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

  • 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

  • Revolutions Per Minute

  • Rhode Island School of Design

  • School at the Museum of Fine Arts

  • Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard

  • Spectacle

  • Studio Soto

  • swissnex Boston

  • Together Festival

  • UMass Dartmouth

  • Village Vinyl & HI-FI

  • Washington Street Arts

  • WHRB

  • WZBC

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

Non-Event's programming has been made possible with the support of the Tanne Foundation, the Boston Cultural Council & the Brookline Commission for the Artst, both agencies of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, New Music USA’s New Music Organizational Development Fund, and the Oedipus Foundation.

Contact Us

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

Non-Event
25 Custer Street #1
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

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Staff/Volunteers

Susanna Bolle
Executive & Artistic Director

Matthew Azevedo
Recording & Sound Engineer

Rajen Bhatt
Volunteer

Lucas Bickford
Recording & Sound Engineer

Alex Berhardt
Volunteer

Jesse Kenas Collins
Media Archivist

Jessica Hernandez
Volunteer

Joseph Lark-Riley
Volunteer

Jerry MacDonald
Recording & Sound Engineer

Michael Rosenstein
Operations Director

Abdul Sherzai
Volunteer

Wenhua Shi
Videographer

Nick Stevens
Videographer & Recording Engineer

Christopher Strunk
Volunteer

Fiona Wood
Volunteer

Board of Directors

Danny Gromfin, President
Susanna Bolle
Rachel Devorah
Michael Rosenstein
Wenhua Shi

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
Kimmie Phan Stattman
Howard Stelzer
Jesse Summers
Gilmore Tamny

Former Board of Directors

Ernst Karel
Salvador Saca
Gilmore Tamny