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Join us for Jazz on the Green

Saturday should be a beautiful day to paint with sparc! and listen to Jazz!! You're invited to The Makanda Project’s final concert of the summer. Join sparc! the ArtMobile for an open air painting studio during the annual September Makanda Ken McIntyre birthday celebration. 

Jazz on the Green will be held at the First Church in Roxbury, 10 Putnam Street, Roxbury (rain location: inside church) - 1pm-4pm 

Jazz on the Green (2019) featuring guest artist Robert Murrell. 

At intermission there will be poetry by Vanessa Silva and a performance by student vocalists from the Butterfly Project. The music program will consist entirely of McIntyre compositions, including some of Makanda’s more recent “discoveries” as the ensemble continue to explore his large body of unrecorded work, and continue becoming more and more impressed with his brilliance as a composer. 

Jazz on the Green (2021)  featuring guest artist and former sparc! Team member Beatriz Whitehill

This event is for all ages and stages. Materials provided by sparc! 

Jazz on the Green (2019)  with community member and her wonderful painting

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Paint Jazz Recap

Saturday, September 9th was a joyous day of music and painting with sparc! the ArtMobile and The Makanda Project on the lawn of the First Church in Roxbury. Concert goers celebrated the birthday of “Makanda” Ken McIntyre and the sparc! team welcomed concert goers to listen to the band and paint whatever came to their mind. From pointillism, to abstraction and nature, we loved seeing all the creative ways the canvases were transformed.

So many creative patterns and colors

Owen, a third year sparc! team member spent the afternoon live painting the event! He captured the warm, buzzing energy of the event until the first drops of rain fell.

Thank you to all who came by and the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry for hosting Jazz on the Green!