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Embrace Ideas Festival: Full Schedule, Everything You Need to Know

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Thursday, June 15:

11 a.m-6 p.m.: Embrace Ideas Festival at Mass College of Art: Creativity is the Center of Black Existence. Hosted at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the Design and Media Center. A panel of Boston creatives, including Rixy, SPRAT, theo tyson and DJ Real P, moderated by artist educator Destiny Palmer. Keynote conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jenee Osterheldt of A Beautiful Resistance. Breakout sessions co-facilitated by Embrace Boston’s Next Gen Somatic Abolitionists centered in holistic wellness and healing.

4-7 p.m.: Reception and after party with live DJs at MassArt Art Museum, sponsored by MassArt.

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