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From YouTube: Alternative Space Press Event with Artists
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Mayor Walsh is joined by Chief of Arts & Culture Julie Burros to announce the first two artists/musicians chosen to participate in the Alternative Space Pilot Project at the AT&T store on Boylston street in the Back Bay area.
The goal of this pilot project is to help make underused private spaces in the city available to artists. The groups known as Equilibrium and Castle of our Skins are the first to be chosen to occupy the second floor of the AT&T store on Boylston street.
A
B
We
are
excited
to
have
these
talented
musicians
and
artists
with
us
here
in
the
store,
their
gifts
and
their
challenge
will
be
gracing,
our
employees
and
our
customers,
and
we're
so
grateful
to
you
and
lastly,
I
want
to
thank
and
recognize
the
leadership
of
mayor,
Marty,
Walsh
and
Julie
Julie
burrows
for
their
recognition
of
how
important
it
is
to
bring
the
business
community
together
with
the
arts
community
and
how
powerful
that
combination
can
be.
And
with
that
it
is
my
honor
to
introduce
Boston's
mayor
Marty,
Walsh.
C
Thank
you
very
much.
Patti
and
I
want
to
thank
you,
an
ATT
for
your
corporate
citizenship
and
involvement.
So
many
different
things,
and
also
the
space
today,
truly
you've
been
a
great
asset
to
our
city.
So
thank
you
and
the
whole
company
and
I
want
to
thank
julie,
bharosa
and
all
the
folks
that
are
here
that
helped
Julie
create
our
cultural
plan.
C
Probably
I
think
was
the
first
one
in
history
of
the
city
we
might
have
something
years
ago,
but
I
think
the
first
one,
certainly
in
the
last
four
or
five
decades,
and
and
really
what
we're
seeing
in
our
city
now
is.
We
and
I
don't
see
a
resurgence
because
there's
so
many
great
arts,
programs
and
people
in
our
city,
but
a
kind
of
a
renewed
involvement
on
behalf
of
the
City
of
Boston.
So
I
want
to
thank
julie
for
her
great
work.
C
C
At&Amp;T
was
one
of
the
first,
maybe
I,
think
the
first
company
to
step
up
and
to
answer
our
pilot
program
call
again.
I
want
to
thank
Patti
and
AT&T
for
opening
their
doors.
This
is
not
the
first
time
they
have
opened
the
doors
for
us
with
call
them
on,
and
many
different
events
and
many
different
things
that
we're
doing
in
the
city
of
Boston.
But
this
is
a
little
different.
This
is
something
that's
unique.
C
It's
something
different
and
I
think
the
potential
opportunity
here
is
exciting,
but
it
also
sets
an
example
of
our
private
sector,
working
with
the
community
to
really
open
the
doors
for
people
and
having
more
opportunities.
More
synergy
like
this
initiatives
like
this
or
going
to
be
accessible
for
people
all
throughout
our
city
and
I.
Think
one
of
our
biggest
goals
is
to
keep
artists
in
the
city
of
austin.
And
how
do
we
do
that?
C
And
you
know
we
have
a
great
history
here,
of
having
great
artists
here
and
great
performance,
and
what
we
want
to
do
is
not
just
keep
the
people
here
but
attract
new
people
to
our
city,
so
having
institutions
and
companies
like
AT&T
and
other
institutions
and
organizations
opening
their
building.
It's
going
to
help
us
to
continue
to
contribute
to
the
city,
but
in
particularly
contribute
to
the
artists
in
our
city.
So
I
just
want
to
end
by
thanking
everybody
for
being
here
today.
Those
are
the
public.
C
That's
here
today,
I
know,
there's
a
few
people
for
the
public.
This
is
something
just
knew
something
different
thinking
outside
the
box
and
now
we're
going
to
continue
to
try
and
think
outside
the
box
in
the
city
of
Boston.
Many
of
the
artists
that
are
going
to
use
this
space
have
to
think
outside
the
box
every
single
day
on
how
they,
how
they
do
what
they
do
so
again,
thank
you
very
much
and
to
Patty
and
AT&T.
Thank
you
to
Julie
and
her
team.
Thank
you
very
much.
I
bring
you
up
pairing
up.
B
D
Hi,
my
name
is
Misha
sulkin
pearl
I'm,
the
artistic
director
of
the
equilibrium
concert
series
first,
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
so
much
to
the
mayor
and
the
arts
office
and
280
for
this
program.
This
is
I
can't
say
how
helpful
this
is
going
to
be,
and
I
really
am
looking
forward
to
seeing
this
take
off
with
groups
around
around
town
equilibriums
been
running
we're
now
in
our
sixth
season.
D
We
started
most
of
us
fresh
out
of
graduate
school
here
in
the
city,
and
we
specialize
in
contemporary
classical
music
written
by
composers
of
some
sort
of
local
connection.
So
people
who
grew
up
here,
people
who've
lived
here
for
a
long
time
or
people
who
recently
moved
here
and
are
really
trying
to
make
a
make
a
presence
for
themself.
So
we
try
to
represent
a
broad
variety
of
different
artists
and
different
styles.
