Daily Archives: August 24, 2020

Thursday, August 27, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Summer Harvest Dinner at Home

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It’s peak harvest season in Massachusetts and the Boston Community Gardens team wants to bring the taste of summer to you in your homes! We have curated a vegetarian menu featuring some of the best late summer produce. You’ll pick up a bundle of fresh seasonal ingredients from one of three locations (JP, Quincy or Medford) and return home for a Zoom cooking class on August 27 from 6:30 – 8 where we’ll prepare a delicious meal together. You’ll learn recipes you can adapt to whatever produce is in season.

All proceeds directly support Boston Community Gardens. Tickets sales stop at midnight on Wednesday August 26. Trustees members get a 20% discount. For any questions or to become a member, please reach out to mdelima@thetrustees.org. $28 for members, $35 for nonmembers. For more information visit http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/metro-boston/event-57195.html

Wednesday, August 26, 9:00 am – Sunday, August 30, 9:00 pm – Newport Mansions Exclusive Experiences Online Auction

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With the right bid, you can go beyond the ordinary while also supporting The Preservation Society of Newport County! 

Host an elegant dinner for family and friends in the dining room at Rosecliff. Watch the sun set over Newport Harbor from the roof of The Elms while enjoying cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Explore the third floor of The Breakers – not normally accessible to the general public – with a special private tour capped by a glass of wine on the third floor terrace overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. These are just three of the exclusive experiences in this auction.See the website for the full list.  

One item of gardening interest is a Landscape Consultation. The Preservation Society’s Director of Garden & Grounds, Jeffrey Curtis, will visit your home or business and provide advice on the care and maintenance of your existing landscape. Jeff’s decades of experience caring for our historic grounds will allow him to pass along the best practices and advice for your current landscape to make it the garden oasis you always dreamed of!  Available on Aquidneck Island or other nearby locations. We hope all members and supporters will consider bidding on one or more of these items.

Questions Events@newportmansions.org

Through February, 2021 – A Mouse with Ears

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Take the time to see artist Furen Dai’s sculpture A Mouse with Ears on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. The piece will be exhibited through February, 2021. To see the location on a map, visit https://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/amousewithearsandtail

Furen Dai’s practice has focused on the economy of cultural industry and how languages lose function, usage, and history over time. Her years as a professional translator and interest in linguistic studies have guided her artistic practice since 2015. For her artwork based on the Year of the Mouse, Dai researched the evolutionary process of the Chinese character “鼠” (mouse), from the ancient Oracle bone script to the contemporary SimSun font. 

When foreign language characters are placed in a different cultural context, those without knowledge of the language tend to read the character as a series of abstract lines and shapes. This artwork explores the experience of viewing a Chinese character from both a native and foreign perspective, encouraging both Chinese speakers and non-Chinese speakers to see “mouse” when viewing “鼠”.  In this work, the small mouse of the ancient Oracle bone script races around the contemporary SimSun font, which is in turn transformed into a cartoon mouse figure blinking and beckoning us in with its warm, neon glow.