Supporting the local economy is central to Red Sun’s mission to the community. We’ll help with business cards, promotional materials, signs, and personal service.
It can be hard to get people to notice your message these days. Say it with a big, eye-catching banner or sign.
Standing Together with You
As a designer, progressive, and former JP community member, it’s been my pleasure to work with Red Sun for the last decade. Their consistency in service and quality, coupled with their strong roots in solidarity of worker and human rights has kept Equal Exchange a satisfied customer for many years.
Greta Merrick
Graphic Designer and worker-owner, Equal Exchange
Our job is to help people make green energy choices, and Red Sun Press has always been there for us on print materials. They treat us like people, and take care with the work that I don’t find at big printing companies, for a comparable (if not better) price. We feel good that they are worker-owned and environmentally friendly, and are proud to call them friends.
Erin Taylor
Green Energy Consumers Alliance
Red Sun Press is an amazing partner in all of JVP Boston’s organizing — always ready to jump in to create beautiful graphics, posters, banners, and leaflets as we stand together in the fight for justice. Their work is powerful, prompt and always perfect! We can’t imagine doing what we do without Red Sun.
Donations being accepted for humanitarian assistance to Gaza and the Palestinian West Bank. Receive a copy of Palestinian cookbook, “Zaaki, Tasty Palestinian Recipes from our Kitchen in the Aida Refugee Camp”. The booklet was produced by the NOOR Women’s Empowerment Group of the Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine and details the authentic preparation of dozens of wonderful Palestinian recipes along with narratives by the people who created them.
The current print edition of the booklet was created from a hard-copy original supplied by NOOR. The original quality has been maintained as well as possible, but some wear is visible. Lovely and legible nonetheless!
To order, please send your name and email or snail mail address and number of copies requested to cookingforgaza@gmail.com. Please venmo payment to @CookingforGaza. A minimum $25 donation is asked for each copy (+ $3 for shipping if seeking print copy). Proceeds to go to UNRWA-USA, or similar organization providing humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Thank you for your help. LET GAZA LIVE! FREE PALESTINE! CEASEFIRE NOW!
Red Sun Press has artist studios and maker spaces available in our JP commercial building. All spaces are currently occupied, but please check back in this space for updates or new availability
Red Sun Press now has artist studios for rent as well as and rental spaces for people to pursue small-scale trades or other businesses in our commercial building, right here in the heart of JP.
Throughout our 45 year history, we at Red Sun have always maintained a commitment to our local Boston community. And we are delighted that a good portion of that community is comprised of artists, musicians, makers of all kinds, and others in small-scale trades and businesses. Join our (informal) community of printers and makers at Red Sun.
Suitable for a variety of artist, maker, or office needs, ranging from finished offices to rougher work space.
Sizes are 200-275 square ft.
Large windows, high ceilings, and ample wall space.
One space has a large utility sink.
Shared kitchen and meeting space.
Jamaica Plain location near Green Street T
24-hr. access (Not for live-in studios or residential uses however)
These spaces are on a second floor with a large access stairway but no elevator
You can drop in from 8am to noon most days to see the spaces. Come visit us during Jamaica Plain Open Studios on Sept. 23, 24! We will be happy to show the spaces then!
*Bonus: Service available for your printing needs in Red Sun’s shop downstairs: Art prints, posters, postcards, flyers, books and booklets!
April is a busy month for local youth-focused nonprofit Hyde Square Task Force, which in addition to the arts has also led community organizing work over the years: from supporting neighborhood small businesses against big-box prospectors like Kmart, to defending bilingual education as part of the Coalition to Educate Mobilize & Vote, to youth participatory research on MBTA police harassment/racial profiling, to the recent campaign for Jackson Sq. Recreation Center funding from TD Garden. Their annual dance-a-thon fundraiser, Bailemos, is this weekend at their Youth Community Development Center at 30 Sunnyside St.
