Daily Archives: September 16, 2023

Wednesday, September 27, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Eastern – Rose Discoveries and Innovations, Online

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Join Tom Carruth, Rose Collection Curator at The Huntington and American Horticultural Society’s 2011 Luther Burbank Award winner, for a history of the famed California rose industry. The virtual take will be held on Wednesday, September 27 at 7 pm Eastern. Starting with innovative rose breeding of the 1950s, this talk will illuminate how rose species are improved through several generations of hybridizing. Carruth will share about his discovery of a lost seedling that, when brought into his rose breeding, led to some of the best rose introductions of his career. Together we will trace succeeding generations of offspring, noting their improvements along the way.

Tom Carruth is the Rose Collection Curator at The Huntington, where he showcases over 1,300 rose cultivars. Previous to his work at The Huntington, Carruth served as Director of Research, Licensing & Marketing at Weeks Roses, where introduced over 150 roses and invented over 100 plant patents. His award-winning roses include DICK CLARK, CINCO DE MAYO, STRIKE IT RICH, JULIA CHILD, and many more. Carruth is AHS’s 2011 Luther Burbank Award winner for extraordinary achievement in the field of plant breeding. Register HERE. $10 AHS members, $15 nonmembers.

Saturday, September 30, 11:00 am – 11:30 am or 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm- Momentum Dance Series: Continuum Dance Project (Rain Date October 1)

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Join Continuum Dance Project at Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park on The Greenway for their new piece Becoming Water as they express the story and their connection to this location through movement and dance. Register here.

  • Date: Saturday, September 30
  • Morning Performance:11a-11:30a
  • Afternoon Performance: 3p-3:30p
  • Location: Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park
  • Rain Date: Sunday, October 1

The Momentum Dance Series, presented by Amazon, is a site-responsive dance series presented in collaboration with choreographer Peter DiMuro and four local dance companies: Continuum Dance Project, Jean Appolon Expressions, Public Displays of Motion, and Vimoksha Dance Company. Throughout September, each Saturday features one dance company performing twice per day at their selected locations along The Greenway. This series culminates in the Momentum Dance Festival on October 7. All events are free and open to the public.

In addition, Experience Chinatown, organized by our partner Pao Arts Center, will also be taking place in the same park between Continuum’s shows at 11am and 3pm. Be sure to stick around and enjoy these amazing live performances!

Continuum Dance Project (CDP), led by choreographers/co-directors Adriane Brayton and Fernadina Chan, has created its newest work Becoming Water in the Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park on The Greenway. Focusing on the Boston Chinatown community, the company has utilized imagery from Cynthia Yee’s ‘Hudson Street Chronicles’ to create a work that honors the experiences of the people of Chinatown, while celebrating their resilient spirit. Exploring the element water as thematic inspiration, the work strives to illuminate the authentic voice of the residents displaced by urban renewal and share their adaptability and toughness. ‘Becoming Water’ reflects on the universal themes of Love, Family, Food, Work, Struggle and Community while engaging with the history and geography of Boston’s Chinatown.

This series is made possible by presenting sponsor Amazon, with additional support from the Greenway Business Improvement District (BID), Meet Boston, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Learn more at rosekennedygreenway.org/momentum