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First Fridays Youth Open Mic is coming back from hiatus! Learn how you can get involved! https://linktr.ee/firstfridaysjp

First Fridays is a project of the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain. It is a safe space for youth (covering a broad age-range) to share their talents and perspectives, and experiment with various forms of artistic expression. First Fridays is a public venue where people of all faiths and identities are welcome to be themselves and to be accepted for who they are. It is also a place of intercultural and interracial conversation and relationship-building, where youth and adults can process their struggles in life, share their faith, dreams, and ideals, and learn more about issues of social, economic, and environmental justice. With all that, it is simply somewhere for youth and people of all ages to come on a Friday night to have a good time. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency which is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, administrated by the Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events.

10/26/2026

✨ Next First Fridays Open Mic: we have something very special and fun for you! ✨

🎭 A Whimsical Evening of Puppet Improv 🎭
Featuring Harissa Feltington & Zara Barryte. Harissa brings Delight and Whimsy to the stage, but she may need your help! Join puppet-led improv games made for adults. No experience needed, just a willingness to play.

📅 Friday, Nov 6th, 2026
🕢 7:30 PM (doors open at 7:00)
📍 633 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain

We are so excited! Please join us and bring your friends. 💛

We would also love to see all artists, all types of art: poetry, dance, music, and so much more. All arts are welcome!

🎤 Sign up to perform here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdORRSAXZ7jDWUYLOnjwVdtyWfasZwOt5CEAPMczLR-4Wg2pA/viewform?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAcGRvZgJmZGlkFlEQDnWCVc2onQmlzIdZbzrLJwjcvs9zcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAaeNnOWkpSOniA1uT0H3_uaZhJIgEkB9kBFR-4yT2kQ-2gBsPIm_6IjR7vkVjQ_aem_WsHiWOaM6wCOSp-J_NmSTA
Or sign up at the door.

🍕 Free food and drinks
♿ Venue is wheelchair accessible with gender neutral restrooms

🎨 Flyer by juanitaacostac

09/21/2026

✨ First Fridays Open Mic: Oct 2nd ✨

We're thrilled to feature Ana G Delgado Cruz, a contemporary choreographer and dancer whose work centers community, culture, and diaspora experience.

Join us as we explore Dance & Choreography as a Tool for Cultural Exchange.

🎤 Oct 2nd | Doors Open 7:00 PM | 633 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain
🍻 Free Food & Drinks + bring snacks to share
🎨 All artists welcome to perform

Sign up to perform: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdORRSAXZ7jDWUYLOnjwVdtyWfasZwOt5CEAPMczLR-4Wg2pA/viewform

What story does your body carry? Share it with us.

09/01/2026

Indira, our August feature artist at First Fridays Open Mic. Singer-songwriter, voice and presence that left us speechless. Thank you for sharing your art with us 🎤🤍

08/24/2026

✨ First Fridays Open Mic ✨

Join us September 4th for an evening of poetry, music, storytelling, and more. All art forms are welcome! 🎤

This month we’re excited to feature Chia Lam, writer, performer, and community organizer based in the Boston area. She’s the Editor in Chief of the Trident Poetry Collective (TPC) and serves as the Eastern Massachusetts Representative for the Massachusetts Poetry Olimpics (MAPO).

📅 September 4th
🚪 7:00 PM Doors Open
🎙️ 7:30 PM Show Starts
📍 633 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain

Free food and drinks. Venue is wheelchair accessible with gender neutral restrooms.

Scan the QR code to reserve your spot, or find us

Sign up here or at the door:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdORRSAXZ7jDWUYLOnjwVdtyWfasZwOt5CEAPMczLR-4Wg2pA/viewform

Flyer by Juanita Acosta

07/31/2026

Our next First Fridays Open Mic this Friday, August 7th! Featuring indira — songs for the in-between, where memory and feeling collide.

About featured artist:

Indira writes songs for the in-between-where memory and feeling overlap, blending intimacy with storytelling, creating space for listeners to hear themselves and their own stories reflected back to them, songs for the quiet spaces in all of us where memory and feeling collide.

Wheelchair accessible venue with gender neutral restrooms. All ages welcome.

Limited spots — sign up at the door or scan the QR code or check in link in our bio to reserve yours.

