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Tag: Greenway Conservancy

  • Sunday, September 15, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm – Boston Local Food Festival

    The 2024 Boston Local Food Festival will return Sunday, September 15 from 11 am-5 pm (Rain date: 09/22)

    Where: The Rose Kennedy Greenway

    Calling all of New England’s masterful food makers – chefs, fishermen, farmers, and food artisans! Join culinary craftsman for the 2024 Boston Local Food Festival on Sunday, September 15th. On the 15th, we will savor the flavors of Massachusetts and beyond. From chef demos to a Family Fun Zone and a thrilling seafood throw-down, there’s something for everyone.

    SBN’s Boston Local Food Program is thrilled to report that last year, the 2023 Boston Local Food Festival was the largest and most successful festival we’ve organized in our 13-year history. The day was a true celebration of local food and the power of community. Hurricane Lee took a break from its torment and allowed for perfect weather that brought people out of their homes and to the festival’s heart. We couldn’t have done it without every one of you – our vendors, sponsors, volunteers, the City of Boston, the Greenway Conservancy, and the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources.

    Our annual Boston Local Food Festival has been hailed as one of Boston’s top 10 food events since 2010. We are thrilled to be able to continue celebrating and supporting New England local food producers and businesses with our festival.

  • Friday, June 7, 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm – Glow in the Park

    Kick summer off in style with music, lawn games, your favorite Rose Kennedy Greenway food trucks, beer, wine, and more at the Greenway Conservancy’s annual young professionals fundraising event, Glow in the Park, presented by MFS Investment Management. Lighting up the night on Friday, June 7 from 7:30 – 10:30 at the Rings Fountain, this is your opportunity to support the non-profit Greenway Conservancy and our work to connect neighborhoods and people to each other through ecological horticulture, public art, and free public programming.  If you would like to sponsor Glow In The Park, please click here for more information, or email us at development@rosekennedygreenway.org. To buy tickets ($300 a pair), click HERE

  • Friday, June 7, 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm – Glow in the Park

    Friday, June 7, 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm – Glow in the Park

    The Greenway Conservancy invites you to celebrate and support the non-profit Greenway Conservancy at Glow in the Park on June 7 from 6:30pm to 10:30pm, at the Rose Kennedy Greenway on High Street at Atlantic Avenue.

    Tickets (which can be purchased online at www.rosekennedygreenway.org) are $85 and include food from our Greenway Food Trucks, drinks from Jack’s Abby and 90+ Cellars, live music from Vivian Luo and Them Apples Band, lawn games from Social Boston Sports, prizes, and MORE!

  • Saturday, May 4, 12:45 pm – World Labyrinth Day

    CELEBRATE PUBLIC ART in collaboration with ArtWeek Boston, Age-FriendlyBoston Strong Commission, Boston APP/Lab, The Eliot K-8 Innovation School, Boston Public Schools, Greenway Conservancy, North End Waterfront, and SPARKBoston, with Friends of Heritage Park on Saturday, May 4. WELCOME 12:45pm. WORLD LABYRINTH DAY: WALK AS ONE AT 1pm. Join people in cities and towns in 35 countries worldwide walking as one in peace & harmony, immediately followed by the RECEPTION TO VIEW THE 2019 ABSTRACT SCULPTURE AT 1:30pm.

    Remarks: Ted Touloukian, AIA, Board Chair, Boston Society of Architects Foundation, introducing Geometry as Public Art: Telling A Story, the curriculum developed in collaboration with The Eliot K-8 Innovation School, Boston Public Schools. Tea and desserts hosted by MEM Tea Imports and Eastern Lamejun Bakers
    RSVP appreciated

  • Friday, June 9, 6:30 – 10:30 – Glow in the Park

    The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy presents Glow in the Park on Friday, June 9 from 6:30 – 10:30.  $75 early bird ticket price, $95 in advance, and $125 at the door.  All proceeds support the Conservancy. The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy raises 60% of The Greenway’s budget from private sources and is responsible for maintaining and improving Boston’s exceptional and dynamic mile-and-a-half of urban parks.  Tickets and more information are available online at http://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/

  • Friday, June 17, 7:00 pm – Glow in the Park

    Quickly becoming a favorite annual event in Boston, Glow in the Park is back. Hosted by the Greenway Young Leaders program, with proceeds benefiting the non-profit Greenway Conservancy, this is one event unlike any other in Boston! Spend a summer Friday night (June 17, beginning at 7) in one of Boston’s most beautiful and contemporary green spaces while enjoying live music, your Greenway food truck favorites, beer, wine, and more! This year’s event will be held on The Greenway at High Street.

