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SUMMARY:Charlesgate Park Tour - Boston Design Week (1:00PM)
DESCRIPTION:Join the Emerald Necklace Conservancy for a tour of Charlesgate Park as part of Boston Design Week. \nCharlesgate is the start of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace. We hope you’ll join us to learn about the park’s history\, as well as present restoration efforts designed to repair park access issues\, improve the water quality of Muddy River and create new park amenities. \nThe tour will be led by Parker James from the Charlesgate Alliance. A rain date for this tour is set for May 8\, 2021 at 1:00PM.
URL:https://www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/charlesgate-tour-1pm/
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SUMMARY:Charlesgate Park Tour – Boston Design Week (4:00PM)
DESCRIPTION:Join the Emerald Necklace Conservancy for a tour of Charlesgate Park as part of Boston Design Week. \nCharlesgate is the start of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace. We hope you’ll join us to learn about the park’s history\, as well as present restoration efforts designed to repair park access issues\, improve the water quality of Muddy River and create new park amenities. \nThe tour will be led by Parker James from the Charlesgate Alliance. A rain date for this tour is set for May 8\, 2021 at 4:00PM.
URL:https://www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/charlesgate-tour-4pm/
CATEGORIES:Conservancy Events
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SUMMARY:2021 Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn about the Conservancy’s tree care program and why a healthy urban tree canopy is essential to our city. \nConservancy President Karen Mauney-Brodek will share an update about our work over this past year. We’ll dive a bit deeper into our tree and landscape work with Erica Holm\, the Conservancy’s Field Operations Coordinator. Erica will explain the work we’ve completed so far during the first seven-year tree pruning cycle of our Tree Inventory\, Assessment and Management Plan\, and where we hope to go in the future. \nDr. Jim Clark\, the Managing Consulting Arborist for Hort Science | Bartlett Consulting and an internationally renowned arborist\, will join us to speak about how this kind of tree care is beneficial for the long-term health of the tree canopy\, for the humans interacting with it and for the environment. \nTo close out the event\, we will be joined by an expert panel to discuss the importance of a healthy tree canopy from the perspective of the tree canopy and the nearby environment\, direct human interaction in an urban environment and the broader public health impacts a tree canopy (or lack thereof) can have on the surrounding community.
URL:https://www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/2021-annual-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Conservancy Events
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Animal Tracking
DESCRIPTION:Come and learn how to identify signs of different animal life\, some of which we share our parks with! In this fun\, virtual experience\, we will look at animal tracks\, scat\, and other signs they leave behind\, and learn how to identify which animal left them. \nThis experience will be facilitated by Bob Metcalfe. Bob is an excellent tracker with over 30 years of experience. Bob’s passion to share his love of nature permeates his teaching style. Do not miss this opportunity to learn from him! \nSuitable for families and children age 12 and up.
URL:https://www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/introduction-to-animal-tracking/
CATEGORIES:Conservancy Events
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SUMMARY:Volunteer Event: Ecological Restoration Work in the Back Bay Fens
DESCRIPTION:Join Emerald Necklace Conservancy staff and volunteers with ecological restoration work in the Emerald Necklace parks! We will be removing trash and clearing brush and debris from areas of the Back Bay Fens. \nThere is a 25 person capacity limit for this event and registration is required in order to participate. Those who register will receive an email from Joelle Boyle\, the Land Stewardship Coordinator\, with further details\, including the necessary waivers to sign and specific information on where to meet and what to expect on the day of the event. \nPlease email volunteer@emeraldnecklace.org with inquiries on this event or other volunteer opportunities. \n  \n\n \n  \nCOVID-19 policy: The Conservancy has been closely monitoring health and safety guidelines set by the City of Boston\, the Town of Brookline\, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since the beginning of the pandemic. All programs and events that we have follow our Conservancy COVID-19 policies. \nAll volunteers will be required to wear a face covering and practice social distancing during the event. We advise that volunteers who feel ill within 72 hours of the event do not participate. All volunteers will be required to sign a COVID-19 volunteer waiver\, along with our standard volunteer waiver\, in order to participate.
URL:https://www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/ecological-restoration-back-bay-fens/
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SUMMARY:Memorial Day
DESCRIPTION:In observation of the holiday\, Conservancy offices at the Shattuck Visitor Center are closed.
