Here are some of our friends & neighbors--worth checking out!
Friends of Schuylkill River Park
www.fsrp.org
Founded in 1988, The Friends of Schuylkill River Park improves, maintains, beautifies, preserves, and supports recreation programming in Schuylkill River Park and at Markward Playground.
Trinity Memorial Church and Community Outreach Partnership (CORP)
www.trinityphiladelphia.org
This Episcopal Congregation is the owner of the building complex at 22nd and Spruce Streets used by Trinity Center for Urban Life. It is an active congregation with regular worship services and programs of education and social outreach. See its website for further details.
Trinity Playgroup
www.trinityplaygroup.org
Trinity Playgroup is a non-profit, non-sectarian, licensed pre-school for children 18 months up to kindergarten age. Founded by neighborhood parents in 1969, it provides flexible scheduling and an enriching morning and/or afternoon program year round. It meets in the large, architecturally beautiful space in the Parish House of Trinity Memorial Church. See its website for details or call the Playgroup Director at 215-732-2519.
Astral Artistic Services
www.astralartisticservices.org
Astral's Mission is to discover the most promising classical musicians resident in the United States, assist their early professional career development, and present their world-class artistry to the community through concerts and outreach programs.
Center City Residents' Association
www.centercityresidents.org
Center City Residents' Association has been a leading force in the community since 1947, when the group saved Rittenhouse Square from conversion to a parking lot. Today, over 3,000 individual and business members are involved in city zoning, safety, historical preservation, legislative and environmental issues.
Friends of Fitler Square Park
www.fitlersquare.org
Our neighborhood's pocket park sits in the heart of the Fitler Square neighborhood. Stretching from 23rd to 24th Streets along Pine Street, its trees and lawns provide an oasis for sitting, sunning, and toddlers' play. The Friends support the park's maintenance and plantings through memberships and an annual sale on the Friday and Saturday before Mother's Day.
Liebesfreud String Quartet
Http://www.liebesfreud.org
This outstanding string quartet, with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and other well-know area players, has performed at Trinity Center as a supporter of the homeless shelter Wintershelter.
Piffaro-The Renaissance Band
http://www.piffaro.org/
Piffaro delights audiences with highly polished recreations of the rustic music of the peasantry and the elegant sounds of the official wind bands of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods. Its ever-expanding instrumentarium includes shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, harps, and a variety of percussion — all careful reconstructions of instruments from the period.
Friends of Schuylkill River Park
www.fsrp.org
Founded in 1988, The Friends of Schuylkill River Park improves, maintains, beautifies, preserves, and supports recreation programming in Schuylkill River Park and at Markward Playground.
Trinity Memorial Church and Community Outreach Partnership (CORP)
www.trinityphiladelphia.org
This Episcopal Congregation is the owner of the building complex at 22nd and Spruce Streets used by Trinity Center for Urban Life. It is an active congregation with regular worship services and programs of education and social outreach. See its website for further details.
Trinity Playgroup
www.trinityplaygroup.org
Trinity Playgroup is a non-profit, non-sectarian, licensed pre-school for children 18 months up to kindergarten age. Founded by neighborhood parents in 1969, it provides flexible scheduling and an enriching morning and/or afternoon program year round. It meets in the large, architecturally beautiful space in the Parish House of Trinity Memorial Church. See its website for details or call the Playgroup Director at 215-732-2519.
Astral Artistic Services
www.astralartisticservices.org
Astral's Mission is to discover the most promising classical musicians resident in the United States, assist their early professional career development, and present their world-class artistry to the community through concerts and outreach programs.
Center City Residents' Association
www.centercityresidents.org
Center City Residents' Association has been a leading force in the community since 1947, when the group saved Rittenhouse Square from conversion to a parking lot. Today, over 3,000 individual and business members are involved in city zoning, safety, historical preservation, legislative and environmental issues.
Friends of Fitler Square Park
www.fitlersquare.org
Our neighborhood's pocket park sits in the heart of the Fitler Square neighborhood. Stretching from 23rd to 24th Streets along Pine Street, its trees and lawns provide an oasis for sitting, sunning, and toddlers' play. The Friends support the park's maintenance and plantings through memberships and an annual sale on the Friday and Saturday before Mother's Day.
Liebesfreud String Quartet
Http://www.liebesfreud.org
This outstanding string quartet, with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and other well-know area players, has performed at Trinity Center as a supporter of the homeless shelter Wintershelter.
Piffaro-The Renaissance Band
http://www.piffaro.org/
Piffaro delights audiences with highly polished recreations of the rustic music of the peasantry and the elegant sounds of the official wind bands of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods. Its ever-expanding instrumentarium includes shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, harps, and a variety of percussion — all careful reconstructions of instruments from the period.
