Thanks to uwishunu.com for reminding us that 2016 is going to be an exceptionally exciting year in & around Philadelphia! Five utterly FAB things to note on your calendars:
- Picasso at the Barnes, Pixar at the Franklin Institute, multisensory dinosaurs at The Academy of Natural Sciences, and Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism 1910-1950 at the Art Museum.
- 200th anniversary of the AME (African American Episcopal) Church, with core events & celebrations taking place in the city where it was founded!
- The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's (PHS) Pop Up Garden will lure new devotees to the Philadelphia Rail Park at the Reading Viaduct - aka Philly's answer to NYC's High Line. Phase 1 saw a lot accomplished in 2015. In the coming year, the Rail Park spur will transform a quarter-mile section of unused rail line - from Broad Street southeast across 13th & 12th Streets to Callowhill. This summer, public installations by local artists & historians will entice new visitors. While the area is still developing, PHS will install it's mega popular Pop-Up Garden!
- Along similar lines, Bartram’s Trail Expansion will extend the pedestrian-friendly Schuylkill River Trail from Grays Ferry Avenue to 56th Street. The expanded trail will increase city dwellers' access to Philly's world famous parks & green spaces, while making it easier for all of us to explore Bartram’s Garden, the nation’s oldest botanical garden.
- The Democratic National Convention hits town! No matter what your political stripe - liberal, conservative or a moderate centrist (like moi) - this will be as exciting for our city as the Republican Convention was in 2000!
Those are my utterly subjective Top Five 2016 Happenings in Philly,
but one thing's for sure - there will countless more to enjoy &
forever remember AND uwishunu.com will do all it can to keep us in the
know!
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