Join Friends of the Public Garden on August 7 from noon – 2 for a Backyard Bash, Carnival Style. Enjoy a live DJ, a performance by Nick Shea, games and prizes, slushies from BPD, treats and more as the Boston Common is turned into a festive carnival experience. This is a free event – no registration required!
Try Something New, like skating on artificial ice, on Saturday October 3rd at the Greenway Conservancy’s second annual fall festival in Dewey Square Parks. Tickle all of your senses at this free all-ages event with a farmers market and cooking demonstrations, local art, a carnival ride, Greenway and Harborwalk tours, treasure hunt, and multi-cultural music. Get your body moving with hula hoops, Nordic pole walking, and a laughter class…where everyone gets an A+. For more information, log on to www.hellogreenway.org.
Not exactly a garden event, but something of interest to our Boston members is the 17th Annual Cambridge Carnival International. This is a colorful and festive celebration rooted in African traditions. The festival attracts over 150,000 people, making it the largest festival in Cambridge, Massachusetts The highlight of this annual Mardi Gras style festival is a grand costume parade accompanied by rich rhythmic musicality promoting all types of cultures. The festival combines food and craft exhibits, costumes, masks, wire-bending, live music, steel pan, street parades and dancing, displaying the history and culture of the Caribbean traditions based on the models of Trinidad, Tobago, and Brazil. For more information log on to www.cambridgecarnival.org. The Children’s Museum will feature “Meet Me at the Table,” and will focus on food and art activities that relate to six different cultures around Boston: Brazilian, Haitian/Caribbean, Puerto Rican and Dominican, Cape Verdean, Chinese and Vietnamese. They will be setting a table with beautiful, artist-made play food, and will encourage festival participants to eat and play together. Activities will include making collage place mats that will then go back to the museum for use at our big end-of-summer party in September.
