Upcoming events + activities
The BSLA Calendar
If you want to connect, learn, or grow, there are things here for you.
We’re continuously building this calendar to be a big, beautiful summary of all-things-landscape-architecture in our region.
What else do you want to see? Please send ideas or info our way! Email details to chapteroffice@bslanow.org. Thanks!
Fieldday 2026 Call for Proposals Deadline
Fieldday Call For Proposals
The ASLA chapters of New England invite our landscape architecture community to submit proposals to lead sessions at Fieldday 2026: New England's Conference on Landscape Architecture. Rural to urban, forest to field to shore, backyard to watershed, proposals are encouraged from across the New England region, discussing ideas and work at every scale.
This year’s theme: “Nor’easter; The power of change in New England.”
Attendance will be approximately 450. Members + non-members, emerging professionals to established leaders, landscape architects + engineers + builders + others within our ecosystem, this includes you!
We welcome proposals for
Presentation Sessions (60 min)
Lightning Talks (5 min)
Site Tours (typically 90 min, though can vary)
Presentation Sessions and the Lightning Talks will take place in person at Fieldday, New England's Conference on Landscape Architecture on Friday, May 1 at the David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University in Boston, MA.
Site Tours can happen in/near Boston on Saturday, May 2 OR anywhere in New England at another date that you propose.
If you want to submit more than one thing, great! Please fill out the form multiple times.
Submit Your Proposal Here
All submissions are due by the end of Monday, February 2, 2026.
Click here for all about Fieldday. Questions? Email conference@bslanow.org.
MNLA Dreams & Solutions: Green Industry Winter Forum and Trade Show
Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association
Dreams & Solutions: Green Industry Winter Forum and Trade Show
February 4–5
Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel & Trade Center, Marlborough, MA
Program link:
https://mnla.com/events/2026-winter-forum/#!event-register/2025/2/12/dreams-solutions-green-
Earn 4 MCH credits when attending both days, 2 MCH credits available for single day attendance.
MCH and pesticide credits for educational sessions
Speakers from New England and beyond
After hours social networking
And more!
WMBSLA Winter Social
In person at the Taproom at the Hangar in Amherst.
Let's get social! Join us for a post-holiday social with our Western Mass landscape architecture community. All are welcome!
Get tickets here.
The Western Mass section of BSLA invites our larger landscape, architecture, design & construction community to join us for a fun evening to celebrate the winter season & kick off the New Year.
Say hi to old friends and meet someone new... Bring a coworker, family, friends, all are welcome! Come and hang out + share good cheer.
Tickets are free for members, $10 non-members, and include lots of hot appetizers, 1 drink ticket! Non-members, partners, family, and friends are welcome.
There will also be a slideshow celebrating WMBSLA members' work and our landscape architecture community. We look forward to seeing you there!
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The Winter Social is generously sponsored by
MNLA Dreams & Solutions: Green Industry Winter Forum and Trade Show
Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association
Dreams & Solutions: Green Industry Winter Forum and Trade Show
February 4–5
Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel & Trade Center, Marlborough, MA
Program link:
https://mnla.com/events/2026-winter-forum/#!event-register/2025/2/12/dreams-solutions-green-
Earn 4 MCH credits when attending both days, 2 MCH credits available for single day attendance.
MCH and pesticide credits for educational sessions
Speakers from New England and beyond
After hours social networking
And more!
UMass Zube Lecture: "Discovering the Lost Landscape of the Hopewell Earthworks," by Elizabeth Brabec & UMass Amherst Researchers
Free. In person in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170), University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The UMass Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning's Zube Lecture Series invites leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to give weekly talks on major topics in landscape architecture, planning, sustainability, and related fields.
The spring semester Zube Lecture Series kicks off with a talk by Professor Elizabeth Brabec and her research team on Thursday, February 5th, at 4:00 p.m. in the Design Building Lecture Hall (room 170). Admission is free and open to the public. Snacks and drinks will be provided.
A recording of this lecture will be posted to UMass LARP's YouTube channel following the event.
UMass LARP Career Fair
The annual UMass Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Career Fair brings together firms, agencies, and organizations across New England to connect with students studying landscape architecture, planning, and design. The event is organized by the UMass Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects and provides a great opportunity to meet emerging professionals, share work, and build future connections.
Interested in attending? Contact Trisha at tbhattachary@umass.edu for details or to reserve a table.
Evenings with Experts: From Wasteland to Wonder
Online. Free.
