Boston Scenes 8-13-2015

Mayor Martin Walsh tours the Artist For Humanity Summer Program in South Boston. Participants are encouraged to explore their creative abilities. The program includes photography, painting, graphic arts and video editing.

Berklee College of Music Professor of Ensemble Lawrence (Larry) Watson thrills the audience at Lawn on D, D Street, Boston with his student group Workforce at a packed public event sponsored by Porch Fest, a Jamaica Plain-based initiative to bring eclectic music to the community.

In a signing ceremony at the State House, Gov. Charlie Baker was joined by Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Senate President Stan Rosenberg and stakeholders to enact a fifty-percent increase in the Massachusetts Earned Income Tax Credit for more than 400,000 working individuals and families in the Commonwealth.