The Emerald Necklace Conservancy

Lavender Ruins
2018-09-01 18:00 - 19:20 (America/New_York) | Fog x Ruins, Franklin Park Overlook
Please note: Lavender Ruins may not play if Fog x Ruins is offline. Click here to check on the status of Fog x Ruins and other fog sculptures.
An evening concert sound installation by Neil Leonard made in response to Fog x Ruins, Fujiko Nakaya’s site-specific fog sculpture for Franklin Park’s Overlook Shelter Ruins, the site where Elma Lewis invited Duke Ellington to perform annually for Playhouse in the Park.
Leonard’s composition fills the site of Nakaya’s dancing fog and lighting design by Shiro Takatani, with sound that also pays tribute to the visionary concepts of Fujiko Nakaya and the sonic imagination of Duke Ellington. The work revisits selected themes by Ellington including Lady of the Lavender Mist, The Kissing Mist, Atmosphere (Moon Mist), A Blue Fog That You Can Almost See Through (Transblucency), The Fog That Clouds It (Schwiphti). As these titles suggest, the music is atmospheric, lush and mist-like. The sound is reminiscent of Duke Ellington’s Boston-area born saxophonists, Harry Carney and Johnny Hodges, who recorded these themes with Ellington, and performed with his orchestra in the Ruins.
This 20-minute sound installation, playing at 6:00pm and 7:00pm, comprises an array of speakers located at the Overlook Shelter Ruins surrounding the fog sculpture and audience.

Presentation of this program is made possible with generous support from Barbara and Amos Hostetter, Eugene M. Lang Foundation and an anonymous donor.

Tuesdays with Roses
2018-05-29 17:30 - 19:30 | Kelleher Rose Garden, Back Bay Fens, Boston, MA, 02115
Volunteer to help care for the roses. Training, tools and gloves supplied. Pre-registration required.

Shattuck Visitor Center Open House
2018-09-24 16:00 - 19:00 | Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 The Fenway, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy’s Shattuck Visitor Center has fresh new displays, and we want to share them with you! Enjoy refreshments, view our new exhibit Sculpting with Water and join us for an appearance of Fog x Canopy, part of our ongoing public art exhibition Fog x FLO: Fujiko Nakaya on the Emerald Necklace.
The evening will include remarks from Conservancy President Karen Mauney-Brodek at 6pm. RSVP by September 20 on our Eventbrite page.

Hello, Muddy! Guided Tour of the Restored Muddy River
2018-09-23 11:00 - 12:15 | REI at 401 Park Drive, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA, 02215
After decades spent underground beneath a parking lot, a portion of the Muddy River has been uncovered to see daylight once again. Hear the story of how river and parkland were reclaimed and how the vision of Frederick Law Olmsted is being restored for the 21st century. Bonus: A stop at Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog x Canopy!
Meet at REI, Landmark Center, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215. Free and open to the public. Bring a refillable water bottle and wear comfortable walking shoes. Register below.

Flow Through
2018-09-22 16:30 - 18:50 | Fog x Hill, Hunnewell Hillside, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA, 02130, United States
Named a “one-woman dynamo” by The Boston Globe and The Improper Bostonian’s 2018 “Creative Catalyst”, Maria Finkelmeier is a percussion performer, composer, educator, and arts entrepreneur. She is the founder and director of Kadence Arts, a Boston-based non-profit organization and co-founder of Masary Studios, a sound, light, and performance collective. Maria has taken contemporary music performance from concert halls and venues throughout the US and Europe, to unexpected spaces such as Fenway Park’s Green Monster, the Tree Hotel in Harads, Sweden, Boston Center for the Arts’ historic Cyclorama, the USS Constitution Museum, and the Frost Ice Bar.
Flow Through will consist of three 20-minute performances at 4:30, 5:30, and 6:30pm. Rain Date: September 23.

Presentation of this program is made possible with generous support from Barbara and Amos Hostetter, Eugene M. Lang Foundation and an anonymous donor.

Music in the Mist
2018-09-22 14:00 - 15:30 | Fog x Ruins, Franklin Park Overlook
Without the art of music, how does one make sense of the world around them? Their feelings perfectly laid out on a sheet of paper, no words, just the soothing sounds of ignited passions, lovers laughing, trees in the wind, fresh sea air on a perfect Sunday. All of these images, emotions and experiences are left empty.
A composition and performance by Whitney Marshall and Sympli Whitney Productionz. Sympli Whitney attempts to create a space of happiness, peace and unification through the healing power of music. Sympli is a vocalist with a 4 to 6 piece band that offer smooth jazz, rnb, soul, neosoul and funk. The band is made up of international musicians with various ethnic backgrounds and experience in music performance spanning the world.

