Upcoming Events – Landcraft Garden Foundation

2025 Events

Emily Thompson Book Signing and Presentation

Saturday, May 31, 10:30 – 1:00 pm

TOUR TICKETS: $175 ($150 Members)

Garden tour, demonstration, hardcover book Emily Thompson Flowers, and book signing

LUNCH TICKETS: $300

Garden tour, demonstration, hardcover book Emily Thompson Flowers, book signing, and lunch in the garden with Emily

Join Emily Thompson, world renowned floral designer, for an exclusive walk through the garden and greenhouse. She will highlight and discuss a curated selection of plant materials perfect for creating one-of-a-kind arrangements. Following the walk, Emily will lead an inspiring demonstration, showcasing the assembly of 2-3 distinctive floral arrangements. After the demonstration, attendees will receive a copy of Emily’s new book and have the opportunity for her to sign it. Lunch ticket holders will join Emily for a delightful lunch following the book signing.

Emily Thompson was raised in the Northeast Kingdom, Vermont, a place of uncompromising beauty. She brought her sense of this place, its ruins and its wilds, to her work as an artist, traveling from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Pennsylvania, to UCLA, where she earned her MFA in sculpture, finally landing in New York City. Here, she fell in with a rough crowd of thorny brambles and made it her mission to bring them to light.

Emily likes to cite William Gilpin, 18th century theorist of the picturesque, who directed builders of follies and artificial ruins to do so as if these ruins were not designed but naturally chosen. What’s more, writes Gilpin, they must be in magnificent style. Emily’s work, like her ideal faux ruin, evokes nature in magnificent style.

AGE: Adult audiences.

WEATHER: Rain or Shine.

SPECIAL NOTES: Please dress appropriately for events and workshops held outdoors: comfortable shoes and socks, wide brimmed hats, sunscreen, insect repellant and water are recommended. To be a source of healthy insects for our birds and other insect-feeding wildlife, we do not spray the gardens to manage ticks. Please take appropriate caution.

REGISTRATION: Eventbrite – Coming soon

Raptors (And a Groundhog!) in the Garden

Saturday, June 21, 10:30 am – 12 noon

Children free. Adults pay regular admission to the garden. Come one, come all! Reservations are not needed.

Join us for this family event for people of all ages to see raptors and a groundhog – up close! Registration is not required.

Meet four rehabilitated raptors – and one groundhog – from the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center. The birds of prey will include one or more species of owl, hawk, vulture and/or falcon. Learn how each bird had been injured & rehabilitated by the Rescue Center – to become a wildlife ambassador that helps us humans learn how raptors live in the wild and help us coexist with them. You’ll also meet education animal Allen McButterpants, a groundhog who is very popular with children!

AGE: All ages welcome!

WEATHER: Fair weather only

REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED

Rites of Spring Music Festival:

New Ways of Looking at Old Things

Saturday, July 5th, Doors Open 4:00 pm, Concert 5:00 pm: $75

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Featuring Overton Quartet

Monica Davis, violin / Yezu Woo, violin
Angela Pickett, viola / Laura Metcalf, cello

Music Program
Gabriela Smith, Carrot Revolution
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, String Quartet no.1 “Calvary”
Shanan Estreicher, I Laughed So Hard I Cried
Trevor Weston, Juba
Eleonor Alberga, String Quartet no. 2

Pilobolus Dance Company

Saturday, August 30th, Doors Open at 6:00 pm, Dance Performance at 7:00 pm

Sunday, August 31st, Doors Open at 10:00 am, Family Workshop at 10:30 am

Details to come.

Arts events and workshops at Landcraft Garden Foundation are made possible by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Stay tuned for more events and workshops, including a Fergus Garrett Weekend and a Movie in the Garden this summer.