MAJA PARK
At North 22nd and the Parkway and adjacent to Eakins Oval is Maja Park. Join the Parkway Council for Mondays with Maja jazz concerts in June, July, and September, and, in August, explore the Association for Public Art’s second annual Art on the Parkway installation.
Join the Parkway Council this summer in Maja Park (North 22nd Street and the Parkway) for a series of free jazz concerts. Each week a different featured soloist will join the Vibe-A-Delphia jazz trio. Be sure to bring your own blanket or chair, a picnic, and enjoy summer on the Parkway.
Free and open to all. All concerts are from 6:30–8:00 p.m., weather permitting.
June 9th — featuring Victor Provost on steel pan
NEW DATE: July 14th — featuring Max Cudworth on saxophone
NEW DATE: July 21st — featuring Dave Bozenhard on guitar
NEW DATE: July 28th — featuring Joe Anderson on trumpet
September 8th — featuring Michael Quaile on guitar
September 15th — featuring Ray Kaneko on saxophone
September 22nd — featuring Josh Lee on saxophone
September 29th — featuring Victor North, saxophone
Mondays with Maja is organized by the Parkway Council, in partnership with the American Federation of Musicians, Local 77 and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation.
MONDAYS WITH MAJA
ART ON THE PARKWAY
This August visit Nicolo Gentile’s “Bar None,” a temporary public art installation and the selected artwork of the second annual Art on the Parkway competition.
The installation will be on view from August 14th to October 26th. There will be a free opening reception on August 14th—open to the public, registration required—at Park Towne Place’s Oar Pub.
“Bar None” will be constructed from prefabricated steel barricades interspersed with colored etched acrylic panels that will reflect moments of protest, pride, and public gathering on the Parkway through images sourced from historic archives. Rather than a fixed monument, Gentile considers “Bar None” a dynamic site of reflection, where the lines between protest and celebration blur and where the act of gathering itself is honored. It will reaffirm the Parkway as a vital stage for collective care, memory, and civic imagination.
The artwork was the selected proposal for Art on the Parkway, a juried open call commission organized by the Association for Public Art (aPA), in partnership with the Parkway Council and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation (PPR). Support for the project was provided, in part, by AIR Communities/Park Towne Place and Prudent Management Associates.
