Garden Court Community Association Annual Meeting Wednesday, June 23, 7:30 PM On Zoom Agenda: Overview of the past year: Reports from various committees. Election of New Board Members and Officers. .

The Kimmel Cultural Campus continues to expand its offerings with its Creative Stages Program! JAZZ4FREEDOM Exploring Black History & Social Change with Jazz Jazz4Freedom is a program developed for 4th grade students linking Jazz to Black History in Pennsylvania and beyond. Led by our experienced teaching artists, 4th graders are first engaged with a pre-show class about the Harlem Renaissance and growth of Jazz in Philadelphia. The highlight of the program is a field trip to

Three Black, female-owned businesses based at the Enterprise Center share their wares at the annual show. Marian Dossou of KakeMi Cakes (left), Nina Bryan of Sweet Nina’s (center), and mother-daughter Carol Blacken and Jillian Blacken of Jillian’s Bakes, who work out of the Enterprise Center in West Philadelphia, are selling their wares at the Philadelphia Flower Show. ELIZABETH ROBERTSON / Staff Photographer Philadelphia Inquirer by Michael Klein. Published Jun 7, 2021 They

Garden Court Community Association has a regularly scheduled Zoning and Development Committee meeting at 8pm on Wednesday, June 9th. There are no pending zoning cases, so it's a light agenda. We are still meeting virtually, via Zoom; log-in detail are at the bottom of this post. Meeting Agenda: Zoning cases: none 1. Call for membership. 2. Report: any status updates for ongoing projects of significance (4900 Spruce, 4701 Pine, 303 S. 51st, 314 S 46th Street) 3. Report: May Ga

Our neighborhood (boundaries are 52nd Street, Cedar Avenue, 45th Street, and Locust Street) has over nine thousand residents living in a variety of building types, household formations, and socioeconomic conditions, in addition to civic institutions and several mixed-use commercial areas. The overwhelming majority of buildings in Garden Court were built in the late Victorian era into the 1920s. Demographics and social dynamics have ebbed and flowed, but unlike some neighborho

Movies in Clark Park Each summer UCD, in partnership with Philadelphia Parks and Recreation and the Friends of Clark Park, presents Movies in Clark Park, four Fridays of free outdoor movies in August. The films are screened beginning at sundown in the Clark Park bowl during fair weather. Audiences are encouraged to bring a blanket or chair and enjoy a fun night under the stars. For 2021, we will be adhering to City guidelines by requiring reservations for each week's scree

PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION, PARTICULARLY WITH FAMILIES WHOSE CHILDREN DO NOT HAVE MANY BOOKS!! Go on a treasure hunt and collect books across 10 locations of sidewalk libraries in West Philadelphia! As a part of the Free Library's Summer of Wonder, A Book A Day is joining forces with the Kingsessing Library to hold a summer treasure hunt! Children will be able to collect books at various little library locations in West Philadelphia. There are10 locations and ten themes i