Mayor Michelle Wu turns on the 50,000 glowing blue and white energy-saving lights along the 260 foot trellis and 14 nearby trees on Monday, November 21, 5 pm in Christopher Columbus Park (110 Atlantic Ave), transforming the waterfront park into a magical light garden through the holiday season. The free event includes music, entertainment, and hot cocoa, cookies, and candy. Free admission.
The Armenian Heritage Park on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway extends a special invitation to Celebrate Public Art! during ArtWeek Boston on Saturday, May 5, 2018.
Armenian Heritage Park is located between Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Christopher Columbus Park. The schedule of event is as follows:
At 12:45 pm, introduction to Walking a Labyrinth
1:00 pm, World Labyrinth Day: Walk as One In peace & harmony with people in cities & towns worldwide
1:30 pm, Reception to view the 2018 configuration of the Abstract Sculpture. Annually in early Spring, a crane lifts and pulls apart the two halves of the
Abstract Sculpture, a split rhomboid dodecahedron made of steel and aluminum, to create a new sculptural configuration, symbolic of all who were pulled away from their country of origin and came to these Massachusetts shores, establishing themselves in new and different ways.
Remarks: Sarah Baker, Editor-in-Chief, Art New England magazine, introduced by Lucas Cowan, Public Art Curator, Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy.
Tea & Desserts hosted by MEM Tea Imports & Eastern Lamejun Bakers. RSVP appreciated. Email hello@ArmenianHeritagePark.org
A program of Friends of Heritage Park in collaboration with ArtWeek Boston, Age-Friendly Boston, The Eliot K-8 Innovation School, Boston Public Schools, Friends of Christopher Columbus Park, Labyrinth Guild of New England & Labyrinth Walking Meetup, NorthEndWaterfront.com, and Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy.
As part of their 15th Anniversary Celebration, Friends of Christopher Columbus Park presents Dancin’ in the Park! on Thursday, August 4 from 6 – 9. This will be a fun evening of outdoor dancing with great music provided by “Past and Present,” aka DJs Bob Remick and Gary Wilson. The party will take place around the fountain area near Tia’s on the Waterfront at 200 Atlantic Avenue. We will have water, cookies and snack bars as well. Free.
All ages and abilities welcome. The DJs will take requests, so you can boogie to your favorite tunes. Come and dance, or just listen to the music and enjoy a beautiful evening on the waterfront. And don’t forget to invite your friends.
ABOUT Friends of Christopher Columbus Park
This all-volunteer non-profit organization was founded in July 2001 by a small group of North End/Waterfront business people and residents to encourage, enhance and coordinate efforts of the local community and the Department of Parks and Recreation of the City of Boston to promote, improve, and maintain Christopher Columbus Park. For more information, go to www.foccp.org.
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.
The Friends of Christopher Columbus Park (FOCCP) will celebrate a Boston holiday tradition with the twelfth annual lighting of the park’s signature trellises on Monday, November 24, beginning at 5:15 p.m. Local businesses and neighbors support the efforts of FOCCP, the all-volunteer neighborhood organization, to raise the funds needed to illuminate the trellis and 14 trees annually. Mayor Martin J. Walsh will preside over the trellis lighting ceremony, along with Boston Parks Commissioner Chris Cook.
“The Friends of Christopher Columbus is proud to fund the more than $25,000 necessary to light up the trellis and trees for the season,” says FOCCP President Joanne Hayes-Rines. “Every year it is thrilling to watch the park be transformed into a winter wonderland, and we’re delighted that Mayor Walsh will throw the switch this year.â€
Entertainment will be provided by the North End Music and Performing Arts Center while Santa Claus and Miss Massachusetts, Lauren Kuhn, welcome attendees. The Marriott Long Wharf Hotel, Joe’s American Bar & Grill, Starbucks and Magic 106.7 will provide refreshments and holiday treats.
The major corporate sponsors for this year’s trellis and tree lighting are Boston PushCart, The Chiofaro Company, CL Waterfront Properties, Joe’s American Bar & Grill, Marriott Long Wharf Boston, NorthEndBoston.com, Sunstone Hotel Investors and Tia’s Restaurant. The Friends would also like to recognize the support of Sanibel Electric in this year’s trellis lighting. “With an ambitious docket of projects before us, we are more dependent than ever on the generosity of our members, both private and corporate, in Boston and outside the city, who help us fund these efforts,†says Hayes-Rines. “We have been one of the most successful Friends groups to support a city park, and we truly appreciate everyone’s help and continued donations to keep pulling all this off.”
