Events downtown

Apr 26

Designing America: Celebrating Olmsted on his 200th Birthday
Location: Congress Square Park, Portland, Maine US
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Event website

Join us at Congress Square Park on Olmsted’s Birthday to help kick off the “Olmsted 200 Portland” Summer at Congress Square Park.

Join for food trucks and a movie about the most influential Park Architect in America’s history. Movie showing will begin at 7:30. Seating will be available. Come help celebrate his 200th birthday, and learn about who he was and about our summer full of events across Portland and our parks.

6:30pm – Event begins and food trucks open

7:00pm – Speaker Stephen Mohr will present “Olmsted, his family, and Maine”

7:30pm – showing of “Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America”

Come for the food trucks and music and stay for the movie to celebrate his birthday and learn more about all the events that are going to be happening around Portland over the summer.