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  • Friday, June 5, 2026 – Save the Date: Gala on the Greenway & Glow in the Park

    The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy announces the 2026 date of its annual fundraiser, Gala on the Greenway, from 6 – 8 and Glow in the Park from 7:30 – 10:30. You may learn more by visiting https://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/fundraisingevents/.

    Raise a glass on June 4, 2026 when the Greenway Conservancy’s community of donors will come together at the Gala on The Greenway. Hailed as “the most unconditionally happy spot in all of Boston,” our beloved Rings Fountain is the dazzling centerpiece of this joyful celebration. You and your guests will enjoy a lavish cocktail supper with delectable dishes and local libations while mingling Greenway neighbors and civic, business, and philanthropic leaders.

    Funds raised through the Gala support the Conservancy’s work to connect neighborhoods and people through nature, public art, and community-led programming in ways that are sustainable, equitable, and welcoming.

    Sponsorship opportunities are now available! Learn more about sponsorship benefits and make your commitment now. A limited number of single tickets will go on sale in April 2026.

  • Thursday, October 16, 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Boston Public Market Harvest Party: 10th Anniversary

    Join Boston Public Market, 100 Hanover Street in Boston, on Thursday, October 16th, for our annual Harvest Party, a celebration in support of the Boston Public Market’s mission to cultivate a diverse community around food. Enjoy bites from our food entrepreneurs, craft libations featuring local spirits, live music & more. This year, we’re celebrating 10 years of the Boston Public Market! We’re thrilled to unveil our 10th Birthday Harvest Party, featuring a spectacular lineup of entertainment.

    Dinner (5:30 – 7) kicks off the evening in our Entrepreneurship Tent on The Rose Kennedy Greenway with an intimate buffet dinner showcasing the signature cuisines from BPM food entrepreneurs alongside local libations. After dinner, join the 10th Birthday Bash inside the Market, with continued access to the Entrepreneurship Tent and lounge featuring an exclusive open bar all evening long. Guests will also receive swag bags, special gifts, and enjoy a private, behind-closed-doors look at the Market and get the chance to meet the makers. Dinner tickets also include admittance to the Bash (7 – 9: tickets $50) Guests to the Bash will be invited to celebrate a “taste of the Market” with delicious bites from our food entrepreneurs, one drink ticket featuring craft beverages, live music and dancing, silent auction prizes, and photos with BPM’s annual GIANT pumpkins. A cash bar will be available for additional beverage purchases. Tickets are available through Eventbrite HERE.

    Proceeds from your ticket contribution will directly benefit our Community Engagement Fund, which helps  fulfill our mission and offer free, public educational experiences at the Market for our local community, and further support the entrepreneurs and small business owners that make the Market a special place.

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

    Kick summer off in style with music, dancing, games, your favorite Greenway food trucks, craft beverages, and more. Our annual young professionals fundraising event, Glow in the Park, lights up the night every June, and it’s your chance to support the Greenway Conservancy and have a blast while doing it. Funds raised at Glow in the Park support the Conservancy’s work to connect neighborhoods and people through nature, public art, and community-led programming in ways that are sustainable, equitable, and welcoming. This year’s date is June 6, and tickets ($125) are available at https://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/glowinthepark

  • Thursday, February 27, 12:00 noon Eastern – Earth Writing, Online

    Join The Rose Kennedy Greenway on February 27th at noon EST to celebrate the launch of our community eco-art zine, “EARTHWRITING” with a special, free, online panel on the role of Public Art in climate action! Greenway Public Art & Ecology Fellow @magdalenapoost will moderate a conversation between artist Erin Genia (@emgenia), scholar Clara Wilch, and Greenway horticulturist Darrah Cole on their land-based creative practices, reflecting on the ways that each of them cultivate a relationship with public space amidst climate emergency. The event marks the publication of a community zine on the subject, produced by Greenway Public Art, designed by @chenluo_101, containing contributions from @alulahussen, @ananth._udupa, @chenoa.e.baker, @dylan_merz_, @jainastudio, Katharine Schassler, @spatial_odyssey, and @yolandaheyang_arts.

    Register at linktr.ee/greenwaypublicart

  • Now Through August, 2026 – Your Spirit Whispering in My Ear

    In partnership with MASS MoCA, The Rose Kennedy Greenway features artist Jeffrey Gibson. Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972, Colorado Springs, CO; lives and works in New York) grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, Korea, and the U.K. A mid-career multidisciplinary artist, he is a citizen of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and half Cherokee, whose practice includes sculpture, painting, printmaking, video, and performance. Gibson earned his Master of Arts in painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998 and his Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995. His work is in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian; National Gallery of Canada; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Gibson is a past TED Foundation Fellow and a Joan Mitchell Grant recipient. He is a recipient of the 2019 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He is currently an artist-in-residence at Bard College and lives and works near Hudson, New York. In 2024, Gibson represented the United States at the 60th edition of La Biennale di Venezia. He is the first Indigenous artist to represent the United States with a solo presentation in the national pavilion. To read the artist’s statement and for more information and map, visit http://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/art-exhibit/jeffrey-gibson

  • 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.

