After all, the wonderful venue for Philadelphia’s 12th White Dinner has been revealed.
Thursday’s outdoor “fancy picnic,” where attendees will have to dress in white and bring their own food, will take place at LOVE Park, located at 16th Street and JFK Boulevard. Organizers expect about 5,000 more people to attend tonight’s pop-up dinner.
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LOVE Park, also known as John F. Kennedy Plaza, is a former skate park that is home to Robert Indiana’s LOVE statue, which has been in the area almost frequently since 1976.
Last summer, Dîner en Blanc set up shop outdoors at Fairmount Park’s Memorial Hall, built in 1876 and now home to the Please Touch Museum’s interactive children’s exhibits.
In 2022, the event celebrated its tenth anniversary in Philadelphia and repeated for the first time a place where it had taken place last year: Logan Circle, Dîner en Blanc’s first pop-up in Philadelphia in 2012. Other public places in Philadelphia that hosted this extravagant occasion include JFK Boulevard, Avenue of the Arts, the Navy Yard, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Stairs, Franklin Square, City Hall/Thomas Paine Plaza, Boathouse Row, Rittenhouse Square, and Memorial Hall. /please tap Museum.
While Philadelphia has hosted the Dîner en Blanc for more than a decade, the event’s history dates back to a gathering of friends in 1988 in Paris, France. Atlantic City also began hosting a version of the event in 2022.
The regulations for Dîner en Blanc occasions are exact and simple: dress in white and bring your own food, drinks (no hard liquor or beer), cutlery, chairs, tables and picnic baskets. Every year, tickets are sold to Philadelphia’s exclusive Dîner en Blanc. out. To be considered an invitation, you must have attended an occasion within the past year, be sponsored through someone who has, or be on the waiting list.
In addition to dinner and plenty of photo ops, there will also be dancing and live entertainment at Philadelphia’s Dîner en Blanc. This year’s occasion will pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of the song “Come and Get Your Love” through the band Redbone. written in Philadelphia. There will be music by Boathouse Row Band and DJ Nico Oso. There will also be tango classes, drum lines and sparklers.
Tonight’s forecast calls for generally clear skies and temperatures around 67 degrees – ideal weather for a picnic under the stars.