Sweetening the end of summer with free carousel rides, movies, sponsorship opportunities, and more!

August 22, 2024

Friends of Stewart Park is enhancing Stewart Park to make it as comfortable, inviting and accessible as possible. Visit our website to learn more about furnishing sponsorship options. Every sponsored furnishing includes a custom dedication!

All furnishing are high quality with sustainability in mind. Playground and Splash Pad seating from Loll is made from recycled milk jugs!

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Join Friends of Stewart Park and Wharton Studio Museum for our 9th annual Party for the Park fundraiser!

We’re celebrating our current Roaring 20s by bringing the party back to the Roaring 1920s when silent movies were all the cat’s meow, jazz was playing in secret clubs downtown, and Ithacans were gathering in their new public lakeside park.

Come as you are, or if you’d like, wear a sparkly headband, flapper dress, or Great Gatsby inspired suit! We just want you there! This year’s party will include live jazz, a raffle, and local wine, beer and cider. Van Nobel Farm will cater a full farm-to-table meal including appetizer and dessert.

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Thank you to the Ithaca Public Education Initiative for sponsoring the Stewart Park Carousel this Friday, August 23 and Saturday 24! Come out for free rides and check also out all the activities they have planned!

Sadly, Friends of Stewart Park has been made aware of recent racist incidents in Stewart Park. Many of you may have read articles about this in the Ithaca Voice.

Friends of Stewart Park urges all who visit the park to treat others with kindness and respect.

Last week, FSP met with Rev. Peaches Gillette and also attended the workshop she organized to form All Ears & All Eyes on Racism, a newly-created volunteer group working to fight racism in the community. If you’d like to learn more on how you can get involved, you can email aeerforjustice@gmail.com.

There’s just two more weeks of Movies in the Park! Head down to the park this Friday, August 23rd, for Monsters Inc.

From Wharton Studio Museum, our partner in park revitalization…

Mark your calendars for The Mark of Zorro (1920), and our 14th annual Silent Movie Under the Stars on Saturday, August 24th at sundown! Please note a new location for the outdoor screening — Robert H. Treman State Park, Upper Entrance.*

Live original music by Cloud Chamber Orchestra with special guest Damian Dodge. Presenting Sponsor for Silent Movie Under the Stars is M&T Bank. New York State Parks is our producing partner and 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the New York State Park’s system! Join us on Saturday, August 24th!

*The first Silent Movie Under the Stars took place at this location in 2011!

We invite you to check out this video, filled with magical moments on the Waterfront Trail and in Stewart Park captured by Frank Muller, Friends of Stewart Park's landscape gardener, and nature photographer.