Kidchella Returns to Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse

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Do Something: Rock Out at Kidchella

The annual Woodstock for tots returns to Fairmount Park. Plus: Join a North Philly art projection, celebrate at the Juneteenth Festival and more ways to be an awesome citizen this calendar week.

Practise Something: Stone Out at Kidchella

The annual Woodstock for tots returns to Fairmount Park. Plus: Join a North Philly art project, gloat at the Juneteenth Festival and more ways to be an awesome citizen this calendar week.

Jun. 13, 2016

Every Monday we round up a handful of fun means to get involved throughout the week to make your urban center meliorate. Accept ideas for upcoming events? Email tips hither.

Lend a Hand to Called 300

Called 300 Ministries is working with Global Denizen 365, the local organization in accuse of leading the largest Martin Luther King Jr. Twenty-four hour period of Service in the U.S., to host a service day in the middle of June. The initiative encourages people from all walks of life to go involved with ane of Chosen 300 Ministries' one,800 community projects. The hope is that information technology not merely gets people on the footing doing good across the city, but exposes folks to people from dissimilar ethnic backgrounds, religious denominations, and social and economic classes.Midweek, June 15, v:30 p.m., registration required (send in awarding here ).

Show and Tell for Adults

Bear witness & Tell may typically exist though of equally a kids activity, but who says adults shouldn't be able to get in on the fun? Penn's Village, a nonprofit serving aging central Philadelphians, asks adults to come up out with a treasured story and object, no affair the topic, and share with their neighbors. Show up to larn nigh your young man citizens over wine, cheese and some good onetime-fashioned storytelling. Th, June sixteen, $5, Customs Room of the Club Hill Towers, 285 St. James Place.

Stone out at Kidchella 2016

Trivial teapot, no more: Smith Memorial Playground's 3rd annual Kichella kids music festival is bigger than ever with iii dates throughout the summertime—the first of which happens this week. WXPN'south Kathy O'Connell emcees the family unit-friendly fest with a various lineup of performances including every kind of music from "kindie" and folk to jazz and electronic. Families are invited to show upwards for a pre-prove picnic as a style to appoint and jam with other families across Philly. A variety of food trucks will line upwards around the Playground. If you tin't make this ane, two more than Kidchella concerts happen this summertime, on July 15 and Baronial 19.Fri, June 17 , 6-seven:30 p.m., $5, East Fairmount Park, 500 Reservoir Drive.

Celebrate Juneteenth

The Juneteenth Festival, an consequence commemorating the ceremony of the passage of the 13th amendment, returns to Germantown. An unabridged block shuts down in the neighborhood for the free community gathering that promises exhibits, family-friendly activities, performances and other activities paying homage to the anti-slavery and abolitionist movements that emancipated slaves in America. Saturday, June 18, 10 a.m.-4 p.chiliad., costless, 6300 Block of Germantown Avenue.

Go Back to the Hereafter in Due north Philly

Black Quantum Futurism and The AfroFuturist Affair celebrate the opening of their Community Futures Lab at an all-ages reception on Saturday. The thought behind the lab is to document the past, present and futurity of N Philly'south Sharswood/Blumberg. Over the next year, organizers volition work to collect artifacts and oral histories from residents, display artworks by local artists, and host workshops and think tank meetings to get community members involved. Stop by Saturday to get a sneak peek, while enjoying light refreshments and amusement in the class of readings and a konjo sound performance by Sirius JuJu. Can't make it? You tin still lend your support. Electronic mail [email protected] for more details.Sat, June 18, v-vii p.m., Community Futures Lab, 2204 Ridge Ave.

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