Art on the Plaza Past

Join MAAM for outdoor fun this season! Art on the Plaza, our popular warm-weather series for all ages, continues on July 20. Savor the summer during an evening of live music featuring the trailblazing Veronica Robles All-Women Mariachi Band and playful, hands-on activities for all ages. Create a paper lantern to illuminate the night and cool down with a signature mocktail and ice cream novelties. While you’re here, check out our current exhibitions May Stevens: My Mothers and Jace Clayton: They Are Part. In the event of inclement weather, activities will transition inside the museum.

Performer Lineup 

VERONICA ROBLES ALL-WOMEN MARIACHI BAND, 7:00pm

Veronica Robles is a Mariachi singer, musician, and Latin American folkloric dancer and choreographer by trade and has become a cultural icon for the Latinx community in Boston. She has effectively utilized the power of arts and culture to bring communities together–Robles raises awareness about the importance of diversity and empowers youth by employing them and teaching them about their roots and cultures.

In 2018, Veronica was awarded the Live Arts Boston grant to support her project, Veronica Robles All-Women Mariachi Band. The mission of this group is to deliver a message of peace and unity in all their public performances. In 2019, Veronica Robles released a new music album entitled, Cuando Sale La Luna, recorded with her all-women mariachi band and produced by Willy Lopez.

Robles is Co-founder and Director of the Veronica Robles Cultural Center that supports community action and economic growth in East Boston and offers Latin American arts and culture programming and provides jobs for youth. Recently she was honored with the national 2021 Changemakers Award presented by the Institute of Non-Profit Practice. In November 2019 Ms. Robles received the Ohtli Award. This Award is one of the highest and very limited distinctions given by the Government of Mexico. In 2022 she was selected as one of the top 10 most influential Latinos in the USA by the national television network Univision in the category of “Visionaries”. 

Veronica Robles is a woman of courage and principles; as a cancer survivor she lives her life to the fullest, filled with joy, passion, and love. Her work honors the memory of her only daughter who passed away as a teenager.

FREE!

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