Where:
Cambridge Water Department
250 Fresh Pond Pkwy
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Festivals & Fairs, Food, Kid Friendly, Music
Event website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1040499012761682
Fresh Pond Reservation is truly Cambridge's green gem - an urban wild that protects Fresh Pond, Cambridge's in-city drinking water reservoir. Fresh Pond Day is the Cambridge Water Department's annual tribute to this unique Reservation that is a vital natural resource, an invaluable sanctuary for wildlife, and a beloved recreational escape in the City. So...let's give Fresh Pond the celebration, jubilation and love it deserves; join in the festivities! Live wildlife presentations, a wildlife and bike parade, live music, facepainting, truck climb-aboards, tours, and more will abound.
SCHEDULE:
11:30 Nature Storytelling
12:30 Wildlife Parade (sign & mask-making all morning!)
1:00 Live Animals
1:30 Bicycle Parade
2:00 Nature Drawing
2:00 "Fresh Pond Beyond This Moment" Tour
GETTING HERE: Free and open to all, activities will take place in and around the Water Treatment Facility located at 250 Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge. Bus routes 72, 74, 75, 78; & Alewife T station are all nearby. We are also on the parkway bike path. If you drive, please park at the Tobin School (197 Vassal Lane).
Please note: severe weather cancels this event. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to get involved, or for more information.
ENTERTAINMENT: Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band, Trail Mix, Noble Dust
SPONSORS: Iggy's Bread, Neville Place, Trader Joe's-Cambridge,MA, Dunkin' Donuts, Star Market, Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS: Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge Community Center, Cambridge Energy Alliance, Cambridge Health Alliance Agenda for Children & Healthy Eating, Cambridge Sports Union, City of Cambridge Community Development Department (Official) Safe Routes to School & Housing & Envision Cambridge, Cambridge Wildlife Puppetry Project, Chester Engineers, Clumsydog Honey, City of Cambridge Department of Public Works (Official) Recycling and Compost & Stormwater, Fresh Pond Advisory Board, Fresh Pond Golf Course, Friends of Alewife Reservation, Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation, Friends of the Greenway, Green Cambridge, Human Nature Dictionary, Cambridge Public Schools' Maynard Ecology Center, Mothers Out Front - Mobilizing for a Livable Climate, Participatory Budgeting, Russell Youth Center, Cambridge Local First, New England Wild Flower Society, Cambridge Conservation Commission, Cambridge Election oCommission