Join us for a festival event in celebration of Glen Echo Park's 102-year-old Dentzel Carousel as it opens for the season! 

In addition to riding the carousel, families are welcome to enjoy many other FREE activities throughout the Park, including live music & performances, kids' arts & crafts, open artist studios & galleries, and lots more!  Plus, the star of the show: carousel rides! 

Join us on Saturday, April 8, 2023, from 12pm to 3pm for a showcase of all the incredible offerings and options for hosting events at Glen Echo Park! Featuring vendors & activities in the historic Spanish Ballroom, Bumper Car Pavilion, and Cuddle Up Pavilion. 

Sample delicious offerings from our partner caterers | View table & event design inspiration | Meet unique vendors that will make your next event spectacular!

Join us for an in-person closing reception for James Terrell's Discombobulation: A Collide of Scope, featuring an artist's talk with James Terrell. Refreshments will be served. 

The Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture is pleased to present the fourth annual Echo Arts Festival: a fall celebration of the visual & performing arts! Join us for an interactive showcase of all the park's offerings across several disciplines of art, as well as the final day of the 2025 carousel season.

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Get ready for a Midsummer Night's Dream Gala in the Park at Glen Echo Park on Saturday, May 17, 2025!

Join us for an enchanted evening fundraiser at a place like no other: Glen Echo Park. The night begins with festive cocktails and a silent auction in the park’s iconic Bumper Car Pavilion, followed by dinner and honors in the historic Spanish Ballroom, and the return of the after-dinner dance party—and of course, rides on the Dentzel Carousel all night long.

We will honor outstanding individuals, including Ilana Trachtman, whose film "Ain't No Back To A Merry-Go-Round" tells the important story of the 1960 protests that resulted in the integration of Glen Echo Amusement Park in 1961. Join Gala Co-Chairs Marsha Ashley & Dhani Jones as well as Barbara & John Martin for the most fun gala in Washington!

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The Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture is pleased to present the third annual Echo Arts Festival: a fall celebration of the visual & performing arts! Join us for an interactive showcase of all the park's offerings across several disciplines of art, as well as the final day of the 2024 carousel season.

Join us for Boogie in the Ballroom, this year’s Gala in the Park on Saturday, May 18! Start with cocktails and a silent auction in Glen Echo Park’s iconic Bumper Car Pavilion, followed by dinner and honors in the historic Spanish Ballroom, and our first-ever disco ball dance party! We will honor a heroic life-long civil rights activist, Tina Clarke, a local world-renowned artist, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, and Glen Echo Pottery Founder and artist Jeff Kirk for 50 years of service to the Park.

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The Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture is pleased to present the second annual Echo Arts Festival: a fall celebration of the visual & performing arts! Join us for an interactive showcase of all the park's offerings across several disciplines of art, as well as the final day of the 2023 carousel season.

The Popcorn Gallery presents Surroundings, a group exhibition on view from January 14 - February 19, 2023. Our surroundings can serve as a source of comfort and familiarity. But a sudden change in one's environment can be disruptive and disorienting, although in some cases it leads to new perspectives and opportunities. Glen Echo Park Partnership Galleries invited artists to submit art that investigates the impact our environment has on identity and experiences.

Popcorn Gallery Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 12 pm – 6 pm, January 14, 2023 - February 19, 2023 

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 14, 6 – 8 pm

The Park View Gallery presents Journeys Through Light and Dark, a solo exhibition by printmaker Deborah Schindler. In her prints and drawings, Schindler has created her own universe of animals, landscapes and figures that take on lively curvilinear shapes as they cavort across the paper. She uses pattern in unusual ways to create texture, variety and spatial depth. Her images come from an eclectic array of sources: old master paintings, folk art, dance, theater, sports, popular culture and photographs. 

Park View Gallery Hours: Mondays-Saturdays, 10 am – 6 pm, January 14, 2023 - February 19, 2023 

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 14, 6 – 8 pm