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From YouTube: ICA Watershed Ribbon Cutting
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The Institute of Contemporary Art helps give the East Boston waterfront a face-lift with the installation of the ICA Watershed. Mayor Walsh is on hand to cut the ribbon on the art gallery, which was converted from an unused copper piping warehouse.
A
Good
afternoon,
everybody
sorry
that
was
a
little
loud
I'd
like
to
have
everybody,
take
their
seats.
We're
gonna
begin
the
program
this
afternoon
and
thank
you
very
much
for
coming
out
today.
It's
gorgeous
out
I
hope
everybody
got
to
take
the
boat
over
I
am
going
to
introduce
now
Steve
korkin,
the
president
of
the
board
of
trustees
of
the
Institute
of
Contemporary
Art.
Thank
you.
B
B
Special
welcome
to
mayor
Marty
Walsh,
to
tom
Glynn
of
mass
port
and
to
our
state
and
city
officials
representing
both
our
East
Boston
and
South
Boston
homes.
The
folks
of
the
piers
Park
sailing
Center,
the
Fallon
company
across
the
harbor
in
the
Seaport,
the
great
I
see
a
staff
and
the
East
Boston
community.
Welcome
to
all
of
you.
B
We're
so
very
honored
to
have
you
all
here
with
us
today
and
to
be
part
of
the
work,
vision
and
impact
of
the
ICA
and
our
great
commitment
to
art
and
civic
life
in
the
city.
The
heartbeat
and
lifeblood
of
all
that
we
do.
Many
people
have
helped
make
today
a
reality.
In
addition
to
the
city
and
state,
we
want
to
recognize
the
tremendous
contributions
of
mass
port
and
the
shipyard.
Let's
recognize
them
right
now,
because
they're
so
great.
B
Each
of
the
donors
to
the
watershed
into
the
ICS
fund
for
the
future,
the
Boston
foundation
led
by
Paul
Grogan,
the
ICA
Board
of
Trustees
and
advisory
board
inaugural
artist,
diana
fader,
who
were
thrilled
to
have
here
today
and
the
tireless
and
wonderful
ICA
staff.
Now
it
is
my
distinct
privilege
to
introduce
Jill
Medvedev,
the
Ellen
Matilde
posture,
rector
of
the
ICA.
Thank
you.
C
Good
afternoon
good
afternoon,
it's
a
great
pleasure
to
be
here
to
see
all
of
you.
Thank
you
all
for
joining
us
here
on
the
podium
and
in
the
audience
we
actually
closed
the
ica
across
the
harbor
to
the
public,
so
that
the
ICA
staff
could
be
with
us
all
of
our
staff,
our
volunteers,
our
teens,
and
so
let
me
start
with
an
unbelievable
heartfelt
thanks
to
the
ICA
staff
for
delivering
this
beautiful
building.
C
I
have
had
a
dream,
as
most
of
you
probably
know,
of
connecting
to
both
sides
of
the
harbor
through
the
arts
because
of
the
arts,
great
potential,
to
stir
the
soul
and
spark
the
conscience
and
bring
people
together
through
culture.
So
today
is
a
great
day,
I
hope
for
all
of
us
and
for
the
city
of
Boston.
It's
my
great
honor
to
introduce
our
mayor
mayor,
Marty
Walsh,
when
Mayor
Walsh
was
first
running
for
office.
C
I
attended
up
a
panel,
a
public
panel
of
all
the
candidates
where
he
pledged
to
elevate
the
Arts
in
Boston,
appoint
a
cabinet
level
position
for
the
arts
and
begin
a
planning
process
to
ensure
that
the
arts
are
part
of
each
and
every
neighborhood
in
Boston
check,
check
check.
So
much
of
that
has
been
accomplished.
C
So
it's
a
real
pleasure
to
have
the
mayor
with
us
today
as
we
open
the
watershed
here
in
East,
Boston
I'm
thrilled
to
work
with
the
mayor
on
public
culture
in
our
city,
on
ensuring
that
all
of
our
teams
have
access
to
learning
and
enrichment
in
and
out
of
school
through
the
arts
and
to
help.
