Date: Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 5:00 pm

Event Status: Available

🎉 Join us at Cherry Street Pier to celebrate the completion of the winter Walk Around Philadelphia season and welcome spring with a special concert by OSteel: the Oberlin College Steel Pan ensemble!

🫵 You are invited, doesn't matter if you've done any of the walk yet!

👣 Stop by anytime 5-7 to (re)connect with members of the growing community of Walk Around Philadelphia perimeter-walkers and share stories from the city's edge.

🍻 Enjoy food & drink available for purchase from Cherry Street Pier vendors.

🗺️ Make your own letterpress map of the Delaware River watershed & Philadelphia city border!

👕 Stylish red Walk Around Philadelphia T-shirts & other walk swag will be available too!

🥁 OSteel plays ~6pm. 

 

 

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Upcoming Events

  • Printmaking station @ Maker Faire 2025 [Available]
    on Apr 6th 2025 at 10:00 am
    Come see what Philly makes! We'll have the Walk Around Philadelphia printmaking station set up at Maker Faire at Cherry Street Pier.

  • Edge Event: Conservation Day at Fox Chase Farm [Available]
    on Apr 12th 2025 at 10:00 am
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  • Virtual info session / open house [Available]
    on Apr 17th 2025 at 5:30 pm
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  • Spring Picnic + walk the city’s edge: Heinz Wildlife Refuge [Available]
    on Apr 20th 2025 at 2:00 pm
    Join us for a spring picnic and/or exploration of the Heinz Wildlife Refuge, where we'll walk a segment of the city border and scope out the place where the Circuit Trails folks are planning an eventual trail connection that might facilitate the way for future Walk Around Philadelphia perimeter-walkers. OPTIONAL BYO PICNIC LUNCH BEFOREHAND!

Exhibitions & Installations

  • 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)

  • 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.