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  • Thursday, August 14, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – What is a Garden? Connection, Memory, & Creativity

    Join The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for an evening of creativity and community in celebration of Where We Meet: Imagining Gardens and Futures (on view at Pao Arts Center, July 18 – October 10) and Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden (on view at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, June 26 – September 21).

    Attendees will have the opportunity to select one workshop experience led by:

    Erika Rumbly, Director of Horticulture at The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Sarah Hutt, Co-Coordinator on the Berkeley Community Garden Leadership Committee

Mel Taing, Where We Meet, exhibiting artist and Neighborhood Salon Luminary at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Yu-Wen Wu, Where We Meet, exhibiting artist and Artist-in-Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum


Pao Arts Center and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum invite you to enjoy an evening of conversation, workshops, and food exploring themes of community, creativity, and urban gardening. The event will take place at the Pao Arts Center, 99 Albany Street in Boston, on August 14 from 6 - 8. Register at https://www.paoartscenter.org/events/wherewemeet-what-is-a-garden



  • Thursday, June 26, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden Opening Reception.

    What is a garden? A wild space? A curated collection of plants? Or a plot of soil in which to seed memory, connection, and creativity? This summer, the Gardner Museum’s Hostetter Gallery springs to life with the large-scale sculptures of Ming Fay (1943 – 2025), whose work reconsiders gardens as sites of creative potential that reflect the lives and desires of those who cultivate them.

    At once playful and contemplative, Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden constructs a space of wonder that calls on visitors to view the world around them with new appreciation. Sculptures of fruits, seeds, shells, as well as hybrid plants borne of his boundless imagination, surprise in their unexpected pairings and sizes. Together, they conjure new meanings through familiar shapes, scents, and symbols. In his papier-mâché, bronze and ceramic gardens, Fay unites personal, collective, and cultural memories, building gardens as fantastical spaces born of curiosity, longing, and his own lived experiences as part of the Chinese diaspora in the United States.

    On view from June 26 – September 21, 2025, Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden invites visitors to escape the city for a brief moment and marvel at the extraordinary, ordinary beauty of a maple tree twirler, a ripe cherry, or a crooked wishbone—and how they can unlock memory and imagination.

    Where We Meet: Imagining Gardens and Futures, a partner exhibition at Pao Arts Center will explore the city of Boston’s Chinatown gardens through the art of Ming Fay, Mel Taing, and Yu-Wen Wu from July 18 – October 10, 2025.

    For details visit https://www.gardnermuseum.org/ming-fay-exhibition

  • Saturday, September 30, 11:00 am – 11:30 am or 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm- Momentum Dance Series: Continuum Dance Project (Rain Date October 1)

    Join Continuum Dance Project at Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park on The Greenway for their new piece Becoming Water as they express the story and their connection to this location through movement and dance. Register here.

    • Date: Saturday, September 30
    • Morning Performance:11a-11:30a
    • Afternoon Performance: 3p-3:30p
    • Location: Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park
    • Rain Date: Sunday, October 1

    The Momentum Dance Series, presented by Amazon, is a site-responsive dance series presented in collaboration with choreographer Peter DiMuro and four local dance companies: Continuum Dance Project, Jean Appolon Expressions, Public Displays of Motion, and Vimoksha Dance Company. Throughout September, each Saturday features one dance company performing twice per day at their selected locations along The Greenway. This series culminates in the Momentum Dance Festival on October 7. All events are free and open to the public.

    In addition, Experience Chinatown, organized by our partner Pao Arts Center, will also be taking place in the same park between Continuum’s shows at 11am and 3pm. Be sure to stick around and enjoy these amazing live performances!

    Continuum Dance Project (CDP), led by choreographers/co-directors Adriane Brayton and Fernadina Chan, has created its newest work Becoming Water in the Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park on The Greenway. Focusing on the Boston Chinatown community, the company has utilized imagery from Cynthia Yee’s ‘Hudson Street Chronicles’ to create a work that honors the experiences of the people of Chinatown, while celebrating their resilient spirit. Exploring the element water as thematic inspiration, the work strives to illuminate the authentic voice of the residents displaced by urban renewal and share their adaptability and toughness. ‘Becoming Water’ reflects on the universal themes of Love, Family, Food, Work, Struggle and Community while engaging with the history and geography of Boston’s Chinatown.

    This series is made possible by presenting sponsor Amazon, with additional support from the Greenway Business Improvement District (BID), Meet Boston, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

    Learn more at rosekennedygreenway.org/momentum