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  • Saturday, June 15, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm – Teen Tree Summit

    Speak for the Trees, Boston, will hold the second annual Teen Tree Summit, highlighting the work of environmental youth groups in Greater Boston, on Saturday, June 15 from 11 – 3 in the Weld Hill Research Building at the Arnold Arboretum.

    The event will feature various guest speakers, hands-on activities, tabling by our partners and other groups. Lunch will also be provided. If you are a part of an environmental justice organization that services youth, are looking to attend the event, or have other ideas for partnering with us, please let us know. Fill out the Goggle Docs form HERE, or email tutc_chrome@treeboston.org

  • Tuesday, August 23, 3:30 pm – Tree Mob: Solar Array Pollinator Meadow, Live and Online

    Tree Mobs™ are interactions with scientists or other specialists at the Arnold Arboretum that provide another pathway to enjoy and learn in the landscape. Next Tuesday, August 23, we’ll hold our first ever hybrid Tree Mob in our landscape and live via Zoom. Join us at 3:30 pm.

    The solar array meadow at the Arboretum’s Weld Hill Research and Administration Building is now teaming with plant life and buzzing with pollinators. Join Arboretum Horticulturist Brendan Keegan to learn about the solar array and the native, wild-collected plants growing around it. To register for the Zoom, click here. This event will also be presented in-person at the Arboretum’s Weld Hill Research Building at 1300 Centre Street, Boston, MA 02131. To sign up for the in-person event, click here.

  • Tuesday, March 29, 2:00 pm – Celebrating a Sesquicentennial: The Founding of the Arnold Arboretum, Live and Online

    The Arnold Arboretum was founded on Friday, March 29, 1872. Exactly 150 years later, we invite you to join Lisa Pearson, Head of the Arboretum Library and Archives, for a special sesquicentennial lecture! Pearson will discuss the earliest benefactors of the Arboretum, the events surrounding the founding of the institution, and the busy first two decades during which the infrastructure and living collections were installed on the grounds. This event will also be livestreamed to YouTube. To sign up for the virtual livestream instead, click here. To sign up for the live presentation, click here.

    All attendees age 12 or over must bring proof of vaccination in order to enter the building—please bring either a vaccination card or a digital copy. Visitors age 17 and older must also present a valid driver’s license or government-issued form of ID, such as a passport. Attendees are required to wear masks indoors. 

    Registration is limited to 40 in-person attendees. We ask that you only register if you are sure you will attend, and only register one person per form submission. Parking is available on-site at the Weld Hill Research Building. Find directions here.

  • Thursday, March 27, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Mikyoung Kim’s Transformational Landscapes

    Mikyoung Kim, M.L.A., Landscape Architect, Mikyoung Kim Designs and Professor Emerita, Rhode Island School of Design, will speak on Thursday, March 27 at 7 pm at the Weld Hill Research Building, Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain. The interplay of sound, light, and color is ever-present in the award-winning designs of Mikyoung Kim. She juxtaposes constructs of intimacy with vibrancy, solitude amid community, technology with nature, and formality with playfulness in the public spaces she designs for respite and revitalization. With a background in music, her work is an alchemy of multisensory experience. Mikyoung Kim will speak about her design process, where she finds inspiration, and the ways that her landscapes inform and move people, in a range of project types; from healing environments to public parks. She will discuss her most notable projects: the ChongGae Canal Restoration in Seoul’s Central Business District for which her firm transformed two superblocks into a central gathering space, re-engaging visitors with the ChongGae River and the Crown Sky Garden (pictured below), a healing environment for the Chicago Lurie Children’s Hospital, which was recently highlighted in The New York Times. Free for Arboretum members and students, $15 nonmember.  Register on line at www.my.arboretum.harvard.edu.

