September 9 - September 11
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Please join TTF and community members in celebrating this exciting development to the Tacony Creek Park area! |
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Walk with Me |Camina Conmigo
FREE! ¡Gratis!
Tacony Creek Park
Saturdays | sábados
9:30am–10:30am
Whitaker Ave & E Loudon Gateway
Phila 19120
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Run With Me |Corre Conmigo
Free! ¡Gratis!
Tacony Creek Park
Tuesdays & Thursdays |Martes y jueves
5:15am–6:15am
Saturdays | Sábados
6am-7am
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Creek Care Day at
Friends Hospital
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Saturday, Sept. 10 | 9am-12pm
4641 Roosevelt Blvd, Phila 19124
Join us to remove invasive plants, steward natural habitats, and clean up debris. Fun (and mud) guaranteed!
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Revival Walk:
Connection by Disconnecting
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Saturday, Sept. 10 | 10am-12pm
Tacony Creek Park
Tabor Rd & Olney Ave. Gateway, Philadelphia 19120
FREE!
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Tacony Creek Park Bird Walk with BirdPhilly |
Saturday, September 17| 8am-10:30am
Tacony Creek Park Gateway at I St & Ramona Ave, Phila 19124
Join us for a bird walk at this underappreciated bird watching destination in NE Philly! It's peak fall migration, so we expect to see some warblers, thrushes, and vireos!
Trip Leader: Holger Pflicke
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Jenkintown & Upstream
Creek Tour
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Saturday, September 17| 10:00am-2:00pm
Looking for models of clean water projects and partnerships for your community?
Want to be able to share with your constituents, non-profit organizations, and businesses the progress and opportunities in your backyard?
See award-winning Jenkintown Creek Restoration Project sites first-hand, ask about challenges like funding, and learn about solutions!
Please join us to visit sites where we restored streambanks, enhanced wetlands, planted hundreds of native trees, and installed rain gardens, all to improve creek health and communities.
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Sites: Alverthorpe Park, Manor College, Sisters of Saint Basil, Conklin Pool.
The tour will end with lunch plus discussion and networking.
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Saturday, September 17| 1:00pm-2:30pm
35 Tookany Creek Pkwy Cheltenham 19012
Meet in the parking lot of Kleinheinz Pond; We will cross the Parkway to the walking path.
FREE!
Win points and prizes when you find natural items, using cards from the challenging game “Aqua Marooned”. Search and play by yourself or with a partner. Either way, you are guaranteed to have a fun time, and perhaps see some nifty surprises, some hidden, some in plain sight. No walk-ins, please.
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For most ages. There is reading involved, so adults will need to read to younger children. Especially designed for middle school students. Environmental educator Judith Gratz explores a different topic on the 3rd Saturday of each month. This series is sponsored with Cheltenham Township.
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Weekly Wednesday Cleanups in
Tacony Creek Park
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September 21| 3:00pm-5:00pm
Whitaker Ave & Loudon St
Phila, 19120
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September 28| 3:00pm-5:00pm
5180 Bingham St
Phila, 19120
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Join your neighbors and TCP Keepers to clean Tacony Creek Park and its gateways. |
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Free: Learn to Bike Ride Workshop (bilingual) |
September 22| 5:00pm-7:00pm (rain date: Monday September 26)
Jueves, 22 de septembre de 2022 (fecha por lluvia: lunes, 26 de septembre)
Tabor Rd & Olney Ave
Phila, 19120
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Join us in Tacony Creek Park with Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia for a FREE 2-hour workshop on a fully paved Circuit Trail! This workshop is perfect for those who have never ridden a bike, or who haven’t ridden a bike in a long time, and will teach you how to ride a bicycle or remind you how to ride.
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Walk with a Doc in Tacony Creek Park |
September 24| 9:30am-10:30am
Whitaker Ave and Loudon St
Phila, 19120
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Join us with Dr. Maria Dahl for this FREE, low-intensity walk in Tacony Creek Park.
1 hour, 1.5-mile walk on a paved trail, no bathrooms available at the trail.
This event is a merged walk with the Walk with Me group that meets at Whitaker Ave. & E. Loudon St. gateway on Saturday mornings.
Dept. of Conservation & Natural Resources event page linked here. |
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Save the Date! Tacony Creek Park Music & Arts Festival |
October 1| 1:00pm-5:00pm
East Olney Ave. & East Clarkson Ave.
Phila, 19120
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Olney Culture Lab of CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia & TTF are happy to present the 2nd edition of the freshly dubbed Tacony Creek Park Music & Arts Festival!
Enjoy musical performances by Malik Henry & NuERA Band and DJ June Lopez, along with site-specific dance performances by Choreographer Tania Ramos Oton’s dance ensemble and Olive Dance Theatre.
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The Festival is located at the Big Field in Tacony Creek Park on East Olney Avenue between Rising Sun Avenue and Tabor Road. |
In addition, arts & crafts, nature games, bike rides, books and plants, giveaways, and donuts and cider will be provided to ring in the fall! |
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Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Inc.
Globe Dye Works
4500 Worth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19124
215.744.1853
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