The Folklore Society of Greater Washington and Glen Echo Park Partnership will present a live-streamed music and dance event from Glen Echo Park. There will be a livecast of two simultaneous streams of entertainment from Glen Echo’s Spanish Ballroom and other park locations. There will be no in-person audience or dancers so be sure to tune in from home for this special event

The cyber "doors" will open at 7pm, and while you won't need to find a parking place or struggle to get a good seat, you might tune in early to visit with friends and fellow festival-goers.

This is a free event, but there is a suggested $10 donation.

Watch teaching artists and youth artists paint an amazing mural at the Park! The Partnership has formed a collaboration with Future History Now (FHN) to bring to life a mural on the grounds of Glen Echo Park that will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Park’s Dentzel carousel. The mural will depict and celebrate the carousel as a place of fun and childhood memories, as well its role in history as part of the Washington, D.C. civil rights movement.

Our third Carousel Family Day will be hosted by the Washington Conservatory of Music. There will be concerts throughout the Park and demonstrations with many different instruments. And, from 11 am - 12 pm, you can ride the carousel to live music from a brass ensemble. 

Other than carousel rides, this event includes FREE activities and is open to all. RSVPs are preferred, but there is no check-in at the event. Free t-shirts will be given to the first 50 people at each performance.

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Join in the fun as we Chalk the Park! Pre-registered participants will be given their own 5' x 5' square to draw their own chalk drawings on the grounds of Glen Echo Park! Participants and the public will also be able to watch three professional chalk artists from CHALK R!OT bring their masterpieces to life as they create three chalk art pieces in celebration of the Carousel's 100th Anniversary. (Rain Date: June 20)

Due to COVID-19 guidelines, space is limited and registration is required to reserve a time slot.

This is a FREE activity and open to all families (a donation of $10 per family is suggested but not required).

For our first Carousel Family Day, families (or pods) can celebrate the Carousel's 100th birthday by creating their own carousel to take home, as well as decorating a birthday hat to wear and a birthday card for the carousel. Participants will also be able to watch as an outdoor mural is painted to celebrate the Carousel's 100th Anniversary.

Due to COVID-19 guidelines, space is limited and registration is required to reserve a time slot.

This is a FREE activity and open to all families (a donation of $10 per family is suggested but not required).

Join us to mark the opening of Glen Echo Park’s Dentzel carousel for its 100th Anniversary season! We will stream live from the carousel with government officials and other dignitaries to celebrate a local icon that has been a treasured part of the Park and the community for a century. The event includes a ceremonial first ride. Watch live here on our website! 

If COVID-19 restrictions allow, the carousel will open for the season with social-distancing guidelines in place and timed-entry tickets: $5/person for unlimited rides during a 2-hour time period. 

Join us online as we read The Carousel by Liz Rosenberg.

Two sisters remember their mother saying, "The carousel horses sleep all winter and wake in the spring." But one gray-skied February twilight, as the girls make their way home from school, they hear strange whinnying noises coming from the carousel in the park. Peeking inside the carousel canvas, the sisters step into the unknown. Could it be that the horses are moving . . . clopping their hooves . . . alive?

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Join us online as we read Up and Down on the Merry-Go-Round by Bill Martin Jr.

In this rhyming story that's perfect for reading aloud and along, children describe the sights and sounds of riding on the merry-go-round from atop the colorful menagerie of horses, elephants, and giraffes that carry them into imaginative adventures.

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Join us online as we read Harry the Carousel Horse by Karin Tetlow.

This is a rare children’s story that talks about emotions and the idea that we can have control over how we feel. Harry lives on a carousel on the Mall. He is unhappy because no children want to ride him and goes on a dream journey to find out why. On the way he meets different horses and finally finds Will, who helps him change how he feels. Will is an ancient horse who finds happiness by looking down on beautiful and mysterious crop circles. The book concludes with a Real Life Notes page with photographs of the horses, characters and places that inspired the story. They include the carousel horses on the Mall in Washington D.C., the bright gold statue of Joan of Arc in Philadelphia, a Medicine Hat horse belonging to a riding therapy program for disabled children, a beloved rocking horse ridden by a Philadelphia child, and the Alton Barnes white horse carved on an Wiltshire hillside near Stonehenge, England. Wiltshire is the most active area in the world for crop circles. For children ages 3 to 7 years old.

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Join us as we read Carousel by Donald Crews.

Choose your horse. Hold on tight. The music's starting and you're on your way!

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