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A parade participant gets a kiss from, a reader tells us, Rhea the Deerhound. Credit: Heather Goldin. One of the joys of Wake Up The Earth is seeing Jamaica Plain's people in all their diverse, goofy and beautiful glory. Here's a sampling of the faces we photographed during this year's parade and festival.
The Wake Up The Earth Parade (Egleston Square branch) makes its way to the festival. Credit: Richard Heath
Each year, two parades make their way from opposite sides of the neighborhood to meet at Wake Up The Earth. Here are some photos from the parade that stepped off from Egleston Square.
A scene from Wake Up The Earth 2015. A scene from Wake Up The Earth 2015. Credit: Richard Heath
Thousands of residents flocked to the Southwest Corridor Park on Saturday for a sun-filled Wake Up The Earth Festival. Here are a few photos.
The cherry trees are in bloom and the weather's gonna be great for JP's primary freak-flag-flying festival, Wake Up The Earth. The National Weather Service expects a high of 65 on Saturday, with mostly cloudy conditions in the morning giving way to sun. Parades start at 11 a.m., making their way to the festival grounds by Stony Brook T, where the festival runs from noon to 6 p.m.
Here's a link to this year's Wake Up The Earth map, in case you missed it earlier.
The 37th Annual Wake Up The Earth Festival runs noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 2. Here is a map of the live music, vendors and other events you'll experience. If you'd like to be in one of the two parades leading to the festival, meet at 11 a.m. Saturday at either the Egleston YMCA or Curtis Hall Community Center. If you find this map too small to read, please use the magnifying glass symbol to make it larger. You may also simply download it for print-out.
It's the Tuesday after another Wake Up The Earth Festival, and the grassy slope opposite Stony Brook T is spotless. It takes some effort to remember that on Saturday, the whole stretch from the station down past New Minton Street swarmed with the kaleidoscope of life that is Wake Up The Earth. One of the organizers, Maaak Pelletier, stops to chat. He's sleep-deprived from the frenzy of putting on the neighborhood's biggest party. "For me, the biggest key to success is the fact that we do it where we do it," said Pelletier.
Here's your Morning Memo for all things JP for Monday, May 5. A Safer Arborway?: As you plan your week, consider attending Tuesday night's meeting about pedestrian and bicycle safety on the Arborway near the main entrance to the Arboretum. The state will be making proposals about how to improve the Upper Arborway Crossing. 7 p.m. Tuesday at First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist, 6 Eliot St. Jamaica Pond Association Meets Monday Night: Also on the civic docket is the May meeting of the neighborhood association for Pondside residents.
Jamaica Plain's signature festival got lots of attention on social media. Here's some of what we found on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Instagram about the 2014 edition of Wake Up The Earth. [View the story "'Peace, Peace, Peace to All' — Wake Up The Earth as Seen on the Web" on Storify]
Welcome to a "Wake Up The Earth 2014" edition of the Morning Memo. Partly Cloudy and High of 67 For Wake Up The Earth: The Weather Channel predicts nice weather for JP's official end-of-winter-hibernation party, Wake Up The Earth. The festival runs from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday along the Southwest Corridor Park between Boylston and New Minton streets. There will be live music, dance and theater, yummy food, community group info tables and vendors selling crafts and the like. Here's Your Map of the Festival: You can download the map from our post, the Spontaneous Celebrations web site or look for it in the most recent Gazette.
The Wake Up The Earth Festival runs noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 3. Here is a map of the live music, vendors and other events you'll experience. If you find this map too small to read, please use the magnifying glass symbol to make it larger. You may also simply download it for print-out. The map was designed by Danielle Sommer and can be found at Spontaneous Celebration's web site.