Sweet Auburn: The Magazine of the Friends of Mount Auburn A Dynamic and Evolving Landscape

Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery 580 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138-5517 NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID LEOMINSTER, MA PERMIT NO. 17 www.mountauburn.org • 617-547-7105 PRESORTED BOUND PRINTED U.S. POSTAGE PAID LEOMINSTER, MA PERMIT NO. 17 Upcoming Events Here is a sampling from the exciting schedule of upcoming programs.Visit us online today to register for any of these programs or to get a complete list of other events on our calendar. r Book Talk and Signing for The Art of Commemoration and America’s First Rural Cemetery: Mount Auburn’s Significant Monument Collection Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 5:30 pm Please join Melissa Banta and Meg L. Winslow for a conversation about their new book published by the Friends of Mount Auburn. The volume explores Mount Auburn Cemetery’s monuments within the context of the development of American commemorative art and includes a guide to thirty of the Cemetery’s significant monuments. The authors will be available to sign books after the program. Refreshments at 5:30 PM, program begins at 6 PM r earth.sky Thursday, November 10, 2016, 6 PM Artist-in-residence Roberto Mighty will present his transmedia exhibition earth.sky in Story Chapel. Inspired by and filmed at Mount Auburn Cemetery, earth.sky is a sitespecific, immersive transmedia meditation on life, death, ritual, history, landscape, nature, and culture. r Candle Lighting Service Wednesday, December 21, 2016, 4 PM Our annual Candle Lighting Service, held each December, provides the opportunity to remember all of the loved ones no longer with us. Join us in Story Chapel for this seasonal program of words and music. During the service, you will have the opportunity to light a candle in honor of someone you wish to remember. Weather permitting, we will place the lighted candles in nearby Asa Gray Garden at the conclusion of the event. 30 | Sweet Auburn A Glimpse Beyond returns for a 5th year of inspired performances! Saturday October 22 – Sunday October 23 Encounter unexpected sights and sounds while walking along a route through Mount Auburn’s historic landscape. These “glimpses,” being performed by a cast of professional and community-based musicians, dancers, and artists, will have you reexamining your ideas about life and death, joy and sorrow. Funding for this project has been provided by the Cambridge Arts Council and the Watertown Cultural Council (local agencies supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency). Learn more at mountauburn.org/aglimpsebeyond/ USE T USE T

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