Wednesday, October 26, 2011

PAST: FESTIVAL: Summer Celebration at St Elizabeths East in SE on SAT, July 28th from 10:00am - 2:00pm

St Elizabeths East Opens Gates on July 28th for Summer Celebration
Festival - Food, Music, Art & Farmers Market! 
Saturday, July 28th
10:00am - 2:00pm
Free

The gates to the historic St Elizabeths East are open. Celebrate with a festival of food, music, art, and a weekly farmer’s market. The Summer Celebration is part of a Season of Discovery, which offers unprecedented access to the landmark campus in advance of its redevelopment as a new center for community, innovation, education, enterprise, and security and sustainability.

Scheduled events include: Live Performances by African Heritage Dancers and Drummers, Southeast Trinity, spoken word artist Lamont Carey, and others.  Interactive Art/Outdoor Galleries by Pink Line Project, interactive art by community-based artists. Children’s and Family Activities including face painting and balloon artists. Remarks by Mayor Vincent C. Gray, Deputy Mayor Victor L. Hoskins, and Councilmember Marion Barry, Ward 8 Farmers Market (second location)/ At this farmers market, the City is providing funding to lower the price of fresh food for low-income residents by doubling the value of food assistance such as SNAP, WIC and Food Stamps throughout the City. Customers at St Elizabeths East are the first in the City, and among the first in the nation, to benefit from a federal initiative to place food stamp terminals in farmers markets.

More about the project: St Elizabeths East, in Ward 8, is an exceptional opportunity for the City and the private development community to create a landmark for the 21st century: a well-planned, mixed-use, mixed-income, walkable, livable community.. St Elizabeths East holds immeasurable potential as a gateway to a new future and a catalyst for economic development and growth – not only in the neighborhoods surrounding the iconic campus, but throughout the District, the region, and the nation.
1100 Alabama Ave, SE
Metro: adjacent to Congress Heights Metro station (Green Line) in SE

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