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Upcoming Events
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Recent Past Events
Public festival taking place in the Josephine Butler Parks Center and Meridian Hill / Malcolm X Park
An Earth Awareness Soiree
All proceeds will be donated to local organizations (including Washington Parks & People!) facilitating opportunities for low and moderate-income residents to grow and consume their own produce locally.
To learn more about the EarthBall and buy tickets, hit http://earthball2009.
coming your way soon. Tickets, available first come, first served, are $25 on-line and $35 at the door.
April 25, 2009
10 am
North Columbia Heights Green, behind Red Rocks Pizza, bounded by Park Road on the north, 11th Street on the west, Lamont Street on the south, and Sherman Avenue on the east.
A community design charette, focused on planning the North Columbia Heights Green, recently acquired by Parks & People, in the context of the community’s green needs and assets, will take place at the site at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 25. It will be led by Columbia Heights resident John Henderson, a park planning veteran who helped design the renaissance of the Chicago Park District, along with Parks & People Landscape Architect and Columbia Heights resident Ian Tyndall. There will be food and music, and all are welcome. For more information call (202) 462-7275 or send an email to info@washingtonparks.net
April 4, 2009
10:00am-1:00pm
Oxon Run-Meet at Oxon Run Park Amphitheater 13th & Mississippi SE
Marvin Gaye- TBD
The this is the 21st annual cleanup done in conjunction with the Alice Ferguson Foundation Potomac Watershed Clean-Up. Since this event began more than 40,000 volunteers have teamed with 300 partner organizations to retrieve over 1,500 tons of trash from the watershed's streams, rivers and bays. Contact Washington Parks & People if you are interested in volunteering at Oxon Run Park for this event!
There will be food! music! and fun!
April 4, 2009
2:00-8:00pm
Marvin Gaye Park
Come out and celebrate Marvin Gaye's 70th Birthday and the 50th anniversary of Motown Records!
There will be various activities going on throughout the park beginning at 1pm and ending around 8pm.
1-4pm: Heritage Trail Unveiling & Community Walk
4-6pm: Talent Show (Walk-ons welcome! Or contact us to sign up or do so at the Riverside Center)
6-8pm: Various artists performing Motown tunes including some of Marvin Gaye's hits.
Performers include:
-Andrea and Chyp
There will also be demos for some of the new programs being offered at the Riverside Center through our Heart & Soul Program. (Jazzercise, African Dance, Hoop Dance, etc.)
Come celebrate Marvin Gaye and spring in the park by getting together with the community and rejoicing in the rich heritage of the neighborhood while supporting local artists and youth!
March 25 6:30 pm
Josephine Butler Parks Center
2437 15th St NW
Washington, DC.
Who knew composting in the city could be so easy!
Composting is the decomposition of organic materials to make an earthy, dark, crumbly substance that is excellent nutrition for your houseplants or enriching your garden. It is the best way to recycle your yard and kitchen wastes, and is a critical step in reducing the volume of garbage needlessly sent to landfills for disposal. Join us at a workshop lead by Ed Bruske, Past-President & Co-Founder of DC Urban Gardeners, to learn about the tremendous number of options for composting and containing your compost. You will learn that anyone can do it and no space is too small. And a panel of show and tell so you can hear from people that are really doing it.
This workshop will cover:
-indoor composting with worms (vermiculture)
-outdoor composting
-how to pick the right bin for you
-why composting matters
-the connection between soil and climate change
Come learn the specific how to's and join with millions of others to stop wasting precious resources and positively impact your
environment. You'll be composting in no time!
About Ed Bruske, Past-President & Co-Founder of DC Urban Gardeners
From Ed, "In a previous life I was an award winning reporter for The Washington Post, mainly covering the District of Columbia. I am a Master Gardener and past-president and co-founder of D.C. Urban Gardeners. I am a food writer for Martha Stewart Living and Edible Chesapeake magazine and maintain a daily food blog called The Slow Cook. I teach children where our food comes from and how to cook it, and I grow much of the food our family eats in the kitchen garden outside our home here in the Columbia Heights neighborhood, about a mile from the White House. Except what we put at the curb for recycling, we compost all of the organic matter that passes through our home, including our late lamented Guinea pig, Shadow."
Check carbonfreedc.com for more info.
Tickets: $75 in advance, $100 at the door
All proceeds benefit Cool Capital Challenge and the Sierra Club!
Saturday, January 10 @ 10am
Josephine Butler Parks Center
Join the Cool Capital Challenge for our Task Force Meeting on January 10 at 10am at the Josephine Butler Parks Center at 2437 15th Street NW Washington DC. This time we want you to invite as many grassroots youth leaders as you can. The purpose of this meeting is to promote what each current and new task force member organizations are doing, find out what events are coming up through spring to find a way to integrate them, coordinate an action plan for the campaign, and prepare for Service Day, Earth Week and Cool Summer together.
December 19
4:30pm
Heritage Green at Marvin Gaye Park
Join Council Chair Vincent Gray and Washington Parks & People as we light a tree in Marvin Gaye Park and celebrate the winter solstice and the beginning of the season.
Light refreshments will be served.
December 13, 2008
3 - 6 pm
Oxon Run Park Amphitheater
13th & Mississippi SE
Join Councilmember Marion Barry and Washington Parks & People during this time of peace and blessings in the new Ward 8.