Wind Phone comes to Nancy Lewis Park
Community invited to anniversary celebration
Pikes Peak Hospice invites you to join us on Thursday, Sept. 10, as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Nancy Lewis Park, also marking 30 years in partnership with the City of Colorado Springs.
The celebration will include the dedication of a new park feature, known as a Wind Phone.
What is a Wind Phone?
Wind Phones are an international movement that started in 2010 in Japan by garden designer Itaru Sasaki. The concept is a disconnected phone housed in a simple booth or on a pedestal in a serene natural environment such as a park, trail, or cemetery. The phone is a symbolic tool for dealing with grief, providing a quiet, intentional space for an individual to “converse” with a lost loved one and continue to feel connection with someone who has passed. There are more than 600 Wind Phones across the globe, and Pikes Peak Hospice is proud to bring our own uniquely designed new feature to Nancy Lewis Park. The anniversary celebration also will recognize the many Pikes Peak Hospice donors who helped in the park’s origination as well as its 2016 refresh through donations of trees and benches.
The celebration and dedication ceremony will feature brief remarks by Mayor Yemi Mobolade, Parks Director Skyler Rorabaugh, and Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation Executive Director Susan Edmondson.
What: Nancy Lewis Park 30th Anniversary Celebration and Wind Phone Dedication
When: 3 pm Thursday, Sept. 10
Where: Nancy Lewis Park, 2615 N. Logan Ave.
Free and open to the public
Go Back The celebration will include the dedication of a new park feature, known as a Wind Phone.
What is a Wind Phone?
Wind Phones are an international movement that started in 2010 in Japan by garden designer Itaru Sasaki. The concept is a disconnected phone housed in a simple booth or on a pedestal in a serene natural environment such as a park, trail, or cemetery. The phone is a symbolic tool for dealing with grief, providing a quiet, intentional space for an individual to “converse” with a lost loved one and continue to feel connection with someone who has passed. There are more than 600 Wind Phones across the globe, and Pikes Peak Hospice is proud to bring our own uniquely designed new feature to Nancy Lewis Park. The anniversary celebration also will recognize the many Pikes Peak Hospice donors who helped in the park’s origination as well as its 2016 refresh through donations of trees and benches.
The celebration and dedication ceremony will feature brief remarks by Mayor Yemi Mobolade, Parks Director Skyler Rorabaugh, and Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation Executive Director Susan Edmondson.
What: Nancy Lewis Park 30th Anniversary Celebration and Wind Phone Dedication
When: 3 pm Thursday, Sept. 10
Where: Nancy Lewis Park, 2615 N. Logan Ave.
Free and open to the public