URL:https://www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/memorial-day-2/
CATEGORIES:Conservancy Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210528T120000
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SUMMARY:Beyond Walls: Performance in Public Space
DESCRIPTION:Rising draws inspiration from the restoration of the Muddy River to highlight our collective need to recover and regrow as a society after the Covid-19 pandemic. Rising explores the potential of renewal from the simplicity of nature through live music\, dance and poetry as performed by a multidisciplinary ensemble. Each aspect of the performance is designed to sonically\, visually\, and verbally guide the audience through the cyclical nature of growth and restoration. \nSam Feldman – Contemporary Theater 23’ | Tess Stevens – Dance 23’ | AnnaLotte Smith\, Piano Performance MM 22’ | Rachel Kempenaar – Dance | Jacob Windeler – Dance 24’ | Featuring 42 Boston Conservatory at Berklee students \nFriday\, May 28 at 12:00 PM and 12:30 PM | Two 15- minute performances | Back Bay Fens\, next to the Kelleher Rose Garden  \nRising Poems\nPOEM #1 \nBy: Alex Leondis\, Yitong Zhu\, Mel Tanaka\, Dylan Gombos\, James Paquette\, Monique Lonergan\, San Feldman \nWhat is this muck on the pulse of the community? \nWhy does this water choose to rage infinitely? \nOverflowing and drowning. I am bursting to breathe. \nThese days are all the same \nfalling from grace \nit’s all too slow a pace for me \n  \nScratching at the earth with a sneaking persistence \nRollover and rollover and rollover – I have dirt in my nails from a distance \nA quiet tornado rages and weaves \nYou should breathe what you believe\, \nReset what it means to grieve \n  \nIt giveth and it taketh away\, \nWhat are you doing here? \nWhy did you stay? \nSensing instead of seeing \nPerceiving is believing \nAnd we are all healing \nStop the flood but not the flow \nI watched life burn\, dampen\, then grow \n  \nPOEM #2 \nBy: Alex Leondis\, Yitong Zhu\, Mel Tanaka\, Dylan Gombos\, James Paquette\, Monique Lonergan\, San Feldman \nBasking in the sun\, I sit \nAs the park revolves around me \nPedestrians and Passerbys \nWalkers and Wanderers \nAll moving past the same patch of grass and asphalt \nI have seen much change from this spot. \nThe wind blows cooler now. \nAt first it chilled me to the brittle bone. \nNow\, it is almost refreshing. \nA familiar ice can  that aches in a specific way. \nBut now the sun is awake \nStarting to poke out from behind ty \nThe todwering trees and buildings that peer \nIpark. \nAnd I am starting to get warm. \nWarm in my hands. \nWarm in my feet. \nMy toes\, my nose \nAnd my heart. \nA new wind is blowing \nBlowing past me and through me. \nA warm wind\, for the first time in a long time. \nAnd it is welcomed back like an age old friend. \nA new breath. Fresh air. \nSpring is here. \nMake me a gathering place \na safe place \na resting place \nLet the children play \nlet the runners run- let there be a moment to rest and a moment to love. \nLet there be first dates and old friends and new friends and light. \nLet the sun shine\, the breeze blow\, let the geese take flight. \n  \nPOEM # 3 \nBy:  Sam Feldman \nWhat is rebirth? \nWhat does it mean to grow? \nThrough autumn leaves and fallen snow \nThe spring is here and flowers come \nAnd birds add to the quiet hum \n  \nTo change \nTo turn a page \nTo re-arrange \nTo re-estrange \nAnd be regained \nTo stop the flood \nTo a come undone \n  \nUnfinished\, as you are \nAnd be unjudged \n  \nTo delight in the small and good things \nThat come and go on birds wings \nTo honor the land on which we stand and plan for the future \nTo unapologetically and empathetically be. \n  \nRising marks the culmination of Boston Conservatory’s new\, credit-bearing summer course called Beyond Walls: Performance in Public Space\, led by acclaimed artist and entrepreneur Maria Finkelmeier of MF Dynamics\, who garnered praise earlier this year for her inventive multimedia public space project\, Hatched: Breaking Through Silence\, at the Hatch Memorial Shell in Boston. Learn more about this program and the Emerald Necklace Conservancy’s partnership with the Boston Conservatory here.  \nLearn more about the Muddy River and the ongoing restoration efforts here.  Explore the work of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy and
URL:https://www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/beyond-walls-performance-in-public-space/
LOCATION:Kelleher Rose Garden\, Back Bay Fens\, Boston\, MA\, 02115
CATEGORIES:Conservancy Events,Partner Events
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SUMMARY:Forest Bathing Walk
DESCRIPTION:Experience the healing benefits of The Emerald Necklace on a Forest Bathing Walk through Franklin Park. \nImmerse yourself in the “Wilderness” of Franklin Park on a Forest Bathing Walk!  Listen to the migrating birds and explore the textures of the puddingstone in this urban woodland as we slow down and awaken our senses. Forest Bathing\, inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku\, is a restorative sensory exploration that supports health and healing for all beings. From increased cerebral blood flow to stronger immune defenses\, come discover for yourself what happens when we unplug\, slow down and open our senses to notice more of our natural surroundings.  Forest Bathing is part of a global effort to tend to the stressful conditions of living in modern industrialized civilization.  All the prompts\, invitations\, sharing and ways of participating are optional and open to interpretation. \nAbout Tam Willey\nthey/she/he\nTam is a certified forest therapy guide\, trainer\, mentor and teacher with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy and is the founder of “Toadstool Walks\,” a guiding practice based in Boston\, Massachusetts.  Tam has guided Forest Therapy in collaboration with The Arnold Arboretum\, The Emerald Necklace Conservancy\, Mass Audubon\, Boston Harbor Now\, Peabody Essex Museum\, Lesley University Holistic Psychology and Wellness\, Boston University School Of Theology\, and more.  Tam is passionate about the ways that forest therapy can build our collective empathy and compassion\, broadening and healing relationships\, human and beyond\, supporting our re-membering that we are not only in relationship with nature but rather that we are nature.   For more information about Tam\, check out ToadstoolWalks.com \nThis is a free event\, though donations to the Emerald Necklace Conservancy are gladly accepted. \nRegister below: \n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/forest-bathing-walk/
LOCATION:Valley Gates Parking Lot\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conservancy Events
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