Members Events
Stay tuned as member events are announced for 2026!
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 2025, Members Week is the week of September 22-28. Want to be invited for this year’s programming? Be sure to join or renew your membership to be invited to Members Week in 2025!
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 artists and Hiroshima documentarians Cannon Hersey and Taku Nishimae.
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
Past Member Events
2025 Member Events
Dinner Under the Oaks: Friday, September 12
Saturday, June 21, 5:30-7:30 PM
The Friends of Mount Auburn is excited to welcome back Berklee College of Music professor Stan Strickland to usher in another summer at Mount Auburn! This year, Stan’s uplifting musical performance will feature dance accompaniment by former Mount Auburn Artist-in-Residence Lonnie Stanton. The event will begin with a reception in Asa Gray Garden, 5:30-6:30 p.m., with the performance beginning at 6:30 PM just across the way in Hazel Dell.
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.
Laurel Circle Concert Series: Rasa String Quartet
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 5:30-7:30 PM
This February, the Laurel Circle Concert Series will return with a performance by the Rasa String Quartet. Escape the cold for an evening filled with music, food, and good company inside the warmth of our historic Bigelow Chapel.
Formed in 2019, the Boston-based Rasa String Quartet consists of violinists Emma Powell and Maura Shawn Scanlin, violist Kiyoshi Hayashi, and cellist Mina Kim, who are graduates of the New England Conservatory, the Shepherd School of Music, and Yale University.
As with all Laurel Circle Lectures and Concerts, the program will begin with an hour-long reception, followed by an hour of performance. The event is free for Laurel Circle members; $50 per ticket for non-members of the Laurel Circle.