Members Events
Upcoming Member Events
Members Week (September 22-28, 2024) is almost here! Make sure to join the Friends of Mount Auburn or renew your membership to get an exclusive invitation to register for several members-only events.
Stay tuned as more member events are announced and check out our full list of upcoming public programs.
Past Member Events
Lecture Series: Summer SOLSTICE with Stan Strickland
Friday, June 21 5:30-7:30 PM
Amidst a landscape filled with programming for our upcoming Summer SOLSTICE, join us for our next Laurel Circle Lecture Series event, when Berklee College of Music professor Stan Strickland will help us celebrate the longest day of the year with a performance and accompanying commentary in Hazel Dell. The event will begin with a catered reception in Hazel Dell, 5:30-6:30 p.m., with the performance beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Stan Strickland is a vocalist, saxophonist, and flutist, and is the leader of Stan Strickland & Ascension, and the Stan Strickland Trio. He is a member of the Bob Moses-Stan Strickland Duo, the Laszlo Gardony-Stan Strickland Duo, Mama Tongue, and the Phil Argyris Quintet. He has performed with the Boston Pops, Take Six, Herbie Mann, Marlena Shaw, Pharaoh Sanders, Danilo Perez, and Yusef Lateef. His work appears on released recordings by Stan Strickland & Ascension, Bob Moses, Brute Force, and others. Registration is free for Laurel Circle members, $50 for non-members of the Laurel Circle.
Member Event Series
Members Week
Members Week is an annual celebration of the Friends of Mount Auburn that takes place in September and features exclusive programs such as curated horticulture tours, arts workshops, wellness activities, in addition to member swag giveaways. In 2024, Members Week is the week of September 22-28. Members are informed of programs through print and email communications, so be sure to join or renew your membership to learn about this year’s offerings!
Members Week programming is available to all levels of the Friends of Mount Auburn. Annual membership swag giveaways are a benefit to Contributor-level members and up. To learn more about our membership levels and to join, click here
Laurel Circle Lecture Series
The Laurel Circle Lecture Series was established in 2023 to highlight Mount Auburn’s position as a venue for delving deep into topics of interest to our community – including art, history, landscaping, and more. Past lecturers include Anthony Amore (Author and Security Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum), David Gergen (former White House Staffer and Political Commentator), and, most recently, artists and documentarians Cannon Hersey and Taku Nishimae who lectured on the trees that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Lectures are free to members of our Laurel Circle and tickets are available for purchase for non-members of the Laurel Circle. To learn more about and to join the Laurel Circle, click here
Art of Commemoration
The Art of Commemoration is an annual walking tour led by Meg Winslow, Curator of Historical Collections & Archives, that follows a unique artistic theme in our landscape of monuments. Past themes include Ornamenting the Landscape: Cast Iron Fences, Neoclassical Inspiration & Egyptian Revival, and Contemporary Art of Commemoration.
This tour is a benefit for Patron-level members and up of the Friends of Mount Auburn. To learn more about our membership levels and to join, click here
Curator and Expert Tours
The Friends of Mount Auburn schedule annual tours led by Mount Auburn’s staff and close collaborators who work in our landscape. Past tours have gone in-depth on planting initiatives including native plants along Indian Ridge Path, our renovation of Asa Gray Garden, and incorporating Victorian landscape practices in lots near Halcyon Lake.
These tours are a benefit for Donor-level members and up of the Friends of Mount Auburn. To learn more about our membership levels and to join click here
Botanic Tours
Mount Auburn takes a major step outside the gates with its series of tours to prominent botanical gardens around the Northeast and beyond. These tailored trips are designed for our plant-and-garden-minded community members and offer you behind-the-scenes looks at neighboring. Past Botanic Tours have been held at Berkshire Botanical Garden and Naumkeag Reservation, and to New York and Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.
Prices vary based on tour location, discounts offered to certain Friends of Mount Auburn member levels. For more information, please contact us