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Spring is here! The cherry blossoms bloomed, the sun is shining, and nearly 100 bands are warming up for the first annual Petworth Porchfest. This Saturday, April 24th, local bands from the area are scheduled to perform on porches around Petworth from 2 - 6 pm.
Here’s how you can take in all the free music…
Read MoreOn April 14th, local elected representatives across the city will be reading children's books to students in public parks, and you’re invited to join. Just RSVP!
Read MoreMusic is coming to your front steps this month with Petworth Porchfest. Houses all around the neighborhood will be hosting bands on their porches on Saturday, April 24th from 2-6pm. Come out to see 83 bands playing on 64 porches within 1.5 miles of each other in a Covid-safe manner. All shows are free.
Read MoreA cool art exhibition is opening at Art of Noize, with the opening reception on Saturday, March 6th from 7-10pm (in the rear of 821 Upshur St NW). Featuring local artists Emond Nassa and Khalid Thompson’s exhibition, Transatlantic: Innermost Connections.
Read MorePorchfest is coming to Petworth, and they’re looking for bands, volunteers… and porches.
Petworth PorchFest 2021 will take place on Saturday, April 24th, from 2-6pm. Following in the footsteps of other successful PorchFests throughout the District, Petworth PorchFest is a neighborhood-wide live music event that will feature dozens of bands hosted on porches throughout Petworth.
They’re looking for volunteers, porches and bands!
Read MoreWalk, bike, drive, skip or crawl over to the 400 block of Quincy Street NW this weekend. For it is there that Olga and her neighbors have fabulously decorated a total of seven attached row houses. Olga sketched the original design, found Virginia artist Rodrigo Pradel on Craigslist, and hired him to bring her sketches to life.
Read MoreThe Petworth News Socially Distant Halloween Parade was a success! Really couldn’t be happier with how smoothly the parade went, how many people showed up, the kids and the costumes — awesome. It couldn’t have happened without the whole neighborhood pulling together!
Read MoreWe asked readers what their thoughts are about celebrating Halloween… do we go trick or treating? Do we give out candy? Is it ghosts and ghouls in the streets, but no one else? Here’s the responses from readers, and an invitation to attend a Socially Distant Halloween Parade!
Read MoreNow in its third year, FRESHFARM Market returns on Sunday mornings this fall to The Parks at Walter Reed, one of DC’s newest and greenest master planned communities. This weekly producer-only farmers’ market features produce, meats, prepared foods, locally roasted coffee, and craft beer and cider from some of the area's most popular small businesses, breweries and farmers. Several local Petworth businesses will be in attendance this week, including Qualia Coffee, Capitol Cider House and Timber Pizza. Right Proper Brewing is joining this week for the first time.
Read MoreUptown Main Street (UMS) is supporting local businesses around its corridors by launching the virtual “Rediscover Uptown Scavenger Hunt” from September 18th to the 25th as part of a series of fun fall events. Win prizes! Shop local!
Read MoreNative Washingtonian and jazz historian James Zimmerman thought for a long time about the music he would select for his “Sunset Sessions at The Parks” performance, a new virtual series from The Parks at Walter Reed.
“I knew I could start with something — for lack of a better term — somber, but when the opportunity came up, I was not feeling very much like an entertainer,” Zimmerman said. The event producers had scheduled the filming for May 30th — but that week, protesters were crowding the streets of Washington, DC, and vigils were held in Petworth, Brightwood, Shepherd Park (and around the world) in honor of the black Americans killed recently by law enforcement. Zimmerman’s full 35-minute set includes several songs from Oscar Brown, Jr., including a powerful rendition of “Brown Baby,” in which Zimmerman whispers “I can’t breathe” throughout the song.
Read MoreA group of neighbors have put together an event to celebrate Juneteenth — and you don’t have to leave your front yard if you don’t want to. The holiday commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States when on June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans in Texas were finally told they had been freed, more than two years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Read MoreNumerous churches and local organizations participated in a vigil on Friday, June 5th along 16th Street. Inviting community members of all (or no) faiths to join, churches along the street hosted people along the sidewalks from 5 - 6pm to show support against racism. Bells were rung at 5:45pm for eight minutes, 46 seconds… the length of time that George Floyd had a police officer’s knee on his neck, leading to his murder.
The vigil was highly attended up and down 16th Street, and the organizers will be continuing the vigils each Friday of June, from 5-6pm.
Read MoreArea residents and families have been gathering at local parks to show support for the ongoing protests in DC, around the country and around the world against police brutality, in support of equality and to shout out that Black Lives Matter.
Two groups that have stated their intention to keep the demonstrations going are meeting at the Meditation Park at 13th and Quincy and at Sherman Circle in the early evenings starting at 5pm.
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