ Yarumi González:
Artist in Residence Showcase
October 7, 2026

🌸 Día de los Mu***os Celebration
November 1, 2026

🫂 Barbed Wire
January 15–17, 2027

👗 The Fabric of Us:
A Celebration of Black Fashion Through the Decades
February 20, 2027

🩰 MAC Movement Makers: The M³ Festival
May 20–22, 2027

For tickets, visit: multiculturalartscenter.org/events/
Discount applied automatically at check-out.

✨ Next week✨ We’re excited to welcome artist  to the gallery! Join us for the opening reception of the new exhibition: I...
08/27/2026

✨ Next week✨ We’re excited to welcome artist to the gallery! Join us for the opening reception of the new exhibition: If you can see me, hold me close.

📆 Thursday, September 3rd, 6:00 – 8:00PM

About the artist:
Megha Nair (b. 2000 in Kochi, India) is a Boston-based artist who creates as an act of introspection. Exploring her relationship with the universe, she uses painting and mixed media to reclaim her identity and redefine divinity.

Blending real life and dreamscapes, she uses vibrant colors and cultural motifs to create radiant ancestral planes and personal mythological worlds where memory and imagination collide, drawing from her own experiences of displacement and disconnection. These surreal realms conceptualize spaces where the past, present, and future live together, allowing us to reimagine our origins and our connections to time. Her work is an act of radical self-reclamation over the psyche.

Celebrating resilience and history as an act of tribute, she encourages others to honor known and unknown generational narratives while also rewriting their own.

For details and to RSVP for the reception: https://multiculturalartscenter.org/if-you-can-see-me/

There is only one week left to get discounted tickets for the upcoming 2026–2027 Performing Arts Season! Save 20% with o...
08/25/2026

There is only one week left to get discounted tickets for the upcoming 2026–2027 Performing Arts Season! Save 20% with our Early Bird Discount towards all season events purchased by August 31st!

For tickets and full list of events, visit: https://multiculturalartscenter.org/events/
Discount applied automatically at check-out.

✨ Join us at the opening reception of our new exhibition: If you can see me, hold me close by . Thursday, September 3rd,...
08/24/2026

✨ Join us at the opening reception of our new exhibition: If you can see me, hold me close by .

Thursday, September 3rd, 6:00 – 8:00PM

If you can see me, hold me close is a body of work focused on redefining divinity and reclaiming identity through a self-built spiritual realm. South Indian artist Megha Nair conceptualizes a visual, personal mythology where reality is blurred with imagined and protective dreamscapes, evoking ancient artifacts from an ancestral plane while giving physical form to surreal worlds.

Image: Where They Wither (detail)

For more info and to RSVP for the reception visit: https://multiculturalartscenter.org/if-you-can-see-me/

We’re excited to announce our next exhibition: If you can see me, hold me close by . Exhibition dates: August 31 – Octob...
08/20/2026

We’re excited to announce our next exhibition: If you can see me, hold me close by . Exhibition dates: August 31 – October 9, 2026.

If you can see me, hold me close is a body of work focused on redefining divinity and reclaiming identity through a self-built spiritual realm. South Indian artist Megha Nair conceptualizes a visual, personal mythology where reality is blurred with imagined and protective dreamscapes, evoking ancient artifacts from an ancestral plane while giving physical form to surreal worlds.

The exhibition grew from trauma and resilience to create a safe space for reimagining ideas of sacrality. Made as a ritualistic practice, the works act as tools for the reclamation of self and the transformation of narratives.

✨ Join us at the opening reception!
📆 Thursday, September 3rd, 6:00 – 8:00PM

For details and to RSVP for the reception: https://multiculturalartscenter.org/if-you-can-see-me/

08/19/2026

‼️FINAL WEEK‼️

📸 Currently on show in the gallery, Book of Saints, featuring the work of Kristen Joy Emack and Carlos Paronis, will remain open until this Friday, August 21. Enjoy this video in which Carlos shares with us why he loves exploring cities like Cambridge in his photography.

