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

  • Mmmmaven Productions

  • 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
1200 Washington Street. #112
Boston, MA 02118

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Staff/Volunteers

Susanna Bolle
Executive & Artistic Director

Matthew Azevedo
Recording & Sound Engineer

Alex Berhardt
Volunteer

Rajen Bhatt
Volunteer

Lucas Bickford
Recording & Sound Engineer

Jesse Kenas Collins
Media Archivist

Xinzhe He
Volunteer

Jessica Hernandez
Volunteer

Joseph Lark-Riley
Volunteer/Lighting

Brett Melican
Videographer

Jerry MacDonald
Recording & Sound Engineer

Abdul Sherzai
Volunteer/Curator

Wenhua Shi
Videographer

Nick Stevens
Videographer & Recording Engineer

Christopher Strunk
Volunteer/Curator

Anda Volley
Volunteer Coordinator

Fiona Wood
Volunteer

Board of Directors

Rachel Devorah, President
Susanna Bolle
Danny Gromfin
Katarina Miljkovic
Andrea Pensado
Wenhua Shi
Doug Urbank

Former Staff/Volunteers

Cole Blouin
Patrick Emm
Rob Forman (founder)
Danny Gromfin
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

Former Board of Directors

Ernst Karel
Michael Rosenstein
Salvador Saca
Gilmore Tamny
Keith Fullerton Whitman