THINK OUTSIDE CALENDAR: Institute for Science and March 23 at THEARC, Both Screenings Will Be Accompanied by Discussion with the Filmmakers and Subjects

Find your health & your park on April 24 City of Trees premieres in March

National Park Rx Day's flagship event will be held in Meridian Hill / Malcolm X Park on April 24, at the closing of National Park Week! The goal of ParkRx is to prescribe nature to patients and families to encourage outside time in one of the 350+ parks and green spaces across Washington, DC. The event will feature the National Park Service, Surgeon General (invited), Dr. Robert Zarr of Park Rx, US Health and Human Services, DC Health Department, local health providers, and patients and families from across the District. Community partners will be activating the park with drum circle, yoga, walks and other activities that help us stay healthy and connect to the Earth and each other outside! Photo of the City of Trees filmmakers and subjects, courtesy of Meridian Hill Pictures One of the best things you can do this month is attend one of two DC premieres of Meridian Hill Picture’s independent documentary film, City of Trees, featuring Parks & People’s DC Green Corps program. Play- ing at the Environmental Film Festival on March 16 at the Carnegie THINK OUTSIDE CALENDAR: Institute for Science and March 23 at THEARC, both screenings will be accompanied by discussion with the filmmakers and subjects. SPRING 2016 The DC Green Corps program provides a city-wide gateway to 50 dif- Parks & People invites everyone to consider how this season embraces ferent green career tracks in urban and community forestry and forest- renewal. Join us as we Think Outside this Spring! based ecosystem and watershed restoration, and includes a referral Our Calendar provides a sample of outside-based events, programs, system to help participants connect to jobs. To date, 173 DC residents trainings and activities focused around a monthly theme that we hope will have graduated, over 75% of whom have gone on to follow-on jobs, inspire new ways of thinking about community health. In March, Parks & contracts, and training. People asks how can parks catalyze economic health by rooting jobs and Here are a few ideas you can support the DC Green Corps today: investment opportunities in neglected communities. Join us at the March 7 1. Hire DC natives and residents for jobs outside and in parks. budget hearing and April 14 budget oversight hearing for the Department 2. Provide an apprenticeship for a trainee or alumni. of Parks & Recreation, where we will ask the city to give the parks a bigger 3. Donate the stipend of a trainee ($1000) or a cohort ($5000). role in the District’s economic development this year. On March 19, come 4. Lend your expertise through teaching a class. out for Seeds & Sprouts Day at Oxon Run and Marvin Gaye Parks with a 5. Volunteer alongside the trainees in green spaces citywide! community walk and programming aimed at planting seeds for change! HOW DO I VOLUNTEER? In April we celebrate the power of the earth with DC’s Emancipation Day Parks & People’s success depends largely on the efforts of thousands of on April 16 and Earth Day on April 22. Help us light over 2000 candles of volunteers each year. In 2015, Parks & People mobilized 2,100 volunteers to GIVE TO RENEW parks & people remembrance at our annual Lights of Freedom event in Walter Pierce Park reclaim, green, and activate portions of 60 parks, trails, school yards, 100% of your generous financial gift goes straight to creating on the 16th. We thank the many volunteers who through their hard work playgrounds, stream banks, urban gardens, and mini-farms as well as to impact on the ground, through activating DC’s green spaces and throughout the season help bring our parks back to life! advocating for the rights of its communities. Support all parks & support our administration and programs. This represents an estimated people today through a donation to Washington Parks & People! In May, we look at all the ways parks improve our health. Join 7350 hours of work! us on a walk or bike ride to get our heart rates going and help Want to lend a hand this Spring? We accept volunteers for help with needs washingtonparks.net/donate our inner-city park system! Challenge yourself to meet your across the organization. Just email us at [email protected] neighbor, use a park this month to Bike to Work on May 20, noting your interests and skills. CONNECT WITH US TODAY and bring youth outside on Kids to Parks Day (May 21). Read more at washingtonparks.net/volunteer. Or, check us out on www.washingtonparks.net [email protected] 202-GO-2-PARK Connect with us anytime with your ideas for Think Outside Volunteer Match (www.volunteermatch.org)! and events happening in parks near you! Happy Spring! Washington Parks & People #thinkoutside @washingtonparks 2 3 7 10 PARK LOCATIONS

