Whitman-Walker to hold East of the River Fall Festival on Aug. 17
Whitman-Walker, which describes itself as a leader in LGBTQ+ health care and comprehensive health care for “everyone else,” announced it will hold its largest ever annual East of the River Fall Festival on Saturday, Aug.
17, at the Sycamore & Oak food court and entertainment center in the city’s Congress Heights neighborhood. The announcement says the event, which will take place between 2-6 p.m., will include live entertainment, including Go-Go music performances, a poetry performance, free food and drinks, and free backpacks and school supplies for the first 500 kids to arrive and claim them.
The event will also include a health fair providing community health resources and information, along with HIV and STI testing, according to the announcement, which also points out that the event will take place about a block away from Whitman-Walker’s Max Robinson Center facility. “Just a year ago, Whitman-Walker Health opened its new Max Robinson Center (MRC) with the commitment to be a healthcare and community research center that would serve all DC residents, and the desire to become an integral part of the Ward 7 and Ward 8 community,” the announcement says. “Located at 1201 Sycamore Drive SE – just steps away from the Congress Heights Metro – the new space is designed to be a welcoming and safe space for folks in community to get dental care, mental health care, see a doctor, get tested, participate in research, and visit a pharmacy and much more,” according to the announcement. “Whitman-Walker envisions a society where all people are seen for who they are, treated with dignity and respect, and afforded equal opportunity to health and wellbeing,” the announcement concludes.
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