June 13th — Being Seen: Celebrating Pride in the SouthCoast
June 13 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
All are welcome to this free event!
When: June 13, 2025 from 6:00PM – 8:00PM
Speaking portion at 6:45pm
Event will conclude with a walking public art tour
Where: Gallery X on Williams Street, New Bedford, MA
6:00 – 8:00PM
Exhibition: Being Seen: Celebrating Pride in the SouthCoast
Being Seen is a community tapestry created by over 100 SouthCoast MA residents from Fall River to Wareham. Over an 18-month+ period, this project will tour 4 municipalities by its close in November 2026. The accompanying indoor exhibition will provide deeper significance to the public art component while also connecting our region with this important movement by including a focus on the legacy of local figures such as David B. Boyce (1949-2014), who was portrayed in the important, renowned sculpture by artist George Segal, “The Gay Liberation Monument.” Additional local figures will include local residents directly involved with advocating for Massachusetts’s Marriage Equality Act that paved the way for rest of the nation.
6:45PM
Welcoming remarks. Poetry. Artist talk. More Celebrations.
Welcoming remarks will take place at 6:45 including a reading by New Bedford’s Poet Laureate, Sarah Jane Mulvey an tradition. Mulvey has invited a fellow queer poet as her guest on the stage this night to also perform a piece in honor of the public art festivities. Following introductions, the “Being Seen” Visiting Creative Director, Liz Collins (NYC) will provide an artist talk offering insight about her experiences using arts as an activist platform to elevate the queer community.
7:30PM
Public Art Walk
Guests may partake in a Director’s Tour of the public art component of Being Seen. The tour will start at Gallery X and lead to City Hall, a main focal point for the artwork. Guests are invited to join in a Director’s Tour of the public art component of “Being Seen.” The tour will start at Gallery X and lead to City Hall, a main focal point for the artwork. The group is invited to continue down to DATMA’s second public artwork, “Moodvironment,” a color changing light sculpture by Mona Ghandi, where the award-winning artwork will be viewed for the first time.
The tour will conclude at the Mood-Vironment Exhibition Site outside New Bedford Tattoo & Cork
