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 the Washington Conservatory of Music (WCM) this Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 11:00 am for a special conversation with acclaimed composer and DC native Jeffrey Mumford.

This interview is in collaboration with "Across the Arts with Patrick D. McCoy," ahead of Mumford's appearance at The Kennedy Center with the Post Classical Ensemble. Patrick is the Development and Communications Manager, joining the WCM family in August 2023.

Click here to access the broadcast on Youtube.

Join the Partnership and Waltz Time as we present a special engagement with live music from Terpischore. The event will be streamed live on Youtube starting at 7:30 pm. Terpischore is: Elke Baker (fiddle) Liz Donaldson (piano). During the event, we will share a link to donate to our Virtual Tip Jar and support our partners and the Park!

Please join us live at 7:30 pm on YouTube.

Following the success of our fall Live from the Spanish Ballroom series, the Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture is pleased to present a short Springtime series of special engagements highlighting some of our favorite social dance presenters!

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Join the Partnership and DC Lindy Exchange as we present a swingin' special engagement featuring not one, but two of the DC swing community's favorite groups - Craig Gildner & the Ivy City Six AND Scott Silbert & the Savoy Taxi Dancers! We will begin the evening with a brief introductory Lindy Hop lesson before the concert, and make sure to stick around during the band break for a special dance performance! During the event, we will share a link to donate to our Virtual Tip Jar and support our partners and the Park!

Please join us live at 7:30 pm on YouTube.

Following the success of our fall Live from the Spanish Ballroom series, the Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture is pleased to present a short Springtime series of special engagements highlighting some of our favorite social dance presenters!

Please RSVP Here

Watch Live on YouTube

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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Join us as we read A Ride to Remember by Sharon Langley and Amy Nathan.

The true story of how a ride on a carousel made a powerful Civil Rights statement A Ride to Remember tells how a community came together--both black and white--to make a change. When Sharon Langley was born in the early 1960s, many amusement parks were segregated, and African-American families were not allowed entry. This book reveals how in the summer of 1963, due to demonstrations and public protests, the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Co-author Sharon Langley was the first African-American child to ride the carousel. This was on the same day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Langley's ride to remember demonstrated the possibilities of King's dream. This book includes photos of Sharon on the carousel, authors' notes, a timeline, and a bibliography.

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Join us as we read A Carousel Tale by Elisa Kleven.

Ernst loves the carousel near his house, and his favorite carousel animal is the dog. When the dog's wooden tail comes loose just before winter, Ernst is given the important job of keeping it safe until springtime. But the tail looks sad sitting on Ernst's shelf without its dog, and Ernst can't help but try to cheer it up. It isn't long before he has transformed the lonely tail into something wonderful. As spring approaches, Ernst wonders if he will have to give up his special creation. And if he doesn't, what will the poor dog have to wag? The imaginative crocodile from Ernst and The Puddle Pail shines once again in a story that children will treasure.

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