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One World Day

Cleveland, OH · Festival

When

August 29, 2027

Where

Cleveland Cultural Gardens, Rockefeller Park · Cleveland · OH

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

A one day festival of the nationality gardens strung along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and East Boulevard in Rockefeller Park, put on every summer since the 1940s by the Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation. The day opens with a naturalization ceremony for new citizens, then a Parade of Flags sets off at noon, and each garden's community serves its own food, music and dance through the afternoon. It is free, runs 11am to 6pm and draws about 35,000 people. It falls on the last Sunday of August; the 2027 date has not been announced yet.

The history within reach

• The Cleveland Cultural Gardens, 35 nations in one parksame spot

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• Glenville, a village annexed and then remade twice0.6 mi

  Glenville was founded as an independent village in 1870 and included the lakefront that broke away as Bratenahl before Cleveland annexed the rest in 1904.

• The Ansel Road apartment buildings, what Hough looked like before0.7 mi

  Eight apartment buildings put up between 1900 and 1949 survive together on this stretch of Ansel Road in Hough, a neighbourhood that lost most of its building stock after 1966.

• Weights in fish1.2 mi

  Gordon Park sits on the Cleveland lakefront east of downtown, and the Lake Erie Walleye Trail brought its championship weigh in here on 30 September 2022.

• The Glenville shootout kills seven in four hours1.2 mi

  On the night of 23 July 1968 Cleveland police and a Black Power group called the Black Nationalists of New Libya exchanged fire here for roughly four hours.