Things to do around Boston this week, 6/17-6/23
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Boston celebrates Juneteenth this Wednesday with parades, marches and free museum programming.
- Here are some of the best events of the week.
Monday 6/17
🧘🏾♀️ Find free yoga and high-intensity workouts on the greenway, 5:30pm-7pm.
📖 Author Puloma Ghosh discusses her debut collection of short stories, "Mouth," at Harvard Book Store, 7pm.
Tuesday 6/18
📚 The BPL's South End branch hosts a summer pop-up with free books, drag queen story hour and guests from nonprofit More Than Words, 10am-2pm.
Wednesday 6/19
🎟 Admission to the MFA, the Gardner Museum and the ICA are free for Juneteenth.
The 14th annual Juneteenth Emancipation Observance kicks off with a flag raising at 12:30pm at the Dillaway-Thomas House in Eliot Square, 12:30pm.
- Followed by a parade from Eliot Square to the National Center for Afro-American Artist Museum in Roxbury at 2pm and observance at 4pm on the museum grounds.
Thursday 6/20
🥲 Lana Del Rey comes to Fenway Park.
- Tickets are hard to come by and are reselling online for around $200-$700.
👨🎤 While Lana's at Fenway, The Who's Roger Daltrey will be at Leader Bank Pavilion in the Seaport.
📖 East End Books Boston in the Seaport hosts "Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life," a talk between authors Michael Nott and Robert Pinsky, 6pm.
Friday 6/21
🐡 '90s nostalgia cannot be stopped as Hootie and the Blowfish come to Fenway Park.
- Tix are a bit less than what Lana is getting: around $50 - $200.
Saturday 6/22
🌈 Lamplighter Broadway in Cambridge hosts its first Drag Story Hour, 11am-12pm.
- A dollar from every pour of their Pride beer, Ms. Frizzle, and Pride lemonade benefits BAGLY.
- Find more Boston-area Pride Month events in our roundup.
🍕 The Boston Pizza Festival returns to City Hall, 11am-6pm.
- Free admission, but pizza tokens are $3 a piece.
- Unsure where to start? Here's our ultimate pizza guide.
Sunday 6/23
🛍 The SOWA Open Market and the accompanying Vintage Market are open for business in the South End every Sunday until October 11am - 4pm.