Join us this weekend for some WELLderness fun in the gardens! Please use the link below to register: eventbrite.com/o/friends-of-k…

Join us for the 2025 Lotus & Water Lily Festival at the #KenilworthAquaticGardens Friday, July 18- Sunday, July 20! Please use this link to view the full schedule: kenaqgardens.org/events/lotus-w…

What’s Blooming: Lotus & Water Lily Festival, Friends in the News, Board Recruitment, and Grants Awarded 🪷 Read more here: mailchi.mp/fokag/whats-bl… 📰

Congratulations to our monthly photo contest winner: Chenggang Yu! This beautiful photo of our sacred lotus blossoms unfurling is a taste of what you will see on full display at the festival this weekend! #linkinbio to submit your photos for next month 📸

We love the Hill but we also love taking short trips! Just two stops from Stadium-Armory, #kenilworthaquaticgardens is an oasis of calm and beauty and their festival is coming up. More info in the video. Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens

Our Executive Director, Sheena Foster, was interviewed by WUSA9 about the Lotus & Water Lily Festival this weekend (7/18-7/20) at #KenilworthAquaticGardens, use this link to check it out! 🪷wusa9.com/video/tech/sci…

Major fist bump to the hard working crews at the DC Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens NationalParkService! They never fail to come through the grounds are always so serene thereby allowing those of us Zen/meditating types to just chill and appreciate the atmosphere. #MentalHealth

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens will be closed on Tuesday, 7/22, due to emergency maintenance work. Thank you to everyone who joined us at the festival this weekend! Stay tuned for a recap later this week. 🪷

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens will reopen on Wednesday 7/23. Please note, the main parking lot is still closed, so visitors will enter through the side meadow gate entrance. The park remains accessible via the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail.🪷

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Regarding our last post, the main parking lot at #KenilworthAquaticGardens will be closed for the next 30 days or more. Visitors should enter the park on Douglass St & Anacostia Ave at the green ranger tent. Street parking only available. See photos below:

Commissioner Travis R. Swanson, 7B03 Capital Bikeshare There 's already a proposed location in the works! Please use this link to share your support for a docking station at the gardens: survey123.arcgis.com/share/2df22dc5…

EARLY CLOSURES: #KenilworthAquaticGardens will be closing early due to emergency maintenance on the following days: 7/25- 4p 7/26- 2p* * Please note, our monthly volunteer event has been cancelled. Please register for our August 23rd event 7/27- 2p Please plan accordingly!🪷

Thank you to those who joined us at the Lotus & Water Lily Festival! We're proud to reflect on a successful community gathering. Please consider a making a donation to support more programming at #KenilworthAquaticGardens. secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/… Photo credit: Christian Lynch

Join us for WELLderness at #KenilworthAquaticGardens this weekend! Register here:eventbrite.com/organizations/… ‼️The parking lot and main entrance are currently closed, street parking only. Enter the park by the green NPS tent at the intersection of Anacostia Ave & Douglas St.🪷

We're inviting new instructors to teach programs at #KenilworthAquaticGardens. Keep a look out next week for new Come Alive After 5 events to be posted on our Eventbrite (link in bio). All of them will be slotted for 5pm or later. Come join us to decompress after work!

We are excited to announce that we have received a 2025 HumanitiesDC Continuing Oral History Projects - DCOHC Grant! Our project aims to document the oral history of youth storytellers in the Kenilworth community. Thank you #HumanitiesDC! Cover photo credit: Tim Ervin

Please join us at #KenilworthAquaticGardens this week for sound-inspired painting, sunset yoga, and/or collective narrative journaling as part of our Come Alive After 5 series. All of these events are FREE. Register here: eventbrite.com/o/friends-of-k…

We have more events this week for our Come Alive After 5 series at #KenilworthAquaticGardens. Please join us for hand healing, yoga, and/or mindfulness walks with amazing instructors. These events are FREE but please register on our Eventbrite, here: eventbrite.com/o/friends-of-k… ☀️

Congratulations to our July Photo Contest Winner, Liana Dinh! This photo captures the late-summer stage of the sacred lotus life cycle: the flowers losing their petals. Be sure to plan your visit to #KenilworthAquaticGardens soon!

What’s Blooming: Festival Recap, Upcoming Programs, and Enjoy the Extended Hours While You Can! 🪷 - mailchi.mp/fokag/whats-bl…