Enjoy a buffet of desserts, tea sandwiches and sing-alongs as guests mingle with costumed characters from Boston Ballet’s The Nutcracker.
Make new holiday memories with The Ritz-Carlton Boston at the Sugar Plum Fairy Tea on December 10 and 17.
If you are joining The Ritz for the Sugar Plum Fairy Tea, please join the hotel in supporting Catering Joy, their Community Footprints partner, by bringing a new unwrapped toy. Catering Joy will donate all toys to children in need prior to the holidays. For every toy you donate, you will be entered to win four tickets to Boston Ballet’s production of Sleeping Beauty, backstage passes and dinner for four in Artisan Bistro.
Enjoy a buffet of desserts, tea sandwiches and sing-alongs as guests mingle with costumed characters from Boston Ballet’s The Nutcracker.
Make new holiday memories with The Ritz-Carlton Boston at the Sugar Plum Fairy Tea on December 10 and 17.
If you are joining The Ritz for the Sugar Plum Fairy Tea, please join the hotel in supporting Catering Joy, their Community Footprints partner, by bringing a new unwrapped toy. Catering Joy will donate all toys to children in need prior to the holidays. For every toy you donate, you will be entered to win four tickets to Boston Ballet’s production of Sleeping Beauty, backstage passes and dinner for four in Artisan Bistro.
The Winter Walk is a new initiative raising funds and awareness to help end homelessness in Boston. Participants will gather in Copley Square and walk 2 miles together and then gather outside for a community breakfast and presentation from partner organizations and our homeless community. Participants will receive a Winter Walk knit hat at registration and a community breakfast at the conclusion of the event.
A portion of your registration fee is tax deductible. Although it is not a requirement for participation, organizers encourage each participant to raise additional funds for their partner organizations. Every contribution counts and makes an impact.
You can sign up for individual registration or start a team (you can start the team now and invite more people to join later!). You can also find answers to many questions on the FAQ page here.
Can’t walk with us on February 12th? Please consider signing-up to volunteer or donate.
If you want to walk but are not able to provide the registration fee, please email abarbanell@bhchp.org to discuss options.
On Saturday, March 4, 2017, participants will climb 61 flights of stairs to the top of 200 Clarendon Tower, New England’s tallest building. Climb to the Top is a unique event that raises funds to help the more than 21,000 people in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont affected by multiple sclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system that has no known cause or cure. Your participation in Climb to the Top provides help for today and hope for tomorrow through education, support, advocacy, and research funded by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Greater New England Chapter.
61 floors
More than 1,200 steps!
Chip Timed
Training and fundraising tools
Water stops along the way
General, Competitive, and Firefighter Divisions
Don’t miss renowned countertenor Andreas Scholl in a rare Boston appearance!
Desiring Beauty is an intimiate exploration of Dowland, Johnson, Handel, Caccini & more, accompanied by stellar American musicians Victor Coelho (lute), David Dolata (theorbo) and Laura Jeppesen (viola da gamba).
Early Bird $40 tickets are available now through February 1st. This extraordinary 1-hour performance will be followed by a leisurely meet-and-greet/CD signing by the artists.
The Associates of the Boston Public Library is pleased to invite you to the 29th Annual Literary Lights awards dinner.
Join the BPL on Sunday, April 23, 2017, at the Boston Park Plaza for a spectacular black tie (optional) evening honoring distinguished authors from the Northeast for their contributions to literature and the written word. The evening begins with a reception at 6:00 PM, followed by dinner and the awards program at 7:00 PM.
The Associates of the Boston Public Library are honored to recognize the following authors as their 2017 Literary Lights:
Presented by: Hentry Louis Gates, Jr.
Appiah is a philosopher, novelist, professor and cultural theorist. He grew up in Ghana and earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Cambridge University in London. Professor Appiah has lectured around the world and taught at Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Duke and Harvard Universities before moving to New York University where he now teaches in the Department of Philosophy. In 2009 Forbes Magazine named him one of the world’s most powerful thinkers, in 2010 he was on the list of Foreign Policy Magazine’s top global thinkers, and he was awarded the National Humanitarian Medal at a White House ceremony in 2012. Appiah, the author of numerous books and articles, has traveled around the world giving lectures on multiculturalism, global citizenship, courage, identity, and religion. One of his early books, In My Father’s House, which explores the role of African American intellectuals in shaping contemporary African life, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Herskovits Award for the most important scholarly work on African studies published in English. Appiah is well known for his columns and podcasts as the Ethicist for the New York Times.
Presented by: Christopher Lydon
Faludi is a journalist and author who has written extensively on gender issues. In 1991 she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for a piece on the leverage buyout of Safeway Stores, focusing on the “human cost of high finance.” After graduating from Harvard University, where she wrote for The Harvard Crimson, she was a contributor to the New Yorker, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Nation, as well as many other publications. In the 1980s Faludi wrote several pieces on the feminist movement and the resistance to it, resulting in her 1991 book, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. She went on to write Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, The Terror Dream, and, most recently, The Darkroom, which was inspired by her father’s transsexuality. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies in the 2008-2009 academic year and a 2013-2014 Tallman Scholar in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at Bowdoin College.