Grow Native Massachusetts: Evenings with Experts
From Wasteland to Wonder
Basil Camu, Author, From Wasteland to Wonder: Easy Ways We Can Help Heal Earth in the Sub/Urban Landscape
February 11 | 7:00 - 8:30pm
Register
The way we currently manage our suburban and urban landscapes is creating an ecological wasteland. Fortunately, we have an alternative path: by working with natural systems instead of against them, we have the power to help Earth heal. Basil will begin by discussing the functions of natural systems and how they’re being damaged by standard land care practices. Then he will delve into impactful ways we can take action, from planting saplings and saving mature trees, to creating pocket forests and replacing our lawns with Piedmont prairies. Finally, for those who want to help shift paradigms even more, Basil will introduce us to his initiative Project Pando, which provides a model for community-based efforts that gather native seeds, raise them into trees, and give them away for free.
Basil Camu pursues his purpose and passions as the co-founder of Leaf & Limb, a tree care company in Raleigh, NC, and Project Pando, a non-profit that aims to connect people to trees. He is an ISA Board Certified Master Arborist and author of the book From Wasteland to Wonder - Easy Ways We Can Help Heal Earth in the Sub/Urban Landscape. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Gardenista, and A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach.
UMass Zube Lecture: Panel with UMass Amherst Landscape Architecture Alumni
Free. In person in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170), University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The UMass Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning's Zube Lecture Series invites leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to give weekly talks on major topics in landscape architecture, planning, sustainability, and related fields.
The spring semester Zube Lecture Series continues with a Zube Lecture Series panel discussion featuring graduates of the landscape architecture program at UMass Amherst. This event will be held on Thursday, February 12th, at 4:00 p.m. in the Design Building Lecture Hall (room 170). Admission is free and open to the public. Snacks and drinks will be provided.
A recording of this lecture will be posted to UMass LARP's YouTube channel following the event.
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
Online.
This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.
This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.
The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.
It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.
The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force with Presentation by Marie Chieppo
Online. Free. All welcome.
Including a presentation by Marie Chieppo
Meadows can be an overwhelming prospect but they can be much more manageable when key characteristics of the soil and plants are the foundation of design. Knowledge of species-specific longevity, the processes of succession and competition, soil characteristics and root morphology improves the likelihood of success with beautiful results.
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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
UMass Zube Lecture: "Paradise Lot: Urban Edible Landscaping," by Eric Toensmeier
Free. In person in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170), University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The UMass Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning's Zube Lecture Series invites leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to give weekly talks on major topics in landscape architecture, planning, sustainability, and related fields.
The spring semester Zube Lecture Series continues with a Zube Lecture presented by Eric Toensmeier on Thursday, February 26th, at 4:00 p.m. in the Design Building Lecture Hall (room 170). Admission is free and open to the public. Snacks and drinks will be provided.
A recording of this lecture will be posted to UMass LARP's YouTube channel following the event.
UMass Zube Lecture: "Inclusive Approaches to Building Climate-Resilient Cities and Communities," by Rizqa Hidayani
Free. In person in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170), University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The UMass Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning's Zube Lecture Series invites leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to give weekly talks on major topics in landscape architecture, planning, sustainability, and related fields.
The spring semester Zube Lecture Series continues with a Zube Lecture presented by Rizqa Hidayani on Thursday, March 5th, at 4:00 p.m. in the Design Building Lecture Hall (room 170). Admission is free and open to the public. Snacks and drinks will be provided.
A recording of this lecture will be posted to UMass LARP's YouTube channel following the event.
Evenings with Experts: Unlocking the Mysteries of Native Plant Selection
In Person. Free.
Grow Native Massachusetts: Evenings with Experts
Unlocking the Mysteries of Native Plant Selection
Kim Eierman, Author, The Pollinator Victory Garden
March 11 | 7:00 - 8:30pm
Where: IN PERSON at the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
When choosing native plants, you have to ask the right questions to get the best results. Kim Eierman will help you sort out the mysteries and complexities of native plant selection including: Am I buying a genetic clone, and does it matter? What are local ecotypes and where can I buy them? Are native cultivars ok? Are dwarf nativars ecologically-useful? What’s the tradeoff with double flowers? Which native plants require pollination partners (i.e. are dioecious) and how do I source them? What are the pros and cons of planting native seeds vs. live plants? Get the answers you need to make your native landscape both beautiful and eco-beneficial.
