Takeout Picnic

On June 20 from 5:30 - 8PM, is hosting the third annual summer evening Takeout Picnic - with a parking lot pop-up twist. Support the local Central Street community and , bring it to our event area and pull up a seat at one of our community dining tables, and celebrate the Summer Solstice with and family-friendly activities at 2100 Central Street and Stewart Avenue. Learn more at: .

Central Street Evanston is a nonprofit organization that manages the Special Service Areas (SSA) #7 and #8 along the Central Street and Green Bay Road corridors. Funded by the property owners and businesses in the SSAs, the organization provides marketing, events, beautification, placemaking and other services to support businesses and create a vibrant sense of place for residents and visitors.

was formed in 2014 by Andrea Falcone, Davide Morelli, and Antonio Valdez in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Since then the group has grown to become a truly international collaboration, with members from Italy, Mexico, Poland, Bolivia, France, the American Midwest, and the Southwest. Inevitably, their repertoire is wildly diverse. Their music is timeless, combining elements of gypsy jazz, classical, latin, jazz, and traditional tarantella spanning hundreds of years of history. At one moment you feel like you are in a smoky hot jazz club in 1930s Paris, and in the next you are swaying to the whirling rhythms of a tarantella in 1700s Naples.

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