After the closure of the Sound Museum and the news that Charlestown Rehearsal Studios would be turned into self-storage, city councilors convened a hearing to discuss the loss of rehearsal space and solutions to keeping artists in Boston.
would be converted into self-storage. Artists were given until June 1 to vacate, but at the meeting, it was noted that the city is in conversation with the developer to guide that process in Charlestown and provide support to the tenants, many of whom were present. Councilors asked many questions of staff and voiced their overall support. Breadon pointed out the inconsistencies in the current development review process.
Duncan Wilder Johnson has lived in the Boston area since 1995. He’s a photographer and videographer as well as a documentary filmmaker, writer and performer. Charlie Honig, a guitarist and singer, previously lived in this informal artist housing on Rugg Road in Allston. He remembers there was a screen printer upstairs, a zine library, and a place where the Boston Circus Guild used to practice trapeze. It's now all been replaced by market-rate apartment buildings.Honig considers himself lucky to be able to find space to make music elsewhere. Others had nowhere else to go. He’s now a tenant at the Charlestown Rehearsal Studios.
Cristina Todesco of the #ARTSTAYSHERE Coalition read out loud some of the names of communities that no longer exist: The Piano Craft Guild in the South End, 55 Avery Street in Jamaica Plain, the EMF building in Cambridge’s Central Square, 125 Brookside in Jamaica Plain, Central Studios in Somerville, the Berwick Building in Roxbury and 119 Braintree St. in Allston. She also made a list of requests to the city.
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