Park Community Discussion & Gala events provide social gatherings geared toward developing ideas for park improvement and getting residents involved with maintaining our neighborhood parks. These events also help foster a better sense of community and build social capital as neighbors meet and work together. 

Friends of Albany Park members then recruit their friends and neighbors to come together for the Clean-Up Day scheduled for Saturday, August 4, 2018 (9 am - 12:30 pm). Volunteers can join in for a few hours or work the entire morning! 

Volunteers who attend the Clean-Up Day will receive an official Friends of Albany Parks t-shirt and lunch (provided by the Albany Community Foundation).  For more information contact Brennen Brown at bbrown@albanyca.org.

Free Movie in the Park - At Sundown (8:30pm), after the Gala discussion we will play "Sing", the story of a dapper Koala Buster Moon presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. Facing the crumbling of his life's ambition, he takes one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by producing the world's greatest singing competition. Five contestants emerge: a mouse, a timid elephant, a pig, a gorilla and a punk-rock porcupine. Free admission!