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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Famous quotes containing the word events:

    “Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)