Celebrate! Brooklyn Park Aims to Bring Community Together
Brooklyn Park leaders are placing new emphasis on Celebrate! Brooklyn Park events this year, starting with a slate of events this winter.
“We wanted to expand offerings in the wintertime,” said Community Events Specialist Amanda Beisch. “We wanted to make sure we had ways to engage all year round.”
“Make memories and meet your neighbors,” said Community Events Specialist Michelle Cheng. “It’s a way to see the uniqueness of Brooklyn Park and celebrate it with other folks.”
Along with Winterfest and the annual Black History Month Showcase this winter, the city will host Skate Through The Decades at the Community Activity Center on Saturday, February 15 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
“We’re going to have a progressive playlist, starting in the 60s going through today with costume contests and games,” said Beisch.
Also a new event this year will be a game night, also at the Community Activity Center. That happens on Saturday, March 1 from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
“We’re having a puzzling competition, so we’ll have a team competition first thing in the day, and we’ll have a family-friendly puzzle competition later on in the evening, along with live music, (and) vendors,” said Beisch.
Later, in the spring, the city is adding Art in the Park to its slate of Celebrate! events. It’s happening on May 10 in Central Park.
“This event will be featuring artists doing activities that are free to the public, so some of them will be paper making with natural resources, screen printing with a unique Brooklyn Park photo,” said Cheng. “We’re going to be inviting some local organizations to do art activities as well, and it’ll be kind of like art along a trail in Central Park.”
“We want folks to see our parks and our events as an extension of their own backyard,” said Beisch. “We want them to come out to the parks and enjoy them and feel comfortable in them. So we created an event series that we hope the public includes in their calendar for 2025 all year-round, that they come out and enjoy community and the spaces that we have.”
