Week of Events
Play Reading: ‘Sophia Hayden Deserves Better’
Join Jamaica Plain History Society on Zoom for a reading of the play Sophia Hayden Deserves Better by Stephanie Alison Walker. In 1891 a brilliant 23-year-old woman from Jamaica Plain won an architecture contest to design the Woman’s Building for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. What should have been the start to a flourishing […]
Tree Equity in Boston: What It Is and How to Grow It
Tree Equity in Boston: What It Is and How to Grow It
Tree Equity in Boston: What It Is and How to Grow It Tuesday, December 6, 6:30pm -7:30pm Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre Street, Boston, 02131 https://arboretum.harvard.edu/events/#tree-equity-in-boston The City of Boston recently released a new Urban Forest Plan that aims to grow the city's urban forest equitably. In this talk, David Meshoulam, Executive Director of […]
JP Holiday Stroll
JP Holiday Stroll
Thursday, December 8th from 5-8pm Everyone is welcome to frolic on their own to Jamaica Plain businesses to enjoy shopping, cocktails, treats, discounts, door prizes and giveaways.
Art Workshop | Botanical Cyanotype
Art Workshop | Botanical Cyanotype
Art Workshop | Botanical Cyanotype Friday, December 9, 1pm-3:30pm https://arboretum.harvard.edu/events/event-signup/?id=60785 Learn how to make beautiful seasonal cards and prints using the alternative photography method known as Cyanotype. Participants will collect leaves and seeds in the landscape and arrange them on special paper to create a deep blue print with bright, ghost-white silhouettes. This historic photography […]
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