Imagine
a
future
for
Boston
where
creativity
is
central
to
who
we
are.
Please
help
me
welcome
our
mayor.
D
E
E
Thank
you,
I
wanna,
it's
exciting,
as
I
walked
under
the
tent.
Today,
you
can
tell
a
party's
good
when
there's
a
loud
noise
out
of
there
and
everyone's
smiling
and
happy,
and
so
congratulations
to
everyone
here
today.
This
is
an
exciting
day
for
East
Boston
and
it's
an
exciting
day
for
the
arts
scene
in
our
city
and
I
cannot
Commonwealth
so
I'll
talk
about
that
more
in
a
minute.
E
I
want
to
thank
Jill
for
her
incredible
work
and
everyone
at
the
ICA
I
love
the
fact
that
you
shut
it
shut
down
the
ICA
today
to
allow
the
opportunity
for
all
the
folks
that
work
at
ICA
do
incredible.
Work
every
day,
get
a
chance
to
celebrate
here
and
today
to
Steve.
Thank
you,
Tom
Glenn,
thank
you
to
all
the
folks
here,
Julian
Joyce
and
all
our
team.
Thank
you
very
much.
E
If
you
feel
work
and
see
the
elected
officials
here,
you're
gonna
hear
from
them
all
a
little
while
so
I
won't
go
into
a
big
long
spiel
about
each
one,
but
senator
ball
Cory.
Thank
you,
the
Adrienne
matter,
Oh
Thank,
You,
representative
Lydia
Edwards.
Thank
you
comfortable
Flynn.
Thank
you
for
being
here
with
us
today
and
I
also
want
to
give
a
shout
out
to
former
counsel
of
Solomon
teen
who's
here
today,
Thank
You
counselor
for
all
of
you
that
we
do
every
day
Jill
talked
about
the
mayor's
race
I.
E
Just
I
saw
my
Gracia,
so
I
had
to
tell
this
one
quick
story.
So
when
we're
running
for
mayor
in
2013
I'm
a
kid
from
Dorchester
and
as
you
can
imagine,
I'm
a
world
traveler
and
know
the
odds
inside
and
out
so
I
really
didn't.
I
did
I
didn't
need
much
briefing
and
race
Linehan.
It
was
my
director
of
policy
at
the
time
and
we
we
had
the
arts
and
culture
committee
set
up
and
she
said.
Okay,
what
can
you
talk
about?
The
arts
and
I
said?
E
Well,
you
know
I'm,
you
know
we
have
theaters
in
Boston,
and
the
children's
regime
is
great.
Medicine
will
and
I
know
some
stuff
about
the
arts
and
mascot
knew
about
mass
cultural,
but
Joyce
wanted
me
to
take
a
deep
dive
into
the
arts,
and
we
would
that
we
were
setting
up
for
this
debate
and
it
was
that
it
was
at
the
Boston
Public
Library
in
there
was
literally
so
many
people
there
that
they
had
to
shut
people
out.
You
couldn't
get
into
the
Arts
and
Culture
debate.
E
So
there
was
12
of
us
running
around
the
stage
and
we
were
prepping
me
for
it
and
what
to
say
and
how?
What
we're
gonna
do
and
obviously
creating
an
ounce
cabinet
level
position
was,
was
an
easy
one.
We
had
said
it
before,
and
it
was
something
that
was
really
needed
in
Boston,
because
it
hadn't
happened.
We
don't
think
since
the
Flint
administration
in
the
very
early
days-
and
we
really
couldn't
find
a
plan
farts
and
culture
that
dated
back
any
period
and
in
Boston's
history.
E
E
As
a
comes
to
me
and
I
said,
you
know,
there's
a
lot
of
great
cities
in
the
world
that
we
can
emulate,
but
I
think
one
of
the
ones
I
think
we
won't
aim
it
at
the
most
is
Montreal
Mike
Ross
is
looking
at
me
going
you
son
of
a
so
thank
you,
Mike
Rotch
to
that,
and
thank
you.
