Non-Event is a Boston-based concert series devoted to the presentation of experimental, abstract, improvised, and adventurous music from New England and around the world.

 

Non-Event supports and fosters the experimental music community in Greater Boston. We do this by presenting the work of emerging artists as well as established, but undervalued, musicians in the best possible contexts, and by building enduring connections across disparate artistic scenes and audiences.

History

Founded in 2001, Non-Event has presented over 500 concerts & programs featuring a mix of local, national, and international artists in a wide variety of venues and non-traditional spaces from cafés, record shops, galleries, and loft spaces to parks, lecture halls, museums, night clubs, 19th-century ballrooms, a Victorian-era pumping station, and inside Boston's iconic City Hall.

Non-Event has partnered with numerous organizations and venues across the city over the years, including:

  • ACT at MIT

  • Ágora Cultural Architects

  • AgX film collective

  • Arts@MIT

  • Aviary Gallery

  • Balagan experimental film series

  • Boston Center for the Arts

  • Boston Cyberarts

  • Boston Hassle

  • Brain Arts Org

  • Café Fixe

  • Dissolve

  • DRAW

  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy

  • Film Studies Center at Harvard

  • Goethe-Institut Boston

  • ICA Boston

  • Le Laboratoire Cambridge

  • MassArt

  • Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture (City of Boston)

  • Media Lab at MIT

  • Metropolitan Waterworks Museum

  • MIT List Visual Art Center

  • MIT Spatial Sound Lab

  • Mobius

  • Modern Theatre at Suffolk University

  • New England Conservatory

  • RPM Film Festival

  • Rhode Island School of Design

  • School at the Museum of Fine Arts

  • Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard

  • Spectacle

  • Studio Soto

  • swissnex Boston

  • Together Festival

  • Tufts University Art Galleries

  • UMass Dartmouth

  • Village Vinyl & HI-FI

  • Washington Street Arts

  • WHRB

  • WZBC

Non-Event is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) corporation.

Non-Event is proud to participate in Mass Cultural Council's Card to Culture program in collaboration with the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Department of Public Health's WIC Nutrition Program, the Massachusetts Health Connector, and hundreds of organizations by making cultural programming accessible to those for whom cost is a participation barrier. 

EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cardholders receive free admission to all Non-Event concerts. Please contact susanna@nonevent.org with any questions. See the complete list of participating organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts. 

Non-Event's programming has been made possible with the support of the Boston Cultural Council, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Oedipus Foundation, and the Wagner Foundation.

Contact Us

For booking inquiries or to volunteer, please contact Susanna Bolle.

Non-Event
300 Summer Street, Unit 13
Boston, Massachusetts 02210-1113

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Staff/Volunteers

Susanna Bolle
Executive & Artistic Director

Jack Amadon
Videographer

Matthew Azevedo
Technical Director | Recording & Sound Engineer

Alex Bernhardt
Volunteer

Lucas Bickford
Recording & Sound Engineer

Lee Gilboa
Sound Engineer

Jessica Hernandez
Volunteer

Joseph Lark-Riley
Volunteer/Lighting

Wen Li
Volunteer

Jerry MacDonald
Recording & Sound Engineer

Brett Melican
Videographer

Abdul Sherzai
Volunteer/Curator

Wenhua Shi
Videographer

Nick Stevens
Videographer & Recording Engineer

Christopher Strunk
Volunteer/Curator

Teya Weir
Volunteer

Fiona Wood
Volunteer

Board of Directors

Douglas Urbank, President
Matthew Azevedo
Susanna Bolle
John Brien
Danny Gromfin
Jessica Hernandez
Katarina Miljkovic
Andrea Pensado
Wenhua Shi

Former Staff/Volunteers

Rajen Bhatt
Cole Blouin
Patrick Emm
Rob Forman (founder)
Danny Gromfin
Xinzhe He
Dan Hirsch (founder)
Ernst Karel
Luke Martin
Kevin Micka
Rahul Nair
Benjamin Nelson
Bhob Rainey
José Rivera
Michael Rosenstein
Kimmie Phan Stattman
Howard Stelzer
Jesse Summers
Gilmore Tamny
Anda Volley

Former Board of Directors

Rachel Devorah
Ernst Karel
Michael Rosenstein
Salvador Saca
Gilmore Tamny
Keith Fullerton Whitman