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
Join the Rose Kennedy Greenway and the Chinatown community for the opening celebration of a new art installation on Sunday, February 18 at 1 pm at Chin Park. The artist is Ponnapa Prakkamukul
Ponnapa is a Thai contemporary visual artist and landscape architect based in Massachusetts. Growing up in an extended family of artists and musicians in Thailand has a strong influence on her artistic creativity. In watching her mother diligently make drawing paper from mulberry paper pulp, silk cocoon, and tree bark, Ponnapa learned that the making of the essence of art emerges before the white paper and continues to evolve beyond artist’s hands. This idea inspired her to use the Earth as a canvas and pursued a study in landscape architecture. Ponnapa holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design where she started using soil as her main drawing media.
As a landscape architect making drawings, site investigation and immersion plays an important role in Ponnapa’s work. She uses the painting process as a tool to experience, understand, and connect with her surrounding environment. Through her work, she aims to gain a better understanding of cultural displacement and isolation issues as an immigrant. Ponnapa is also a recipient of David Bethuel Jamieson Artist of Color Residency & Fellowship at C-Scape Dune Shack in Provincetown, Residence Lab’s Artist-in-Residence Program by ACDC and the Pao Arts Center in Boston, and Manoog Family Artist Residency program at the Plumbing Museum with four paintings in the museum’s permanent collection. Her work has also been exhibited, published, and collected throughout the US and in Asia. Ponnapa currently works at Sasaki and is a member at Kingston Gallery.
Raise a glass on June 6, 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,” the 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 with friends, colleagues, and neighbors.
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.
If you’re looking for a way to warm up during the colder weather, look out for the Rose Kennedy Greenway’s new Sauna Village by Moki Sauna. Located across from Rowes Wharf Plaza and the Boston Harbor Hotel, this will be a great place to take respite from chilly temperatures as you’re exploring the park. Follow them on social media for updates on Opening Day!
Boston Harbor Now’s signature Waterfront Ice Sculpture Stroll is back! Get ready to count down to 2024 with more than 30 ice sculptures hosted by businesses and cultural sites across the waterfront – the largest Stroll EVER!
Don your winter boots and get strolling during this FREE and fun waterfront excursion. A lineup of 32 unique ice sculptures will be on display from 1:00pm – dusk on December 31, 2023.
As a nonprofit-led initiative, this celebration is a culmination of ten successful years of free and low-cost waterfront programming for residents and visitors across Boston’s waterfront neighborhoods.
Stretching 40 feet in diameter, Gateway to Infinity (An Anti-monument) is a large-scale groundwork by Boston-based queer, interdisciplinary artist Maria Molteni. Gateway to Infinity explores site-specific histories and collective rebirth through a design created during 10 months of extensive research by the artist. As with many of Molteni’s vibrant, massive groundworks, Gateway to Infinity features abstract symbols anchored in the land, sea, body, and celestial beings. Centered around a vibrant triple spiral motif –a three-limbed symbol known as a “triskeles/triskelion”– the groundwork may be viewed from an infinite range of angles and orientations, instead of a single, definitive perspective or starting point.
Located between Christopher Columbus Park and Faneuil Hall, the mural invites audiences to reflect upon and contend with these sites’ legacies, consider non-dominant narratives of place and public memory, and find personal connections with their own histories. By centering moving, living bodies upon a communal platform, rather than atop towering pedestals, Gateway to Infinity creates a colorful, multifaceted labyrinth and space for processing, releasing, and healing.
The mural is accompanied by a walking meditation and collaborative video performance and publication Molteni created with non-binary Italian American collaborators Vin Caponigro, Laura Campagna, and Ash Capachione. The performance and publication are accessible via smartphone. For more information visit www.rosekennedygreenway.org
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.
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.
The August Moon Festival is one of the greatest Chinese Festivals, second only to the Chinese New Year. There are several meanings behind the festival. Since the arrival of autumn is thought to be a propitious season and the weather is usually conducive to good health and enjoyment, the August Moon Festival is a festival of joy and health. The August Moon Festival is also known as the Harvest Festival, a time of thanks for the harvest and good crops. Each year, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England organizes a full day event to celebrate this important holiday. Come enjoy stage performances of Asian folk dance, lion dance, Chinese opera, and other entertainment. You can also browse the many vendor tables throughout the streets of Chinatown for food, gifts and souvenirs. The Rose Kennedy Greenway hosts the event at Auntie Kay and Uncle Chin Park on August 13 from 10 – 5. More information may be found at https://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/events/august-moon-festival/
The Rose Kennedy Greenway is currently home to an exhibition by Mithsuca Berry, a series of four digital illustrations printed on fabric flags, with four vinyl text installations. Artist Mithsuca Berry says “This space is meant to serve as somewhere people can release their burdens: here lies a resting point after so much mourning. Here you can come together and experience the unapologetic love of the trees, grass, sky, and one another. Thank you for existing. My work is meant to affirm those in this space, and thank them for waking up to live another day, and encourage them to share this experience with their community.
“Tuȟmaǧatipi” is a sculptural habitat and source of sustenance for pollinators created using the Dakota morning star form, and built with sustainable materials – clay, natural composites, driftwood. It relies on Indigenous science to honor the key role of pollinators and plants, who are increasingly threatened by climate change. The work explores how a sculptural form can play a role in habitat restoration. The Wildflower Meadow is an undeveloped tract of the Rose Kennedy Greenway that supports many bee species, butterflies and moths. Tuȟmaǧatipi – the Dakota word for beehive – seeks to give back to the meadow ecosystem by providing respite to native pollinators right in the middle of the city.
This project by artist Erin Genia (below) will be on view through December, 2022 was made possible through a collaboration with the City of Boston Green Ribbon Commission’s initiative, Action Pact 2022: Ready, Resilient, Reinvented, co-curated by The Experience Alchemists. Erin Genia (she/her), Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, is a multidisciplinary artist, cultural organizer and educator. She is an advocate for Native American cultural issues and served as an artist in residence for the City of Boston. Erin has a degree from the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, and her public art commissions include the Minnesota Historical Society, the City of Saint Paul, and the City of Seattle.