    http://worldlandscapearchitect.com/2013/mykd/MYKD_Crown-Sky-Garden_04.jpg

  • Wednesday, May 30, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

    In her new book, Chasing Venus, Andrea Wulf tells the extraordinary story of the first global scientific collaboration, set amid warring armies, hurricanes, scientific endeavors, and personal tragedy. On June 6, 1761 and June 3, 1769, the planet Venus passed between Earth and Sun – each time visible as a small black dot against the burning face of the Sun for six hours. Transits of Venus always arrive in pairs – eight years apart – but then it takes more than a century before they are seen again. In the 1760s the world’s scientific community was electrified because the transit would allow them for the first time to calculate the distance between the planets in our solar system. This would require triangulated data to be compiled from various exact points around the globe – all taken simultaneously during the short period of the actual Transit. Join us for an intriguing glimpse at the spirit of the Enlightenment and the collaborative race to measure the heavens. Chasing Venus will be published in May 2012 in conjunction of the Transit of Venus on June 5/6, 2012.  Andrea Wulf will speak on Wednesday, May 30, from 7 – 8:30 at the Weld Hill Research Building at the Arnold Arboretum.  Register at www.my.arboretum.harvard.edu.  Fee $10 sponsor organization member, $20 nonmember.  Offered by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Historical Society.

    The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is holding a special Observatory Night for viewing the Venus transit. Learn more. In 2004 we were treated to a sunrise view of Venus crossing the disk of the sun. On June 5th, we will enjoy a sunset Venus transit. If you miss this one, you won’t get another chance to see it until 2117 – and that’s a very long time to wait. The Center for Astrophysics will hold a special rooftop viewing of the Venus transit beginning at 6:00 pm. The transit will be visible from 6:03 until the sun sets at 8:19. Viewing is weather-dependent so call 617-495-7461 to check for cancellation.

  • Monday, April 23, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Syrup, Seeds, and Bees: Exploring Links in Maple Ecology

    Elizabeth Crone’s research as Population Biologist at Harvard Forest focuses on the population ecology, life history, and conservation of plants and insects. Most recently, she has turned her attention to a signature “industry” of New England—maple syrup production. She is trying to determine any links between pollinator populations, quantity of maple flower and seeds, and sap flow. Join The Arnold Arboretum on Monday, April 23, from 7 – 8:30 in the Weld Hill Research Building  to learn if each responds independently to the weather or if there are possibly complex, but subtle, interactions taking place in the sugar bush.  Free, but registration requested.  Visit http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?EventID=1#April.  Offered with the Cambridge Science Fair and the New England Wild Flower Society.

  • Friday, October 21, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm and Wednesday, October 26, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm – Weld Hill: Science and Sustainability

    Take a guided tour of the state-of-the-art Weld Hill Science and Administration Building at the Arnold Arboretum with Julie Warsowe, Manager of Visitor Education, on either of two dates, Friday October 21 from 1 – 2, or Wednesday, October 26, from 4:30 – 5:30. Learn about some of the cutting edge plant research and explore the “green” building and landscape design. Limit 10 people. Free, but please register at www.arboretum.harvard.edu.

  • Saturday, October 22, 2:00 pm – Wicked Bugs: The Louse that Conquered Napoleon’s Army and Other Insect Monstrosities

    In a follow up to her very successful New York Times bestseller Wicked Plants, Amy Stewart tackles the insects, worms, and spiders that have tormented humankind for centuries. With wit and style, Stewart will reveal some of her discoveries. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Fee $5 sponsoring member, $15 nonmember.  Offered by the Arnold Arboretum,  Roslindale Green and Clean and Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture, and held on Saturday, October 22 beginning at 2 pm, at Weld Hill, 1300 Centre Street in Boston.  Register at www.arboretum.harvard.edu.

  • Sunday, September 18, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Fabulous Fungi of New England

    Join the Arnold Arboretum and avid mycologist Lawrence Millman on this talk and walk Sunday, September 18 from 1 – 3 at Weld Hill, 1300 Centre Street in Boston, in search of New England fungi species. Be prepared to walk on and off trail, on uneven terrain and up steep slopes. Millman’s new book, Fascinating Fungi of New England, will be available for purchase and signing. Fee $15 member, $20 nonmember.  Register in advance at www.arboretum.harvard.edu.