Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County

Perinatal Loss Remembrance Day

The design for a new Bulb Labyrinth garden will be unveiled at 4:00 pm at the Ithaca Children's Garden site as part of Perinatal Loss Remembrance Day, offered in partnership with the Ithaca Perinatal Loss Support Group. The design presentation will be preceded by a memorial service for grieving families, from 3:00-3:45pm. Dave Yantorno and Angela Comprone of Not From Wisconsin will perform acoustic guitar and violin.

Designed to bloom in 3 seasons, the new Bulb Labyrinth garden will provide a peaceful, meditative place for the community to recognize perinatal and childhood loss, while also serving to uplift and delight the senses and celebrate life with blooms from early spring to late fall.  Featuring a variety of beautiful flowering bulbs and perennials, a wheelchair and stroller-friendly winding stone pathway, sculpture donated by local artisans, and a  central open space with stone benches, the labyrinth will promote intimate interaction with abundantly blooming plant material, provide a unique community space for gathering, and contribute aesthetic beauty to the Ithaca Children's Garden. The Children's Garden plans to break ground in spring of 2012 and complete installation in the fall of 2012. The labyrinth's first blooms can be expected to emerge in March of 2013. The public's feedback and participation are invited.

For more information, contact Erin Marteal, Executive Director of the Ithaca Children's Garden, at (607) 272-2292.

 

 

DATES

Sunday October 16, 2011: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

FEE

FREE

LOCATION

Ithaca Children's Garden
Route 89 at Cass Park
Ithaca, New York 14850