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.
The Friends of Christopher Columbus Park will hold its 10th annual fund raiser A Park for All Seasons Monte Carlo Evening on Saturday, November 16 at the Fairmont Battery Wharf Hotel from 7 – 11. The entire complex of function rooms will be the setting for a memorable evening of dancing, dining and games of chance. Patron Spirits, Al Dente Restaurant, Boston Pushcart, Benevento’s. and CL Waterfront Properties LLC headline the sponsor list. The evening will start with a reception from 7 – 8 featuring passed hors d’oeuvre, live background music, a very special silent auction, and a short speaking program about the Park. From 8 – 11, the Ballroom doors will open and gaming will begin with Roulette, Blackjack, Craps. and Texas Hold ’em Poker. Guests will enjoy a series of fine dining Chefs’ offerings as well as dancing under the stars in the Old North Skylight Room with the Luke Marantz quintet. Complimentary Patron signature drinks will be offered throughout the evening in addition to the full bar. Tickets are available for purchase at www.foccp.org for $135.
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.
At the Annual Meeting of The Garden Club of the Back Bay, members voted to approve the grant recommendations proposed by its Co-Presidents Jackie Blombach and Jolinda Taylor and by the Executive Committee of the Club.
Our major focus in the coming year will be the completion of the Linden Project on Beacon Street. Over 60 historic linden trees will be professionally pruned, at a cost of $35,000. $5,000 of the total will be paid with a grant received from the City of Boston, with The Garden Club of the Back Bay contributing the balance. In addition to our tree care project, we will give $5,000 to the Commonwealth Avenue Mall Committee for its tree, turf and soil project on the Charlesgate block of the Mall, and another $5,000 to the Friends of the Public Garden to continue the inoculation of elms against Dutch elm disease.
Other organizations receiving Garden Club of the Back Bay grants this June are the Boston Nature Center of the Massachusetts Audubon Society – $2,000 to support scholarships for its summer camp for children aged 5 – 14, $2,000 to City Roots/Urban Ecology Institute for a project in partnership with Roslindale Wetlands and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department’s Urban Wilds Initiative, $2,500 to the Esplanade Association for the Eliot Garden Project, and $1,000 each to the Charles River Cleanup Boat and The Friends of Copley Square, and $500 to The Boston Committee of the GCA, in support of a grant made by the Blossom Fund to The Friends of Christopher Columbus Park for a landscape design plan to beautify a neglected circle adjacent to Christopher Columbus Park.
Finally, $1,000 has been set aside to honor the victims of the Marathon bombing through a donation to a healing garden at one of the area’s hospitals or rehabilitation centers. In the next few weeks members of the Club will visit potential grantees and assess where the donation will have the most impact. We will report back when a decision is made.
Thanks go to all our supporters, those of you who buy a ticket to our Twilight Garden Party on June 4, or a holiday wreath in December, for without your generosity, these worthy expenditures of $56,000 could not be made.
On Friday, November 16, 2012, neighbors and business owners who enjoy the beauty and activity of Christopher Columbus Park will come together at the Marriott Long Wharf Hotel’s newly renovated Harbor View Ballroom to support the year-round activities of the Friends of Christopher Columbus Park (FOCCP) at Casino Night, the organization’s annual fundraiser. The evening begins with a cocktail hour at 7:00 p.m. and includes a silent auction, heavy hors d’oeuvre, gaming tables, “Casino Cash†and as a special treat, a photo booth is being sponsored by CL Waterfront Properties, LLC. Tickets for Casino Night are $115 each and can be purchased online at www.foccp.org.
Since its founding in 2001, FOCCP has grown in numbers and commitment to the neighborhood. 2012 family-friendly events included the Tot Lot cleanups, 4th of July Celebration, an Old Fashioned Picnic in the Park, Sunday Night Movies in the Park and Columbus Day Celebration.
The major corporate sponsors of FOCCP are Al Dente and Benevento’s Restaurants, Boston PushCart, CL Waterfront Properties, LLC, Marriott Long Wharf Hotel and Tia’s Restaurant.
On Monday, November 19, Mayor Thomas M. Menino will light the trellis for the holiday season. Refreshments and entertainment will be provided. The trellis lighting ceremony begins at 5:30 p.m.