Kim Eierman is the Founder of EcoBeneficial LLC and author of The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening. She is an ecological landscape designer and environmental horticulturist specializing in native plants. Based in New York, Kim teaches at the New York Botanical Garden and Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and is a Steering Committee member of The Native Plant Center.
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
Online.
This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.
This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.
The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.
It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.
The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force Meeting
Online. All welcome.
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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
UMass Zube Lecture: "Opportunities and Tensions Between Planning, Sustainability, Community Engagement, Equity, and Politics," by Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra
Free. In person in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170), University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The UMass Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning's Zube Lecture Series invites leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to give weekly talks on major topics in landscape architecture, planning, sustainability, and related fields.
The spring semester Zube Lecture Series continues with a Zube Lecture presented by Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra on Thursday, March 26th, at 4:00 p.m. in the Design Building Lecture Hall (room 170). Admission is free and open to the public. Snacks and drinks will be provided.
A recording of this lecture will be posted to UMass LARP's YouTube channel following the event.
UMass Zube Lecture: "Designing Biodiversity through Landscape Interactions: Applied Science at Varied Scales," by Evan Abramson
Free. In person in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170), University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The UMass Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning's Zube Lecture Series invites leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to give weekly talks on major topics in landscape architecture, planning, sustainability, and related fields.
The spring semester Zube Lecture Series continues with a Zube Lecture presented by Evan Abramson on Thursday, April 2nd, at 4:00 p.m. in the Design Building Lecture Hall (room 170). Admission is free and open to the public. Snacks and drinks will be provided.
A recording of this lecture will be posted to UMass LARP's YouTube channel following the event.
UMass Zube Lecture: "BareRoot Designs; Nawada Landscape Design," by Jennifer Verprauskus & Jenn Nawada
Free. In person in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170), University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The UMass Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning's Zube Lecture Series invites leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to give weekly talks on major topics in landscape architecture, planning, sustainability, and related fields.
The spring semester Zube Lecture Series continues with a Zube Lecture presented by Jennifer Verprauskus and Jenn Nawada on Thursday, April 9th, at 4:00 p.m. in the Design Building Lecture Hall (room 170). Admission is free and open to the public. Snacks and drinks will be provided.
A recording of this lecture will be posted to UMass LARP's YouTube channel following the event.
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
Online.
This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.
This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.
The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.
It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.
The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
UMass Zube Lecture: Regional Planning PhD Showcase, Zube Lecture Series Special Event
Free. In person in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170), University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The UMass Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning's Zube Lecture Series invites leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to give weekly talks on major topics in landscape architecture, planning, sustainability, and related fields.
The spring semester Zube Lecture Series continues with a Zube Lecture Series special event featuring talks on research by PhD in Regional Planning students and candidates at UMass Amherst. This event will be held on Thursday, April 16th, at 4:00 p.m. in the Design Building Lecture Hall (room 170). Admission is free and open to the public. Snacks and drinks will be provided.
A recording of this discussion will be posted to UMass LARP's YouTube channel following the event.
Evenings with Experts: How to Grow a Better Bird Feeder
In Person and Online. Free.
Grow Native Massachusetts: Evenings with Experts
How to Grow a Better Bird Feeder
Desirée L. Narango, Conservation Biologist, Vermont Center for EcoStudies
April 16 | 7:00 - 8:30pm
Where: IN PERSON at First Parish Church, 7 Harrington Rd, Lexington, MA & ONLINE via Zoom
Sign Up for Zoom (No Registration Needed to Attend in Person)
Bird populations are declining at an alarming rate due to habitat loss, climate change, and pesticides. Fortunately, there are simple actions you can take to restore critical bird habitat in your yards and gardens. In this talk, Desirée will share her research on the importance of native plants to food webs, why insects matter for bird conservation, and the practical steps you can take to support bird habitat throughout the year.
Desirée L. Narango is a conservation scientist at the Vermont Center for EcoStudies. Her research program focuses on understanding how global change impacts bird and insect populations, and identifying conservation solutions in human-dominated habitats including residential yards and urban green spaces. Desirée has a Ph.D. in Entomology and Wildlife Ecology from the University of Delaware.
WMBLSA Service Day
Landscape architects + designers + students + friends:
Please save the date for this year’s WMBSLA Service Day in Northampton. Details coming soon!
RSVP Here
If you own gloves or loppers, please bring them!
Please email Jeff and Chris with any questions.
All are welcome + appreciated.
Thank you!
