Event
The event is sponsored by Philadelphia's WDAS-FM radio station, Southwest Airlines, Chrysler, the Pennsylvania Lottery, VH1 Soul, Western Union, and 20 other companies to provide food, vendors, art exhibitions, literary workshops, a softball game, children's activities, and free music performances.
The 29th annual event was held on August 19, 2007. The 30th annual event, billed as Unity Weekend, was held August 23-24, 2008, at Penn's Landing.
In 2009, Unity Day was held August 23, returned to the Ben Franklin Parkway. It was also no longer affiliated with WDAS-FM, after Clear Channel Communications ceased sponsoring the event.
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Famous quotes containing the word event:
“My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“This event advertises me that there is such a fact as death,—the possibility of a man’s dying. It seems as if no man had ever died in America before; for in order to die you must first have lived.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is known that Whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his “nocturnes” answered: “All of my life.” With the same rigor he could have said that all of the centuries that preceded the moment when he painted were necessary. From that correct application of the law of causality it follows that the slightest event presupposes the inconceivable universe and, conversely, that the universe needs even the slightest of events.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)