Dance Music Night in the Garden
Electric Grioland and Unidos da FiladelfiaExcited to have everyone come to the garden one last time this summer!
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Electric Grioland and Unidos da FiladelfiaExcited to have everyone come to the garden one last time this summer!
Learn about the Philadelphia connection to Southern Food from colonial times to the Great Migration and beyond.Valerie Erwin is a Philadelphia chef and social justice activist and a long time resident of Germantown. For 12 years she owned the critically acclaimed Geechee Girl Rice Cafe. Geechee Girl featured the food of the Low Country of South Carolina and Georgia where her grandparents were born. She now manages a food access program for a small local foundation. Valerie does programs and presentations on both Philadelphia and Low Country foodways, on the importance of local food and on the intersection of food
A variety of vendors will join Hansberry Garden volunteers to offer plants, plant-related items and home-baked treats at the annual Hansberry Garden & Nature Center Plant Fair and Bake Sale on Saturday, May 10, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Garden (5150 Wayne Avenue, in Philadelphia’s Southwest Germantown). In keeping with tradition, the event will happen the day before Mother’s Day, and it’s a great place to pick up some cut flowers at Megan’s Bouquet Bar, a houseplant from Plant and People, or a perennial, herb or tomato seedling from Hansberry Garden volunteers. Weavers Way Farms will
Brittany Ann Tranbaugh, 2021 winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, will open Hansberry Garden & Nature Center’s 2025 Summer Concert Series on Thursday, May 29, at 6 p.m. with a performance in the garden’s Dr. Edward Chun Amphitheater. Brittany Ann Tranbaugh (pronounced TRAN-baw) is a Philadelphia-based songwriter whose queer Americana heartbreaker “Kiss You” won Song of the Year in the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. A favorite at the Philadelphia Folk Festival and WXPN’s World Cafe Live, she tours from the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters. Critics praise her arresting turns of phrase, keen powers of observation,