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NOTE: RSVP appreciated, not required; it's OK to just show up! The tickets are only to help us with planning.
UMass Zube Lecture: Panel with UMass Amherst Regional Planning Alumni
Free. In person in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170), University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The UMass Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning's Zube Lecture Series invites leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to give weekly talks on major topics in landscape architecture, planning, sustainability, and related fields.
The spring semester Zube Lecture Series continues with a Zube Lecture Series panel discussion featuring graduates of the regional planning master's program at UMass Amherst. This event will be held on Thursday, April 23rd, at 4:00 p.m. in the Design Building Lecture Hall (room 170). Admission is free and open to the public. Snacks and drinks will be provided.
A recording of this discussion will be posted to UMass LARP's YouTube channel following the event.
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force Meeting
Online. All welcome.
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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
UMass Zube Lecture: LARP Student Awards Ceremony, Zube Lecture Series Special Event
Free. In person in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170), University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The UMass Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning's Zube Lecture Series invites leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to give weekly talks on major topics in landscape architecture, planning, sustainability, and related fields.
The spring semester Zube Lecture Series continues with a Zube Lecture Series special event to announce and celebrate the 2026 recipients of the UMass LARP annual student awards.
Evenings with Experts: Explore the Nighttime World of Caterpillars & Moths
In Person and Online. Free.
Grow Native Massachusetts: Evenings with Experts
Explore the Nighttime World of Caterpillars & Moths
May 20 | 7:00 - 8:30pm
Where: IN PERSON at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, 11 French Drive, Boylston, MA & ONLINE via Zoom
Sign Up for Zoom (No Registration Needed to Attend in Person)
The Caterpillar Lab will present a photograph and video packed talk that explores the nighttime world of caterpillars, moths, and how to find them. Join us to learn how we can explore our own backyard habitats through the eyes of a moth, using UV and special light traps to uncover a whole new perspective. This special lecture will include time to meet a few special caterpillar specimens up close and, and chat with Caterpillar Lab educators about all things local caterpillar. In-person attendees will also get to try out blacklight flashlights!
The Caterpillar Lab is a non-profit based in New Hampshire that fosters greater appreciation and care for the complexity and beauty of natural history through live caterpillar educational programs, research initiatives, and photography and film projects. They believe that an increased awareness of one’s local environment is the foundation on which healthy and responsible attitudes towards the broader natural systems of this world are built.
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
Online.
This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.
This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.
The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.
It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.
The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force Meeting
Online. All welcome.
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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
WMBSLA Summer Social
In Person at Progression Brewery, Northampton
The Western Mass Section of BSLA invites students, landscape architects, designers, teachers, makers, and all in our larger landscape architecture community to a Summer Social! Classmates, colleagues, friends, ALL ARE WELCOME.
RSVP Here
Say hi to old friends and meet someone new... Bring a coworker, family, friends, ALL ARE WELCOME. UMass and Five College and Conway students, this includes you!
Tickets are free for students + members, $10 non-members, and include lots of hot appetizers and 1 free drink ticket. Come and hang out + share good cheer.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
Online.
This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.
This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.
The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.
It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.
The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force Meeting
Online. All welcome.
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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
Online.
This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.
This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.
The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.
It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.
The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force Meeting
Online. All welcome.
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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
Online.
This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.
This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.
The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.
It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.
The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force Meeting
Online. All welcome.
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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
Online.
This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.
This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.
The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.
It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.
The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
Western Mass BSLA Hike + Brew
In person. Free.
Join us for a hike, a beer, or both!
Landscape architects + designers, students + coworkers, family + friends:
Join us for a light-hearted fall hike, followed by food and drink. A Western Mass BSLA Social!
The "agenda" is to enjoy this special landscape and have fun together. We'll meet at Mass Audobon's Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary in Easthampton at 10:30am and hike some of their 4 miles of trails.
Afterwards, we'll head over to Abandoned Building Brewery -- around noon.
The Arcadia entrance fee + the first round of drinks will be covered by BSLA.
RSVP here
All are welcome. Say hi to an old friend and meet someone new. Bring a partner, or kids, or a classmate... you get the idea. Five College students, this includes you! The vibe is informal and fun.
PLEASE NOTE: Tickets are FREE. RSVP requested to make communication easier in case of bad weather. We aim to go in most conditions, but if anything changes due to weather, we'll email all ticket holders + will announce here and via Instagram (@BSLAoffice).
At Arcadia or at the Brewery, it is OK to just show up, too.