No.
But
but
since
that
time
we
have
created,
we've
launched,
Boston
creates
which,
which
is
which
is
arts
and
cultural
play.
Many
of
you
in
this
room
were
part
of
that.
I
want
to
thank
you.
E
It
helps
us
understand,
unlocking
the
arts
across
cultures
across
generation
across
Holland
neighborhoods
in
the
city
and
I,
want
to
thank
you
for
that,
because
that
plan
truly
is
amazing
and
what
what
we're
doing
in
the
arts,
the
City
of
Boston,
you
know
as
we're
going
through
it's
not
a
Renaissance
or
hasn't
been.
It
hasn't
been
deemed
a
renaissance
yet,
but
whatever
we're
going
through
is
important,
but
really
elevating
the
arts
and
bringing
and
talking
about
the
arts
and
making
a
front
and
center
and
developments
at
look
at
our
table.
E
The
cabinet
that
we
have
every
Friday
we
meet.
We
talk
about
arts
and
culture,
we're
crossing
over
departments,
we're
crossing
over
the
people,
really
doing
a
lot
of
different
things,
and
we
want
to
see
the
arts
and
culture
thrive
in
every
neighborhood
and
what's
happening
today.
Is
the
I
see
a
watershed?
Does
that
here
in
East,
Boston
I
want
to
thank
Jill
and
her
team
for
the
vision
and
the
leadership
here.
E
For
a
long
time,
they've
been
pioneers
and
bringing
arts
to
the
waterfront,
as
you
know,
over
in
the
sub
Boston
waterfront
at
the
Seaport
that
incredible
credible
building
in
what
happens
in
that
building
and
what's
around
that
building
and
bringing
life
to
the
South
Washington
waterfront
is
really
amazing
and
also
we're
gonna,
see
here
in
East
Boston.
Now,
as
we
see
development
and
open
space
and
parks
and
all
the
different
things
that
are
happening
on
the
waterfront.
But
it's
not
just
about
the
waterfront.
E
It's
about
the
entire
East
Boston
community
and
having
them
have
access
and
coming
here
and
being
able
to
be
part
of
something
really
special.
So
the
the
ICA
is
certainly
transformative
and
inspiring.
It's
a
testament
to
their
countless
creativity
that
boundless
creativity.
Excuse
me
in
their
commitment
to
our
neighborhoods
in
in
Boston
and
what's
amazing,
this
project
increases
access
to
the
Arts
waterfront,
our
water
transportation.
Joyce
just
told
me
that
walking
enjoys
letting
hand
said
that
you
know
eight
minutes.
She
she
got
on
the
on.
E
The
shuttle
went,
the
city
hall
visually
about
of
the
ICA
left
city
hall,
went
the
ICA
and
then
came
across
in
eight
minutes,
and
it's
so
important
to
make
those
connections
because
forever
we're
talking
about
transportation
and
again
the
arts
is
playing
a
role
in
transportation
in
our
city
in
our
Commonwealth,
and
that's
something
that's
really
important.
This
watershed
is
a
shining
example
how
much
our
resident
stands
to
benefit
from
the
resources.
This
project
brought
together
a
lot
of
partners
and
before
I,
bring
it
back
to
Jill.
E
I
just
want
to
thank
a
few
Tom
Glenn
and
his
team
at
Massport,
who
spent
a
great
deal
here
working
with
the
ICA
since
this
took
took
shape
so
trauma.
I
want
to
thank
you
and
your
team
Joe
Fallon
and
his
staff
and
in
the
ferry
service
I
want
to
thank
Joe
and
his
team
for
really
excite
being
excited
about.
How
do
we
liven
up
the
waterfront?
It's
great
to
see
that
this?
This
watershed
has
taken
off
and
opened
this
it's
this
summer.