This program is made possible with generous support from Barbara and Amos Hostetter and Eugene M. Lang Foundation.

Cancelled: Evening Garden Stroll featuring Fog and Flora in the Fens
2018-09-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 The Fenway, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Please note: This event has been cancelled due to heavy rain and a flash flood warning from the remnants of Hurricane Florence. We apologize for the inconvenience, and welcome you to sign up for one of our other tour offerings, available through our calendar.
Join us as we leave the workday far behind and meander among the blooms of the Kelleher Rose Garden and pathways of an eclectic and historic Victory Garden and immerse ourselves in artist Fujiko Nakaya’s “Fog x Canopy” installation. A stroll for the senses!
Meet at the Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115. Free and open to the public. Bring a refillable water bottle and wear comfortable walking shoes. Register below.

Role of Clouds and Particles in Climate
2018-09-17 18:30 - 19:30 | Fog x Hill, Hunnewell Hillside, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA, 02130, United States
Presented by Daniel Ciczo, PhD, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Particles in our atmosphere, whether from the natural environment or from human-built engines, affect climate in ways we don’t yet fully understand. MIT Professor Dan Cziczo will speak of particles and clouds in our atmosphere and how climate is influenced by them. The evening will begin outdoors at Fog x Hill, a Fujiko Nakaya fog exhibit at the Arboretum and then shift indoors for a lecture about clouds and climate. Arrive promptly at 6:30pm to view Fog x Hill, a timed-release landscape experience.
Registration required! Register here.

No Data is An Island
2018-09-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Fog x Island, Allerton Overlook, Olmsted Park
Our landscape and public spaces are changing fast and so is how we look at them. And not only us. Can one visit a place without ever being in it? Only through the Cloud? Ofri Cnaani’s No Data is an Island is a collaborative encounter that is informed by current reviewing and sharing tourist economies that allow us to ‘know better’ and to ‘go better’, as well as civilian imaging technologies, and local eye-witnesses. The multi-faced digital participatory piece will exercise the meaning of visiting and knowing a place: physically, visually, digitally and mentally. New images will slowly emerge, surfacing new connections between places and people. A mind-map of on an island in an age of hyper-connectivity.
To fully participate in this performance experience, download WhatsApp and participate at https://chat.whatsapp.com/7l1xwJG8ZR3Cf9EXoKyTqt.

Presentation of this program is made possible with generous support from Barbara and Amos Hostetter, Eugene M. Lang Foundation and an anonymous donor.

the SOUND [if trees were water]
2018-08-09 17:30 - 18:30 | Fog x Canopy, Clemente Field, Back Bay Fens
the SOUND gathers voice recordings from immigrant students of the Boston International Newcomers Academy [BINcA] and connects them throughout the city in a series of multidisciplinary performance and sound installations. The first of a 3-movement piece by composer Beau Kenyon, the SOUND [if trees were water] explores family identity as the root to generating your own hope and success. Dancers will be costumed in sculptural, sound-emitting pieces as they move around and through the audience, enveloping them in the spoken words of teenage immigrants woven together with an original sound score and under a blanket of Nakaya’s ethereal fog sculpture. Visit beaukenyon.com/thesound for more information about this and the remaining two movements which will be placed throughout the city.

Presentation of this program is made possible with generous support from Barbara and Amos Hostetter, Eugene M. Lang Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, Northeastern University Center for the Arts and The Boston Foundation.

Fog x Kids: Family Drop-Ins
2018-09-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Fog x Hill, Hunnewell Hillside, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA, 02130, United States
Discover Fog x FLO with kids in family drop-in activities at the Arnold Arboretum’s Fog x Hill sculpture.

September 15th: Drop in for a Hydrophobic Lab to find out how fog interacts with other elements (Ages 8 and up)
October 6th: Story Time and, for extra fun, Hide & Seek in the Fog (Ages 3-8)
October 28th: Engineering in the Fog: make your own glasses to create your own personal fog (Ages 8 and up)

One adult may bring a maximum of three children. Meet on the Hunnewell Building lawn to the south of the building. Free, drop-in, no registration required. In case of inclement weather, please contact 617.384.5209.