Please come dressed for the weather, with shoes good for walking, water bottle and sun protection.
Directions: click here.
Join us outside! We look forward to seeing you
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force Meeting
Online. All welcome.
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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
Online.
This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.
This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.
The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.
It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.
The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force Meeting
Online. All welcome.
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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
Online.
This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.
This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.
The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.
It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.
The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force Meeting
Online. All welcome.
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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
Online.
This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.
This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.
The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.
It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.
The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force Meeting
Online. All welcome.
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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
BSLA DEI Committee Meeting
Online.
The relatively new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of BSLA aims to foster a network of welcoming support focused on people of color and other minorities within and beyond the organization.
Given current events, this is necessary now more than ever.
What’s on your mind? What’s your lived experience? What do you/your colleagues need? How can we act together?
Members + non-members, students and recent graduates to seasoned leaders are welcome. Join us.
Click here to join the Zoom
Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023
BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force Meeting
Online. All welcome.
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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.
All are welcome.
One Week Left! Fieldday 2026 Call for Proposals
Fieldday Call For Proposals
The ASLA chapters of New England invite our landscape architecture community to submit proposals to lead sessions at Fieldday 2026: New England's Conference on Landscape Architecture. Rural to urban, forest to field to shore, backyard to watershed, proposals are encouraged from across the New England region, discussing ideas and work at every scale.
This year’s theme: “Nor’easter; The power of change in New England.”
Attendance will be approximately 450. Members + non-members, emerging professionals to established leaders, landscape architects + engineers + builders + others within our ecosystem, this includes you!
We welcome proposals for
Presentation Sessions (60 min)
Lightning Talks (5 min)
Site Tours (typically 90 min, though can vary)
Presentation Sessions and the Lightning Talks will take place in person at Fieldday, New England's Conference on Landscape Architecture on Friday, May 1 at the David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University in Boston, MA.
Site Tours can happen in/near Boston on Saturday, May 2 OR anywhere in New England at another date that you propose.
If you want to submit more than one thing, great! Please fill out the form multiple times.
Submit Your Proposal Here
All submissions are due by the end of Monday, February 2, 2026.
Click here for all about Fieldday. Questions? Email conference@bslanow.org.
Two Weeks Left! Fieldday 2026 Call for Proposals
Fieldday Call For Proposals
The ASLA chapters of New England invite our landscape architecture community to submit proposals to lead sessions at Fieldday 2026: New England's Conference on Landscape Architecture. Rural to urban, forest to field to shore, backyard to watershed, proposals are encouraged from across the New England region, discussing ideas and work at every scale.
This year’s theme: “Nor’easter; The power of change in New England.”
Attendance will be approximately 450. Members + non-members, emerging professionals to established leaders, landscape architects + engineers + builders + others within our ecosystem, this includes you!
We welcome proposals for
Presentation Sessions (60 min)
Lightning Talks (5 min)
Site Tours (typically 90 min, though can vary)
Presentation Sessions and the Lightning Talks will take place in person at Fieldday, New England's Conference on Landscape Architecture on Friday, May 1 at the David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University in Boston, MA.
Site Tours can happen in/near Boston on Saturday, May 2 OR anywhere in New England at another date that you propose.
If you want to submit more than one thing, great! Please fill out the form multiple times.
Submit Your Proposal Here
All submissions are due by the end of Monday, February 2, 2026.
Click here for all about Fieldday. Questions? Email conference@bslanow.org.
GDI Visual Storytelling Charrette
In person at the offices of HDR in Boston
The Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children committee invites all to a Design Charrette on Visual Storytelling through Photography.
RSVP here
This Charrette is a working prelude to an upcoming GDIRC initiative with refugee and displaced teens at the U.S.–Mexico border. The project uses participatory photography, images, text, collage, and guided AI augmentation to explore lived experience, memory, and imagined futures, and to support young participants in shaping and sharing their own narratives.
During the Charrette, participants will:
• Work with their own submitted photographs to explore narrative, symbolism, and sequence
• Reflect collectively on which visual strategies most effectively foster empathy, dialogue, and public awareness
• Help define design and methodological parameters for the subsequent youth workshops
Participants are asked to submit 10–12 photographs in advance. Full details and registration information are included in the attached flyer.
Advanced RSVP required.