E
I
expect
the
doors
for
the
Arts
to
be
open,
so
many
will
be
open,
so
many
families
for
each
people
from
East
Boston,
and
it's
just
another
thing
as
a
Boston
resident,
it's
great
to
see
all
those
people
that
left
that
city
and
now
they're
coming
back
saying
we
should
never
have
left.
So
all
the
ones
that
left
ec
went
north.
Sorry,
it's
ours!
Thank
you.
C
Next
next,
it's
my
pleasure
to
introduce
tonglen
from
Massport
tom
and
andrew
Hargens,
and
the
entire
team.
Pam
and
Juan
have
been
extraordinary
partners.
Their
receptiveness
and
commitment
to
creativity
in
the
public.
Realm
has
been
extremely
important
to
me,
as
well
as
to
the
project
and
their
great
skills
in
navigating
complexity,
really
helped.
This
project
come
to
life
its
we
turn
to
them
for
challenges
both
small
and
large.
They
always
they
always
helped
us
figure
it
out
or
figured
it
out
for
us.
C
F
Didn't
expect
that
to
be
quite
the
applause
like
maybe
I
should
just
sit
down
now
and
just
call
it
quit.
So
I
also
want
to
thank
Jill
for
hosting
this
great
event.
You
know
it's
a
great
moment
in
the
history
of
East
Boston,
and
we
appreciate
the
icas
hosting,
but
I
do
want
to
say
a
word
about
a
couple
of
people
who
are
responsible
for
the
success
of
East
Boston
over
the
last
50
years
and
have
had
the
vision
that
we
are
capitalizing
on
today.
F
So
the
first
one
is
Mary
Ellen
Welsh,
who
fifty
years
has
preserved
the
vision
of
East
Boston
as
a
gateway
community.
The
second
person
I
want
to
recognize
is
former
Senate
President
Robert
travel
Eenie,
who
has
had
a
vision
for
a
bright
future
and
has
worked
to
deliver
it
year
after
year
for
40
years
and
third
Jill,
whose
vision
enables
her
to
see
things.
F
That
Jill
is
here
and
Jill
stays
here,
and
we
know
she's
a
national
and
international
leader
in
the
arts,
and
so
I
just
want
to
say
how
joyous
it
was
for
us
to
work
with
her
and
how
proud
we
are
to
be
partnering
with
the
mayor
with
the
other
elected
officials
in
East,
Boston
and
bringing
something
which
is
truly
special
and
kind
of
reinforces
the
great
success
East
Boston
has
had
over
the
last
50
years.
Thank
you.
C
Thank
you.
Those
were
really
kind
words.
Thank
you.
I
know,
I'm
speaking
for
the
entire
ICA,
when
I
say
how
grateful
we
are
to
the
people
and
all
of
the
organization's
of
East
Boston.
We
have
been
welcomed
so
warmly
since
we
began
this
project
spending
the
last
year
meeting.
So
many
of
you
and
learning
so
much
from
each
of
you,
I'm
very
honored,
to
have
all
of
so
many
elected
officials
from
East
Boston
to
celebrate
with
us
here
today.
C
G
Wow,
what
a
wonderful
day
and
thank
you
and
welcome
to
Jill
and
to
Steve
and
a
big
another
thanks
to
Jill
for
her
vision.
This
port
area
meant
so
much
to
this
community
of
East
Boston
for
such
a
lot
for
such
a
long
time.
So
many
decades
ago,
and
again,
it's
gonna
mean
the
same
to
a
new
generation
of
these
Bostonians
who
live
fair
and
that
all
Jill's
vision,
the
good
work,
the
ICA
is
doing
and
being
a
great
partner
and
really
a
compliment
to
a
city.
G
The
ICA
has
been
yeoman's
work
in
bringing
arts
and
culture
to
the
watershed
and
to
the
children
of
these
Boston
ensuring
the
children
of
East
Boston
have
access
to
to
arts
and
culture.
This
is
great
to
have
Edie
here.