  • Wednesday, August 15, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm, & Saturday, August 17, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Going to Ground

    This coming August marks the installation of artist LaRissa Rogers’ “Going to Ground” – a site specific sculpture on The Rose Kennedy Greenway exploring the life of Zipporah Potter Atkins, the first-known Black woman to own a home in Boston in 1670. Potter Atkins’ home rested on land now cared for by The Greenway in the North End, which was brought to light by Dr. Vivian Johnson, Professor Emerita of Boston University, after 6 years of archival research.

    Throughout the month of August, The Conservancy will be offering a series of events to engage with this piece: On Thursday, August 15th, from 5-8pm, and Saturday, August 17th, from 2-5pm, The Greenway is hosting two adobe brick-making workshops with artist LaRissa Rogers. Come get your hands in the soil, and help us craft adobe bricks which will be used in the activation of the public sculpture. On Thursday, August 22nd, from 4-7pm, drop by The Greenway during a durational performance by artists LaRissa Rogers (@larissa_rogers) and Zalika Azim (@26thletter) working together with collaborators – including their moms, aunts, sisters, and several Boston-based artists – to lay adobe soil bricks on-site for the foundation of the sculpture. On Saturday, August 24th, from 4pm-7pm, join us for a communal meal and party produced by SIDE Presents (@sidepresents) honoring Dr. Vivian Johnson and celebrating the installation of the sculpture.

  • Through March 2025 – Far Away, From Home, 2024

    Far Away, From Home, an image-based sculpture now displayed on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, is part of Zhang’s ongoing inquiry into the complexities of home, immigration, identity politics, diaspora, and queerness in the public sphere. Responding to the Chinese zodiac Year of the Dragon in 2024, Zhang re-interprets a curio cabinet reminiscent of furniture from the artist’s childhood home in Hunan, China. The shelving unit is filled up with backlit photographs of “tattooed” latex balloons on one side, and their paper collage doppelgängers on the opposite side.  It also features laser-etched panels highlighting scenes from Huaniaohua, a traditional type of Chinese Bird-and-Flower Painting, as well as etchings of the original tattoo imagery Zhang used on the latex balloons. The four supporting legs are modeled after balusters in porch railings and stairways that Zhang has encountered over the past year in Massachusetts. 

    Zhidong Zhang is an artist, educator, and plant lover. Their practice explores social, political, cultural, and sexual relationships among the institution, the body, and modes of embodiment. Working primarily with photography, text and installation their work negotiates and creates narratives where image-making becomes a form of history-making. Zhang’s practice and process invites alternative, autonomous modes of identity construction through/by/via metabolizing bodies that are often overlooked, eroticized, or politicized.

    Zhang’s work has appeared in i-D Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Boston Art Review, among others. Recent awards include the 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund, the Collective Futures Fund 2023, and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in 2021. They were a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, an artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA, Center for Photography at Woodstock, and Boston Center for the Arts. Zhidong currently lives and works in Boston.

  • Thursday, July 25, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Song/Land/Sea: Wai Water Warning Opening

    Song/Land/Sea: Wai Water Warning is a public art commission by Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy (@greenwaypublicart) to produce a new performance, a public sculpture, 12 light blades, and 4 flags installed on parcels 15 & 16 (between Milk & State St.) curated by Dr. Audrey N. Lopez.

    This performance is part of The Greenway ARTbeat series, a seasons-long initiative supported by the Greenway Business Improvement District (Greenway BID) to enhance and expand public art and public programming throughout the entirety of The Greenway. The opening will be July 25 beginning at 6 pm. For more information visit https://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/artbeat

  • Through October, 2025 – Going to Ground, 2024

    Going to Ground is an upcoming site-specific project on the Rose Kennedy Greenway by artist LaRissa Rogers that responds to and invites viewers to engage with the history of Zipporah Potter Atkins. In 1670, Potter Atkins became the first Black woman to own a home in Boston, which she kept for almost thirty years until selling it in 1799. Potter Atkins’ home rested on land now cared for by The Greenway at Cross and Hanover Streets in the North End. This history was brought to light in 2010 by Dr. Vivian Johnson, Professor Emerita of Boston University, after 6 years of archival research.

    For Part 1 of this project, Rogers is hosting an Open Call for Soil – an open invitation to Boston’s communities to gather and contribute soil from spaces meaningful to them. The artist will then use the collected soil to build Part 2 of this project, a sculpture honoring Zipporah Potter Atkins.

    The final sculptural artwork – Part 2 of this project– will open on The Greenway in August 2024 via a performance and community picnic. Throughout the project’s lifetime, collaborating artists Jackie Amézquita and Zalika Azim will activate the sculpture with performances and interventions. 

    For details on how to contribute soil, visit https://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/larissarogers