Tomorrow will mark the first fee required festival in Clark Park. Costs for this Veteran's festival have been announced as 5 or 10 dollars. I assume this will be the first fenced event in Clark Park, like the Budweiser festivals on the Budweiser Parkway.
As I previously reported, the long tradition of neighborhood delivered grass roots events, free and open to all in Philadelphia neighborhood parks, is over! I've already heard that neighborhood events have been threatened with the new rental fees for parks. In Clark Park, we also know the music and arts festival was cancelled last year and I haven't heard any plans for this year. (In the future, it may return, re-branded as a Penn or Bank of America festival) There is no way to know how many neighborhood cultural events have already disappeared around the city. This was why Penn and the special service districts had the city announce prohibitively expensive park fees last year, but maintained that waivers would be given. It was a delay and divide tactic to disperse any resistance across time and neighborhoods. (UC Review attacked dissent to these permit fees and commercialization/privatization, as rumors last year.) FOCP can have beer festivals. And the "put your money where your mouth" doctrine of FOCP has prevailed across the neighborhood and the nation. I'm glad that the neighborhood wanted this transformation of Philadelphia parks, and the end of democratic hope. It won't be long now. Many of us recognize that the desired fascist state has already arrived, just like the gentry of this upscale paradise clamored to establish. Pray for the brave citizens of Turkey, Glenn, last of the US citizens in the upscale district ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
