Free First Thursday - Sept 4, 2025

Thursday
September 4, 2025
3 - 9 pm
Throughout the Museum

For this September Free First Thursday, join us in the garden, no green thumb required to participate in our nature-inspired art making, explore the intersection of community and green spaces, or enjoy the final weeks of our summer exhibitions: Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden, Flowers for Isabella, and Yu-Wen Wu: Reigning Beauty, 2025 on the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade (also featured as part of the Boston Public Art Triennial)

If you’re in need of a refreshment, Café G is open late, and be sure to stop by Gift at the Gardner on your way out to shop the Summer 2025 exhibitions collection for wonderful trinkets featuring lemons, oranges,cherries, and more.

Program

5 – 8 pm, Bertucci Education Studio
Visit the studio for an activity inspired by Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden

Community Tabling by the The Trustees Community Gardens
6:30 – 8:30 pm, Jordan Garden
Create leaf rubbings and learn about the 56 community gardens across eight Boston neighborhoods stewarded and managed by The Trustees Community Gardens Team.

aznjujube
6 – 6:40 pm, Courtyard
Experience the unique, experimental sounds of of Boston musician aznjujube, who melds Asian folk music with mandolin, vocals, and MPC beats.

Artists/Collaborators Bios

A colorful flower garden in the middle of a city neighborhood

Photo courtesy of the artist

aznjujube is a solo music project combining mandolin, MPC beats, and vocals to create a rich blend of experimental, electronic, and traditional sounds. Live real-time layered loops mix organic string tones with pulsing rhythms, ambient noise, and nods to Asian folk music.

The project leans into contrasts: digital and acoustic, melodic and abstract, familiar and strange. The mandolin, often processed and repurposed, weaves through dense soundscapes alongside chopped beats and echoing vocals.

aznjujube’s music is genre-fluid but grounded—sitting somewhere between mountain singing and a glitchy dream.

www.instagram.com/aznjujube/

Photo courtesy of The Trustees

The Trustees Boston Community Gardens

The Trustees is the largest nonprofit owner of community gardens in Boston, with 56 under Trustees management, totaling 15 acres across eight Boston neighborhoods: Dorchester, East Boston, the Fenway, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Mattapan, Mission Hill, and the South End. The Trustee’s role as caretaker of Boston’s green spaces doesn’t stop with their own gardens: they help to coordinate activities related to all of the city’s approximately 200 community gardens, touching more than 18,000 individuals and families annually.

https://thetrustees.org/place/boston-community-gardens/

Tickets

Advance registration is encouraged for free timed entry tickets for Museum general admission.

Registration opens two weeks before the event for the general public and four weeks in advance for members. Reserve your tickets online by clicking the button above.

Limited tickets will be available in-person at the Museum’s main entrance, starting at 3 pm, the day of the event. Please note that day-of tickets are not guaranteed.

Questions about accessibility? Please call the box office at 617 278 5156.

Free days are supported in part by the Wallace Minot Leonard Foundation, the Board of Advisors 2022 Fund for Access, and Thomas G. Stemberg Charitable Foundation.

Education and community programs receive support from the Vertex Foundation, Rowland Foundation, the Yawkey Foundation, The Beker Foundation, Liberty Mutual Foundation, The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation, Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation, and Janet Burke Mann Foundation.

Studio activities are generously sponsored by the Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust.

The Neighborhood Salon is supported in part by the Anne Hawley Fund for Programs, the Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

The Museum receives operating support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.