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  • Tuesday, November 17, 11:00 am – Isabella and Her Gardens

    The Boston Committee of the Garden Club of America invites you to its 20th Birthday Celebration Annual Meeting and Fall Lecture on Tuesday, November 17, with registration at 10:30 am, and lecture at 11 am.  Patrick Chassé, the first Curator of Landscape, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, will give an illustrated lecture entitled  “Isabella and Her Gardens.”

    Like a horticultural Sherlock Holmes, Patrick Chassé tracks down clues to gardens of the past. His latest challenge is to unlock the secrets of a magnificent courtyard garden long identified with a Boston museum and its charismatic founder.

    Mr. Chassé, a landscape architect, has served since 2004 as the curator of landscape at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the first person to hold such a title there. His detective work involves documenting the courtyard’s evolution and reinstating elements of its design as envisioned by Isabella Stewart Gardner in the early 1900s.

    The event will take place at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.  Cost of lecture is $20 (public invited), Lecture and Luncheon $45 (members of Boston Committee Clubs only, please.)  RSVP by November 12.  Please make check payable to The Boston Committee of the GCA and mail to Mrs. William U. Shipley, 40 Dunster Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.

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  • Saturday, November 21, 1:30 pm – American Rural Cemeteries: Interpreted through the Lens

    The second of the Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Landscape Visions Lecture Series will take place Saturday, November 21, in the Tapestry Room of the Museum, beginning at 1:30 pm.  Alan Ward, landscape architect and principal, Sasaki Associates, will present American Rural Cemeteries: Interpreted Through the Lens. Boston has two iconic garden cemeteries: Mount Auburn and Forest Hills. The Rural Cemetery Movement in America began with the founding of Mount Auburn Cemetery in 1831, and spread from there across the country. Often the first designed public landscapes in American communities, rural cemeteries represent major shifts in cemetery landscape concept and form, and continue to resonate with the modern sensibilities they helped shape. Tickets: $15 General Public; $12 Seniors; $5 Members; FREE for Students.  To purchase tickets, log on to www.gardnermuseum.org, or call 617-566-1401. Image: Halcyon Lake in spring, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photo by Alan Ward.The Landscape Visions Lecture Series is made possible by a bequest from Jeanne Muller Ryan

    Mt Auburn Cemetery Alan Ward lecture

  • Saturday, October 24, 1:30 pm – Living in Paradise: Heian Paradise Gardens

    We all live in two worlds: the natural and the symbolic. Our expectations, memories, and the reality of death play a significant role in our lives. There is a rich landscape tradition that evokes many natural and symbolic responses to our ephemeral existence, the afterlife, burial customs, and memorialization. In five programs from October 2009 through March 2010, a series entitled “The Landscape of Eternity” explores some of the ideas and expressions of these landscapes of memory. The Landscape Visions Lecture Series is made possible by a bequest from Jeanne Muller Ryan.  The first program, on October 24, in the Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, will be given by garden designer and historian Marc Peter Keane.

    In Heian Japan, Amida Buddha’s Western Paradise was recreated in elaborate estate and temple gardens. Within this symbolic landscape, the image of Amida Buddha was enshrined in a hall set on the shore of a pond. Marc Peter Keane explores several of these gardens and their role as a paradise on earth. Tickets: $15 General Public; $12 Seniors; $5 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Members; FREE for Students.  Tickets may be purchased on line at www.gardnermuseum.org, or by calling 617-566-1401. Image: Scenes from the Tale of Genji (detail), 1677; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    Genji screen detail - Landscape Visions Lecture

  • Thursday, August 6, 5 – 8 pm – Full Moon Rising

    On Thursday, August 6, from 5 – 8 pm, enjoy free admission to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Fenway Court, and take a magical journey from twilight to moonlight.  Meet and greet Joe the Roving Magician and see what magic happens before your eyes. Take a peek into the past, present and future with tarot card reader Kasey Robinsong.  Enjoy Bass-Line Motion’s presentation of Analog Love in a Digital World featuring Adrienne Hawkins and Larry Roland with Impulse Dance Company.  For directions and more information, log on to www.gardnermuseum.org.

  • Thursday, July 23, 5 – 8 pm – Pleasure Gardens at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    The beautiful courtyard garden of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at Fenway Court will inspire you to decorate your own flower pot.  Plant seeds in peat pots to grow at home, create a musical wind chime to enhance your outdoor space, and listen to the toe-tapping music of the Berklee Bluegrass Band.  Free admission for everyone on Thursday, July 23, from 5 – 8 pm.  For additional information, log on to www.gardnermuseum.org.

  • Thursday, June 4, 6:30 pm – Urban Oasis: The Evolution of Fenway Court

    Join the Isabella Stewart Gardner Curator of the Collection Alan Chong for this fascinating exploration of Isabella Gardner’s artistic vision and broader goals in creating a museum that would be architecturally distinct yet seamlessly interwoven into Boston’s urban fabric.  Tickets are free and may be reserved in advance.  A $1.50 service fee applies to tickets reserved online.  Tickets may also be reserved in person at the Museum’s front entrance at 280 The Fenway or by calling the Gardner Box Office at 617-278-5156.  For more information log on to www.gardnermuseum.org.

  • Wednesday, October 15, 10 a.m. – Isabella Stewart Gardner: America’s First Patroness of the Arts

    Character reenactor Jessa Piaia will present a dramatic portrayal set in 1909, six years after the opening of Fenway Court. The portrayal runs approximately an hour in length, and details may be found in the calendar portion of this web site. An elegant optional “period” lunch will follow, featuring vegetable consomme with confetti of root vegetables, duck a l’orange, wild rice, candied baby carrots, and an elegant dessert for $25 per person. Co-sponsored with The College Club of Boston, 44 Commonwealth Avenue, where the event will take place. To reserve, contact The Garden Club of the Back Bay through this web site.