BeanTown Society | Spontaneous Celebration

On January 6th and 8th, 2009, over two hundred 7th and 8th grade students, youth workers, and teachers participated in two all-day retreats designed to build community, generate empathy, support, self-expression, activism, mentoring relationships, and create peace .




Beantown Society, a youth-led program of Spontaneous Celebrations, located in Jamaica Plain, hosted the events. Beantown Society has been developing this currliculum as well as many other events and campaigns for several years and continues to do inspiring work in the community.

The mission of Beantown Society is to unite youth in Boston across race, class, culture, and neighborhood to end youth violence. We believe in changing youth oppression, neglect, rejection, and depression into youth power.

We work towards our mission by offering a youth- run after school program as well as workshops, projects, and events based on youth interests. We provide a space for youth to express themselves, receive one-on-one support, and become leaders in their community.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Spontaneous
• Celebration
• BeanTown
• Society