Kicking It for the College Kids

Nonprofit organization Campus Philly, in association with the city, IKEA, and plenty of other companies and organizations, is holding a huge free concert and festival Saturday afternoon to welcome and celebrate new and returning college students. It's called Campus Philly Kick-Off, and it will lead to un-fun things like road closings (the 2000 block of Winter Street will be closed during setup, and both directions of the inner drives of the Parkway, from 20th Street to the Eakins Oval, will be closed throughout), but it will also include fun things like a TNT Red Bull Freestyle Motocross event; a concert featuring folks like Fat Joe and Saves the Day, as well as local acts like The Capitol Years; an Involvement Fair where you can pick out a good nonprofit, community-based organization to join; free admission to plenty of museums for college students; a live skate jam; and an after party at Shampoo. There will also be a booth set up on the Parkway where you can register to vote, and a free bus loop out to IKEA, so you can do your civic duty and pick up an extra lamp.

Okay, we'll admit, some of that stuff doesn't sound very fun to us. We don't really get motocross and skating and Fat Joe. But we hear that's the kind of stuff the kids are into these days, and that's what this whole thing is about, after all: you young 'uns. So get out there and enjoy yourselves.

Campus Philly Kick-Off
Free concert and other events
Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Sat, 9/30, 2PM-7PM
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