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30, 2008 6:30 pm Reception Get your tickets now for the 2008 BSLA Awards Celebration Gala! Set aside the evening of Wednesday, April 30, 2008, and join the festivities at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge. We'll be honoring Charles (Chuck) Harris, our Lifetime Achievement award recipient and Fred Yalouris recipient of the Service to the Profession Award at the BSLA Gala and Award Program Celebration. We also welcome ASLA President-Elect Angela Dye to our celebration. Don't miss this great event celebrating our profession! Ticket prices are $75 per person and $700 for a table (10 seats). Thursday, May 22, 2008 Join your fellow professionals in their quest to pass the Massachusetts section of the LARE. A panel of colleagues who have recently completed this section of the registration exam will be available to offer tips and study materials. Feel free to bring along other study material to swap with others. Saturday, June 28, 2008 The Maine Section of the Boston Society of Landscape Architects invites you to enjoy presentations by Maureen Heffernan, Executive Director, on the development of CMBG; and Keith Smith of TJD&A on “Implementing EDAW’s Master Plan”; in addition to a private garden tour of the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens by Bruce Riddell of Hillside Trail, Meditation & Rhododendron Gardens. Box lunch included with fee. Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:00 am - 1:45 pm Transportation will be provided from Boston. Space is limited to 20. Please RSVP to BSLA at info@BSLAweb.org or 508-620-5018 to hold your space. For more information on workshop content, visit www.unh.edu/erg/cstev/workshops.htm November 18-20, 2008 Welcome BSLA New and Returning Members
ASLA's Children’s Outdoor Environments Professional Practice Network Pledge your support to the proposed Children’s Outdoor Environments PPN within ASLA. The formation of this group requires maintaining a minimum of 30 founding members and adherence to Section 306 of the PPN Guidelines, which defines the Basic Standards of Member Service. Please refer to http://www.asla.org/about/ppnguidelines.htm if you would like further information regarding the Basic Standards of Member Services. The design of children's outdoor environments, reconnection with nature, health-related concerns, and other surrounding issues are increasingly gaining attention on a national and global level. Most recently, Richard Louv's book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, speaks to the value of spontaneous outdoor play, the connection with nature during childhood, and concerns with raising today's "plugged-in" youth. Landscape architects play a critical role in the process of advocating and providing a variety of places for children to play, learn, and develop a relationship with the natural environment. As professionals, we can help foster young stewards of natural environment. The Children's Outdoor Environments PPN is intended to focus on topics including nature-based play and learning environments; safety considerations; educational settings; urban environments; health care trends (including obesity, ADHD, and autism); plant selection; networking with other professionals and like-minded national organizations; and sharing literature, project examples, and experiences. MISSION STATEMENT for the Children’s Outdoor Environments PPN Support and promote the concept of quality, safe, nature-based children’s outdoor environments to educators, administrators, healthcare professionals, city officials, land developers and other key decision makers who are involved in shaping spaces that affect children and youth; and to share and disseminate knowledge and experience with others in the design fields. GOALS
Please email Jena Ponti: jenaponti@hotmail.com for more information or Rachel Shaw: rshaw@asla.org at ASLA to pledge support in the formation of this proposed PPN. Thank you very much for your time and interest in this. Spaces are still available for BAC’s London/Surrey Study Tour June 19-28 Interested practitioners are welcome. Study tour staying at Landmark Trust, Goddards, an historic arts and crafts period house designed by Lutyens with a restored garden by Gertrude Jekyll. Cost includes $3500 travel cost including air, housing, van travel and most meals. Tuition ranges from audit cost to full credit tuition for 4.5 credits in horticulture science and landscape history. Course is led by Sam Hammer, Ph.D. Contact pat.loheed@the-bac.edu for more information. Travel Deposits must be in by May 9, 2008. This opportunity will be offered again in spring of 2009. Friday, April 25, 2008 Symposium examining evolving opportunities for artistic engagement in the public realm and Juried Exhibition of related proposals, works, and projects. Learn more... Monday, April 28, 2008 Mr. Arendt is the author or co-author of more than 20 publications, including the award-winning Dealing with Change in the Connecticut River Valley: A Design Manual for Conservation and Development (now in its fourth printing). He is Senior Conservation Advisor at the Natural Lands Trust in Media, Pennsylvania, and is the former Director of Planning and Research at the Center for Rural Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he also served as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. For more information, visit www.csld.edu/whatsnew.htm Tuesday, April 29 Governor Deval Patrick will join us on Tuesday, April 29 to help celebrate UMass Amherst's first Founders Day, and to honor the commitment to public service that has guided our growth since 1863.Visit www.umass.edu/foundersday/tickets.html for more information. RIASLA 2008 L.A.R.E. Review Sessions Friday, May 2, 2008 “The Landscape as Art” forms the focus of the 2008 Olmsted Day Conference, to be held at the New Britain Museum of American Art on Friday, May 2, 2008. Sponsored by the Connecticut Olmsted Heritage Alliance, the Connecticut Chapter of ASLA and the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, the day’s events include several presentations, lunch, a tour of neighboring Olmsted-designed Walnut Hill Park, and special treats (such as Frederick Law Olmsted birthday cake!). Registration includes entry to the museum. View conference brochure (or download from www.ctasla.org) and follow instructions for registration. Registration deadline is April 23. Thursday, May 15 - Saturday, May 17, 2008 The AIA National Convention is coming to Boston on May 15-17, and the BSA is hosting two fantastic networking and business development opportunities which are open to everyone - the Host City Celebration on Friday, May 16 at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square, 7:30 - 10:30 pm and on Saturday morning, May 17, 2008, the BSA is hosting Breakfast at Fenway! All are welcome at these convention-related events and tickets are available online at www.architects.org/2008/tourStore.htm July 23, 2008 Sponsored by: The Massachusetts Flower Growers Association (MFGA) and Massachusetts Nursery Landscape Association (MNLA) Join Massachusetts' largest green industry associations - MFGA and MNLA - for their fifth annual collaborative event, the 2008 Summer Meeting and Trade Show on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at one of the region's most scenic, historically important and ecologically diverse landscapes.The Crane Estate. Featuring Judy Sharpton, Growing Places Marketing, Atlanta, Georgia. Judy has over 20 years experience in advertising and promotion specializing in store design and renovation, development of product-based promotion plants and development of customer communication programs. Judy will present a two-part Store School. She will cover consumer trends and how you can respond to trends at your store level and store layout from entrance to cash wrap. For more information go to www.mnla.com November 18-20, 2008
Landscape Architect/Designer with 3-10 Years of Private Practice Experience SA offers exceptional growth and reward opportunities for highly motivated individuals with competitive salary and benefits package based upon experience. Please contact: Pam Shadley
Planning and Design Intern Job Description/Tasks:
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To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to Pallavi Mande, pmande@crwa.org or mail to 190 Park Road, Weston, MA 02493.
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