Song in their hearts
Boston Children’s Chorus gives voice to city youth
Talia Whyte
On a typical afternoon at the South End offices of the Boston Children’s Chorus, the voices of children are everywhere — in the songs the kids practice with the chorus’ teaching fellows; in the boisterous peals of laughter that fill rehearsal rooms and accompany recaps of what happened in school that day; even in the heads of parents sitting in the waiting room, thinking about what to make for dinner.
For the youth and their families, the Boston Children’s Chorus is all about voices — the music they can make, the community they can create and the social healing they can provide.
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Black dolls come to Mass.
Daniela Caride
Black dolls made of porcelain, cloth and wood. Black dolls from Somalia, Germany and the Philippines. Some a half-inch tall, some big as life. RuPaul dolls dressed in red leather. Relics from the 1700s.
All these and many, many more — more than 5,000, to be exact — will be exhibited at Harambee: The 2008 Black Doll Collectors Convention, the first such event of its kind in the United States, taking place at the Mansfield Holiday Inn from May 30 to June 1.
The Harambee convention, named for a Kiswahili word meaning “coming together,” will gather collectors from all over the world.Historians, dealers, doll makers and lots of curious people will attend as well, says Debra Britt, one of the convention’s creators. Full story
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