New Directions in the American Landscape: Seeing the Forest and the Trees
Looking for plant related learning opportunities in the Northeast this winter? The BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force recommends these fantastic events, which are a combination of presentation-style education and tradeshow-style vending. Expert presenters span disciplines of design and field teams, including landscape architects, designers, gardeners, land managers, native plant specialists, arborists, pest managers, research and academics, and more. Specialized vendors include plant nurseries, custom soils, irrigation manufacturers, and more. Bring your big questions along with the weedy ones and find opportunities to talk it through with peer and allied experts.
New Directions in the American Landscape
37th Annual Symposium
Seeing the Forest and the Trees
Designing Landscapes that Integrate Regional Specificity with Global Commonality
January 15-16
Union, NJ
Keane University + Online
Program link:
https://www.ndal.org/2026-annual-symposium#program-details
Maine Winter Social
In person at Broadway Bowl, 735 Broadway, South Portland
Free for members, $10/non
Get your ticket
The Maine section of BSLA invites our larger landscape, architecture, design & construction community to join us for a fun evening to celebrate the winter season & kick off the New Year.
Say hi to old friends and meet someone new... Bring a coworker, family, friends -- and let's bowl! Or just come and hang out + share good cheer.
Tickets are free for members, $10 non-members, and include lots of hot appetizers, a drink ticket, and bowling! Non-members, partners, family and friends are welcome.
NOTE new location: BROADWAY Bowl
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The Winter Social is generously sponsored by
We look forward to seeing you there!
New! “Solopreneur” Meet Up
Online. Free. All welcome.
Register for the Zoom
Our popular Firm Leaders / Owner's Zoom meetup has a new cousin: an online Zoom meetup for Solopreneurs!
This is a drop-in, come-as-you-are space to connect, commiserate, compare notes, and share a laugh with others who are also sole practitioners or leading tiny practices. Whether you recently went out on your own or have been doing this for decades, stop by and say hello.
We expect this to be a monthly thing. Members + non-members welcome. New England solo/small firms, this is a space for you.
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In the photo: a screenshot from a recent Firm Leaders/Owners Zoom. To be added to that Google calendar invite, email Gretchen. 2026 dates for both meetups -- as well as a meetup for Public Sector LAs -- are in the process of getting posted to BSLAnow.org/events. Drop in!
New Directions in the American Landscape: Seeing the Forest and the Trees
Looking for plant related learning opportunities in the Northeast this winter? The BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force recommends these fantastic events, which are a combination of presentation-style education and tradeshow-style vending. Expert presenters span disciplines of design and field teams, including landscape architects, designers, gardeners, land managers, native plant specialists, arborists, pest managers, research and academics, and more. Specialized vendors include plant nurseries, custom soils, irrigation manufacturers, and more. Bring your big questions along with the weedy ones and find opportunities to talk it through with peer and allied experts.
New Directions in the American Landscape
37th Annual Symposium
Seeing the Forest and the Trees
Designing Landscapes that Integrate Regional Specificity with Global Commonality
January 15-16
Union, NJ
Keane University + Online
Program link:
https://www.ndal.org/2026-annual-symposium#program-details
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
Online.
This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.
This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.
The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.
It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.
The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
landsCAPE COD Green Education and Exposition
Looking for plant related learning opportunities in the Northeast this winter? The BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force recommends these fantastic events, which are a combination of presentation-style education and tradeshow-style vending. Expert presenters span disciplines of design and field teams, including landscape architects, designers, gardeners, land managers, native plant specialists, arborists, pest managers, research and academics, and more. Specialized vendors include plant nurseries, custom soils, irrigation manufacturers, and more. Bring your big questions along with the weedy ones and find opportunities to talk it through with peer and allied experts.
Cape Cod Landscape Association
landsCAPE COD Green Education and Exposition
Innovation and Insite, Shaping the Future of the Green Industry
January 13-14
Hyannis, MA
Emerald Resort and Conference Center
Program link: https://capecodlandscapes.org/page-18190
landsCAPE COD Green Education and Exposition
Looking for plant related learning opportunities in the Northeast this winter? The BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force recommends these fantastic events, which are a combination of presentation-style education and tradeshow-style vending. Expert presenters span disciplines of design and field teams, including landscape architects, designers, gardeners, land managers, native plant specialists, arborists, pest managers, research and academics, and more. Specialized vendors include plant nurseries, custom soils, irrigation manufacturers, and more. Bring your big questions along with the weedy ones and find opportunities to talk it through with peer and allied experts.
