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Bruce Presents: Cultural Landscapes & Soundscapes

Join us for an educational and culturally artful afternoon featuring both a lecture and musical performance: 1:45 PM: Wine and Cheese Reception 2:00 PM: “How do cultural landscapes shape our shared public memory?” A Lecture by Charles A. Birnbaum Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, is the president, CEO, and founder of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF). He spent fifteen years as the coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative and a decade in private practice in New York…

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June 22, 2025 @ 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm

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1 Museum Drive
Greenwich, CT 06830-7157 United States

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Join us for an educational and culturally artful afternoon featuring both a lecture and musical performance:

1:45 PM: Wine and Cheese Reception

2:00 PM: “How do cultural landscapes shape our shared public memory?”
A Lecture by Charles A. Birnbaum

Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, is the president, CEO, and founder of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF). He spent fifteen years as the coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative and a decade in private practice in New York City, focusing on landscape preservation and urban design. Birnbaum currently serves as a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.

3:15pm: A musical performance, Living Space: Exploring the Intersection of Music & Cultural Landscapes.

A performance of original work inspired by spaces meaningful to award-winning jazz quintet, DARUMA

Support for Bruce Presents is generously provided by Berkley One, a Berkley Company.

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