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    Fog x Canopy, Clemente Field, Back Bay Fens
    Fog Events

    The site-specific piece is based on the Fenway Memory Project, an oral history of the neighborhood.  It was created for Fujiko Nakaya's Fog x Canopy installation in the Back Bay Fens.

  • Lavender Ruins

    Fog x Ruins, Franklin Park Overlook
    Fog Events

    This sound composition by Neil Leonard 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 and Atmosphere (Moon Mist).

  • Tour “Fog x FLO” with Frederick Law Olmsted

    Fog x Canopy, Clemente Field, Back Bay Fens
    Fog Events

    Tour Fog x FLO: Fujiko Nakaya on the Emerald Necklace with FLO (Frederick Law Olmsted) himself! Join Olmsted (local historian and actor Gerry Wright) on a guided "symphonic walk" around each of Nakaya's fog sculptures.

  • Music for Ground and Atmosphere

    Fog x Hill, Hunnewell Hillside, Arnold Arboretum 125 Arborway, Boston, MA, United States
    Fog Events

    "Music for Ground and Atmosphere" is a 45-minute live performance on keyboard and guitar interwoven with live improvisation and pre-composed material to respond musically to Olmsted and Nakayas' spatial & artistic decisions.

  • HERON

    Fog x Island, Allerton Overlook, Olmsted Park
    Fog Events

    A sound and dance piece by performance duo Lord and June, HERON interacts with Nakaya’s large-scale fog sculptures at the Leverett Pond site in Brookline. HERON features an ambient sound composition, spatialized by key participants wearing small wireless speakers housed within sculptural vessels and following the performance as it meanders along the path.

  • Lavender Ruins

    Fog x Ruins, Franklin Park Overlook
    Fog Events

    This sound composition by Neil Leonard 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 and Atmosphere (Moon Mist).

  • From Olmsted to Nakaya: Art & Design of the Back Bay Fens

    Shattuck Visitor Center 125 The Fenway, Boston, MA, United States
    Fog Events

    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.

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    Emerald Necklace Bike Tour

    Shattuck Visitor Center 125 The Fenway, Boston, MA, United States
    Conservancy Events

    Join the Emerald Necklace Conservancy for an interpretive bike tour from the Fens to Arnold Arboretum, led by a Conservancy docent.

    $10

  • Lavender Ruins

    Fog x Ruins, Franklin Park Overlook
    Fog Events

    This sound composition by Neil Leonard 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 and Atmosphere (Moon Mist).

  • Second Saturday: Woodlands Volunteer Corps

    Olmsted and Franklin Parks , United States
    Conservancy Events

    Help implement a comprehensive woodlands management program and promote a healthier forest through activities ranging from removing invasive plant species to conditioning forest soil. Pre-registration required.



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