"I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end." - Alice Paul, GSAS 1912

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

About The Garden

We are delighted to announce a new project: the creation of a Women’s Garden at the Women’s Center. The garden will provide a quiet space for reading, relaxing, and gathering, and will feature benches, a stone fireplace/bbq, a bird bath, a central dining table, and assorted plant beds.

The planting color scheme will be purple, gold and white in honor of the suffrage movement and its leader – herself a Penn alumna – Alice Paul. We will prioritize native Pennsylvania plants, both ornamental and edible. This garden will be open to all, but will especially nurture the personal, programmatic and social needs of Penn women.

We envisage the garden being used by:
• Penn Women’s Center groups and sororities who currently have no outdoor space on campus;
• Our alumni wishing to gather during key university weekends (i.e. homecoming, Alumni Weekend);
• Penn students enrolled in courses focusing on urban nutrition or landscaping;
• Students enrolled in local Philadelphia schools who would be invited to participate in educational programs.

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