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Boston SciFi Film Festival
Somerville, MA · Arts & Culture
- When
- February 6–15, 2027
- Where
- Somerville Theatre · Somerville · MA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
The oldest genre film festival in the country runs ten days at the Somerville Theatre each winter, screening science fiction features, shorts and revival prints. It closes with a 24 hour marathon that has been a Boston tradition since the 1970s. The 2027 edition marks its 52nd year.
The history within reach
- Independent Film Festival Bostonsame spot
An independent film festival founded in 2003 that screens roughly 90 narrative features, documentaries and shorts across historic Boston-area theaters including the Somerville Theatre, Brattle Theatre and Coolidge Corner Theatre.
- HONK! Festival0.1 mi
HONK! brings activist street bands from around the world to Somerville and Cambridge each October, with free concerts in Davis Square and a closing parade to Harvard Square.
The 1,100 seat house opened in May 1914 as a vaudeville stage and movie theatre, designed by the firm of Funk and Wilcox.
British soldiers carried 250 half barrels of colonial gunpowder out of the stone magazine above this rotary on 1 September 1774.
Sylvester Edson opened a slaughterhouse and hotel at this crossroads in 1833, and Zachariah Porter bought it in 1837 and ran it as Porter's Cattle Market Hotel.