When this Jamaica Plain nonprofit needs to promote their wide array of arts and cultural events in Jamaica Plain’s Latin Quarter, they turn to Red Sun Press for banners, posters, flyers, postcards, and more. Longtime neighbors will remember HSTF spearheading the “JP World’s Fair” in the 1990s-2000s, and current residents enjoy HSTF-sponsored programming such as outdoor musical performances at Blessed Sacrament and plays at Mozart Park. The Latin Quarter Cultural District in Hyde/Jackson Square, which recognizes the historic contributions and current importance of Boston’s Afro-Latin community, originated from a campaign led by HSTF youth in response to anti-Latino racism in the 2016 election.
Promotional poster for “QueSeYoQuanto'” a play performed by Hyde Square Task Force youth as part of ArtWeek 2019
“QuéSéYoCuánto”, a community theatre performance April 25-27 by HSTF youth is featured as an official event of ArtWeek 2019. ArtWeek is an innovative annual festival that includes hundreds of unique and creative experiences that are hands-on, interactive or offer behind-the-scenes access to artists or the creative process.
In their own words:
When HSTF was founded in the late 1980s, a coalition of neighbors and community leaders felt a sense of urgency to address the violence and economic and social challenges facing the Hyde/Jackson Square neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. Today the neighborhood is known as Boston’s Latin Quarter, and while in some ways our community has transformed, many challenges persist. Our work is guided by our mission: to amplify the power, creativity, and voices of youth, connecting them to Afro-Latin culture and heritage so they can create a diverse, vibrant Latin Quarter and build a just, equitable Boston. HSTF now engages over 800 youth ages 6–25 in college and career preparation, Afro-Latin arts and cultural enrichment, and community-building initiatives. In doing so, we ensure that youth have the arts and educational opportunities they need and deserve in order to be successful, and that their voices and cultures are valued and celebrated in Boston’s Latin Quarter and beyond.
Promotional posters for “Dawnland” are intended to make visible the history and presence of Indigenous people in the many spaces where they exist, including in what are now urban settings.
“Dawnland” exposes practice of child removal and its effect on Native identity
Red Sun Press’s customers include people and organizations doing groundbreaking work. Jamaica Plain journalist, filmmaker, and producer Adam Mazo directs The Upstander Project, whose mission is to “help bystanders become upstanders,” especially among teachers and their students. Through original documentary films, related learning resources, and educator workshops, they challenge indifference to injustice and raise awareness of the need for “upstanders” who stand up, speak out, and take action to prevent/stop harm and transform situations where individuals or groups are mistreated.
Mazo co-directed/produced the award-winning 2018 film Dawnland, which was broadcast on PBS Independent Lens and has been screened at dozens of film festivals in the U.S. and internationally. This documentary exposes the history and ongoing impact of Indigenous child removal in the United States and the legacy of devastating emotional and physical harm experienced by many children who were mistreated by adults who tried to erase their cultural identity. It follows a historic investigation, as members of the first government-sanctioned truth and reconciliation commission (TRC) in the United States gather testimony and bear witness to the devastating impact of the State of Maine’s child welfare practices on families in Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribal communities (collectively, the Wabanaki people).
Red Sun Press continues to live out our founding vision of the printing press as a tool for social and economic justice by working with customers in the labor movement, like UNITE HERE. UNITE HERE members work in a wide range of industries including the hotel, gaming, food service, manufacturing, textile, distribution, laundry, transportation, and airport industries. Last year, 8,000 UNITE HERE members nationwide went on strike against Marriott Hotels under the the rallying cry, “One Job Should Be Enough.”
The Boston and RI UNITE HERE affiliate, Local 26, was on strike for 46 days in the fall of 2018 – the longest and largest hotel worker strike in Boston’s history. Rank-and-file workers and organizers were joined on the picket line by community supporters, day in and day out as the seasons turned.
Many of the bright, bold picket signs that carried the workers’ message to the public were printed by Red Sun Press. Our staff – in their free time – were among those marching in solidarity with strikers. Finally, in Boston a victory was announced on November 27, 2018 with the signing of “the most economically progressive contract in Local 26 history.” When the nationwide strike ended successfully, with the union securing higher wages, better safety and pensions for thousands of workers, Red Sun printed the above card that UNITE HERE sent as a thank you to the people and organizations that helped in the effort.
