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[quote=Anonymous]Events
You can always find something fun to do in Hyattsville. The City puts on numerous festive events throughout the year. In the fall, there’s an Arts Festival, International Festival, Spookyfest, and outdoor movies; in winter, a tree lighting/caroling event; in spring, an egg hunt, the Hyattsville Anniversary parade and carnival, Citizenship Day, and Dogs for the Arts; and in the summer, National Night Out and monthly Friday evening Summer Jams where neighbors gather to listen to music, eat, watch their children frolic, and hang out with friends. Our neighboring community of Riverdale Park holds a similar series of jazz music concerts (Jazz on the Lawn) on Wednesday evenings in the summer on the huge lawn of the Riversdale House. Block parties spring up throughout the neighborhood in the spring and fall. Hyattsville puts on regular and well-attended dances for teenagers and for young children and their parents. The City teams up with Hyattsville Aging in Place (HAP) to host regular programs for older residents.

As mentioned above, the neighborhood is filled with a LOT of young families and there's an incredibly active Parents group. They hold a Hops Hop in the fall and a Vine Crawl in the spring which start out as potluck dinners in a park for 200 to 300 people, with the large group breaking into smaller groups of about 35 that travel from house to house in the neighborhood and sip beer or wine depending on the season. Lately these events have ended with a big dance party. There’s an overlapping listserv for Catholic parents in the neighborhood. In fact, there are many traditional Catholic families in Hyattsville, who have recently garnered national attention for the “intentional community” they've created in Hyattsville. There are many other active neighborhood groups with their own calendars of social events, including the Hyattsville Preservation Association (HPA), which puts on an historic house tour in the spring, and the Hyattsville Horticultural Society (HHS), which sponsors a big seed sale/bake sale in the winter which runs concurrently with an intergenerational art-making event hosted by Hyattsville Aging in Place. Nearby Riverdale Park holds a well-attended farmers market on Thursdays with live music. This moves indoors in the winter months. Hyattsville hosts a Cyclocross race in the fall and another bike race in the spring sponsored by the University of Maryland. Hyattsville residents like to drink and they like to dance. Impromptu celebrations abound (zany Mardi Gras parades, snow day parties that go from house to house, semi-annual and free to all clothing and baby supply swaps, etc.). Potlatch culture thrives here, along with potlucks.[/quote]

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