Arts & Culture

Entering “Fred Wilson: Reflections” at the Rose Art Museum in Waltham feels a bit like walking through a portal into an alternative universe.

Produced in collaboration with Mass Bikes, “The Kittie Knox Plays” tell the story of a pioneering Black female bicyclist and Cambridge native. And the actors performing the plays will be doing so while riding bikes.

The Embrace Massó ¡Con Salsa! International Music Festival, sponsored by Embrace Boston, is less than two weeks away. The free, daylong event celebrates Latin music and culture as well as social justice efforts.

What do you call four days of live music, with dozens of acts, taking place in an intimate club in Harvard Square? It’s the annual Campfire Festival, in its 25th year, with about 60 musicians performing in short sets at Club Passim.

More than 50 artists will gather outdoors in early September for the Boston Arts Festival, a two-day gathering of fine art and culture on the Boston waterfront. This annual event has been celebrating local artists for 22 years.

The legendary Boston-born R&B group New Edition is synonymous with its hometown, and this weekend Mayor Michelle Wu will make it official by declaring August 30 as “New Edition Day” in the City of Boston and celebrating accordingly.

Sista Dee, one half of the Dis-N-Dat reggae band, has been playing the steel pan drum for as long as she can remember. Growing up in a musical household, the steady beats of Afro-diasporic music were the soundtrack of Dee’s formative years.

Guyanese American artist, educator and former D1 ball player Marlon Forrester has long explored the connection between art and basketball in his paintings and installations.

Photographer and community activist Thaddeus Miles wants to see more Black joy. That’s been his mission since 2019 and for the past five years he’s collaborated with the ICA Boston to celebrate Black Joy Day in September.

For more than seven decades, the annual Newport Jazz Festival has brought generations of jazz musicians and fans together. This year’s festival, the 71st, held at Fort Adams State Park from August 1-3, drew 10,000 people daily to its seaside stages.

Residents and visitors in Great Barrington in western Massachusetts will spot a welcoming new face outside Mason Public Library.

The Boston Athenaeum wants to turn back time, and it needs the help of Bostonians to do it. In 2026 the historic private library in Beacon Hill will launch an exhibition of photographs by Constantine Manos inspired by his participation in the 1976 installation “Where’s Boston?”