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Atlanta also hosts one of the largest free jazz festivals in the country, the Atlanta Jazz Festival. [6] In 2017, the Atlanta Jazz Festival will celebrate its 40th year and include 40 Days of Jazz leading up to the Memorial Day weekend event that takes place in Piedmont Park.
The SweetWater 420 Fest is an annual event presented by SweetWater Brewing Company in Atlanta, Georgia held on a weekend closest to Earth Day. In 2014, the festival announced it would be celebrating its 10th anniversary at its new home in Centennial Olympic Park. [2]
The event drastically increased in size and popularity in the 1990s, incorporating dance contests, concerts, parties, a basketball tournament, rap sessions, a film festival and a job fair. [2] The Atlanta magazine called it Atlanta's most infamous street party. [3] As the event grew to over 250,000 people, the problems worsened.
Screen on the Green is an annual summertime event held in Atlanta's Piedmont Park. Initially sponsored by Turner Classic Movies, the event has been hosted in recent years by the local Atlanta television station Peachtree TV. Screen on the Green consists of free movies shown on a large screen outdoors.
Centennial Olympic Park is a 22-acre (89,000 m 2) public park located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, owned and operated by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority. It was built by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) as part of the infrastructure improvements for the 1996 Summer Olympics.
The open space was created as a result of City of Atlanta Urban Renewal in the 1960s. The Atlanta community comes to this park for casual use and coordinated events such as free movie nights that occur on certain days in the spring time and weekly during the summer season. [2] Food festivals and work out classes are also hosted at Central Park.