Peace In the Streets: Summer Block Party

Our Annual Summer Block Party, co-hosted by two wonderful organizations – ENDALL MOVEMENT and CJ’s Hoop for Hope, is back with the annual traditions you’ve come to know and love! Come and enjoy getting to know dozens of community partners, play sports, water and field games, watch CJ’s Hoops for Hope basketball tournament, play bingo and win cool prizes, play carnival games (like fishbowl and group races), get your face painted, henna art, and a caricature of you and your whole family/big group of friends, eat a delicious, locally-made lunch for FREE and go home with lots of goodies and new connections!

In addition to all the community-bonding fun, just like last year, we want to rally around keeping our streets safe and free from gun violence. So we are excited to again welcome impactful speakers (both from local government, local advocacy organizations, and neighbors with lived experience) to share how they are committed to bringing more peace to our neighborhood’s streets! We will have an important time of remembrance of family members and friends who tragically died from gun violence, and also have an Open-Mic time, for community members to share personal pieces (songs, raps, poems, stories) of how gun violence has impacted them.

This is our longest running event and one that our neighbors remember and look forward to all year long!

If you’d like to volunteer for one of the many fun activities of the day, please sign up through our sign-up link: Peace In The Streets: Block Party 2025 Volunteer Sign-Up! All volunteers will get a Brand New event volunteer shirt! You are encouraged to volunteer as a group – so sign up with your family and friends!