<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The Boston Tree Party Inauguration</b><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Let's get this party started!</i><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Sunday, April 10th</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">1-3:30pm (The scheduled programming will run from 1-2:15pm.)</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The Rose Kennedy Greenway at the intersection of High St. and Atlantic Ave.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The Boston Tree Party (<a href="http://www.bostontreeparty.org/" target="_blank">www.bostontreeparty.org</a>) will officially launch on April 10th with the Boston Tree Party Inauguration event on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. </span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The Inauguration will be the ceremonial planting of the first pair of trees in this city-wide planting campaign. </b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The event, open to the general public, will include <b>a celebratory rally featuring <span>Edith</span> Murnane (the Food Tzar of the City of Boston) Michael Phillips and John Bunker (the Official Pomologists of the Party), the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center "Let's Get Moving" Tree Planting Delegation; music by the Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band; the ceremonial planting of the first pair of apple trees in this city-wide planting campaign; a Wassailing of the trees; free apple cider; Central Asian Barbecue (apples originated in Central Asia); and opportunities to learn more about this campaign for Civic Fruit!</b> Boston Tree Party staff will be on hand to help new communities sign up to become Tree Planting Delegations.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><p><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font size="2" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>The Boston Tree Party is a new collaborative campaign to plant 100 pairs of heirloom apple trees in publicly used spaces across Greater Boston.</b> The tree plantings will take place in partnership with Tree Planting Delegations--a diverse range of institutions, organizations, and businesses who have signed on to plant and care for pairs of apple trees in their communities.<span> </span>As an urban agriculture project, the campaign will create <b><span lang="CS" style="font-weight: normal; ">vital gathering places, build community connections, and improve community health</span></b><b>.</b> As a conceptual art project, the Boston Tree Party engages with metaphor and symbolism, and <b><span lang="CS" style="font-weight: normal; ">playfully reimagines patriotic and political language, imagery, and forms of association. </span></b></font></i><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Collectively, the 200 apple trees will become a <b style="font-weight: normal; ">decentralized public urban orchard that crosses social, economic, political, and geographic boundaries.</b></i></p><p><b>The Boston Tree Party in the <u>Boston Globe Magazine</u>: <a href="http://goo.gl/3KLtO">http://goo.gl/3KLtO</a></b><br><span lang="CS" style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro Bold'; "></span></p><div><br></div></body></html>