D
So
nicole
parks,
violinist
from
our
own
ensemble,
is
going
to
perform
a
couple
excerpts
of
a
new
piece
by
another
member
of
our
group,
aaron
j,
myers
that
he
wrote
just
for
her,
and
I
think
this
is
the
first
time
it's
going
to
be
heard.
So
something
to
know
about
this
music
and
one
of
the
reasons
it's
really
grateful
to
have
this
support.
It's
strange,
it's
different,
music,
you're
going
to
hear
sounds
you
don't
normally
expect
here
from
a
violin
and
I.
E
E
And
I
want
to
thank
the
mayor
for
his
support
in
his
leadership
for
really
having
the
vision
to
create
a
cultural
plan
for
Boston
I
want
to
thank
all
of
our
supporters
and
partners
in
Boston
creates
a
lot
of
you
guys
are
in
the
room.
We've
got
members
of
our
steering
committee
and
our
Leadership
Council
and
some
of
our
funding
partners.
So
thank
you
to
the
bar
foundation
and
the
club
and
Family
Foundation.
E
I
also
want
to
thank
AT&T
or
for
stepping
up
space
is
an
incredible
resource
and
it's
such
a
great
way
to
populate
public
spaces
with
them
with
incredibly
new
cool
experiences.
I
want
to
thank
the
whole
team
who
helped
put
this
together.
We
have
a
member
of
our
jury,
who
will
help
reviewed
proposals
and
choose
a
scott
Wheeler,
who
the
composer
helps
us
with
that.
Thank
you.
So
much.
E
This
is
the
kind
of
collaboration
we
want
to
foster
and
support
in
Boston
creates
making
the
plan
a
reality
will
take
working
together,
and
this
is
a
great
example
of
that
in
action,
so
we're
just
thrilled
to
see
it
come
to
fruition.
We're
excited
to
be
bringing
more
of
these
collaborations
forward
in
the
next
several
months
together.
We're
all
going
to
help
these
incredibly
creative
people
to
explore
and
build
their
art
and
and
and
draw
new
audiences
to
their
art.
E
So
with
that,
I
want
to
introduce
to
you
our
next
performers
and
the
other
people
who
are
going
to
be
benefiting
from
this
incredible
space.
The
group
is
called
castle
of
our
skins
and
they
are
a
Boston
cultural
council
grant.
Ii
am
so
pleased
to
report
that
and
they're
really
dedicated
to
promoting
the
work
of
composers
of
color
in
the
group
include
Fred,
Van,
Ness,
Ashley,
Gordon
and
Javier
Caballero.
Please
help
me
welcoming
them.
F
Thank
you
so
much
for
this
opportunity.
18Teen
sent
me
the
city.
This
means
a
lot.
My
name
is
Ashley
Gordon,
I'm,
the
artistic
director
and
co-founder
of
castle
of
our
skins
and
at
the
heart
of
what
we
do
is
really
education
and
trying
to
foster
cultural
curiosity,
specifically
in
in
the
culture
of
black
communities
from
across
the
Diaspora.
We
lead.
F
Everything,
as
I
said,
is
educational
to
whether
it's
in
the
concert,
hall,
pairing
history
and
music
and
spoken
word
in
the
concert
hall
are
edgy,
tainment
recitals.
We
are
investments
at
the
roxbury
YMCA
and
get
to
perform
the
music
of
black
composers
and
tell
a
little
bit
more
about
those
composers.
We
also
do
interactive
educational
workshops
in
schools
for
kindergarteners
all
the
way
through
high
school,
and
we
have
a
international
call
for
work
from
composers,
any
age,
any
ethnicity,
any
nationality,
to
write
us
music
inspired
by
Black
History
black
culture.
That
concert
one
one.
F
One
of
those
concerts
will
actually
happen
on
march
24th
and
there's
some
information
here
as
well.
If
you
would
like
to
know
more
about
that,
the
piece
that
we're
going
to
be
performing
for
you
today
is
from
our
old
Freedom
Project,
which
was
our
debut
performance
at
the
Museum
of
African,
American
history
in
beacon
hill
and
this
project
took
civil
rights,
themes
of
freedom
and
abolitionist
rights,
themes
of
freedom
and
modernize
them
for
21st
century
audience.
F
This
particular
piece
is
called
song
of
the
coffle
game
and
it
said
that
the
words
were
from
africans
when
they
were
brought
over
from
America
most
likely
it
was
an
abolitionist
song,
but
it
still
has
that
feeling
in
its
lyrics,
and
there
is
a
line
in
there
about
husbands
and
wives
being
torn
apart
and
mr.
mayor.
We
wanted
to
especially
perform
this
for
you
today
and
our
support
of
your
very
vocal
advocacy
for
sanctuary
cities
and
ensuring
that
that,
thank
you.
F
G
G
G
A
B
That
that
was
incredibly
moving
and
what
a
gift
and
we're
so
grateful
to
all
of
the
artists
for
your
performances
today
and
for
gracing
our
store
with
your
talent
and
obviously
I
want
to
conclude
by
thanking
Mayor
Walsh
for
his
leadership
in
bringing
the
business
community
together
with
the
arts
community.
It's
a
very
powerful
combination
and
and
we're
just
so
looking
forward
to
being
part
of
this
program.
Thank
You,
mayor
Walsh,.