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  • Sunday, December 31, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Ice Sculpture Stroll

    Boston Harbor Now’s signature Waterfront Ice Sculpture Stroll is back! Get ready to count down to 2024 with more than 30 ice sculptures hosted by businesses and cultural sites across the waterfront – the largest Stroll EVER!

    Don your winter boots and get strolling during this FREE and fun waterfront excursion. A lineup of 32 unique ice sculptures will be on display from 1:00pm – dusk on December 31, 2023.

    As a nonprofit-led initiative, this celebration is a culmination of ten successful years of free and low-cost waterfront programming for residents and visitors across Boston’s waterfront neighborhoods.

  • Through October, 2024 – Gateway to Infinity (An Anti-monument), 2023

    Stretching 40 feet in diameter, Gateway to Infinity (An Anti-monument) is a large-scale groundwork by Boston-based queer, interdisciplinary artist Maria Molteni. Gateway to Infinity explores site-specific histories and collective rebirth through a design created during 10 months of extensive research by the artist. As with many of Molteni’s vibrant, massive groundworks, Gateway to Infinity features abstract symbols anchored in the land, sea, body, and celestial beings. Centered around a vibrant triple spiral motif –a three-limbed symbol known as a “triskeles/triskelion”– the groundwork may be viewed from an infinite range of angles and orientations, instead of a single, definitive perspective or starting point.

    Located between Christopher Columbus Park and Faneuil Hall, the mural invites audiences to reflect upon and contend with these sites’ legacies, consider non-dominant narratives of place and public memory, and find personal connections with their own histories. By centering moving, living bodies upon a communal platform, rather than atop towering pedestals, Gateway to Infinity creates a colorful, multifaceted labyrinth and space for processing, releasing, and healing.

    Artists assisting on the artwork are Laura Ganci, Nicole Hogarty, and Ali Reid. 

    The mural is accompanied by a walking meditation and collaborative video performance and publication Molteni created with non-binary Italian American collaborators Vin Caponigro, Laura Campagna, and Ash Capachione. The performance and publication are accessible via smartphone. For more information visit www.rosekennedygreenway.org

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  • Thursday & Friday, August 18 & 19, 6:00 pm – 11:00 pm, and Saturday & Sunday, August 20 & 21, 12:00 noon – 11:00 pm – Fisherman’s Feast of the Madonna Del Soccorso di Sciacca

    The Fisherman’s Feast is an annual event that began in Boston in 1910 and is based on a tradition that goes back to the 16th century in Sciacca, Sicily. The Feast is based on the devotion of the fishermen from Sciacca to the Madonna del Soccorso (Our Lady of Help). When the fishermen immigrated to America in the early 1900’s, they brought their traditions with them. Today’s Feast is much the same as it was over 100 years ago with lights adorning the street and the smell of sausage in the air. The current Feast is organized by the descendants of those original immigrants and still includes a procession of the Madonna through the streets of the North End. Events take place on Hanover & Battery Streets, and are free and open to the public. Thursday August 18 begins with the Blessing of the Fishing Waters at Christopher Columbus Park. On Sunday, the Grand Procession begins at 1 pm, and at 8 there is the Flight of the Angel Fleet at Lewis and North Streets. For more information visit www.northendboston.com.

  • Friday, November 6, 6:30 pm – 2015 Friends of Christopher Columbus Park Annual Gala

    The Friends of Christopher Columbus Park (FOCCP) and Honorary Co-Chair Mayor Martin J. Walsh invite you to join them Friday, November 6, 2015, at the Boston Harbor Hotel to support the neighborhood gem, Christopher Columbus Park. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. and features a cocktail reception and buffet, dancing to the Beantown Swing Orchestra and a Silent Auction. Tickets are $150 per person; $2,000 for a corporate table of 10. The Platinum Level corporate sponsors for this year are NorthEndBoston.com and Sanibel Electric. Gold Level sponsors are Boston PushCart, Boston Harbor Cruises, CL Waterfront Properties, Joe’s American Bar & Grill, One Medical Group, Marriott Long Wharf Boston, Sunstone Hotel Investors and Tia’s Restaurant. Go to www.foccp.org or call 781-639-6002 to reserve.