About the exhibit, Book of Saints:
We look to young people as sources of renewal, but they’re mirrors also, and reflect where communities succeed and where we fail. Cambridge is changing, and a consequence of development and innovation growth is that existing digital, educational, medical, immigration-related and other gaps widen. Book of Saints is a preservation of culture, a visual archive of portraits, videos and everyday landscapes, venerating the people that live in Cambridge.

Video: Ben Wallace

Learn more: multiculturalartscenter.org/book-of-saint/

In our shared commitment to advance AAPI leadership and community empowerment, we are excited that  has been named as on...
08/19/2026

In our shared commitment to advance AAPI leadership and community empowerment, we are excited that has been named as one of ’s latest grant recipients! Learn more about the grant here: tr.ee/ACFGrant2026

This contribution will be used for Barbed Wire, a new full-length play by Japanese American playwright Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro and African American playwright Mary E. McCullough. Barbed Wire centers around Sam, a young Japanese American inmate, and the unlikely cross-racial friendship he forges with Johnny, a Black soldier stationed at his camp. The play draws directly from Alfaro’s family experience, which grounds the work in intergenerational memory and embodied narrative. Barbed Wire traces Sam’s journey from internment through his early college years, exploring what it means to build identity and claim belonging when one’s own country has deemed one the enemy.

🗓 January 15–17, 2027
🕛 8pm (Fri + Sat) and 2pm (Sun)

🎉 Save 20% with our Early Bird Discount towards the upcoming 2026–2027 Performing Arts Season! Discount applies to tickets for all season events when purchased by August 31, applied automatically at check-out.

For tickets and full list of events, visit: https://multiculturalartscenter.org/events/

Don’t miss your chance to see Book of Saints! The beautiful exhibition by , featuring photos by , closes this Friday nig...
08/18/2026

Don’t miss your chance to see Book of Saints! The beautiful exhibition by , featuring photos by , closes this Friday night!

Image: Annabell by Kristen Joy Emack

More info at: multiculturalartscenter.org/book-of-saint/

As summer winds down, we still have one great dance party to look forward to: The Summer Throwdown! ☀️Co-hosted by the l...
08/18/2026

As summer winds down, we still have one great dance party to look forward to: The Summer Throwdown! ☀️

Co-hosted by the legendary and , we’ll have a high-energy end-of-season celebration featuring live performances, an electrifying dance battle, and music by the incredible (pictured here).

Reserve your FREE tickets at multiculturalartscenter.org!

📆 Friday, September 4
⏰ 6:00 PM
📍 Centanni Park, outside 41 Second St, Cambridge, MA

❤️We are thankful to our sponsors for making these community events possible:

The Multicultural Arts Center has made the decision to postpone Yarumi González’s Artist in Residence Showcase. Original...
08/17/2026

The Multicultural Arts Center has made the decision to postpone Yarumi González’s Artist in Residence Showcase. Originally scheduled for September 17th, the new date will be *October 7th* at 7:30pm.

In the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24, Yarumi and those close to her have been navigating circumstances that require time, care, and space.

At MAC, supporting an artist means supporting the whole person, not simply the work they bring to our stage. Our Artist in Residence program is rooted in giving artists the freedom and space to explore, create, and respond to the world around them. Sometimes, honoring that mission also means knowing when to make room for life.

We stand with Yarumi, her loved ones, and the people of Venezuela as communities continue to recover and rebuild. We encourage members of our community who are able to do so to learn about and support humanitarian and recovery efforts serving those impacted in Venezuela.

About Yarumi González and the Artist in Residence Showcase:
The Artist in Residence Showcase celebrates the culmination of MAC’s residency program, highlighting works developed through sustained artistic exploration and experimentation. Rather than focusing solely on finished pieces, the showcase invites audiences into the creative process, offering a glimpse into evolving ideas and artistic discovery. During Yarumi González’s residency, they will continue developing a multidisciplinary, autobiographical work exploring identity, migration, and the American Dream through poetic and ritual-inspired storytelling, movement, video, photography, installation, and performance.

For tickets, visit: https://multiculturalartscenter.org/events/

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Tuesday 10:30am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 8pm
Thursday 10am - 8pm
Friday 10:30am - 6pm

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