East Atlanta - Events

Events

East Atlanta hosts a number of popular annual events, including:

  • East Atlanta Strut - East Atlanta's free annual one day neighborhood festival, always on the third Saturday in September featuring a parade, 5k fun run, food, live music, art, and events. All proceeds benefit local charities
  • Corndogorama - Music festival and Corndog eating contest held the last weekend in June
  • B*ATL - Neighboorhood festival commemorating the anniversary of the Civil War's Battle of Atlanta, which was fought on July 22, 1864 on land that is now part of East Atlanta. Events include a period costume gala dinner and house tour; a 5K fun run; van and walking tours of neighborhood historic sites including Oakland Cemetery; Civil War Battle re-enactment featuring soldiers, live artillery, and civilian re-enactors; and historic music concerts.
  • East Atlanta Beer Festival - Annual one day beer festival held the last weekend in May. All proceeds benefit local charities
  • EAV Farmers Market - A local non-profit farmers market each Thursday evening (4 to dark) from May through November where locals gather to feel good about themselves and pat each other on the back
  • Drive-Invasion - Annual festival held on Labor Day Weekend at the Starlight Six Drive-in, Atlanta's last drive-in movie theater. Featuring live bands; custom hot-rod show; and classic drive-in movies all night

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    “One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
    —Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)

    “All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)