Member,
on
behalf
of
the
East
Boston
delegation,
welcome
to
the
selfie
done
generate
delegation.
This
really
is
a
great
transformative
project.
It's
going
to
connect
the
city
over
the
water
and
what
a
novel
concept
as
we
talk
about
transport,
transportation,
infrastructure
and
building
transportation
into
the
21st
century.
G
It's
important
that
we
activate
and
make
our
water
our
water
Harbor,
the
most
vibrant
transportation
in
the
entire
country
and
the
ICA
is
taken.
The
first
step-
and
we
hope
we
can
do
the
same
in
Cooke
in
collaboration
with
the
city
and
the
Commonwealth-
it's
really
a
great
day
for
East
Boston
and
a
great
day
for
the
entire
city.
Thank
you
all
for
being
here.
I.
H
Good
afternoon
everyone
and
welcome
to
East
Boston.
This
is
such
an
exciting
day,
Jill
Steve
to
the
board
and
to
all
the
staff
at
the
ICA.
Thank
you
for
making
this
investment
in
our
community.
You
know
this
waterfront
in
this
shipyard
has
evolved
a
number
of
times
during
East
Boston's
lifetime.
You
know
when
my
mom
was
growing
up
in
the
community.
This
was
a
very
active
shipyard.
They
were
longshoremen
tons
of
maritime
industrial
uses
that
all
dwindled
and
when
I
was
growing
up,
this
was
pretty
barren
in
a
desolate
place.
There
was
no.
H
There
was
no
Pierce
Park,
there
was
no
ko
PI's.
Certainly
no
I
see
a
watershed,
and
now
here
we
are
today
with
a
beautiful
Pierce
Park
thanks
to
mass
port
that
will
soon
expand
almost
doubling
in
size.
We
have
restaurants
in
the
shipyard.
We
have
Harbor
arts
here
and
now
we
have
the
ICA.
This
is
truly
an
incredible
transformation
folks
and
for
those
of
us
who
are
from
this
community,
it's
kind
of
hard
to
envision,
just
how
far
we've
come
and
the
wonderful
thing
about
the
ICA
is.
H
This
is
almost
a
cherry
on
top
for
what
is
already
an
amazing
art
scene
locally,
we
have
zoomix,
we
have
80
border
street,
which
are
beautiful
artists
lofts,
we
have
more
artists,
live,
work,
sell
units
that
are
being
opened
and
more
to
come
and
again
now
we
have
the
ICA
watershed
and
to
think
that
East
Boston
has
attracted
a
museum
of
this
caliber
is
truly
incredible
so
again
to
everyone
involved.
Thank
you
for
making
this
investment
and
thank
you
for
being
part
of
these
Boston's
future.
H
H
This
is
from
both
the
House
and
the
Senate,
and
it
reads
be
it
hereby
known
to
all
that
the
Massachusetts
legislature
offers
its
sincerest
congratulations
to
the
Institute
of
Contemporary.
Art
and
recognition
of
the
opening
of
the
beautiful
I
see
a
watershed,
an
incredible
and
exciting
addition
to
the
vibrant
arts
and
cultural
community
of
East
Boston.
Congratulations
and
thank
you.
C
There's
a
great
story:
I
go
way
off
line
here,
but
the
great
musician,
John
Cage
and
the
choreographer
Merce
Cunningham,
two
of
the
great
great
artists
of
the
20th
century,
were
on
a
car
trip.
They
were
partners
and
working
in
life
and
they
were
driving
on
the
highway
out
west
and
speeding,
speeding,
speeding
in
their
car
and
they
hear
a
siren
going
off
behind
them
and
John
Cage
was
driving
and
he's
a
officer
of
the
law
cop
and
he
pulls
them
over
and
says
I'm.
You
were
speeding
and
they're
down
and
they're.
C
C
C
I
Good
afternoon
and,
of
course,
I'll
echo,
everyone
else
welcome
to
East.
