Musically inspired sculpture at Symphony Park Unveiled!
Photo: David Kurtis Photography
A special ceremony to mark the sculpture’s completion was held at the park, located at Edgerly Road between Burbank and Norway streets in the East Fenway, on Thursday, August 18thand included remarks by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Chief of Arts Julie Burros, and Fenway Alliance Executive Director Kelly Brilliant, and featured musical performances by classical musicians and Berklee College of Music. Sponsors for the unveiling included the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Friends of Symphony Park.
Event photographs courtesy of City of Boston Photography Department
For coverage of the unveiling see the Boston City TV video here.
FCA has worked since 2007 with City and State officials, Parks Department and volunteer caretakers to improve conditions at Symphony Park, which serves as the primary open space for the seniors at Morville House in the East Fenway.
- Fence restoration and refinishing, sandbox removal, concrete trip hazard mitigation, tree pruning and grass restoration
- New England Grassroots Environment Fund grant for $3,000.00 to restore perimeter plantings, matched by the Friends and added to by Morville House’s work to replace benches and handicapped-accessible tables
- Project acceptance from Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design (COGdesign) to connect the community with landscape architects to commence studies on park use and design and lead a community process for park revitalization
- 3 public meetings to invite users to help create a vision for a new park, resulting in a conceptual design for an improved Symphony Park
- Endorsement of community final conceptual design by Boston Parks and Recreation Department
- Application to the Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund for artistic design development grants for the park
- Application for construction document grant funding
- Free Tai Chi at Symphony Park
- Grant funding for artistic design development
- Grant funding for construction document funding
- COG Design Panel “Vital Spaces, Vibrant Lives“
- Public meeting, community art visioning and park design
- Free Tai Chi/Free Boot Camp classes
- Art public meeting and park design review
- Finalist selected for artwork
- Free Tai Chi classes
- Art approval by Boston Art Commission
- Grant funding for artwork
- Final park design
- Capital funding for construction
- Free Tai Chi classes at Symphony Park
- Groundbreaking
- Panel Discusison, AD 20/21, Boston Design Week, “Sculpture and Placemaking at Symphony Park“
- Grand Opening
- Free Tai Chi classes at Symphony Park
- Free Senior Yoga at Symphony Park
- Grant funding for sound equipment
- Panel Discussion, ABX 2015
- Grand Opening of Symphony Park, June 2015
- Summer concerts at the Park
- Sculpture unveiled!
2017 onwards
- Fenway Civic continues to actively program and participate in work with the Friends of Symphony Park. In recent years, more than 30 weeks of free fitness, including Yoga, Tai Chi, and Line Dancing have occurred, and Berklee College of Music has partnered in annual Summer Sunset Concert series.
