UPCOMING AND PAST EVENTS
Sarah Iwany from the Allston-Brighton birders is hosting the first Chandler Pond clean-up of 2024 on April 6, 9:00am-12:30pm. Everyone should meet at the benches on the black path closest to Kendrick Street. Bring gloves if you have them!
Friends of Chandler Pond is doing a pop-up!
Join us Saturday, January 27 from 11am to 2pm at the Brighton Winter Farmers Market: PSF Community Center Parking Lot, 640 Washington Street.
We'll be crafting homemade pine cone bird feeders to take home for the birds this winter! Hope to see you there.
2023 FALL FESTIVAL
CANCELED DUE TO RAIN: Join Friends of Chandler Pond and neighboring community on Saturday, September 23 from 12-3pm for an afternoon of live music, “Pond Life” exhibitions, Chandler Pond history photos, watercolor painting, chalk drawing, magic, pizza and an ice cream truck – at the 2023 Chandler Pond Fall Festival!
Bring a chair or blanket for an afternoon of fun – all to celebrate Chandler Pond.
Live music
Birding experts
Magician
Watercolor painting workshop
Pond Life presentation
Chandler Pond History information
Chalk drawing
Ice Cream Truck
and more!
Enter the festival on the path along the west side of Chandler Pond between Lake Shore Road and Kenrick Street.
The festival is made possible this year by generous contributions from Secretary of State Bill Galvin, State Senator Will Brownsberger, State Rep Mike Moran, State Rep Kevin Honan, City Councilor Liz Breadon, Blick Art Supplies, and Friends of Chandler Pond. Thank you!
Rain date: Sunday September 24, 12pm - 3pm.
Come join Chandler Pond birder-in-chief Ryan Doherty on Saturday, August 19 at 9:00 am for a late summer bird walk sponsored by Friends of Chandler Pond. Meet at the kiosk on the corner of Lake Shore Road and Lake Street.
Be sure to bring your binoculars! In case of bad weather, check our website for updates.
Yellow-rumped Warbler photo by Ryan Doherty
On Saturday, April 22, every neighborhood in Boston will have a morning of beautification when folks will clean up our streets, sidewalks, parks, and open spaces. Join us this Saturday, April 22, for a Chandler Pond clean-up to help beautify Chandler Pond!
Meet on the pathway between Lake Shore Road and Kenrick Street. Wear long sleeves/pants and garden gloves, and bring clippers if you have them. Drop in anytime!
Come meet your neighbors and help beautify Chandler Pond. The first 20 volunteers will get a free t-shirt!
After many years and many efforts, Boston Parks and Recreation, in collaboration with Friends of Chandler Pond and the landscape architecture firm Kyle Zick Architecture, Inc. has begun work on a master plan for shoreline restoration and invasive plant removalaround Chandler Pond.
Part of the restoration will be the creation of a buffer of a variety of plants and low shrubs that will protect the Pond from erosion, improve the water quality, provide habitat for diverse species, and help limit the geese to the water. There will also be special access viewpoints created around the Pond.
Boston Parks and Recreation would like to make sure that our Brighton neighbors and Chandler Pond users have a chance to provide feedback on the landscape master plan.
Join us March 16 at 6pm to learn about and discuss the restoration plan, featuring a presentation by the landscape designers with a Q&A session afterward.
For some birds, Boston is south! Learn about the numerous ducks, song birds and birds of prey that call the city of Boston home for a few months every winter. See when they arrive from their summer breeding grounds and learn how climate change is shifting the experience for many of these avian visitors.
Hosted by Chandler Pond’s birder-in-chief, Ryan Doherty.
To receive the Zoom link, register at www.bit.ly/3DzNa52
This talk is co-sponsored by Friends of Chandler Pond and the Friends of Faneuil Library. Hope to see you online for this fun and interactive chat!
Join friends, neighbors and Chandler Pond lovers Sunday, October 2, from 12 - 3pm at the annual Friends of Chandler Pond Fall Festival on the field between Lake Shore Road and Kenrick Street at Chandler Pond in Brighton. Come enjoy:
Watercolor painting
Learning about the birds around Chandler Pond
Free children’s books donated by the Friends of Faneuil Library
Discovering the history of Chandler Pond
Food
Plants of Chandler Pond
Seeing what you can do with repairing, reusing, recycling and generating "zero waste"
Hope to see you there!
Come join birder Ryan Doherty and Friends of Chandler Pond on Saturday, April 30 at 9:00 am for the second bird walk sponsored by Friends of Chandler Pond. Meet at the kiosk on the corner of Lake Shore Road and Lake Street.
Be sure to bring your binoculars! In case of bad weather, check our website for updates.
Double-crested Cormorant photo by Ryan Doherty
Come join birder Ryan Doherty and Friends of Chandler Pond on Saturday, April 9 at 9:00 am for the first bird walk sponsored by Friends of Chandler Pond. Meet at the kiosk on the corner of Lake Shore Road and Lake Street.
Be sure to bring your binoculars! In case of bad weather, check our website for updates.
Prairie Warbler photo by Ryan Doherty
2021 FALL FESTIVAL
Join the Friends of Chandler Pond and neighboring community on Saturday, October 2 from 12-3pm for an afternoon of live music, Mass Audubon “Pond Life” exhibitions, watercolor painting, chalk drawing and magic at the Chandler Pond Fall Festival.
Live music
Magicians
Watercolor painting workshop
Pond Life presentation with the Mass Audubon Society
Chalk drawing
and more!
Enter the festival on the path along the west side of Chandler Pond between Lake Shore Road and Kenrick Street.
Rain date: Sunday October 3, 12pm - 3pm.
Take a walk around Chandler Pond with naturalist Adam Leiterman and awaken to the signs of spring.
Learn what’s been happening under the snow and ice, what the trees do in spring, and who’s back after their winter migration. Adam is a teacher at the Mass Audubon Boston Nature Center.
Next stop is Faneuil Library for refreshments and inspiring tales with award-winning storyteller Cindy Rivka (cindymarshall.com). Cindy will beguile us with stories of animals, trees, and the delights of spring. Walk over the hill to the library with Friends of Chandler Pond board members or make your own way there.
9:00am Chandler Pond walk, starting next to 3 Lake Shore Road (corner of Lake Shore Road and Lake Street)
10:00am Walk or drive to Faneuil Library (419 Faneuil Street, Brighton)
10:30am Refreshments at the library
11:00am Storytelling
In case of bad weather, check back here for details.
2019 FALL FESTIVAL
Join the Friends of Chandler Pond and neighboring community on September 14 for an afternoon of fun, food, painting, presentations and live music at the Chandler Pond Fall Festival.
Live music
Magicians
Watercolor painting workshop
Pond Life presentation with the Mass Audubon Society
Ice Cream truck
and more!
Enter the festival on the path along the west side of Chandler Pond between Lake Shore Road and Kenrick Street.
Fall Festival co-sponsored by Brighton Main Streets, and the Brighton-Allston Historical Society.
Rain date: Sunday September 15, 12pm - 3pm.
WATERCOLOR PAINTING WORKSHOP
June 23rd 2019; 10:00 am-12:00 pm
Chandler Pond, Lake Shore Road, Brighton, 02135
Budding artists, ages nine and up, are invited to join us. The series of free workshops is just one of the many offerings of the annual ParkARTS program, sponsored by Holly and David Bruce.
The workshops welcome artists of all skill levels to create their own greenspace-inspired masterpieces, with instruction and materials provided. All classes are held from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., weather permitting.
Want more information on the workshops and other ParkARTS programs? Please call 617-635-4505, or go to our Facebook page.