Boston
I
am
incredibly
honored
to
serve
this
community,
though
just
six
months
now
in
this
role
as
the
as
the
city,
councilor
and
I,
just
am
so
incredibly
happy
to
welcome
our
newest
neighbor,
the
ICA
watershed
to
East
Boston
like
any
great
neighbor.
They
have
done
incredible
amount
of
work
to
get
out
there
and
to
get
to
know
the
new
neighborhood.
I
The
amount
of
community
meetings
you've
gone
to
the
amount
of
folks
that
you've
reached
out
to
coming
to
my
office
coming
to
all
the
delegations,
offices,
I
really
think
that
there's
a
true
commitment
by
the
ICA
watershed
to
not
just
come
to
East
Boston,
but
to
really
become
a
part
of
East
Boston.
So
thank
you
for
that
commitment.
I
I
also
wanted
to
note
that
one
of
the
things
that
I'm
incredibly
impressed
by
is
the
fact
that
for
the
first
time
the
ICA
watershed
will
be
doing
tours
in
Spanish,
and
that
means
a
lot
for
our
community
as
it
has
a
growing
immigrant
population
and
not
everyone
speaks
English
as
a
first
language.
So
to
me,
I
think
that
further
demonstrates
the
commitment
that
this
is
a
watershed.
I
This
is
a
place
for
all
to
feel
welcome,
just
like
all
of
the
city
of
Boston,
and
to
assure
that,
no
matter
where
you
come
from,
you
can
enjoy
the
art
and
truly
feel
welcome
here.
So
again,
thank
you
for
adding
that
to
our
community.
Thank
you
so
much,
but
in
order
to
just
make
sure
that
we
understand
that
the
city
of
Boston
is
not
only
welcoming
and
that
we
we
work
really
hard
at
the
city
level.
I
C
J
Thank
you
to
to
Jill
went
to
Steven
to
all
the
I,
see
a
staff
members
who
made
this
event
possible.
I'm
honored
to
be
here
today
with
you.
As
the
district
city,
councilor
of
district
2
I
represent
the
waterfront
area
in
the
ICA
building
across
the
harbor.
This
expansion
into
East
Boston
is
a
great
opportunity
to
connect
Arts
in
residents
from
across
the
city.
I
want
to
thank
my
support
for
their
leadership.
J
I
want
to
thank
ICA
for
the
old
leadership
and
I
also
want
to
thank
mayor
Walsh
for
his
leadership
in
joist
lennihan
for
her
leadership
as
well.
The
ICA
has
been
a
good
neighbor
to
the
South
Boston
waterfront.
Their
generosity
and
focus
on
community
is
shown
by
their
free
admission
to
those
17
inyanga
in
free
admission
on
Thursday
evenings
in
certain
holidays,
almost
like
the
Children's
Museum
as
well.
J
So
we're
proud
of
the
Children's
Museum
children
from
Boston
Public
Schools,
our
immigrant
community
public
housing
from
all
across
our
city,
South
Boston's,
South,
End,
Dorchester,
Chinatown
Roxbury
in
here
in
East
Boston.
It
is
so
important
that
we
all
are
given
access
to
art
and
have
the
opportunity
to
be
inspired.
Inspired
by
the
exhibits
here
at
the
ICA.
I
am
happy
to
knows.
No,
these
exhibits
are
available
for
all
of
our
great
city's
residents.
I,
look
forward
to
many
young
artists
being
inspired
through
visiting
with
their
school
summer
program
or
family
members.
I
am
proud.
J
C
I'm
gonna
wrap
it
up
with
just
a
few
closing
comments.
One
is
I
think
everyone
here
knows
that
art
is
about
imagining
the
future.
So
it's
a
great
honor
to
have
with
us
a
very
amazing
group
of
individuals
who
have
helped
turn
the
watershed
into
more
than
a
space,
but
into
something
that
lives
and
breathes
and
really
sets
us
into
the
future.
Our
great
artist,
Diana
thater.
Thank
you
so
much
for
your
beautiful
work
and.