Pathways

Join the Arlington Commission for Arts and Culture for a festive celebration of art in public places! Take a walking tour with the 4 artists involved in this season’s PATHWAYS, installations of temporary public art inspired by the Minuteman Bikeway in Arlington’s Cultural District. Enjoy an open air concert by the raucous, soulful Revolutionary Snake Ensemble and Odaiko New England’s dynamic Taiko drummers. Activities take place in SPY POND PARK (located at Linwood Circle), at the Kickstand Cafe and along the Minuteman Bikeway. Odaiko New England will be playing at the Kickstand Cafe plaza at 3pm and 3:45pm located at the intersection of the Bikeway and Swan Place/Mass Ave.

You can bike, take the Mass Ave Bus, or park for free in nearby neighborhood streets. Light refreshments served, including pizza donated by Za Restaurant. Raindate: September 22.

SCHEDULE: SPY POND PARK
At Linwood Circle

4 to 4:30 pm REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE
Enjoy the joyful sounds of this innovative group of superb musicians inspired by New Orleans Mardi Gras music and spirit

4:30 pm ARTIST WALKING TOUR – remarks artists Freedom Baird, Resa Blatman, Chris Frost, and Johnny Lapham and curator Cecily Miller

5 to 6 pm REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE second set

SCHEDULE: KICKSTAND CAFE PLAZA
At the intersection of the Bikeway and Swan Place/Mass Ave, in Arlington Center

3 to 3:15 pm ODAIKO NEW ENGLAND
A dynamic performance of Japanese Taiko drumming by students and teachers of this Arlington school dedicated to preserving this traditional art form.

3:15 pm THANK YOU to 6 Transformer Box artists who have painted 5 utility boxes around town — collaborators Laurie Bogdan & Karen McCarthy, Aubrey Cloutier, Chi-Yun Lau, Molly Scannell and Shun Yamaguchi — and their sponsors.

3:45 to 4 pm ODAIKO Second Set