Hawthorne Park is community park located at 12th and Catharine Streets in Philadelphia, PA
Love
Hawthorne Park?
Well here's your chance to HELP!
Hawthorne Park "Love
Your Park Day" is coming up on Saturday May 10th
from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Even if you just have a few minutes to help out, we’d love to see
you at the park on May 10th! It’s a great opportunity to keep our
park beautiful and a great chance to get outside and meet your neighbors.
We’ll be focusing on cleaning the park and preparing the beds for
summer. Bring tools if you have them but we will have rakes, shovels,
and plenty of trash bags.
Friends of Hawthorne
Park
is a non-profit volunteer organization
dedicated to preserving and maintaining Hawthorne Park. We take care of
planting, weeding, and other gardening tasks and host "love your
park" clean-up days several times a year. In addition to preservation
and beautification, we also produce free events for the community. Over
the past few years we have presented live jazz concerts, movie nights,
Shakespeare performances, yoga, and arts fairs. These events are funded
by grants along with community and local business donations. We welcome
participation by anyone in the community. If you want to get involved,
or have questions, please send us an email at:
or join our Facebook
Group.
Friends of Hawthorne Park is an all volunteer, nonprofit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization
Board of Directors
President: position currently open
Vice President: Raed Nasser
Treasurer: Michael Athay
Secretary: Maggie Robinson
Social Media Director: Chris Vecchio
Mailing Address:
Friends Of Hawthorne Park
c/o Michael Athay, Treasurer
1128 Christian St
Philadelphia, PA 19147-3710
Get Involved:
JOIN!
our
Facebook
Group and learn about our "ADOPT (part of) A PARK" program!
SUBSCRIBE!
to our volunteer
mailing list by sending an email to:
and we'll let you know
about park clean up, planting, and other volunteer days.
DONATE!
Love this park? Every dollar helps!
Events
Want
to hear about stuff happening at the park?
Subscribe to our events
mailing list.
Want
to have an event at the park?
Contact us at:
Find information on obtaining park event permits here.
Note: Larger
events may need insurance:
Instructions
Application
How did this great park come to be?
2025 Event Calendar:
| Event | Type | Date | Time | Rain Date |
| Love Your Park Day! | Volunteer Day | 10 May 2025 | 10AM-1PM | |
| Vocalist Joanna Pascale | Jazz Concert | 15 May 2025 | 7:00PM | |
| Trumpeter Daud El-Bakara | Jazz Concert | 29 May 2025 | 7:00PM | |
| Vocalist Kevin Valentine | Jazz Concert | 19 June 2025 | 7:00PM | 26 June |
| Philadelphia Heritage Art Ensemble | Jazz Concert | 17 July 2025 | 7:00PM | 24 July |
| Warriors of the Wonderful Sound | Jazz Concert | 21 August 2025 | 7:00PM | 28 August |
Previous Events and Performances:
Labor Day Music Fest
FREE CONCERT!
Friends of Hawthorn Park and Jazz
Bridge
Present a Labor Day Music Fest with:
Bethlehem Robertson
& Sad Patrick
The
Madison Quartet
Kenchman
1:00 to 5:00PM
2 September 2024
FREE CONCERT in the Park!
Thursday August 15th 2024@ 7:00 PM
Pianist Neil Podgurski
Podgurski
has been deeply embedded in the NY/Philly jazz scene for 20 years, enrolling
in New York’s New School in 1994, and living in Brooklyn until 2001
before returning to his native Philadelphia area. Over the years, he’s
performed at many of the region’s finest venues, most recently The
Kennedy Center, The Philadelphia Art Museum, The Jazz Gallery, The
Iridium and Bohemian Caverns.
FREE CONCERT
Thursday, July 18th,
2024 @ 7 p.m.
Hawthorne Park, 12th & Catharine Streets
The Friends of Hawthorne Park and Jazz Bridge continue this summer’s live jazz series with Vocalist Wendy Simon. Bring your kids, blankets and lawn chairs and enjoy an evening of terrific music in beautiful Hawthorne Park!
Renowned for her delectable voice, her innovative
scat-singing,
and her delicate way with a ballad.”
— A.D. Amorosi, Philadelphia Inquirer
FREE
Fringe:
Rev Theatre Company's Honky
Tonk Hoe Down - Lil' Ol' Rodeo Show returns to Hawthorne Park!
Friday
September 15th, 2023 @ 7:00 PM
Jazz in Hawthorne Park
Thursday August 17th, 2023
7:00 - 8:30PM
Vocalist, Violinist, Composer
Rain Date: 24 August 2023
Scribe
Video Center presents:
Street Movies!
Tuesday August 15th, 2023
A musical performance by drummer/multi-instrumentalist Julius Masri followed by a screening of:
JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S
DAY
Bert Stern, USA, 1959; 85 minutes
Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer’s Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O’Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, and closes with a beautiful rendition of The Lord’s Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning. The film has been beautifully and extensively restored in 4K from the best surviving vault elements by IndieCollect.
Jazz in Hawthorne Park
Thursday July 20th, 2023
7:00 - 8:30PM
With jazz saxophonist:
(Rain date: July 27th)