Presented by: Andre Dubus III
Lamb is the best-selling author of She’s Come Undone, I know This Much is True, The Hour I First Believed, and Wishin’ and Hopin’. His first two books were selected for Oprah’s Book Club, were New York Times best-sellers, New York Times Notable Books of the Year and, between them, have been translated into 18 languages. His latest novel is We Are Water. Lamb has also edited two volumes of essays: Couldn’t Keep it to Myself and I’ll Fly Away, written by students in his writing workshops at a women’s prison in Connecticut. He has taught creative writing in the English department at the University of Connecticut, was founder and director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy, has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Connecticut Commission for the Arts, and was honored with the Connecticut Center for the Book’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Presented by: Gregory Maguire
Selznick graduated from RISD where he studied illustration and, while there, took classes in set design at Brown University. After graduation, he worked at a children’s book store in New York City while writing his debut book, The Houdini Box. In 2008 he won the Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association, for The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the first such award for a book this long; 533 pages with 284 illustrations. The book was adapted into a 2011 film, Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese. He has also been awarded a 2002 Caldecott Honor for his illustrations of Barbara Kerley’s The Dinosaurs of Waterhorse Hawkins. In addition, Mr. Selznick has received the Texas Bluebonnet Award, the Rhode Island Children’s Book Award and the Christopher Award, given to media which “affirm the highest values of the human spirit.”
Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall (Keynote Speaker)
Presented by: David Leonard
Marshall was born in South Africa where, as a student, she led the National Union of South African Students, working to end oppressive minority rule and achieve equality for all South Africans. Marshall first came to the US as a high school exchange student in Wilmington, DL in 1962, as the civil rights battles were beginning to boil over, and later returned to the US for graduate school, where she became involved with the anti-war and the women’s movements. After Yale Law School, she entered private practice, became President of the Boston Bar Association, Vice President & General Counsel for Harvard University, and then went on to the State’s Supreme Court, where she became the first female Chief Justice of the oldest continuously serving appellate court in the Western Hemisphere. Though she has had many accomplishments, Justice Marshall is most renowned for her 2003 opinion which led Massachusetts to become the first state in the nation to outlaw the ban on same-sex marriage. Although she loved her time on the bench, Justice Marshall stepped down in 2010. She now mentors young lawyers at her former law firm, Choate Hall & Stewart, and teaches at Harvard University.
In addition to celebrating the accomplishments of these outstanding writers, proceeds from Literary Lights support the David McCullough Conservation Fund, William O. Taylor Art Preservation Fund, Associates Endowment Fund, and the Associates of the Boston Public Library’s operations. The Associates created the McCullough Fund in 2001 to provide a consistent source of funding for the conservation and preservation of books, manuscripts, works of art and historic documents in the BPL’s Special Collections.
If you would prefer to receive a mailed invitation or for more information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact the Associates office at associates@bpl.org or (617) 536-3886. Thank you.
This school vacation week, get ready for a fairytale afternoon with Princess Tea at Taj Boston.
Families will enjoy an afternoon tea hosted by Queen Elsa and friends. Tiaras, swords, and other treats will be provided to each little princess or prince at the tea. Two seatings are available for each day: 11 am and 3 pm.
Price is $45 per child and $65 per adult, inclusive of tax and gratuity. Alcoholic beverages are not included, but will be available for purchase. Reservations are required for Princess Tea.
For more information, please click here.
This school vacation week, get ready for a fairytale afternoon with Princess Tea at Taj Boston.
Families will enjoy an afternoon tea hosted by Queen Elsa and friends. Tiaras, swords, and other treats will be provided to each little princess or prince at the tea. Two seatings are available for each day: 11 am and 3 pm.
Price is $45 per child and $65 per adult, inclusive of tax and gratuity. Alcoholic beverages are not included, but will be available for purchase. Reservations are required for Princess Tea.
For more information, please click here.
This school vacation week, get ready for a fairytale afternoon with Princess Tea at Taj Boston.
Families will enjoy an afternoon tea hosted by Queen Elsa and friends. Tiaras, swords, and other treats will be provided to each little princess or prince at the tea. Two seatings are available for each day: 11 am and 3 pm.
Price is $45 per child and $65 per adult, inclusive of tax and gratuity. Alcoholic beverages are not included, but will be available for purchase. Reservations are required for Princess Tea.
For more information, please click here.
This school vacation week, get ready for a fairytale afternoon with Princess Tea at Taj Boston.
Families will enjoy an afternoon tea hosted by Queen Elsa and friends. Tiaras, swords, and other treats will be provided to each little princess or prince at the tea. Two seatings are available for each day: 11 am and 3 pm.
Price is $45 per child and $65 per adult, inclusive of tax and gratuity. Alcoholic beverages are not included, but will be available for purchase. Reservations are required for Princess Tea.
For more information, please click here.
