CAMPUS PHILLY COLLEGE DAY
on the Parkway
September 27, 2008
- 9.27: Free Concert + Festival
- Other College Day Events
:: TNT Red Bull Freestyle Motocross
:: Free Admission to 11 Museums with College ID
:: Campus Philly Involvement Fair
:: Nocturnal Skateboard Demo
:: Canvas Clash in LOVE Park
- Our Sponsors Rock
FREE CONCERT + FESTIVAL
September 27/ Benjamin Franklin Parkway /
2 p.m. - 7 p.m.
We’re
throwing a huge, FREE concert and festival to officially welcome and celebrate
Philly’s native and adopted scholars.
An incredibly diverse line-up of international performers and local talent
will rock the Parkway! Artists include: Armor for Sleep, The Cool Kids and Twelve Twenty on the Intern U Music Stage; Victor Victor Band, Robes and PattyCrash on the Campus Philly Local Stage.
ALSO: food, festivities, the Campus Philly Involvement Fair,
TNT Red Bull Freestyle Motocross, free admission to 11 museums with College ID and thousands of students
from the Philly area.
Free and open to the public. All ages.
OTHER EVENTS
AT COLLEGE DAY
Saturday,
September 27
TNT Red Bull Freestyle Motocross
Ben Franklin Parkway / 2:50 p.m., 3:50 p.m., 4:50 p.m.
Watch three Freestyle Motocross (FMX) performers throw huge tricks off 60- to 90-
foot jumps in rapid-fire succession.
College
Day on the Parkway
Ben Franklin Parkway / 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Philly’s cultural establishments will offer free admission on the
day of College Day to anyone with a college ID. Enjoy art, exhibitions,
special programming and tours, and make sure to take advantage of the
free shuttle running from eleven different locations along the Parkway.
Some places include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Franklin,
the National Constitution Center, the Rodin Museum, the Eastern State Penitentiary
and many more. A free bus loop is provided between all institutions.
Campus Philly Involvement Fair
Ben Franklin Parkway / 2 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Whether you're new to the Philadelphia area and want to get to know its communities better, or you've been here your whole life and feel like it's time to do something in your neighborhood, Campus Philly's Involvement Fair is the best way to get involved.
Nocturnal Skateboard Demo
Ben Franklin Parkway / 2:00 p.m., 3:10 p.m., 4:10 p.m.
Come watch the skaters of
Nocturnal Skateshop do what they love best: skateboarding. Catch one of their half-hour demonstrations.
Canvas Clash in LOVE Park
16th and JFK Boulevard / 2 p.m. - 8 p.m. /
With the concepts focusing on "creating change," six groups of artists will work to create a piece of art on six unsual canvases in two hours. While the artists work, there will be music performances from The PoPo, The Hustle and The Peace Creeps.
OUR SPONSORS ROCK
Producers: Campus
Philly | City of Philadelphia
Department of Commerce
Presented by : Intern U | PW - Philadelphia Weekly | Pennsylvania - State of Independence | Wired 96.5 | The CW
Sponsored by :Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation | Y-Rock on XPN| AT & T | Fairmount Park | SEPTA
College
and University Partners
Bryn Mawr College | Cabrini College | Chestnut Hill College | Community College of Philadelphia | Drexel University | Haverford College | La Salle University | Moore College of Art and Design | Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts | Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine | Philadelphia University | Rutgers University--Camden | St. Joseph's University | Swarthmore College | Temple University| Thomas Jefferson University | The University of the Arts | University of Pennsylvania | University of the Sciences in Philadelphia | Villanova University
Campus Philly is located at 1515 Market Street,
Suite 830, Philadelphia, PA, 19102. To remove yourself from this
list, visit www.campusphilly.org/modify