Daily Archives: August 19, 2012

Friday, August 31 – Sunday, September 30 – Echoes of the Olmsted Elm: Works from RISD’s 2011 Witness Tree Project

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The Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design’s Witness Tree Project and the Friends of Fairsted, is pleased to present an exhibit of artworks produced from the wood of the historic Olmsted Elm that graced the landscape at 99 Warren Street, Brookline, Massachusetts until March 2011, when it succumbed to old age, a serious fungal infection, and exposure in recent years to Dutch elm disease. Echoes of the Olmsted Elm: Works from RISD’s 2011 Witness Tree Project will take place in the rehabilitated barn at Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline from Friday, August 31 through Sunday, September 30. The exhibit will be open to walk-in visitors on Thursday evenings from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. as well as Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The regular on-site tours taking place Wednesday through Sunday will also make stops at the exhibit. Finally, a special opening reception for the public will be held the evening of September 14. For further information, please call 617-566-1689 or visit, www.nps.gov/frla starting in mid-August.

Real Food Challenge Seeks Office Space

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Nina Mukherji is Director of Programs at Real Food Challenge (www.realfoodchallenge.org), and has contacted us with a request. Currently located in Dorchester, they are looking for any space in the Boston that could be the new home office of Real Food Challenge. Real Food Challenge is a network of college and university students organizing to shift food the food at their schools to fair and sustainable sources, collectively creating a better food economy.

“We have a small core staff and over a dozen organizing fellows around the country. We are growing and moving out of our parent organization, The Food Project, to a new fiscal sponsor, Third Sector New England. As part of the transition, we are looking for a new office space to accommodate 4 full time staff people and up to 5 part-time staff/organizers/interns.”

Requirements are a central location, accessible to folks on Green, Orange, and Red lines (Downtown, Chinatown, Back Bay, Fenway, Longwood, Harvard Square. Parts of JP or Lower Roxbury)
800-1000 square feet
3-4 rooms
One room that is large enough for 6-8 people to meet in
A phone connection
DSL or Cable for wireless
Access to a kitchen space (nice, but not necessary)
Windows
Not too expensive– they’re a small, lean, movement-building machine!

If you have any suggestions, contact Nina at 617-997-8440, or email her at mukherjin@gmail.com.