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  • Friday, February 8, 7:30 pm – Mardi Gras

    Friday, February 8, 7:30 pm – Mardi Gras

    The Friends of Copley Square invite you to celebrate Mardi Gras a Boston on Friday, February 8 at 7:30 pm at The Fairmont Copley Plaza, 138 St. James Avenue in Boston. Enjoy New Orleans cuisine, live music by The Winiker Band, dancing, and a live auction.  Mardi Gras festive attire and masks are encouraged.  For tickets ($150, or two tickets with an overnight stay on February 8 at The Copley Square Hotel, The Fairmont Copley Plaza, or The Lenox Hotel for $350) visit www.FriendsofCopleySquare.org and pay through PayPal.  All proceeds benefit The Friends of Copley Square, which provides funding to assist the City of Boston with the preservation, maintenance, and beautification of Copley Square.

  • Friday, February 17, 7:30 pm – Friends of Copley Square Second Annual Mardi Gras Celebration

    The Friends of Copley Square, a non-profit organization that provides funding to assist the City of Boston with the preservation, maintenance, and beautification of the Copley Square, will host its second annual Mardi Gras Celebration on Friday, February 17, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. The event will be held at The Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel.

    The evening will bring the feeling of the French Quarter into the heart of Boston’s Back Bay. The event will include a New Orleans dinner buffet, live music and dancing, and auction prizes. Guests are encouraged to come in festive Mardi Gras attire, including masks if desired.

    Tickets are $300 per couple, which includes two tickets to the event, as well as accommodations on February 17 donated by The Copley Square Hotel, The Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel and The Lenox Hotel. Hotel availability is limited so guests are encouraged to make their reservations early. Individual tickets are available for $175 per person.

    To purchase tickets, please visit www.friendsofcopleysquare.org. All of the proceeds from the event benefit The Friends of Copley Square. The organization’s activity includes maintenance of the fountain, care of the trees and the development of programming to create a vibrant park for all to enjoy.

    For more information on The Friends of Copley Square  email friendsofcopleysquare@gmail.com. The Friends of Copley Square is a registered 501(c)3 not for profit corporation.  Photo by Courtney Sacco from www.backbay.patch.com.

  • GLOW Competition Announcement

    Garden Club of the Back Bay member Susan Ashbrook brought this Copley Square competition to our attention. SHIFTBoston is asking artists, architects, urban planners, sculptors, lighting designers, and landscape architects around the world to envision a new approach to activating Copley Square in Boston with a lighting installation. In their GLOW Competition, SHIFT is looking for proposals which will make the space one of the greatest squares in the world to visit at night. Teams are invited to enter, and winners will be given two months to work with a professional from Boston Light Source to develop lighting specifications for their proposal. In April, a jury will review the three final proposals and select the one that is most technically feasible and suitable to the overall program goal. The winning proposal will be featured as part of the upcoming Fairmont Copley Plaza Anniversary celebration and planned for installation in 2013. Entries are due by February 3, 2012. All eligible entries will be promoted on the SHIFTboston blog and website and will become part of the SHIFTboston GLOW book in 2012. The international jury includes the following:

    – Ana Bassat: Architect, Principal of b720; Barcelona, Spain
    – Helmut Bien: Director of Luminale and Luminapolis.com; Germany
    – Bill Kenney: General Manager of Copley Place Simon Property Group; Boston, MA
    – Mark Loeffler: Lighting Designer, Director of Atelier Ten; New Haven CT
    – Otto Piene: Painter, Artist, Lighting sculptor; Groton MA
    – Nader Tehrani: Principal of NADAAA, Boston MA
    – Paul Zaferiou: Lighting Designer, Principal of Lam Partners; Boston MA

    The Garden Club of the Back Bay has taken no official position on the appropriateness of additional lighting in Copley Square, but is in conversation with The Friends of Copley Square, The Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay, and local government officials reviewing the proposed competition.

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  • Fall Foliage Tours from Boston Now Through October 25

    For those of you without a car, or who hate to drive but love autumn scenery, there is a daily option (through October 25).

    Enjoy the spectacular New England countryside as the leaves turn a multitude of colors during the fall season. A pleasant afternoon tour of foliage display is capped by a stop at a native orchard for apples and cider.

    Experience the gently rolling New England countryside, awash with the colors of Indian Summer. Travel past quiet ponds and ancient farms, weathered roadside taverns and sturdy colonial churches. Enjoy a hot Yankee style lunch at a quaint New England tavern nestled in the heart of the mountains (cost is additional).

    Finish your afternoon with a visit to a native orchard where apples are grown and local (non-alcoholic) cider is made. Pickup and drop off at 16 South Charles Street and, upon advance arrangement, from selected Boston and Cambridge hotels (such as the Back Bay Hilton, the Boston Park Plaza, the Colonnade, the Copley Square Hotel, the Fairmont Copley Plaza, the Lenox, the Marriott Copley Place, etc.).  Designed for the tourist, but accessible to the resident, the cost for this ten hour bus trip is $58, plus gratuities.  Customer reviews are excellent.  For more information, log on to www.viator.com/tours/Boston/Fall-Foliage-Spectacular-Tour-from-Boston/d678-3978TOUR11?SSAID=333659&aid=463296857.

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