Spontaneous Celebrations

06/14/2024

Spontaneous Celebrations
🌍 Join us for a ROCK SHOW!! at Spontaneous Celebrations! Friday, June 14th. 6:00 -9:30 pm.
Proceeds go to fix our basement
This is an 18+ show!!
*** Next Thursday, June 20th. Climate Music Event!!

See below for more upcoming events.
Climate Music Project EcoEcho Live Stream Performance

Join a live-streamed event combining powerful music, engagement, and action.

Thursday June 20 8pm to10pm Location: Spontaneous Celebrations
45 Danforth St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

The event on June 20th will feature Climate by composer Erik Ian Walker. Climate explores the physical science underlying climate change, taking us on a musical and a visual journey from the deep past to the year 2250 before returning us to the present in time to consider the future that is still ours to choose. The program will also include an introduction and audience Q&A with climate scientist Dr. Andy Jones.
Learn more about The ClimateMusic Project: https://climatemusic.org/
The event is free, registration at www.tinyurl.com/stcecilia-ecoecho is optional, but encouraged. The event is sponsored by the St. Cecilia Parish Boston Climate Justice Group. For more information, please email [email protected]
Please save the dates for the next Spontaneous Celebrations Events coming up. There will be more to come!!

June 28-Potluck and Breakdancing Training/Practice
July 12- Rock show (18+)
July 19- Potluck and Breakdancing Training/Practice
July 28th- SolFest (get tickets on the website)
August 16- Potluck and Breakdancing Training/practice

06/06/2024

The amazing Evan Greer!! Spontaneous Combustion made its way to the JP Bar Wars!

06/03/2024

This Friday!

05/07/2024

Check out our amazing Trash Bandits sorting out all the trash and compost!!
This is how to be a green festival!
Thank you to Niani for running it this year and to Bill Perkins who has made this happen for all the years!!
Thank you To Boing, Cityfeed and Supply, J.P. Licks, Diversity Consignment, and Papercuts for the gift cards to bribe and reward our sorting team!

05/06/2024

Photos from Charlie Rosenberg!

05/05/2024

Festival photos!!

05/04/2024

The parades begin at 11 am at Curtis Hall and 11:30 at Atherton and Washington.
Come 30 minutes early if you are in a parade!

05/04/2024

05/04/2024

Festival is Happening and filled with amazing people, puppets, music, dance and more!! Excited for tomorrow!

04/30/2024

Greetings to All our Wonderful Festival Fools and Spontaneous Folks,
As you can imagine we are all aflutter getting ready for a huge affair!

The 46th Annual Wake Up the Earth Festival and Parades is just days away...

We NEED all of our VOLUNTEERS to step right IN and Join the Circus!

Are you able and willing to take on a Role? BIG or small.. An Hour here and a puppet holder there, some wrangling of wild sliding children, some carting of trash to the bandits, help checking in the 160 vendors, a few dedicated earth activists to take a shift with the Climate Resilience Project ... Would you be willing and able to help with a shift?

Please email [email protected] with your time, availability and ability.

We need trash bandits in 30 minute shifts from 1-6pm especially at 1pm, 1:30pm, 2:30, 3 and 3:30pm

We need cardboard slide volunteers in 90 minute shifts at 12, 1, 2, 3, and 4

We need Vendor Checkin Support from 8 - 11am

We need Climate Resilience project volunteers - at 2- 4 and 3:30-5:30

(ideally these folks would be willing to come in Friday evening for a quick training with Jovielle)

And of course we always need people Friday (May 3) and Saturday (May 4) to help with a bit of everything!

Here's a preview of things at the festival!!

The 46th Annual Wake Up the Earth Festival is Saturday May 4th, 2024 from 12-6 there will be a Centre Street Parade at 11am from Curtis Hall down Centre to Lamartine street (gather at 10:30am) and An Egleston Square Parade launching at 11:30 from the corner of Atherton Street and Washington Streets

04/29/2024

All sorts of festival info!!
Wake up the Earth Festival Saturday May 4th 12-6 outside the Stonybrook T on the Orange line!

04/26/2024

A big shout out to Simba GC for becoming a new festival sponsor!
It’s too late to get them on the poster so I thought I would post a big public thank you!!

04/22/2024

Tickets on sale! We’re going to be painting pride flags for the parade downstairs and working on any other festival art. Roti and maybe I’ll make a C batch of my famous piña coladas again!

04/20/2024

These kids!! Growing up at Spontaneous!

04/18/2024

Hey lovely festival folks!
Below is an invite to help us make wake up the earth the greenest festival in Boston! By sorting ALL of our trash, requiring compostable products be used, and powering our stages with solar, we are there! We need helpers. Below is a picture of our dumpster from last year! Barely a dent after the largest festival we’ve ever held! Bigger kids welcome to volunteer, must be taller than a folding table!
Come volunteer!

04/17/2024

Posters are in!!

04/14/2024

Stage schedules are here!! The 46th Annual Wake Up the Earth Festival May 4th 2024

04/13/2024

Tickets on sale now! Come dance, make a pride flag for the parade! Eat Roti. Meet new friends. Cash bar. G

04/13/2024

Hey friends and neighbors - come volunteer a shift to help us put on Wake Up The Earth Wake Up the Earth Festival and Parades Saturday May 4th.
Sign up form is below!

We also still need housing for two peace camp volunteers coming in from Italy April 18-May 8th

Thank you for your interest in volunteering to help make Spontaneous Celebrations' 46th annual WAKE UP THE EARTH FESTIVAL happen! Saturday, May 4th, 2024 from 12-6pm in the Southwest Corridor Park near the Stony Brook T station in Boston's Jamaica Plain. Volunteer the day-of the fest or help us get....