📍 633 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

Doors at 7:00 PM — 633 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain

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06/25/2026

Our next open mic on July 3rd is a special one and we would love for you to join us! It marks a full year of the mic’s comeback (after the pandemic hiatus) as well as a bittersweet farewell to a member of our community.

We will be celebrating with a potluck party! So bring your friends and your favorite dishes to share, sign up to perform or just come for hang.

Excited to have the dynamic duo Ricky and Ana Breznik as our featured artists. You do not want to miss this.

About featured artists:

“Ricky Shah is a composer, improviser, orchestrator, and multidisciplinary artist from London, United Kingdom, and a recent graduate from Berklee College of Music. His fascination with mysticism, the interconnectedness of life, and the undefinable, organic and boundless nature of reality features heavily in his work, consisting of music, poetry, and movement, informed by his roots in classical impressionism, expressionism, and avant garde jazz.

Ana Breznik is a multidisciplinary artist and a scientist, whose practice spans theater directing, acting, dance, and poetry. She graduated from Harvard College in 2024, where she studied both Biology and Theater. Her work is deeply interwoven with topics of cyclicality, the inseparable ties between humans and nature, menstruation, and Slovenian mythology. She also works as a biology researcher, studying the mechanisms of uterine regeneration and menstrual disorders, which has greatly inspired her artmaking and reinforced her belief in the reciprocal relationship between art and science.

Their shared passions have brought them together to create experiences that capture fragments of the infinite through improvisation of music, poetry, and theatrical performances.”
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Mic is open to all ages and all talents. Sign up at the door, scan QR code on poster or visit link in bio to reserve a spot to perform (limited slots).

Set up at 6pm (we welcome volunteers)
Doors at 7pm
633 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, MA

See you next Friday!

05/25/2026

We are so thrilled to have the electric MA-native MC be our next featured artist for June open mic! 🔥

Kold Kwan is a Chinese-American rapper born and raised in Massachusetts. Kwan is inspired by 2000s independent hip-hop plus lyricists and storytellers such as Nas, Lupe Fiasco, and Kendrick Lamar. Kwan makes music authentic to his personality and lived experiences with an outside the box approach-Kwan also gets inspiration from genres such as heavy metal, jazz, and UK Grime. Kwan aims to represent Asian Americans as an uplifting unique voice that positively contributes to the culture of hip-hop and the communities he is part of.

Doors open 7pm, mic at 7:30pm.
633 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, MA

This community open mic is open to all ages and all talents. Sign-up to perform via link/QR or at the door (limited slots).

See you there!

05/25/2026

We were blessed with beautiful weather on our May open mic so we set up outside! It was so lovely getting to meet our JP neighbors, see friends and welcome curious passersby who stopped by and join the circle. Beautiful night of songs, dancing, poetry, and improv, interwoven with music by global collective .

It’s always a good time with this growing community and we warmly invite you to join us for the next one on June 5th, 7pm!

Sign up to perform via link in bio or at the door.

04/26/2026

Our next Spring open mic is this Friday May 1st! Featuring 🤗

About feature: Kapatid Kud [kah-pah-TID kooD] is a global collective of multi-instrumental musicians who together weave their stories into song balms. Grounded in their shared sense of kinship, they create with the energy of joy and play as intentional resistance and approach songwriting and performance as medicine both for themselves and their communities.

Doors open at 7pm
Mic at 7:30pm
All ages and talents welcome!
Sign up to perform at https://tinyurl.com/firstfridaysjp
or at the door (first come first serve)

Suggested donation $5-15
Home-cooked vegetarian meal and tea available.
We invite you to bring snacks and drinks to share!

See you there, friends 🌸

04/26/2026

Our May open mic is this Friday the 1st, featuring 🤗

Kapatid Kud [kah-pah-TID kooD] is a global collective of multi-instrumental musicians who together weave their stories into song medicine. Grounded in their shared sense of kinship, they create with the energy of joy and play as intentional resistance and approach songwriting and performance as a balm both for themselves and their communities.

Doors open at 7pm
Mic at 7:30pm
All ages and talents welcome!
Sign up to perform at https://tinyurl.com/firstfridaysjp
or at the door (first come first serve)

Suggested donation $5-15
Home-cooked vegetarian meal and tea available.
We invite you to bring snacks and drinks to share!

See you there, friends 🌸

Address

Jamaica Plain, MA
02130

Opening Hours

7pm - 9pm

Telephone

(617) 524-3992

Website

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