This diversity is also evident in the wide range of events taking place throughout the year. The Peoples' Festival that continues as a legacy to long-time organizer, Frank Jones, is Germantown's signature celebration of jazz.  The First Presbyterian Church in Germantown's concert series has been providing quality classical music to the community free of charge for fifty years, and recently has expanded its offerings to include a broader range of genres.

Germantown is the home of a number of well-known artists like poet Sonia Sanchez.  The late Rufus Harley exemplified the creative synergy that can coalesce when cultures co-exist. Although he called Germantown home, he travelled the world with his jazz bagpipe strains. Here, we know that when diverse peoples share their experience in the same community, the cultures which are their heritage are affected in ways that can keep the links to the past alive while also giving birth to expressions of their shared lives together. Our public art  documents this progression, from  statues commemorating the Revolutionary War heroes to murals depicting current life. Just as Germantown is one of the cornerstones of American history, it is also a vibrant cutting-edge of a multi-cultural America and its artistic expression serves as a metaphor for a future America that embraces the best of what each culture has to offer.  Come join us!  Play here, live here.

"...Education-Through-Art may be especially important not so much for turning out artists or art products, as for turning out better people...if we hope for our children that they will become full human beings..., then, as nearly as I can make out, the only kind of education in existence today that has any faint inkling of such goals is art...

                                                                                                                                                -Abraham Maslow, from The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, 1971, p.55