Cynthia Gentry's Blog Posts Tagged 'pride' (5)

Sign up today for the annual Park Pride Conference. It is always fascinating and inspiring, and this year deals with the effect of play on a healthy community. Also, Park Pride awarded an ATOP project, Play Chastain, with the first-ever Legacy Award of $100,000 for the amazing treehouse soon to be installed in the park. Thank you Park Pride. See you at the…

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"Summer's Treehouse" will be built in Play Chastain in memory of 16-year-old Chastain Park neighbor Summer Dale who died from cancer on November 11, 2012. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution today has an…

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We were so excited to see the upcoming Woodruff Park playground mentioned in an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The playground is an initiative of the Playable10 International Design Competition which is founded and co-organized by the Atlanta Taskforce on Play with Georgia Tech's College of Architecture. The… Continue

(George Dusenbury, newly appointed Commissioner of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs for the City of Atlanta, on the Great Atlanta Play Day, with Cynthia Gentry, Founder of the Atlanta

Taskforce on Play).

It's a great day for play in Atlanta as new Mayor Kasim Reed announced the appointment of George Dusenbury, Executive Director of Park…

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The second annual GREAT ATLANTA PLAY DAY is Saturday, September 26, 2009 and there are great events going on all over Atlanta.

Celebrate PARK PRIDE'S 20th anniversary. If you live in one of the 20 communities with one of the 20 picnics going on in 20 parks all over Atlanta, then go join your neighbors. We're going to the one at Vine City so we… Continue