Cape Cod Landscape Association
landsCAPE COD Green Education and Exposition
Innovation and Insite, Shaping the Future of the Green Industry
January 13-14
Hyannis, MA
Emerald Resort and Conference Center
Program link: https://capecodlandscapes.org/page-18190
BSLA DEI Committee Meeting
Online.
The relatively new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of BSLA aims to foster a network of welcoming support focused on people of color and other minorities within and beyond the organization.
Given current events, this is necessary now more than ever.
What’s on your mind? What’s your lived experience? What do you/your colleagues need? How can we act together?
Members + non-members, students and recent graduates to seasoned leaders are welcome. Join us.
Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
Online.
This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.
This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.
The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.
It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.
The 2025 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
Firm Leaders+Owners Roundtable
Online.
This is an informal, monthly drop-in Zoom meeting of landscape architecture firm owners and leaders.
Our goal is to create a space where New England landscape architecture firm owners and leaders can connect, commiserate, compare notes, and hopefully laugh a little with your peers in this community.
There is no fixed agenda, but we will start with a few discussion prompts and then you can take the conversation wherever you want to go.
Questions or topics to discuss? contact BSLA President & Crowley Cottrell firm owner, Michelle Crowley.
Do you want to receive the monthly calendar invite? email Gretchen.
BSLA EP Open Meeting
Online.
Calling all Emerging Professionals...
If you're in the early stages of your design career, this is for you! Landscape designers & architects, students and recent grads. Architecture, planning, engineering, and other design industry colleagues too. All are welcome.
This open meeting takes place every 2 months from 6:30pm to 7:30pm on the second Thursday.
Do you want to receive the monthly calendar invite? email ep@bslanow.org
Join the meeting here
BSLA Public Sector Landscape Architects Zoom Meetup
Online. Free.
This is a quarterly Zoom meet up for landscape architects (or those trained as landscape architects), currently working in the public or nonprofit sector. This includes landscape architects/designers/planners working in city or town, state, or federal parks agencies as well as in other government departments or nonprofits — not in “regular” practice. We know that many of you face similar issues in your work. Many of you are The Only one of you who does what you do, too.
Our intent is to create space for this professional community to come together.
The topic of these meetings will shift depending on what you want to discuss. You do not need to be a BSLA or ASLA member to participate.
To attend the Zoom, click here.
If you’d like to be added to the calendar invite, email Gretchen.
Pictured: Jessie Waisnor and Alexandra Vecchio, landscape architects with the Town of Brookline, lead a BSLA Inside/Out tour of new & historic Brookline public spaces, October 2023
BSLA Holiday Party
In person, at Garage B.
The weather outside may be frightful (or at least sloppy) but inside will be delightful. We are ON!
Get your ticket here
Start your spatulas! It’s time for Gingerscapes + the annual BSLA Winter Social.
All are welcome. The vibe is informal and fun.
Tickets include food + 2 drinks (21+). Sponsors help keep ticket prices low for everyone, with extra discounts for ASLA members, Emerging Professionals, and Students.
Up to six teams will compete in Gingerscapes — yes! edible landscape architecture made with gingerbread, created in a confectionary charrette on-site that afternoon. See the delicious details + sign up here before November 25.
Photos below from the 2024 & 2023 BSLA Holiday Party.
today’s the deadline for Gingerscapes
In person, at Garage B.
The ogre wants to remind you….
Start your spatulas! It’s time for Gingerscapes + the annual BSLA Winter Social.
All happening in a sugar-fueled charrette two weeks from today — on Tuesday, December 2 at Garage B.
As part of these festive festivities, Emerging Professionals invite up to six teams to compete in Gingerscapes — YES! edible landscape architecture made with gingerbread, created in a confectionary charrette on-site that afternoon.
See the delicious details + sign up here for Gingerscapes
Materials are provided. No fee to participate - only a ticket to the evening party. Get your Winter Social ticket today.
All are welcome. The vibe is informal and fun.
Tickets include food + 2 drinks (21+).
Photos below from the 2024 & 2023 BSLA Holiday Party.
Firm Leaders+Owners Roundtable
Online.
This is an informal, monthly drop-in Zoom meeting of landscape architecture firm owners and leaders.
Our goal is to create a space where New England landscape architecture firm owners and leaders can connect, commiserate, compare notes, and hopefully laugh a little with your peers in this community.
There is no fixed agenda, but we will start with a few discussion prompts and then you can take the conversation wherever you want to go.
Questions or topics to discuss? contact BSLA President & Crowley Cottrell firm owner, Michelle Crowley.
