FIRE!!: A Celebration of Radical Black Expression
Friday, November 6, 2026 | 7PM | Pickman Hall @ Longy School of Music (27 Garden St. Cambridge, MA)

Inspired by the revolutionary spirit of the 1926 literary magazine Fire!!, this event is part performance, part conversation, and part artist salon, bringing musicians, writers, thinkers, and audiences into dialogue. Drawing from a lineage of Black artists who have challenged convention and expanded the boundaries of form, FIRE!! creates space for experimentation, collaboration, and the exchange of ideas, celebrating artists who embrace creative risk and imagine new possibilities for Black expression.

More than a performance, FIRE!! invites audiences to step inside the conversation, where creativity becomes a catalyst for connection, curiosity, and new ways of imagining Black expression.

Accessibility: Pickman Hall is wheelchair-accessible. The wheelchair entrance is located in the back of the building, along with limited parking.

Public Transit: Longy's Pickman Hall is located just north of Harvard Square, past the Cambridge Common and across the street from the Sheraton Commander Hotel.

Walk (10 minutes) from Harvard Square T stop (Church Street exit)
Walk (20 minutes) from Porter Square T stop and commuter rail (Fitchburg line)
Take the #75 bus, which stops right out front

Parking: Due to space restrictions within city limits, Longy can only offer on-site parking for staff and faculty members.

There are two hour metered parking spots available on Massachusetts Avenue, alongside the Cambridge Common park and in Harvard square.

The following parking garages are located close to the Longy campus:

University Place Garage (45 University Rd.) $24/day
Charles Hotel Parking (1 Bennett St.) $25/day
Harvard Square Parking Garage (20 Eliot St.) $23/day
Church Street Lot (41 Church St.) $34/day
Alewife T Station (11 Cambridgepark West) $7/day

Reasonable Accommodations Requests: Castle of our Skins does not discriminate on the basis of disability, and is committed to providing accessible programs and events to facilitate participation. A guest or outside organization must notify Castle of our Skins of any request for an accommodation in advance of the event (ideally 2-3 weeks beforehand). Late accommodation requests, or requests made the day of the event, may not be possible to provide.

Please send requests to info@castleskins.org.