THE MONTHLY SPECIAL

Juneteenth, Photo by: Bill Z Foster

“Woah, we're half way there. Woah, livin' on a prayer. Take my hand, we'll make it I swear. Woah, livin' on a prayer!” We cannot believe that we’re already cruising into the month of June here in Philly! After what felt like an endless winter, we’ve sprinted through Spring and landed in Summer! There’s still so much to look forward to this month and we’re super excited for the bi-annual return of the International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) presented by the Kimmel Center for Preforming Arts. There’s a whole week of activities leading up to the big festival on June 9th so be sure to check out their website for more info! 2016 PIFA Festival, Photo by: N. Faragalli

● PIFA Street Festival on South Broad Street (6/9) ● Philly Pride Day Parade on Market Street (6/10) ● ODUNDE Festival on South Street (6/10) ● Disability Pride Parade on Market Street (6/16) ● Celebration and Parade on Market Street (6/23) PHL Form Redesign Event Photo via GovLabPHL NEW CHANGES AHEAD! By: Olivia Gillison As wedding bells rang for Prince Harry and involved, please feel free to reach out via Meghan Markle our office was gearing up to phone or email if you have questions about participate in GovLab PHL’s first ever City of the application. We’re always available to set Philadelphia form redesign event. It was an up an appointment if you’re planning your opportunity for residents, stakeholders and first event. professional behavioral sciencetists to come in and evaluate a city departments form. By We would also like to extend the opportunity participating in the event, our office received for additional constituent feedback on our great feedback on our 2018 Special Events application design and layout. Should you Application. wish to contribute, please send your comments to our email: [email protected]. Our The event helped provide insight on how goal is to take the feedback (from residents different constituents, whether it be seasoned to seasoned event planners) and really come eventer producers or someone with no prior up with an application that suits the needs of experience in applying for an event, view our you, Philadelphia. form. The overall response we received is that organization is key for clarity, when As for other updates, stay tuned. There completing the application online or in print. could be some exciting news in our July issue of The Monthly Special. Don’t forget to Over the next several months, we’ll be taking wish all the dads a very Happy Father’s Day a look at all the helpful feedback we received on the 17th! I’m personally sending mine the to see how feasible it is to accomplish. We best wishes for a relaxing day with a lot of will be working directly with the Mayor’s grill activity. Meet you back here next Office of Policy, the Office of Open Data & month! Digital Transformation, the Office of Information & Technology and GovLab PHL to see what solutions are available to us. In the meantime, while we are working to make this form a better experience for everyone LAST MONTH IN REVIEW

Oh May, what can we say? From beginning to end, there was no weekend left without a race or festival happening. South Street Spring Festival saw an all-time attendence where folks ate “Philly Tacos”, celebrated , and danced around the city’s largest maypole for Maifest. Plenty of winners at crossed the finish line at the Photo By: O. Gillison Blue Cross Broad Street Run and Race for the Cure on Mother’s Day. Despite a gloomy week the sun finally came out on the final day of the 9th Street Italian Market Festival. Attendees included the Super Bowl LII Champions Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie, who stopped by to witness the infamous Grease Pole!

While we saw quite a lot of rain dates used for this month, that didn’t stop festival goers from enjoying the many events hosted this month. In fact, there were over Photo By: Bill Z. Foster 110 different events that happened in May. While this was definitely astonishing, the real excitement was on May 19th when Ms. Meghan Markle married Prince Harry and they officially became the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. There were plenty of British-American themed watch parties and high tea celebrations in honor of the last royal wedding for quite some time. We enjoyed seeing all of your happy faces at these events and are looking forward to seeing many of them at the upcoming events in June. The calendar is going to be stacked with opportunities to get outside. Photo via: Italian Market Festival Don’t forget that the end of June begins the Welcome America festivities! ON THE HORIZON

ODUNDE, Photo via Visit Philly June 1st – 7th Youth Day – 600 Snyder Ave (6/17) Roots Picnic – Festival Pier at Penns Landing (6/2) Little Friends Festival – Rittenhouse Square (6/20) Dragon Boat Regatta – Kelly Drive (6/2) Old City Eats Festival – 0-100 S. 2nd St (6/21) Fete Day – 100 Elfreth’s Alley (6/2) Ball on the Square – Rittenhouse Square (6/21) Annual Sugar Cane Festival – 2100 Germantown Night Market: Gayborhood – 200 S 13th St; 1200- Ave & 2100 N 6th Street (6/2) 1400 Locust & Spruce St (6/21) Crab Food Festival – 2800 E Tioga Street (6/2) 11th Annual ParkWest Festival – 52nd & Jefferson June 22nd – 30th St (6/28) Young Friends Ball on the Square – Rittenhouse Filitalia International La Festa – 1800 E Passyunk Square (6/22) Ave; 1800 S 13th St (6/3) Juneteenth Parade – Market St. to Pennslanding Block Party at the Barnes – 2000 Ave (6/22) (6/3) Overbrook Park Community Day – 7500 Haverford Baltimore Ave Dollar Stroll – 4300-5200 Baltimore Ave (6/23) Ave (6/7) Molstice Festival – 100 N Mole St; 1500 Cherry St (6/23) June 8th – 14th Manayunk Arts & Craft Festival – 4100-4400 Main St Philly LGBTQ Block Party – 200 S 12th St; 200 S (6/23-24) 13th St; 1200-1300 Locust; 1200 Spruce St (6/8) Philadelphia Escape Triathlon – MLK Drive & Black Interfaith Festival – City Hall Courtyard Road (6/24) (6/8) Independence Day Regatta – Kelly Drive (6/29-30) PIFA Street Festival – 100-600 S Broad St (6/9) Ice Cream Festival – 1100 Filbert St (6/30) Vegan Street Fair – 300 Bainbridge St (6/9) 100 Year Hospital Anniversary Party – 5300 Cedar Fishtown FestivAle – 1200-1500 Frankford Ave (6/9) Ave (6/30) ODUNDE Festival – 1900-2400 South St & More (6/10) OSE Picks: Welcome America Events Philly Pride Parade – Start: 13th & Locust; End: Wawa Hoagie Day – Independence Vistitors Center Front & Market St (6/10) Lawn; National Constitution Center Lawn (6/28) Stripes & Stars Festival – 500 Chestnut St (6/14) Summer Love Launch Event – City Hall Courtyard (6/28) June 15th – 21st A Celebration of Community and Culture – Mifflin Disability Pride Parade – Start: 5th & Arch St; End: Sqaure (6/29) City Hall (6/16) Red, White & Blue Happy Hours – Various Locations Juneteenth Festival – 6300 Germantown Ave (6/16) (6/29) Ride of Silence – Art Museum Steps (6/16) On the Delaware Music Festival – Pennypack Park InLiquid’s Art for the Cash Poor – 1000 Hamilton (6/30) and Buttonwood Sts. (6/16) The Army Band. “Pershing’s Own” Caribbean Festival – 5200 Media Street (6/16) Concert & Fireworks – Penn’s Landing (6/30) For a full detailed list of events, please visit the Calendar on our website!

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