RSVP by June 7th

 

On June 13th, The Esplanade Association (TEA) will host its 11th Annual Meeting, and we hope you will join us. With the unveiling of Esplanade 2020: A Vision for the Future earlier this year, increased horticulture care, organizational growth, and more, there is much to update you on.

We are are pleased to welcome Lawrence R. Hott as our Keynote Speaker. Mr. Hott will present a short clip of his new film on Olmsted which will set the stage for his talk,The Boss of Free Time: Olmsted and the Democratization of American Leisure. See below for Mr. Hott's biography.

TEA's Annual Meeting is a member event. If you are not a member but would like to attend, please join today!

$45 - General Membership
$25 - Introductory Membership
$15 - College Membership

RSVP by June 7th to Chris Timmel at 617.227.0365 x101 or ctimmel@esplanadeassociation.org.

 

LAWRENCE R. HOTT
FLORENTINE FILMS/HOTT PRODUCTIONS, INC.

Lawrence R. Hott has been producing documentary films since 1978, when he left the practice of law to join Florentine Films.  His awards include an Emmy, two Academy Award nominations, a George Foster Peabody Award, the duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, the Erik Barnouw Award, five American Film Festival Blue Ribbons, Fourteen CINE Golden Eagles, screenings at Telluride, and first-place awards from the San Francisco, Chicago, National Educational, and New England Film Festivals. 

Hott was the Fulbright Fellow in Film and Television in the United Kingdom in 1994.  He received the Humanities Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities in 1995; a Massachusetts Cultural Council/Boston Film and Video Foundation Fellowship in 2001; and the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism in 2001.  He has been on the board of non-fiction writers at Smith College and has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Massachusetts Cultural Commission, and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.   He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Director’s Guild of America.