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Community Egg Hunt
2025-03-29 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Culliton Park, 200-238 S Water St, Lancaster, PA, 19603
Hop on over to Culliton Park for the biggest, most egg-citing Easter Egg Hunt around! Our event will kick off with a 5,000+ Egg Hunt! We will have two separate age group areas, so all the kids are certain to come home with filled baskets and brimming smiles. But that’s just the beginning of the fun!
Next, you can expect to stay warm by the fire, roasting marshmallows, drinking hot chocolate, getting your face painted, getting a twisted balloon animal or accessory, playing games and other hands-on activities, taking home packaged breakfast/food items, prizes, and a book for every child!! Plus there will be a DJ! This year SoWe, Lancaster Historic Lions Club, the Moose Lodge 299, and the SDOL are turning this annual tradition into a full-blown, egg-stra special community event!
So mark your calendars for Saturday, March 29th from 10am-11:30am at Culliton Park (210 S Water St). Please be sure to arrive on time so that you don’t miss the Egg Hunt. In case of rain, we will host the event Saturday, April 5th from 10am-11:30am at Culliton Park.
If you’d like to volunteer for this fun outside event, please sign-up here – Lancaster Historic Lions Club: 3rd Annual Community Easter Egg Hunt

(Rain Date) Community Egg Hunt
2025-04-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Culliton Park, 200-238 S Water St, Lancaster, PA, 19603
If Saturday, March 29th is rained out – our big Community Egg Hunt will happen this Saturday instead.

Hop on over to Culliton Park for the biggest, most egg-citing Easter Egg Hunt around! Our event will kick off with a 5,000+ Egg Hunt! We will have two separate age group areas, so all the kids are certain to come home with filled baskets and brimming smiles. But that’s just the beginning of the fun!
Next, you can expect to stay warm by the fire, roasting marshmallows, drinking hot chocolate, getting your face painted, getting a twisted balloon animal or accessory, playing games and other hands-on activities, taking home packaged breakfast/food items, prizes, and a book for every child!! Plus there will be a DJ! This year SoWe, Lancaster Historic Lions Club, the Moose Lodge 299, and the SDOL are turning this annual tradition into a full-blown, egg-stra special community event!
So mark your calendars for Saturday, March 29th from 10am-11:30am at Culliton Park (210 S Water St). Please be sure to arrive on time so that you don’t miss the Egg Hunt. In case of rain, we will host the event Saturday, April 5th from 10am-11:30am at Culliton Park.
If you’d like to volunteer for this fun outside event, please sign-up here – Lancaster Historic Lions Club: 3rd Annual Community Easter Egg Hunt

Peace In the Streets: Summer Block Party
2025-06-14 12:00 - 16:00 | Culliton Park, 200-238 S Water St, Lancaster, PA, 19603
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!

Movie Night In Brandon Park - MOVED TO SUNDAY
2025-07-27 18:30 - 21:00 | Brandon Park, Brandon Park, Lancaster, PA, 17603, United States
**POSTPONED DUE TO RAIN** (Updated: Saturday, July 26th 1:34pm)
Movie Night will now happen tomorrow, Sunday, July 27th, in Brandon Park. Everything will stay at the same time.
6:30PM – Grab your spot, movie snacks (popcorn and cotton candy), and get a tour of the mobile unit!
7PM – Movie begins!
Spread the word! See you tomorrow!
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You know we love our Parks – so what better way to enjoy them then a Movie Night (with a childhood animated classic) in Brandon Park!
Saturday, July 26th (rain date Sunday, July 27th – please check our social media on the day-of to confirm – this summer has certainly been rainy), neighbors are invited to begin setting up your chairs/blankets/ inflatable pools/ air mattress (get comfy – any seating vessel goes!) in the Brandon Park parking lot starting at 6:30PM! This is also a great time to get delicious movie snacks – including popcorn and cotton candy (which will be available for FREE)! We will also have water and orange juice available!
The movie will begin promptly at 7pm!
Due to licensing restrictions we can’t say the name of the movie online or the names of prominent characters. So instead we invite you to play a fun guessing game! Here are your clues:
This movie is about a young Hawaiian girl who makes an unlikely friendship with a naughty alien. This is a great movie for KIDS and centers on themes of: family, belonging, redemption and the power of love.
We hope you will bring your whole Ohana! 😉“Ohana means family! Family means nobody left behind or forgotten.”
Also – in case you’re wondering: we are watching the original animated version (not the new live action)

National Night Out
2025-08-05 17:00 - 19:30 | 440 Saint Josephs St, 440 Saint Josephs St, Lancaster, PA, 17603, United States
Let’s get wild on a weeknight during this year’s National Night Out – Tuesday, August 5th from 5-7:30PM!
Our wonderful neighbor, Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church, is taking the lead on this cherished annual, neighborhood pride summer event! National Night Out is all about celebrating what’s special and great about the beautiful place where we live (three cheers for the SoWe neighborhood)! That’s why the event is held on a residential block – making it even easier to step out your doors and make memories with your neighbors!
So come on down to the St Joe’s Parking lot! Enjoy dinner, music, games, a fresh HAIRCUT before school starts and a brand new BACKPACK and even learn how to duckpin BOWL! The bowling alley will be OPEN!
If you’d like to help volunteer – email Matt (the event lead) at : wallaby38@gmail.com.

Summer Concert in Culliton Park
2025-08-22 18:00 - 21:00 | Culliton Park, 200-238 S Water St, Lancaster, PA, 19603
Say goodbye to summer with an evening of live music and ice cream!
Our very own neighbor and friend, Velkro will be kicking off the night with his self-produced and insanely talented songwriting! Next, DC & Company will delight our ears as the feature band.
Neighbors can enjoy these talented musicians, lawn games, and an assortment of FREE ice cream from local business, Mezcla Ice Cream!
Neighbors are asked to bring your own chairs and/or blankets to sit on! Also if you’d like to enjoy dinner during the show you are always welcome to pack a picnic (the park even has grills if you personally want to go all out) OR there will be at least one food truck available on-site where you can purchase food (note: the dinner component is not free – but is available).
You don’t want to miss this evening of connection and fun! See you there!

Christmas Caroling in the Neighborhood
2025-12-15 18:15 - 20:00 | 440 Saint Josephs St, 440 Saint Josephs St, Lancaster, PA, 17603, United States
Be a part of spreading holiday cheer this holiday season by Caroling through the SoWe streets with us!
On Monday night, December 15th, we invite you (whether you call yourself a singer or not – we’d love to have you) to gather at 6:15PM at Saint Joseph’s Church, in the Saint Francis Room. There will be print outs of popular Christmas carols, and we will go out in groups to fill the streets with joyful, festive singing!
If you live on nearby streets around the church (400-600 St Joe’s, Vine, or Poplar) and would love a visit from our carolers, feel free to message us your address so we’re certain to stop by (with song and candy canes!)! We even take song requests!
After an hour of signing, we complete our evening with hot chocolate and Christmas cookies! This exuberant event is put on by SoWe, Saint Joseph’s Church and Laurel Street Mennonite Church! We can’t wait to fa-la-la -la with a whole chorus of you!
