Lani Schweiger
The Downtown Wilmington App

Downtown Visions released the Downtown Wilmington App, a one stop shop for all the happenings in Downtown Wilmington, DE.

The Downtown Wilmington App
Lani Schweiger
Community Highlight: Christina Cultural Arts ...

In this month’s blog, we are highlighting the Christina Cultural Arts Center Inc. Executive Director, James “Ray” Rhodes discusses the history of the Christina Cultural Arts Center and its importance to our community.

Community Highlight: Christina Cultural Arts Center

The IN Show this Wednesday

Every few months, Downtown Wilmington has a fun, entertaining, and engaging way of letting you know what's coming to the area and gives you a chance to win really great prizes.

The IN Show takes place at Chelsea Tavern this Wednesday evening - click here to RSVP

This fun, light-hearted, fast-paced game show is a great chance to find out about can't-miss happenings IN Wilmington, and just by joining us in the audience, you have a chance to win gift certificates and tickets to upcoming events!

As always, The IN Show promises an exciting, INteractive preview of the hottest happenings. James Kassees of City Theater Company's FEARLESS IMPROV will be hosting the All Star/Battle of the Sexes Edition with his sidekick Lew INdellini joined by our All Star panelists: Kerry Kristine McElrone, Beverly Zimmermann, Jeni Barton, Ken Grant, Ebbie Alfree and Clayton Stacey!

I hope to see you on Wednesday!

Marty

A Report Worth Reading

As you probably know, this week the Police Foundation and Vigilant Resources International issued a detailed, comprehensive report on public safety in Wilmington.

You can read the full report by clicking here.

While there’s been articles written and discussions on talk shows about various aspects of the report, I would encourage everyone to take a little time and review the document for themselves. I think what you will find is respect for the hard work our Wilmington Police Department is doing as well as some good recommendations for ways to make our community safer.

This is part of an ongoing discussion, it’s important that all of us are informed with facts and understand best practices from around the country.

I am confident that we, as a community can work with the men and women in law enforcement to make Wilmington an even better place to live, work, play, and raise our families.

Marty

40th Annual St. Patrick's Parade in Wilmington

We have a wide variety of great heritages to celebrate in Downtown Wilmington - and we're proud of all of them, but every March we love to see a green line painted on King Street and a great celebration of Irish culture for St. Patrick's Day.

This year marked the 40th Annual St. Patrick's Parade organized by the Irish Culture Club of Delaware.

Here's just a small sample from the parade

Marty

Telling visitors about Downtown Wilmington

I recently had the chance to spend some time with Gail Kasper and the good people at theBrandywine Visitor's Channel talking about how great Downtown Wilmington is for dining, arts, and entertainment.

Visitors who stay in our great hotels in the area will be able to watch the feature in their hotel rooms. 

Please feel free to help spread the word about how great our city is for all who work, play, live, and visit Downtown Wilmington.

Marty

Inspiration at the Wilmington Library

Amazing things happen when people are provided the tools to express their creativity in a variety of ways.

Fortunately, we have a truly impressive collection of resources available right here in Downtown Wilmington.

As Alta Porterfield and Carl Shaw explain, the Wilmington Library's Inspiration Space has everything from video cameras and green screens to 3D printers for anyone to use to create great things.

Do yourself a favor, go to the Wilmington Library and check out the Inspiration Space - tell them Marty send you.

Marty