After Dark is a monthly after-hours event created by the MIT Museum. Attendees will enjoy a variety of hands-on making demonstrations, conversation, and interactive play accompanied by live music and a pop-up cash bar featuring artisan lite bites by culinary specialists from around the city.

As part of the Artfinity festival, the March edition of After Dark celebrates the artistic and cultural community at the Institute and is free and open to adult members of the public (18+). No registration necessary; admission is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Come explore, create, and connect; whether you’re an artist, a tech enthusiast, or simply curious, there’s something here for you.

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Don’t miss this expanded celebration of art in all its forms, including activities available in the MIT Museum throughout the evening:

• The galleries are open, including two exhibitions of work by MIT faculty: Rania Ghosn's Cosmograph and Azra Akšamija's Translations‍
• Live DJ sets
• Food and drink available for purchase
• Engage in an interactive Indigenous beading workshop, learning the artistry and meaning behind this cultural craft
• Challenge traditional ideas of solo artistry by embracing play and co-creating new forms alongside artist and MIT graduate student Coco Allred
• Take a break from your over-optimized day-to-day and join professor Sara Brown for fun and inefficient arts and crafts

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Additional Artfinity events happening on campus

After Dark attendees are invited to expand their evening and engage with additional Artifinity events taking place at nearby locations on campus including:

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MIT Media Lab

• Observe MIT’s active mission to the Moon from Mission Control, a custom designed and built structure inspired by the basalt-rich terrain of the lunar surface
• Boston premiere of MAICE composed by professor Tod Machover for marimba, electronics, and a new live AI system created at the Media Lab by PhD student Manaswi Mishra
• Discover the magic of new music technology that perfects acoustics with live demonstrations by creator Ana Schon and her band The Reunion

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Open Spaces

• View a screening of Intervention: Cochinilla, a project that builds community through acts of care, love, and joy
• Get immersed in traditional rhythms and cultural knowledge at a drum circle led by Indigenous musicians

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Wiesner Building E15 // List Visual Arts Center

• Encounter List Projects 31: Kite, an exhibition where dreams become ancestral technology in Kite's multifaceted works, translating visions into a geometric visual language rooted in Lakȟóta traditions

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Wiesner Building E15 // Art, Culture and Technology Gallery and Cube

• Examine the complex history of the United Fruit Company, a global banana exporter with deep ties to Greater Boston and MIT, via original artworks displayed alongside archival objects, photographs, documents, and ephemera exhibited in Golden Cargo: Conquest of the Tropics

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MIT Welcome Center

• Contribute to a collaborative art installation featuring Wide Tim
• Connect with artists and creatives from Cambridge and MIT at an informal speed networking session

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Exterior of the MIT Dome

• Reflect on the resilience and aspirations of those who have shaped, and been shaped by, the MIT experience through professor Behnaz Farahi's Gaze to the Stars