 “The Best Defense Is a Good  GREEN CORPS SERVICE  GREEN CORPS SERVICE  DPR Oversight Meeting at Offense”: A Walk for HIV ANACOSTIA PARK MARCH Join us every Wednesday for a DAY: Meridian Hill /Malcolm DAY: Meridian Hill /Malcolm Wilson Building, 10:30am Prevention (DHHS event): lines the east side of the Anacostia walk/bike ride at 4pm in X Park, 9am-12pm X Park, 9am-12pm  New Communities Meeting at Oxon Run Park! Riverside Center, 7pm National Sylvan Theater/ River in SE and NE DC. RENEWAL National Mall, 11:45am COLUMBIA HEIGHTS GREEN 19 12 16 23 26 29 is at 11th and Park Streets NW.  EVENT: Seeds & Sprouts  GREEN CORPS SERVICE DAY:  City of Trees Premiere at the  City of Trees Premiere at  EVENT: Green Renewal Day  GREEN CORPS SERVICE DAY: Day: Community Walk in Marvin Gaye Park, 9am-12pm Environmental Film Festival, THEARC, 7pm. Go to: & Community Harvest Oxon Run Park, 9am-12pm MARVIN GAYE GREENING Oxon Run Park, 11am-1pm  Community Clean Up, Carnegie Institute for www.dceff.org Network meeting at  Summer Urban Gardening CENTER

Shepherd Parkway, 11am-1pm Science, 7pm. Go to: Columbia Heights Green, Series registration (late is at 5000 Nannie Helen Burroughs  Be an Animal Athlete, Rock March). Go to dpr.dc.gov/ www.dceff.org 10am-2pm Avenue NE. Creek Park, www.nps.gov 9 14 31 2 10 MARVIN GAYE PARK  EVENT: Marvin Gaye’s  EVENT: Garden Planting Day at  DPR Garden Carpentry  Budget Oversight Hearing for starts at 6201 Bank St NE.  GREEN CORPS SERVICE APRIL Birthday: Walk, Open House Columbia Heights Green, Course registration opens, the Department of Parks & DAY: Walter Pierce Park, MERIDIAN HILL / EARTH & Fair, Riverside & Marvin 10am-2pm dpr.dc.gov/node/1124741 Recreation, Wilson Building, 9am-12pm Gaye Greening Center, 11am-  Community Clean Up, Room 123, 11am. See MALCOLM X PARK 2pm Shepherd Parkway, 11am-1pm dccouncil.us. is between 15th and 16th Streets and 16 2 W and Euclid Streets NW. 17 22 24  DC Emancipation Day  Anacostia River Festival,  Earth Day  National Park Rx Day at  2016 National Senior Games OXON RUN PARK  EVENT: Lights of Freedom MAY 1-5pm, at Anacostia Park  GREEN CORPS SERVICE Meridian Hill / Malcolm X will be held from May 2-13. Go lies along Mississippi Avenue NE. at Walter Pierce Park, dusk DAY: Marvin Gaye Greening Park, 11am-2pm to dpr.dc.gov/service/33rd- Center, 9-12am HEALTH annual-dc-senior-games ROCK CREEK PARK bisects the NW quadrant and 1 20 21 stretches from Klingle Road to Mont- gomery County line.  Kids to Parks Day: Sign up at:  Community Clean Up,  Bike to Work Day: Go to: Check our website at www.kidstoparks.org Shepherd Parkway, www.washingtonparks.net/calendar biketoworkmetrodc.org  EVENT: Community Walk SHEPHERD PARKWAY 11am – 1pm  DC National Parks BioBlitz: Go through Marvin Gaye Park to for the most up-to-date information is at 5000 Overlook Ave SW off the to: nature.nps.gov and Anacostia River, 11am-1pm on events and programs in parks Anacostia Freeway. www.nationalgeographic.com  EVENT: Farm Film Fun at the citywide! Green w/ Pot-luck Picnic 6-9pm WALTER PIERCE PARK is located between Adams Mill Road and Calvert Street NW.

Every Week at the Riverside Center… ...and the Josephine Butler Parks Center At Marvin Gaye Park (601 Division Ave NE) At Meridian Hill / Malcolm X Park (2437 15th St NW) Sunday: Drum Circle at Meridian Hill / Malcolm X Park: 3-9pm Sunday: African Drum & Dance: 2-4pm Monday: Yoga with Sign of Jonah Healing Partnership, 6-8:30pm Monday: Words, Beats & Life (www.wblinc.org): 3:30-7pm Tuesday: Jazzercise taught by Pretha Mitchell (jcls.jazzercise.com): 8pm Wednesday: Park Walk with Parks & People: 9am; Words, Beats & Life (www.wblinc.org): 3:30- and Swing Dancing with The Jam Cellar (www.thejamcellar.com): 8-9pm, FREE open lessons; 9- 7pm; and Taekwondo 7-9pm 11:30pm $8 Dance. Saturday: Park Walk with Parks & People: 11am; Taekwondo 10am-12pm; and Healthy Cooking Wednesday: Meditation with One Common Unity (www.onecommonunity.org), $10 or pay what Classes with Chef T from UDC/CAUSES (www.udc.edu/docs/causes): 12-2pm. you can.