  • Sunday, September 21, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Sunday Afternoon at the Armenian Heritage Park

    Join the Friends of the Armenian Heritage Park on Sunday, September 21 from 3 – 4 for a meet and greet for all ages.  The Park is located on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, between Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Christopher Columbus Park.  Emack & Bolio’s will be there, thanks to E & M’s Stewart Kagel, and there will be live music courtesy of Mal Barsamian on oud, Leo Janikian on clarinet, Kenny Kalajian on guitar, and Jay Baronian on dumbeg. Mal Barsamian is one of the most gifted Armenian-American musicians working today. His wealth of musical knowledge extends to classical as well as Middle Eastern music.  Barsamian performs on bouzouki, oud, clarinet, guitar, violin, and dumbeg. He has the same vitality on the instruments as he does on his most well-known instrument, the clarinet. At 2:30 there will be a game for kids with a chance to win Boston Duck Tour tickets for four, with the help of Boston Duck Tour’s Bob Schwartz.  Bob Lobel, co-host of Sports Legends New England, will act as Emcee.  Come early to walk the Greenway, ride the carousel, visit Christopher Columbus Park, the North End, Faneuil Hall Marketplace, and the Waterfront.  If you have any questions, email info@armenianheritagepark.org.

  • Saturday, August 30 – Sunday, August 31, 12:00 noon – 6:00 pm – Boston Arts Festival

    The Boston Arts Festival (aka the Boston AHTS Festival) features the best of the Boston Arts Scene ‑ both visual & performance. Started in 2003 as a single afternoon event, the festival has expanded into a 2‑day celebration incorporating a diverse performing arts program & a specially built artists’ village. Based in the idyllic Christopher Columbus Park on Boston’s waterfront, the festivities glisten in perfect symmetry with the parks surroundings. This year the event takes place August 30 and 31, noon – 6 pm.  For more information visit www.celebrateboston.com/boston-arts-festival.htm.

  • Saturday, June 28, 10:45 am – 3:00 pm – Independence Day Celebration

    Saturday, June 28, 10:45 am – 3:00 pm – Independence Day Celebration

    Christopher Columbus Park will hold its second annual Independence Day Celebration Saturday, June 28, from 10:45 am – 3:00 pm.  This free celebration will be kicked off by the family favorite Kids Parade, led by Uncle Sam on stilts.  Other entertainment throughout the day will include visits by T-Bone, Mr. Balloon Wizard, Station 8’s Fire Truck, the Tanglewood Marionettes, and Magician Peter O’Malley.  A Musical Petting Zoo, a performance by the North End Music and Performing Arts Center, and a host of family-friendly games on the West Lawn (think bean bag toss, tic-tac-toe toss, and hula hoops) complete the day’s activities.  For more information visit www.foccp.org.

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  • Sunday, June 29, 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm – Die Fledermaus at Christopher Columbus Park

    On Sunday, June 29, the Friends of Christopher Columbus Park and the North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) present a fully staged opera production of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II, in English, from 8 – 10:30 pm.  Conductor Tiffany Chang and Director Adrienne Boris will lead this special outdoor performance at the Park.  The performance may also be seen for a charge on June 27 & 28 at Faneuil Hall.

  • Sundays, January 26 – March 23, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon – Photography Workshops

    Individuals of all ages and skill levels are welcome to participate in these free and informal photography sessions presented as part of the ParkARTS program sponsored by Bank of America and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department. Participants will learn techniques for taking impressive photographs of Boston’s scenic parks as well as be given a theme to focus on each Sunday. The programs will take place Sundays from 11 – 12, at the locations below. Please note there is no session on March 16. Photo below from www.ultimate-photo-tips.com. For more information please call 617-961-3051 or email lauren.patrick@boston.gov. 
    January 26 -  Jamaica Pond Boathouse, Jamaica Plain

    February 9 -  Christopher Columbus Statue, Christopher
    Columbus Park, North End

    February 23  – Grampian Way Basketball Court, Savin Hill Park,  Dorchester

    March 9  – Millennium Park, Canoe Launch, West Roxbury

    March 23  – Lagoon Bridge, Boston Public Garden, Boston

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  • Monday, November 25, 5:30 pm – Christopher Columbus Park Trellis Display Lighting

    The Friends of Christopher Columbus Park will celebrate a Boston holiday tradition with the 11th annual lighting of the park’s signature trellis on Monday, November 25 beginning at 5:30 pm.  The entire 260 foot trellis, the architectural centerpiece of the park, will be set aglow by more than 100,000 white and blue lights, as it has for the last ten years.  This year, Mayor Thomas M. Menino will preside over the final trellis lighting of his term, along with Boston Parks Commissioner Antonia M. Pollak and FOCCP President Joanne Hayes-Rines.

    The major corporate sponsors for this year’s event are The Chiofaro Company, CL Waterfront Properties, Marriott Long Wharf Boston, NorthEndBoston.com, Sunstone Hotel Investors, and Tia’s Restaurant. There will be a musical performance by the North End Music and Performing Arts Center Children’s Choir, a visit from Santa, and free hot chocolate from Starbucks and cookies from the Marriott.  The Mayor will share some thoughts and remembrances about the park and his mayorship as he throws the switch.  Other fun surprises are planned as well. For more information visit www.foccp.org.

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