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Join us during First Friday festivities for happy hour at Cherry Street Pier to check out the 2023 Walk Around Philadelphia installation. This exhibit features images from the city’s edge created by artists who’ve set out to explore the city’s border on foot.
Libations and refreshments will be available for sale via the Cherry Street Pier vendors.
Since 2016, Walk Around Philadelphia has evolved into a citywide public program that has facilitated the exploration of the city’s furthest (and wildest) margins for hundreds of Philadelphians.
Walk Around Philadelphia creates cultural events that bring people together in shared experiences that connect them to their own bodies, their neighbors, and the landscape of Philadelphia.
Through facilitated walks, exhibitions and narrative storytelling, the project uses the structure of exploring the city’s perimeter to engage with themes of borders and boundaries, privilege and access, social and environmental justice, infrastructure and ecosystems, commerce and incarceration, indigenous history and colonization and more.
The walk currently happens twice a year in February and September, along with offering retreat opportunities and other programming. The next walk will take place over four weekends (Fri/Sat/Sun) from Aug 25th – Sept 17th.
Find out more & sign up for updates & invites at:
www.WalkAroundPhiladelphia.com
Hours:
Mon. – Thurs.:
12 pm – 9 pm
Friday
12 pm – 11 pm
Saturday
11 am – 11 pm
Sunday
11 am – 9 pm
Special Events
Happy Hour Gallery Hours with JJ @ Cherry St Pier
Thursdays August 24th & Aug 31st, September 7th, 14th & 21st
Friday September 1st – Post Walk drinks & snacks + First Friday @ Cherry St Pier
Saturday September 2nd – Pre Walk Send Off @ Cherry St Pier
Saturday Sept 23 – Pre Walk Send Off @ Cherry St Pier
Saturday Sept 23 – Exhibit Closing @ Cherry St Pier
Sign up for updates
Upcoming Events
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Celebrate Trails Day on Cobbs Creek Trail [Available]
on Apr 27th 2024 at 8:00 am
Join Walk Around Philadelphia on the city's western border for the fifth annual Celebrate Trails Day along Cobbs Creek Trail presented by the Clean Air Council and Fairmount Park Conservancy. There's a great lineup of events, and we'll have a table out there on the city's edge to talk to folks about the perimeter walk!
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11th Annual Sojourner Truth Walk: join Team Walk Around Philadelphia! [Available]
on May 4th 2024 at 10:00 am
Join Walk Around Philadelphia organizer JJ Tiziou & fellow perimeter walkers as we step away from the city's edge and join the 11th Annual Sojourner Truth Walk to help raise money for Camp Sojourner!
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Cobbs Creek perimeter walk for Love Your Park Week [Available]
on May 13th 2024 at 5:00 pm
Join Walk Around Philadelphia perimeter-walkers & the Cobbs Creek WeWalkPHL group for a jaunt along the city's western border as part of Love Your Park Week!
Exhibitions & Installations
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How Philly Moves – mural at PHL
from 13th Jun 2022 to 31st Dec 2025
Check out the largest mural in Philadelphia (named one of the country's best public art projects by Americans for the Arts)
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Walk Around Philadelphia: DIY on your own anytime
from 1st Jun 2023 to 1st Jun 2030
Excited about the walk and want to go out and do a segment on your own? Register here to get support materials and plug in to the larger community of perimeter walkers.