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Upcoming Events
December 13, 2008
Marvin Gaye Park
Join us for our annual celebration as we light a tree at Marvin Gaye Park and welcome the holiday season.
December 19
Marvin Gaye Park
Join us as we celebrate the beginning of the Winter Solstice.
Recent Past Events
November 22
Marvin Gaye Park
Join us for the annual Harvest Day Parade, celebrating the end of the harvest season.
For more information, call (202) 462-7275.
Josephine Butler Parks Center
2437 15th Street NW
Join us for an evening of food, drinks, and community greening displays as we honor leaders working to create and promote green space for all.
The celebration will feature guest Mardie Townsend, a key leader in documenting the health impacts of parks and green space. Also featured will be the work of Washington Parks & People and our Community Greening mini-grant recipients, as well as the inspired book Open Spaces Sacred Places by Tom Stoner and Carolyn Rapp of the TKF Foundation.
For more information or to RSVP, call Carrie Staton at
Saturday, November 8
10AM - 7PM
Sunday, November 9
11AM - 6PM
Cost of admission is $15. A discounted ticket for $10 is available for these individuals.
Washington Parks & People is one of hundreds of green organizations and businesses participating in the 2008 Green Festival at the Washington DC Convention Center.
Stop by the Festival to help celebrate what's working for people, businesses, and the environment. Enjoy organic food, workshops, films, and more at the largest sustainability event in the world.
For more information, visit the Green Festival website.
10am-12pm
Riverside Center
Marvin Gaye Park
5200 Foote Street
Contact: Brian Rodgers
202-398-7275 or
info@washingtonparks.net
As part of our Marvin Gaye Trees for Life Awards, join us for an informational discussion of how to plant and care for shade trees. Also, learn more about green jobs and the new green economy.
Participants will also be able to register to receive a Marvin Gaye Trees for Life Award.
August 20, 2008
Time: 8:30-10:00PM
Location: Marvin Gaye Park Amphitheater (Rain location: Riverside Center at 5200 Foote Street, NE)
Come out for a free family movie night sponsored by Washington Parks & People and the Department of Parks & Recreation. Featured flick will be Madagascar.
August 5, 2008
Time: 8:30-10:00PM
Location: Marvin Gaye Park Amphitheater (Rain location: Riverside Center at 5200 Foote Street, NE)
Come out for a free family movie night sponsored by Washington Parks & People and the Department of Parks & Recreation. Featured flick will be The Lion King.
Location: Josephine Butler Parks Center
Want to use your bike to get where you need to go? Learn to safely share the road with cars, other bikes, and pedestrians. Washington Area Bicyclist Association, with the support of the DC Departments of Transportation and Recreation, and Arlington County in Virginia, presents a choice of 11 free classes in 2007 for cyclists 16 and over. Each class will be held for three hours on Saturdays. For more information or to register, click here.
Cool Capital Summer Kick-Off
June 23 - 9am to 2pm
Parks & People’s Josephine Butler Parks Center will be the scene of the Kick-Off for the Cool Capital Summer on Saturday, June 23 from 9-2. The Kick-Off will feature a dramatic “Carbon Lowering” – the climate-saving equivalent of an old-fashioned barn-raising – in which volunteers will help transform the Parks Center into a model of energy efficiency through dozens of simple low-cost actions. In so doing, they will help permanently prevent tons of annual carbon dioxide emissions from going into the air, and advance Cool Capital’s model billion-pound carbon diet for the DC region. The Kick-Off will feature live music and dance with the Malcolm X Drummers and Dancers, energy efficiency displays, and food and refreshments.
Washington Ridge Crossing V
June 2 - 6:30a to 8pm
Parks & People will lead its popular, 28-mile expedition across the entire capital on National Trails Weekend June 2. Following ancient Native American paths, the hike links the entire city together through parks, trails, and neighborhoods across the 100-million-year-old escarpment ridge of the city. To reserve a place on the hike, contact us.
With a special focus on the Cool Capital Challenge,
DC’s one-year, one-billion-pound carbon diet to combat global warming
Schedule
Sunrise 5:45 a.m.
6:30 a.m.- Assemble at Fletcher’s Boat Landing, 4940 Canal Road, NW
7:00 a.m. – Leave Fletcher’s
8:00 a.m. – Arrive at Wisconsin Avenue and Whitehaven NW
9:00 a.m. – COOL CAPITAL CHALLENGE SEGMENT Arrive at Walter C. Pierce Park (on Calvert Street 3 blocks east of Park/ Zoo Metro)
10:00 a.m. – Arrive Josephine Butler Parks Center, 2437 15th Street, NW (five blocks from Columbia Heights Green Line Metrorail)
11:00 a.m. – Leave 13th and Clifton Streets, NW (three blocks from U Street Green Line Metrorail)
(Lunch at National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception)
1:00 p.m. – Leave Brookland Metrorail station
3:00 p.m. - Arrive National Arboretum (accessible by shuttle from Union Station)
4:00 p.m. – Boat across Anacostia with Anacostia Watershed Society (suggested $10 contribution)
5:00 p.m. – Walk up Watts Branch stream valley/ Marvin Gaye Park (3 blocks north of Minnesota Avenue Metrorail)
6:30 p.m. – Dinner at Riverside Center, 5200 Foote Street, NE
8:00 p.m. - Return home from Capitol Heights Metrorail Station (Blue Line)
Sunset 8.28 p.m.
Please bring water, a snack, sun screen, and money for Metro and the boat crossing. You can either bring your lunch or purchase it at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Cool Capital Fair
Sunday, May 13 - 2pm to 5pm
Continuing a long tradition of forging grassroots hands-on impact on seemingly impossible environmental challenges, Parks & People has pledged 15 million pounds of carbon dioxide reductions to the new Cool Capital Challenge initiative. Cool Capital is seeking to reduce local carbon dioxide emissions by one billion pounds in one year as a dramatic model effort to demonstrate how one metropolitan region can come together to make a real impact on reversing the climate crisis. WPP is promoting this initiative to every volunteer, partner, and client that we serve. Parks & People will host a Cool Capital Fair at the Josephine Butler Parks Center on Sunday, May 13, from 2 to 5 p.m. The Parks Center is serving as a base of the campaign and as a model site for many of the simple ways that we can reduce the energy costs of our buildings, transportation, and lifestyles.