    Tickets include: Live Band – Greenway Food Trucks – Beer & Wine – One Year Membership in Greenway Young Leaders Program – Afterparty at Trade Restaurant – Other Entertainment ‘To Be Announced’ – Tax-Deductible Donation to the Greenway Conservancy. Tickets are LIMITED and sold out last year – go to https://tickets.ruggedraces.com/event/GreenwayGlow to register ($95 per person.)

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  • Late April – Ai Weiwei Exhibit

    From late April to late October 2016, The Greenway will present Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads by internationally acclaimed Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei (pronounced “eye way way”) around the Rings Fountain in the Wharf District between Central and Milk Streets. During the installation the Rings Fountain will be open for splashing from late May to early October from 9am to 11pm daily.

    The artist’s first major public sculpture project, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads is comprised of 12 monumental bronze animal heads representing the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac. The Zodiac Heads series is on a global, multi-year touring exhibition in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The Boston exhibition of this work is organized by the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy and presented in collaboration with AW Asia. The exhibition is funded by the Greenway Conservancy and private donors.

    The twelve animal heads are installed in the order of the traditional Chinese zodiac: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig. 2016 is the Year of the Monkey. Each sculpture stands roughly 10 feet tall and range in weight from 1,500 to 2,100 pounds.

    For updated information visit www.rosekennedygreenway.org.

  • Brookline Artist Janet Echelman Commissioned by the Rose Kennedy Greenway

    Internationally renowned artist Janet Echelman will create a monumental, aerial sculpture to suspend over the Greenway from Spring 2015 to Fall 2015 as the signature contemporary art installation in the Greenway Conservancy’s Public Art Program.

    Echelman is known for her soft, billowing sculptures the scale of buildings that respond to the forces of nature – wind, water, and light. Her creation for Boston will be a knotted-fiber sculpture suspended hundreds of feet over the central section of the Greenway. The ultra-lightweight art moves gently with the wind in ever-changing patterns. In daylight, it casts shadow-drawings on the ground, and at night it becomes a beacon with dynamic colored light. The sculpture is Echelman’s first major Boston commission and will connect between existing buildings to form a visual linkage and focal point for civic life.

    This major contemporary public art project is made possible by a generous challenge grant from the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation. The project has also received initial grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Fund for the Arts, a public art program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with others pending.  Pictured below is an installation she created over the canals in Amsterdam.

  • Tuesday, October 4, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Greenway Conservancy Annual Meeting with Patrick Cullina

    Join the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy for the Annual Meeting on Tuesday, October 4, beginning with a reception at 5:30 pm, in the first floor conference room at 185 Kneeland Street.  Hear about the successes of the 2011 season on the Greenway.  The reception will be catered by Greenway food vendor BBQ Smith.  Special guest speaker Patrick Cullina (below,) a horticultural designer, photographer and lecturer who has served as Vice President of Horticulture and Park Operations for Friends of the High Line in New York City, and as Vice President of Horticulture, Operations and Science Research at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, will speak at 6 pm.  The program is free.  Please rsvp to Jenny at jwhelen@rosekennedygreenway.org.

  • December 21, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm – March 20 – Bright Lights for Winter Nights

    The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy is pleased to announce plans to bring more light and cheer to the Greenway beginning December 21, the winter solstice, and continuing through the spring equinox.

    Bright Lights for Winter Nights will feature creative lighting elements that highlight the Greenway’s four distinctive park designs while unifying over a mile of the Greenway’s natural beauty with a varied display of festive lighting.

    The first display will begin Monday the 21st at 4 pm in the Wharf District Parks when the iconic Light Blades will display a newly choreographed rhythm of color and pattern.  The display will change each week for the next three months, so keep coming back!