It’s the kind of week where the news is good, which around here almost feels like a plot twist.

Mattapan is getting real money for a real flooding problem.

The Museum of Science is hosting three Haitian literary heavyweights in the same room, which is not a sentence you get to write often (mark your calendar, not just your Notes app).

And Talbot Avenue turned into a feathered, sequined parade route with the mayor walking in it.

Let’s not waste any time.

The state just handed the Boston Nature Center project $370,408 to move from talk to actual design work.

This is the Canterbury Brook restoration, the stream that runs from a culvert near Harvard and Morton streets, through state land, under Morton Street, and along American Legion Highway, mostly hidden in a lined channel or underground, before dumping into the Stony Brook drainage system.

If you’ve spent any time near Morton and Canterbury streets during a heavy rain, you already know why this matters.

Residents have been reporting flooding there for years, and the culprits are exactly what you’d guess: clogged culverts, sediment, and trash.

When reporters checked the brook last year, they found it choked with plastic bottles near the Morton Street culvert.

The plan on the table would redirect parts of the brook into a large wetland at the Nature Center, letting it act like a sponge during storms instead of a bottleneck.

That can’t happen until the water quality gets sorted first, which is what this new phase of funding is for.

This isn’t a ribbon-cutting yet.

It’s the boring, necessary middle part where the real decisions get made.

Worth watching if you’re anywhere near American Legion Highway when it rains.

On Friday, Aug. 28 at 7 pm, the Museum of Science’s Blue Wing turns into a room for Haitian writers instead of exhibits.

“Rasin ak Rèv: Roots and Dreams,” put on with the Toussaint Louverture Cultural Center, brings together Jean-Claude Martineau, Koralen, Northeastern’s Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, and Charlot Lucien, founder of the Haitian Artists Assembly of Massachusetts.

The conversation centers on land, memory, and diaspora, including intergenerational memory, environmental change, and magical realism, with an audience discussion and a one-time art display.

The event is free and 18+.

Registration is required.

Koralen in the same room as Jean-Charles and Lucien is not something you stumble into twice.

That’s a Friday night worth planning around.

Get your tickets here.

The Kiddie’s Carnival marched from Codman Square to Blue Hill Avenue on Aug. 22, its fourth year running under BSOCCAH.

Hundreds of kids in mas costumes, a dozen-plus camp groups, and parents everywhere with phones out.

Giovanni Jean led the Haitian SmoovNetwork group down the route.

Mayor Wu walked the whole thing and picked up a BSOCCAH t-shirt for her trouble.

This is the warm-up act ahead of Boston Caribbean Carnival, a preview of the scale of what’s coming.

Your weekly map of what’s worth showing up for.

Museum of Science, Blue Wing, Boston. Koralen, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, and Charlot Lucien talking land, memory, and diaspora. Free, 18+, registration required.

All-levels session for anyone who has ever wanted to move to the music instead of just listening to it.

Tamboo, 252 Main St., Brockton. Tickets already on sale. This one’s worth grabbing now before it’s a text thread of regret later.

That Museum of Science lineup is the kind of thing I wish someone had texted me about years ago instead of finding out after the fact.

Do something with it.

Go, or at least tell your friend or family member about it over dinner tonight.

If you know someone else who’d actually read this instead of scrolling past it, send it their way.

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