Help Celebrate Faherty’s 1-Year Anniversary on Newbury Street
Faherty will be hosting a party on Saturday, April 28 from 3:00-6:00 P.M. to celebrate their one year anniversary in Boston. There will be food/drinks and music. Founders/Designers Mike and Alex Faherty will also be in the store to celebrate the anniversary!
For more information about the Faherty brand, please click here.
Kick off the holiday season with child-friendly activities and festive treat with the Catered Affair and Boston Public Library Candy Cane Tea!
Photo: Eventbrite
The hanging of the Christmas wreaths, the lighting of the Menorah, the smell of cookies baking in the oven. The Catered Affair has a deep affection for holiday traditions. That’s why we’ve created one of our own right here at The Boston Public Library. Our Annual Candy Cane Tea is a free community event that brings families together to kick off the holiday season with child-friendly activities, delightful treats and a festive traditional tea prior to the popular Copley Square tree lighting ceremony.
The Catered Affair at the Boston Public Library is happy to invite you to join them for this unique Boston holiday activity and family tradition. The Candy Cane Tea is free and open to the community, drawing children of all ages with seasonal activities and seasonal food and drink.
Join them for a fun-filled afternoon that celebrates all of the joyful traditions of Christmas, Hannukah and Kwanzaa. Kids can partake in a variety of festive holiday-themed crafts, listen to book readings dedicated to the season, and enjoy a true tea experience from The Catered Affair. Featured treats include:
- Peppermint Bark
- Gingerbread
- Sugar Cookies
- Hot Chocolate
- Candy Apple Juice & more!
Add the Candy Cane Tea at the Boston Public Library to your holiday traditions this year and start out with a warm, festive afternoon before heading out to enjoy the Copley Square tree lighting ceremony.
Due to the popularity of this event, the organizers will be distributing tickets via raffle. REGISTERING IN THIS EVENT WILL ONLY ENROLL YOU IN THE RAFFLE. They will be giving away 200 tickets to randomly selected winners registered to this event. Winners will be notified on 11/13 via email, so please be sure to provide your email address when registering. You can request up to 4 tickets with your entry.
If you are a winner, you will have until Tues., November 21st to register your tickets and secure your spot at this year’s Candy Cane Tea. Note: you may only register for the number of tickets you requested in your raffle entry—we want to make sure all families selected to attend will have their requested tickets!
Click here to register for your chance at tickets!
In this illustrated lecture, landscape scholar Judith B. Tankard surveys the inspiration, characteristics, and development of garden design during the Arts & Crafts Movement.
Tankard presents a selection of houses and gardens of the era from Britain and the United States, with an emphasis on the diversity of designers who helped forge a truly distinct approach to garden design. Her lecture is the first event in a series of exhibition programming for The Gardens of Rose Standish Nichols, 1890-1935 opening May 16, 2019 at the Nichols House Museum.
Judith B. Tankard is a landscape historian, award-winning author, and preservation consultant. She taught at the Landscape Institute of Harvard University for more than twenty years. She is the author or coauthor of ten books on landscape history, including Gardens of the Arts & Crafts Movement, Ellen Shipman and the American Garden and Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes. A popular lecturer in the United States and Britain, Judith is a speaker at symposia and conferences devoted to the preservation of historic landscapes.
Image: the garden at Snowshill Manor, Gloucestershire; © National Trust Images Nick Meers
The “Shamrock Showdown” is the city of Boston’s Ultimate St Patrick’s Day Weekend Bar Crawl
Join thousands of Shamrock themed crawlers as they take over the bars of Back Bay and Downtown on Saturday March 14th.
With over 20+ bars participating around Boston, this is sure to be the biggest bar crawl you have ever seen!
CHECK IN and grab your SHAMROCK SHOWDOWN bracelet at 1 of 2 locations:
- KINGS – 50 Dalton St.
Back Bay Check In
10am to 4pm
SCHOLARS PUB – 25 School St. - Downtown Check In
12:30pm to 4pm
Shamrock Showdown Crawl Stops:
All stops are FREE to enter with our special bracelet. If you do not have the exclusive SHAMROCK SHOWDOWN bracelet you could be charged a cover and or admitted.
Keep in mind the most important times are the “Check In” times for Kings and Scholars Pub. The other times listed below for the various venues are just suggested stop times.
All venues must adhere to their legal capacities and will only let in as many customers as they can legally hold. If a venue is at capacity you have the choice of waiting to get in, or move onto another venue.
BACK BAY BARS
• Back Bay Social – Noon to 8pm
• Dillions – 11am to 6pm
• Kings Back Bay – 10am to 8pm – FREE Bowling, Arcade, and Karaoke 10am to 4pm
• LIR – 10am to 8pm
• McGreevey’s – 10am to 8pm
For more about this event, please click here.
