Free Wicker Park Fountain Decorating Social
When: Saturday, November 23, 2019 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Where: Wicker Park, 1425 N. Damen. Meet at Fountain.
No Admission Charge. The Wicker Park Garden Club will kick off the Holiday Season with community spirit and some long-standing decorating competition. Help decorate Wicker Park’s historic Gurgoyle Fountain. They will begin by cutting up thirty trees to make greens for the urns, collect ornamental grasses and dried flowers from the park’s 10,000 sq. feet of garden, then decorate the twelve urns and install lights and garland on the fountain.
Volunteer WORK both INSIDE & OUTSIDE
DECORATE THE FOUNTAIN COURT We will begin by cutting up 30 trees to make greens for the urns and decorate the 12 urns and rose partiers sounding the fountain. The four historic urns will feature lit trees. The newly restored fountain will be illuminated, but no colored lights will be added this year.
TOOLS: Bring Gloves, Pruners, Loppers, Small Hand Saws if you Have Them. We will will have extra saws and other tools for you to use.
BRING FOOD: Bring some finger food to Share!
SIGNUP TO VOLUNTEER & ATTEND – Click HERE
About the Gurgoyle Fountain
Wicker Park’s iconic Gurgoyle Fountain was restored this year with a $67,000 grant from Wicker Park Bucktown Special Service Area #33 (WPB SSA #33), the neighborhood’s business improvement district. The SSA commissioned the Conservation of Sculpture & Objects Studio (CSOS) to complete this project, which included the removal of old paint and corrosion from Gurgoyle Fountain and its four cast iron urns, repainting and resealing to protect against future damage, and reconstruction of the top ornament on the fountain.
Image from Wicker Park Garden Club
