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  • Monday, October 14, 10:45 am – 3:00 pm – Christopher Columbus Day Celebration at Christopher Columbus Park

    The Friends of Christopher Columbus Park continues its tradition of marking Christopher Columbus’ arrival in America with a free celebration to be held Monday, October 14 from 10L45 am – 3 pm.  Events will kick off with the annual Kids Parade, where kids of all ages are invited to bring their decorated bikes, scooters, or strollers at 10L45 for a promenade through the Park.  At the conclusion of the parade there will be a short ceremony at the Christopher Columbus statue, including a wreath laying ceremony led by Mayor Thomas Menino and Italian Deputy Consul Luigi Munno.

    Entertainment through the day will include performances by Jenny the Juggler, Peter O’Malley the Magician, Boris the Pennyfarthing Bicyclist and T-Bone the Interactive Pied Piper, as well as readings by Eliot School students and a patriotic musical performance by the North End Music & Performing Arts Center.  Other activities include face painting, a crafts table, lawn games with prizes, and tours of a real working fire truck.  For complete details visit www.foccp.org.

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  • Saturday and Sunday, September 10 and 11, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Botanical Printing on Fabric

    The Arnold Arboretum offers a two day workshop on Saturday and Sunday, September 10 and 11, from 10 – 4 on Botanical Printing on Fabric. Transfer images and anatomical details of plants onto fabric by inking them with textile paints and thickened dyes. Learn how tools, plants, textiles, inks, composition and color can be applied to produce diverse results, from exquisitely detailed to boldly expressionist. You will print many samples, learn to fix them for washability, and leave with handouts and notes. Limit 12 students. Fee: $150 Materials: $25 payable in class. Offered with the Eliot School, where the class will take place. Leonore Alaniz, textile designer, instructs. Register at www.arboretum.harvard.edu.

  • Saturday, October 9, 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm, and Sunday, October 10, 1:00 pm – 6:30 pm – Soapmaking

    Cold-process soap is made from scratch using vegetable oils and lye.  Learn the basics while making a batch of honey-oatmeal soap, then experiment with colors and fragrances.  Soap made in class can be picked up the next day or next week.  Glycerin soap is already made, but can be personalized with scents, colors, pearlescent powders, flowers or embedded items.  Soap will be ready by the end of class.  Both classes, taught by instructor Kymberlee Keckler at the Eliot School  of Fine and Applied Arts, 24 Eliot Street in Jamaica Plain, include written instructions and resource guides for venturing out on your own.  Take one workshop or both – all materials are supplied.  Easy Glycerin Soap will take place Saturday, October 9 from 3:30 – 6:30, and Cold-process Soap will be held Sunday, October 10, from 1 – 6:30.  The cost for Easy Glycerin Soap is $30 plus $10 materials fee payable in class, and for Cold-process Soap, $50 plus $10 materials fee payable in class.  Take both sessions for $70.  To register, and for complete information and directions, log on to www.eliotschool.org.

  • Sunday, October 18, 2 – 5 pm – Painting Fall Foliage

    Revel in fall color under the guidance of Rebecca Arnoldi, artist and naturalist, an instructor who combines an artist’s eye with botanical knowledge. Combine careful observation with fluid watercolor painting to express the essence, energy and emotion stirred by the natural world. All levels are welcome. The class meets at the Arnold Arboretum. Fee $50, offered in collaboration with the Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts.  To register, log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu.

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  • Thursday, August 13, 6:30 – 8 pm – A Forest in Mind: Mixed-Media Paintings by Terry Boutelle

    Come to the Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain  at 6:30 on Thursday, August 13 for a conversation with artist Terry Boutelle.  Terry Boutelle’s vision of trees and forests is shaped by memory, meditation, and imagination. Initially inspired by birch trees in the Arboretum, Boutelle has moved beyond realism into psychological and emotional realms. Using mixed media such as acrylic, pastel, wax, and plaster, and often incorporating natural objects such as leaves, twigs, and seeds, she creates paintings that are at times richly textured and at other times, smooth and veiled. Her images evoke mystery and yearning for things we cannot quite grasp.

    Largely self-taught, Terry Boutelle has also studied at the Fine Arts Work Center, Massachusetts College of Art, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is the current president of the Jamaica Plain Artists Association and a painting instructor at the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts.  For more information, log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu.  The exhibition will be on view through September 13, 2009.

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