Sunday, August 24 · 2 - 9pm EDT - Warehouse XI - Boston Event Space, 11 Sanborn Court Somerville, MA

Dream A Better World Fest

By Melissa Nilles, LMHC

Dream A Better World Fest is a response to the current times w/ musicians, artists, activists, and organizations sharing ideas and music.

Dream A Better World Fest is Sunday, August 24th at Warehouse XI from 2-9 PM in Somerville. The event will feature 7 live music sets as well as speeches from Boston musicians, activists and organizations engaged in community activism or wellness, poets, and visual artists who have created art, fashion, or other materials that respond to these times. This festival is centered around the idea that we need to respond to the current times not just as a knee jerk reaction to the current administration but by actually brainstorming and sharing ideas and visualizing how we could create a better world (ie supporting immigrants through their transition to the US, protecting LGBTQ+, POC, and minority communities, combating isolationist-motivated ignorance through exposure to diverse communities, increasing mental wellness, increasing individual sense of purpose, taxing the rich and decreasing poverty, revamping our healthcare system, creating sick days for musicians or gig workers, overcoming authoritarianism patterns and indoctrination, addressing gentrification and how it affects lower-income/creative communities, creating community, ending endless wars, decreasing imperialism abroad, etc!)

Speakers/presenters include:

Mass Peace Action, Fight For The Future, Art Stays Here, Willie for Somerville, Meredith Blankenship (arts), Victor Infante (poetry), Somerville for Palestine, and the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center.

Multi-genre music lineup:

Evan Greer, Ruby Grove, Lonely Leesa and the Lost Cowboys, Why Try, Chris Walton, Linnea’s Garden, and Songs of Liberation (a music group focused on songs from or advocating for Palestine)

Speeches will be focused on sharing ideas and inspiring the interdisciplinary audience, and will be focused on something the speaker is distinctly passionate about, or on a few good ideas they'd like to share with the interdisciplinary audience that might inspire someone to do something better for the world or to collaborate with others.

MORE EVENT DETAILS/OFFICIAL EVENT PAGE: Dream A Better World Fest — Ruby Grove

Tickets: Dream A Better World Fest Tickets, Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM | Eventbrite

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