Another healthy sign of the connection between Austin and Oak Park is the first annual Food Aid Festival, which will take place later in July. The two-day music event will feature venues on either side of Austin Boulevard, support nonprofit organizations that lack food security in Oak Park, Proviso Township, and Austin, and showcase talents rooted in all of these communities.
As our Melissa Elsmo reports today, the festival will raise money to supply community refrigerators that already operate in our communities and benefit nonprofits including Beyond Hunger, A House in Austin, Austin Coming Together, Best of Proviso Township and Westchester Food Pantry.
On the first day, July 22, there will be a Friday night of music at the remarkable and refurbished Kehrein Center for the Arts, 5628 W. Washington Blvd. This place is a gem, ready to be discovered and enjoyed. On Saturday, July 23, Music Moves School of Rock Oak Park at 219 Lake St. in Oak Park.
Tickets are only $ 25 a day. Buy yours at foodaidfestival.com.
