The town's fifth annual Pride Festival was hosted at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts on Saturday.
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Hopkinton Pride Festival at HCA June 21
The Hopkinton Center for the Arts, Hopkinton Freedom Team, Hopkinton Youth & Family Services, Hopkinton Parks & Recreation and many more organizations across MetroWest will host the fifth annual Pride Festival on Saturday, June 21, from 1-4 p.m., starting and...
Bystander Intervention Training May 10
The Hopkinton Freedom Team is hosting a free bystander intervention training session on Saturday, May 10, from 10 a.m- 3 p.m., at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts. The workshop will be led by facilitators from True Story Training. It will feature a performance from...
Freedom Team hosts Pride Parade at HCA June 8
The Hopkinton Freedom Team will host its fourth annual Pride Parade on Saturday, June 8, from 1-4 p.m., starting and ending at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts. The parade will run from 1-2 p.m., and then there will be food trucks, performances and crafts at the HCA...
Reading Frederick Douglass Together at Town Common May 18
The Hopkinton Historical Society, together with the Hopkinton Freedom Team, will present Reading Frederick Douglass Together on the Hopkinton Town Common on Saturday, May 18, from 1-4 p.m. A gifted orator and prescient writer, Douglass forces Americans to reckon with...
‘Call for a Just World’ at HCA April 26
The Hopkinton Freedom Team and the Hopkinton Center for the Arts will host an open mic event called “A Call for a Just World Through Poetry and Music” on Friday, April 26, from 7-9 p.m. The guest poet is jamele adams, the director of diversity, equity and inclusion...
Tate takes on marathon challenge for Freedom Team
Hopkinton’s Christin Tate will be running her first Boston Marathon this year to benefit the Hopkinton Freedom Team. Tate has always been athletic. She ran track and played soccer in high school and then at Gordon College. In her 20s, while working in California, she...
Freedom Team Community Book Discussion at Library March 21
The Hopkinton Freedom Team and the Hopkinton Public Library will host a community book discussion on Thursday, March 21, at 6:30 p.m. in the library’s lower-level classroom. The book is “Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice” by Kenji...
Independent Thoughts: Freedom Team hosts ‘Difficult Conversations’; Tom McIntyre Turkey Bowl seeks teams
The Hopkinton Freedom Team Collaborative Group is hosting an event titled “How to Have Difficult Conversations” on Monday, Nov. 6, at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts. The event is led by jamele adams, who is the original Freedom Team founder and the originator of...
Expanded Pride Parade event set for June 11
Three years ago, Hopkinton High School alumnus Freya Proudman and then-high school student Madison Loos started the first Pride Parade in Hopkinton. Proudman planned the event while in the United Kingdom attending college. “It was a dream of hers that she wanted to...
Freedom Team hosts Pride Parade at HCA June 11
The Hopkinton Freedom Team, in partnership with Hopkinton Youth & Family Services and the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, will host the town’s third annual Pride Parade and Celebration on Sunday, June 11, from 1-4 p.m. The event kicks off with a short parade at 1...
Active Bystander Training Jan. 15
A free public workshop focused on Active Bystander Training will be held Sunday, Jan. 15, from 3:30-5:30 p.m. via Zoom. The workshop, sponsored by the Hopkinton Freedom Team and Hopkinton Youth & Family Services, with support from Middlesex Savings Bank, is...
Freedom Team hosts LGBTQ+ Pride Parade June 19
The second annual LGBTQ+ Pride Parade, sponsored by the Hopkinton Freedom Team and in collaboration with Hopkinton Youth & Family Services and the Hopkinton Youth Commission, is scheduled for Sunday, June 19, from 2-5:30 p.m. Participants will parade one lap of...
Freedom Team Active Bystander Workshop Nov. 4
The Hopkinton Freedom Team will host an Active Bystander Workshop for high schoolers and adults on Thursday, Nov. 4, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. This free community workshop is presented by True Story Theater (truestorytheater.com) on Zoom. New and returning participants are...
‘Love Letter’ film welcomes back marathoners to Hopkinton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJS2COFUHU0 In anticipation of Boston Marathon participants’ return to Hopkinton for the first time since April 2019, local filmmakers have produced a short film welcoming them back and sending a positive message to those connected with...
Town turns out for inaugural Pride Parade
A colorful crowd gathered Saturday afternoon at the Hopkinton High School outdoor track and took a short walk as part of a much longer journey — one...
Freedom Team LGBTQIA+ Pride Parade June 26
The Hopkinton Freedom Team, in collaboration with the Hopkinton Youth Commission, will host Hopkinton’s first LGBTQIA+ Pride Parade on Saturday, June 26, from 2-3 p.m. at the Hopkinton High School outdoor track. The parade will consist of three laps around the track....
Freedom Team’s bystander training seeks to help defuse issues
Freya Proudman is a Hopkinton High School alumna who moved to the United States as a child. Yet until she attended a recent training as a member of the Hopkinton Freedom Team, she said she hadn’t felt a true sense of belonging in the town. “I come from a cultural...
Video project seeks to welcome back marathoners with love
For the second straight year, Patriots’ Day will pass without throngs of runners lining up at the start line in Hopkinton and beginning the iconic 26.2 mile trek to Copley Square. But the Boston Marathon will return. If all goes well, it will be held this October. And...
Freedom Team provides support, encouragement
The Hopkinton Freedom Team provides a safe place for those who have experienced abuse or violence based on characteristics like race, gender and sexual orientation, and seeks to educate the community on issues of bias. Formed this past June, the organization urges...
