Shop online at the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute!
826 Boston's fantastical retail storefront now has an online store.
All proceeds help support our free writing and tutoring programs.
Thursday /
January 21, 2010
Register your upper lip for 826 Boston's Second Annual Moustache-a-thon. Beginning Monday, February 15, 2010, this epic contest of follicular fortitude will run for six weeks and feature weekly weigh-ins, moustache games and trivia, and prizes for top growers.
Our goal in 2010 is to raise
$15,000 to support our free tutoring and writing programs by enlisting 50 moustache-growers whose weekly progress will be sponsored by generous pledges.
Over 40 participants have signed up already, check them out at the
Moustache-A-Thon Blog.
Contact
moustache [at] 826boston.org to find out more.
Tuesday /
January 5, 2010
Rent a nationally-acclaimed author for a private evening with your book club by raising $1,000 to benefit 826 Boston’s free youth writing programs. Schedule your event with
Julia Glass, National Book Award winner,
Tom Perrotta, Oscar-nominated novelist and screenwriter,
Donald Hall, former United States Poet Laureate, or
Jim Shepard, National Book Award Story Prize-winner.
Not part of a book club? Enlist your bookish neighbors, friends and family to help support Boston’s young writers. Register your book club with program co-sponsor Harvard Book Store and receive discounts and special benefits.
For more information, click
here
Wednesday /
November 18, 2009
826 Boston’s Art Auction
Friday, December 11th, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Robert Klein Gallery, 38 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116
Join us for an evening celebrating art, writing, and the mingling of the two. The event will feature a silent auction of 20 visual works by leading artists including
Julie Blackmon, Dawn Clements, Dave Cole, Hildur Asgeirsdottir Jonsson and Jon Racek.
In addition, over 50 local artists are producing original broadsides inspired by fantastical bedtime stories written by 826 Boston students and published in our most recent publication,
2% of 2% of All The World’s Stories.
Learn more and preview featured artwork
Friday /
October 23, 2009
826 Boston is partnering with other Egleston Square organizations to hold the
2nd Annual CommUnity Howl on Friday, October 30 from 4-6 pm! Local youth will be participating in a scavenger hunt around the area starting at one of our 4 starting spots and then ending at 826 Boston where there will be a raffle, costume parade, trick-o-treating and other Halloween activities!
We are looking for volunteers to help out with this event by setting up the center, chaperoning, and helping with events. Email
maya [at] 826boston.org if you're interested in signing up.
You can check out the event flyer by clicking
here.
Tuesday /
October 20, 2009
826 Boston is excited to be a featured partner in the upcoming
Boston Book Festival, which will be held Saturday October 24th from 10:00 am - 6:00 pm in Boston's Copley Square.
Throughout the afternoon, 826 Boston will offer hands-on writing and illustration projects for all ages in our tent. We will also host readings by featured authors from our literary board. Keep an eye out for more details soon!
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