From Olmsted to Nakaya: Art and Design of the Back Fens
2018-09-15 11:00 - 12:30, 2018-09-08 11:00 - 12:30 | Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 The Fenway, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
A guided walk through the centuries of a historic landscape designed by Frederick Law Olmsted with stop at artist Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog x Canopy. Hear the story of how Frederick Law Olmsted transformed an area of polluted waterways and mudflats into a scenic fens and the later 20th century revisions that resulted in the landscape we see today.
Meet at the Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115. Free and open to the public. Bring a refillable water bottle and wear comfortable walking shoes.

practices in the imaginary: reading - Luke Martin
2018-09-15 07:30 - 19:30 | Fog x Beach, Jamaica Pond
practices in the imaginary: reading is a piece for two people, performing slowly, quietly within Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog x Beach sculpture.
Luke Martin is an experimental composer, performer, and poet currently living in Boston, MA. His work focuses on the concepts of silence, blandness, and social sculpture and is primarily interested in exploring limits of perception and methods of re-evaluating (and altering) processes of everyday life, i.e., ways of being in the world.
Some (current) artistic concerns include: composition as engagement in process(es); composition as perception / attention; being in the world; consideration of performance / composition from a point of silence or doing nothing; critiquing the self-desire to do something (more); listening; field recording; composition as fundamentally social; sound as always happening; sound as incidental / by-product of (other) processes; how we engage in pre-determined or taken-for-granted processes constantly; also, constant creation of (new) processes or compositions by everyone/thing everywhere; layering of communal activity located on the edges or outside of perception; meeting / communicating / seeing / listening / being in a fog; silence as fog; silence as being in the world; position of relationality between subject and object; being bored or engaging with boredom as being in the world / being creative; potential.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Emerald Necklace Conservancy generously provided by Barbara and Amos Hostetter and the Eugene M. Lang Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Boston Foundation, as well as by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency which is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Wayfinder
2018-09-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Fog x Beach, Jamaica Pond
A sound and dance performance by composer Mattia C. Maurée, Wayfinder observes how many cultures learned from nature to navigate by starlight. Movement evolves as one journeying performer (violin/voice/dance) chances upon another (bells/voice/dance), reaching out in the natural world trying to find their way. Finding themselves connected by a thread, they find their way, connection, and some kind of peace.
Featuring 4 performances at 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, and 6:30. This performance is weather-dependent and will be cancelled in the event of rain.

This program is made possible with generous support from Barbara and Amos Hostetter and Eugene M. Lang Foundation.

Accomplices
2018-09-10 - 2018-10-31 | Emerald Necklace, 125 The Fenway, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Designed and produced by artists Andy Graydon and Isabel Beavers, Accomplices is a series of six printed postcards that invite visitors themselves to perform small micro-compositions on each site in response to and collaboration with each of Nakaya’s sculptures. One card is available at each location of Nakaya’s sculptures, as well as at the Emerald Necklace Conservancy’s Shattuck Visitor Center, and is designed specifically for that park site and sculpture. The front of each postcard features a color image of a medley of objects gleaned from the site where the card is found: a gum wrapper; a misplaced earring; a river-worn stone; a crumpled leaf or a goose feather. Inspired by George Brecht’s “Solitaire” set of artist’s cards, the arrangements raise up the value of quotidian objects and of simple moments of attention and discovery in the field. All six cards can be placed side-by-side to become one panoramic image.
The reverse side of each card features a short text-based score that instructs visitors to imagine, move, listen, or engage with the fog sculptures and the park environment in ways that heighten their sensitivity to, and immersion in, their surroundings. In this way, each visitor is included as a performer of the work itself, as a creative author of their own experience of the fog sculptures, the park’s landscape, and in moments of their daily experience.

This program is made possible with generous support from Barbara and Amos Hostetter and Eugene M. Lang Foundation.

Second Saturday: Woodlands Volunteer Corps
2018-04-14 10:00 - 13:00 | Olmsted and Franklin Parks, United States

Evening Garden Stroll featuring Fog and Flora in the Fens
2018-09-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 The Fenway, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Join us as we leave the workday far behind and meander among the blooms of the Kelleher Rose Garden and pathways of an eclectic and historic Victory Garden and immerse ourselves in artist Fujiko Nakaya’s “Fog x Canopy” installation. A stroll for the senses!
Meet at the Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115. Free and open to the public. Bring a refillable water bottle and wear comfortable walking shoes.
