Free Sample Treatments at Hyde Park Open Streets
We’ll be offering FREE sample acupuncture treatment outdoors. For more information on the event please visit https://www.boston.gov/calendar/open-streets-boston-hyde-park
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Volunteer opportunity Sunday, August 10 at Open Streets
Spread the word about the awesomeness of community acupuncture and meet your neighbors by volunteering with Boston Acupuncture Project (BAP) at Open Streets – Hyde Park.
What will volunteers do?
- help Ren set up the tent and table
- greet people and talk about acupuncture at BAP
- offer consent forms for a free treatment
- keep track of a waiting list, if needed
- show people how to sign up for visits on our website
- help Ren clean up at the end of the event
Who can volunteer?
Anyone who is a current or former participant in community acupuncture at BAP is welcome to volunteer! All volunteers get a voucher for a free return treatment on another day.
Where? When?
Exact location TBA – outside Boston Acupuncture Project, on Sunday, August 10, 2025 from 10:00 AM-3:30 PM.
Helping for one hour is great, you don’t need to stay the entire time.
How do I sign up?
Email, text, call, or talk to Ren!
Acupuncture at Juneteenth Joy
SO MUCH is happening at Hyde Park’s Juneteenth Joy celebration! BAP continues our tradition of providing acupuncture to attendees at no cost. Join us from 10:00 AM-2:30 PM for a treatment. (Hey, those are almost normal clinic hours!) The event will be at the Martini Shell Park unless it rains. Please be sure to register for Juneteenth Joy to stay updated on any schedule or venue changes!
We’re also looking for Boston Acupuncture Project volunteers. We need you to help sign people up for free acupuncture treatments! Please text or email Ren if you’re interested in helping with BAP’s activities at Juneteenth Joy.
Spring Celebration 2025
Join us for an open house with free healing and wellness offerings including:
- community acupuncture from Boston Acupuncture Project (11 AM-2 PM)
- ear seeds from Dr. Angela Jamal (12:30-2:00 PM)
- sound healing from Mindful Mavens
- chair massage from Imani Massage (11 AM-12 PM)
You can REALLY give us something to celebrate by helping us reach our fundraising goal: $10,000 by May 31. Click here to learn more about Boston Acupuncture Project’s Spring Fundraiser for 2025.
Your contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Boston Acupuncture Project is a 501c3 non-profit organization. Our mission is to provide affordable and accessible acupuncture in a group setting, Chinese herbal medicine, and other forms of holistic healthcare. By offering relief from pain, stress, and isolation, we aim to contribute to the well-being of individual people, and the strength of our community as a whole.
Your donations support our general operating expenses and community programs.
BAP visits Ashmont Friday Market
From the Greater Ashmont Main Street website: “Since [2008] the Market has become a beloved Dorchester Institution each Friday in Peabody Square!
- When? Opening day will be July 12, 2024 and the market will run every Friday afternoon from 2 to 6 PM until the October 25, 2024.
- Where? on Droser Plaza, outside Ashmont MBTA station at 1900 Dorchester Ave.
- What forms of payment do you accept? Market vendors accept cash, credit/debit cards, Farmer’s Market Coupons, SNAP/EBT, HIP, and EBT . Some vendors also accept WIC and SFMNP coupons.”
BAP visits this particular Market to offer free sample acupuncutre. Do you live near Ashmont station? Interested in chatting with your neighbors and helping sign people up for free treatments? Get in touch with Ren about volunteering!
Decolonizing Healing Event from Stinging Nettles Brujxs Healing Collective
(We are not organizing this event, just uplifting – and attending!)
From the Stinging Nettles Brujxs Healing Collective‘s Facebook Event:
“Join us for our annual decolonizing healing, offering. Engage in various workshops and offerings including yoga, food demo, henna, plant medicine, and more.”
BAP will be there from 2:00-3:00 PM providing free sample acupuncture treatments.
JP Health & Wellness Fair – rescheduled
All are welcome to this wellness fair! Come check out samples of the various practioners, instructors and therapists’ work! There will be live demonstrations, educational information, food and wares (so bring money)!
Boston Acupuncture Project will offer free acupuncture – no one turned away for lack of funds – and welcoming donations to the North American Indian Center of Boston.
We’re looking for local, JP volunteers to help sign folks up for free treatments. Interested in chatting with your neighbors and helping spread the word about our effective, affordable acupuncture services? Get in touch with Ren about volunteering.
Co-sponsored by the Boston Wellness Network and JP Centre/South Main Streets.
THIS IS THE NEW DATE: Monday, October 14. Yes, it is Indigenous People’s Day.
Attending? Please RSVP! https://explore.jpcentresouth.com/events/jp-health-wellness-fair
If you are a health & wellness VENDOR who would like to participate, registration has re-opened through October 4! Please sign up by clicking this link.
Volunteer Opportunities in August 2024
Sunday, August 11: Hyde Park Open Streets
If you’re a current or former participant in community acupuncture at BAP, we could use your help! Boston Acupuncture Project offers free sample sessions at Hyde Park Open Streets on Sunday, August 11.
BAP could use help for an hour or two with any of the following.
- Set up tent, bring materials out of the clinic: 8:30-9:30 AM
- Watch all the stuff while Ren takes a break: 9:30-10:00 AM
- Signing people up for free treatments, chat about acupuncture: 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
- Breakdown, put things back inside: 4:30-6:00 PM
Please let us know if you can help by emailing Ren.
NOTE: River Street will be CLOSED on August 11 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM along the event route, 1219 River Street to 1266 River Street.
Saturday, August 17: HELP Founders Day
Boston Acupuncture Project will be tabling at HELP by AMG Founders Day in in Roxbury from 4-7 PM on Saturday, August 17.
Details TBD. Please get in touch if you’d like to help with set up and/or tabling.
BAP at Open Streets Boston – Hyde Park
Free acupuncture! Details TBA. From the main website:
Open Streets Boston events help people experience streets as public spaces where communities thrive. City streets transform into vibrant, pedestrian-friendly boulevards where people can dream, play, and explore.
During these free, family-friendly events, Open Streets Boston will temporarily close major thoroughfares to car traffic. This opens them to people biking, walking, rolling, and connecting with neighbors and local businesses.
Boston Acupuncture Project at Juneteenth Joy Celebration + Dr. Angela Jamal with ear seeds!
Boston Acupuncture Project joins our community to celebrate freedom and joy at this festive event! We’ll be offering free sample acupuncture treatments and highlighting some of the Black history of acupuncture in the Americas.
Dr. Angela Jamal of Anami Wellness joins us to provide FREE auriculotherapy (ear seed) treatments! Dr. Jamal says:
I have been an educator and consultant of Holistic Health for over 25 years. As a doctor of acupuncture (Chinese medicine), I chose to specialize in AURICULOTHERAPY or what is also known as Ear acupressure using EARSEEDS in place of acupuncture needles. My goal is to provide holistic health education and treatments that may help not only relieve your pain and discomfort, but prevent dis-ease using and applying the fundamental healing principles of your body.
Main event begins at 10:00 AM! Sample acupuncture treatments available 11:00 AM-2:30 PM. Click the image below to register and get more information! Or visit https://westfhcommunity.org/juneteenth/
