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East Falls

East Falls: Friends of Mifflin, Principal Work Together To Drive Community Involvement

November 27, 2018Geneva Heffernan

Wind howled and rain pelted down on East Falls, but inside the warm gymnasium at Thomas Mifflin Elementary School, smiling children ran around in colorful costumes to the sound of popular tunes put on by

Arts and Entertainment

Chestnut Hill: Road Closures Planned For Harry Potter Festival

October 20, 2016Marie A Sechuk

The community’s annual Harry Potter Festival has become so popular that officials have decided to close a portion of Germantown Avenue during the event, which runs this year from Oct. 21-22. According to Chestnut Hill Local

Health

University City: Wellness Center Adds Hands to R&B Festival

September 28, 2012

Massage and music merged on Market Street in West Philadelphia during the R&B Fest on a mid-September Saturday sponsored by the Partnership Community Development Corporation. The R&B Fest street festival was held to raise awareness

Fairhill

Fairhill: Residents Celebrate Feria del Barrio

September 9, 2012

Every year for the past 28 years, residents of Fairhill come out to celebrate Feria Del Barrio, one of the cities largest festivals of Latino art and culture. Located in the center of El Centro

North Philadelphia

North Philadelphia: 8th Annual Sugarcane Festival Motivates and Educates Community

June 20, 2012

Helping connect local residents to health and civic organizations is the purpose behind the annual Sugarcane Festival in North Philadelphia now in its eighth year. The idea for the festival came to Asociación Puertorriqueños en

Arts and Entertainment

Brewerytown: Spring Festival Fosters Neighborhood Pride

March 21, 2012

For the past three summers, Brewerytown has hosted the annual Art and Soul Food festival, a celebration of local food, art, music and fashion. The event is an indoor-outdoor festival located on West Girard Avenue

Recent Posts

  • People stand on a sidewalk beneath a pale gray sky. The street behind them is between two tan stone buildings with floor-to-ceiling glass windows on their ground levels, and the multicolored glass exterior of a parking garage shines further down the street, next to some taller red brick buildings. Glass windows are visible behind the people on the sidewalk. Some of them wear raincoats or windbreakers, and some of them hold umbrellas of various colors. Two men in the right half of the image, one southeast Asian and one white, wear clerical collars. They are all waving wooden rods with thick red ribbons tied to the ends of them in the air. Most of the people present appear to be white and/or over the age of 50. One bearded, middle-aged man in a gray and black windbreaker and black pants points a camera towards the bottom right corner of the image, where a blue banner reads “GOD STANDS WITH THE OPPRESSED.” To the banner’s left, a canvas with a monarch butterfly painted on it is draped over a concrete sidewalk barrier. A blue bicycle is parked behind the man with the camera, and a black car in the street drives past the group of people.
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