What’s The Point?
The History of Columbia Point
Revealed Through Public Art
The Urban Scholars are a group of Boston Public High School students enrolled in U-Mass Boston’s after school college preparatory program. In ...
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Continuing the Millennium Trail
The Millennium Trail was a 1990s failed federal program to create historic trails through US cities and towns, including in Roxbury where only one plaque was installed.
Teaching Artist Neil Horsky ...
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Miscellaneous Writings
"Qigong" for An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping, Thick Press
In Taoist philosophy, “Qi” (pronounced chee) is the life-force energy that flows within and without all things. Qi animates and gives ...
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People’s Tours
People’s Tours is a group of artists, researchers, and journalists who create guided tours and publications about the People’s History of Boston.
Our inaugural tour, titled The Social History of ...
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Mapping Exclusion
In the summer of 2012 Urbano teen artists and staff partnered with lead artist Neil Horsky and two local social justice organizations: the Design Studio for Social Intervention and City Life/Vida ...
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The Freedom Trail on Trial
Urbano is a non-profit organization in Jamaica Plain that empowers urban teens, professional artists, and the community to create social change by facilitating artist-led projects surrounding annual ...
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Free Custom Tour Maps
Figment Boston is an annual free interactive art festival on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Downtown Boston. Included in the 2012 festival literature was the following invitation to participate in my ...
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Baseball Cycling
The first public performance of Baseball Cycling occurred in June 2011 as part of the Common Boston festival. The call for participation was as follows.
Come participate in an experimental urban ...
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Modka Voxie
Improv jams from the Rozzie Basement, circa 2010-15
Listen here: https://modkavoxie.bandcamp.com ...
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Bicycle Powered Shadow Puppet Theatre
Neil Horsky’s installation on Boston Common engages First Night participants in a collaborative performance that is both whimsical and nostalgic. One participant rides an exercise bicycle ...
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