Do you want to receive the monthly calendar invite? email Gretchen.
BSLA Planning Advance
Hybrid. In person at the offices of Crowley Cottrell (7 Liberty Square, 3rd Floor, Boston) AND on Zoom
It’s time for the Planning Advance — an annual tradition in which we take a moment to pause and look ahead together. What challenges & opportunities are you facing? Is our profession facing, in this region? What impact do we want to make? What should BSLA’s priorities be in 2026?
Join us for a lively discussion. All are welcome.
Drop us an email if coming in person so that we can plan appropriately
However you share your ideas with us, THANK YOU. This helps us serve you better!
Photos from pastPlanning Advances
BSLA DEI Committee Meeting
Online.
The relatively new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of BSLA aims to foster a network of welcoming support focused on people of color and other minorities within and beyond the organization.
Given current events, this is necessary now more than ever.
What’s on your mind? What’s your lived experience? What do you/your colleagues need? How can we act together?
Members + non-members, students and recent graduates to seasoned leaders are welcome. Join us.
Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023
Monthly BSLA ExComm + Leaders Meeting
Online.
This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.
This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.
The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.
It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.
The 2025 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!
Sign up for Gingerscapes!
In person, at Garage B.
Start your spatulas! It’s time for Gingerscapes + the annual BSLA Winter Social.
All happening in a sugar-fueled charrette two weeks from today — on Tuesday, December 2 at Garage B.
As part of these festive festivities, Emerging Professionals invite up to six teams to compete in Gingerscapes — YES! edible landscape architecture made with gingerbread, created in a confectionary charrette on-site that afternoon.
See the delicious details + sign up here for Gingerscapes
Materials are provided. No fee to participate - only a ticket to the evening party. Get your Winter Social ticket today.
All are welcome. The vibe is informal and fun.
Tickets include food + 2 drinks (21+).
Photos below from the 2024 & 2023 BSLA Holiday Party.
GDIRC Bi-Monthly Meeting
Online. Free. All welcome.
Join us for the Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children (GDIRC) bi-monthly meeting! This meeting is hosted via Zoom.
RSVP here to receive join information for this meeting. This information will be included in your confirmation email.
The Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children is led jointly by BSLA and BSA. To find out more, visit the GDIRC website here or visit the Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children Knowledge Community page on the BSA website here.
An Evening of Urban Innovation: The Future of Urban Living
In person.
Apex Lighting + Building Solutions invites all in the design community:
An Evening of Urban Innovation:
The Future of Urban Living
Apex Lighting + Building Solutions, in conjunction with Benito, an urban furnishing manufacturer, presents an evening for the Boston Design Community to network and discuss the future of urban living and public spaces. Guests will enjoy complimentary food and beverages. Please follow the RSVP instructions as space is limited for this captivating event. We look forward to having you join us!
RSVP here
Keynote Speaker
We’re thrilled to announce our keynote speaker, Juan Mullerat of Plusurbia— a dynamic and captivating voice on urbanism in the U.S. and Spain! Join us as he presents “The Future of Cities: Reclaiming and Protecting Our Shared Spaces.”
Directions & Parking
The event will take place at the Cosentino Showroom, conveniently located just off Congress Street in the Seaport. Validated parking will be available at the VPNE Parking Garage, only a two-minute walk from the showroom.
For those using public transportation, the Silver Line’s Courthouse stop is accessible via South Station and is just one block away.
Kindly confirm in the RSVP if you plan to take advantage of the validated parking.
LOCATION
Cosentino Showroom
36 Thomson Place, Suite 101
Boston, MA, USA
SCHEDULE
Cocktails & Food
5:00-6:30 PM
Presentation
6:30 PM
Cocktails & Networking
After
PARKING
VPNE PARKING GARAGE
11 Stillings St, Boston MA 02210
Parking will be validated
WEBSITES
GSLA New Hampshire Annual Fall Dinner
Join our friends in New Hampshire for their Annual Fall Dinner!
Register Here.
LALH Film Event: Racism and the American Park
Free. In Person.
Powerful storytelling about the role of parks in shaping the American experience and the destructive effect of racial injustice on these public spaces.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025 | 6:30 PM
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
Join LALH for an evening of film and conversation with three of America’s leading park historians—Ethan Carr, Rolf Diamant, and William O’Brien—cosponsored by Friends of Fairsted and Library of American Landscape History.
This event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required.
Photo: Rolf Diamant, Olmsted and Yosemite. All photos courtesy LALH.