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The mission of the Botanic Garden of Smith College is to foster education about the science, beauty, and importance of the plant kingdom through the use of outdoor and conservatory plant collections, gardens, displays, and exhibitions, and to preserve and maintain the historic Olmsted campus landscape.
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EXTENDED! through January 25, 2019
Extinction is a natural process and over millions of years, innumerable species and countless trees have gone extinct. However, today, human driven processes such as overexploitation, habitat loss and climate change are accelerating the rates of extinction for many species, including trees. Currently, 10% of all tree species are threatened with extinction.
Learn what's being done to help trees, and what you can do to make a difference.
Wednesday, January 23 from 7 am to 4 pm, upper College Lane (Elm St. to Green St.) will be closed.
Advancing Racial Equity through Regenerative Place-Making
By Duron Chavis
7:30 pm Campus Center Carroll Room - Free and open to the public
The built environment of urban cities across the country bear the scars of racial inequality inherent in slavery, Jim Crow discrimination and economic marginalization. Place-making capitalizes on a local community’s assets, inspiration, and potential, with the intention of creating public spaces that promote people’s health, happiness, and wellbeing. Such transformation requires working with community residents as well as municipal, nonprofit partners and philanthropic investment in the planning, designing and implementation of community places.
Spotlight
Did the Japanese internment camps during World War II touch your life or the life of someone close to you?
We want to hear from you.
The Botanic Garden of Smith College is currently planning exhibit, Uprooted: Gardens of hope and resistance in America’s Japanese internment camps, which explores the gardens designed, implemented, and maintained by prisoners held within the barbed wire confines of America’s ten internment camps during World War II.
As we develop this exhibit, we are reaching out to our community for input and guidance. We are looking for stories, testimonies, and experiences from people who were impacted, directly or indirectly, by the camps. Please consider adding your voice to Uprooted.
