The Arc Community Greenspace

04/06/2025

Our Summer 2025 Season is coming together! We're looking for mimes to help us with a few events. Know any mimes? Let us know!

02/19/2025

Please join us for this exciting event focused on enhancing Public Space!

Livable, Explorable, Loveable: Enhancing Meadville’s Public Spaces - What makes a good public space great? It's not just about design—it's about people, programs, and discoverability.
Join us for a free public presentation with Phil Myrick, a leading voice in placemaking, on Thursday, February 27 at 7 PM at the Meadville Unitarian Universalist Church. Learn how thoughtfully designed and programmed community spaces can strengthen connections and encourage discoverability in downtown.
If you’re interested in Meadville’s future, this event is for you!

Come curious, leave inspired.

02/14/2025

Did you know that The Greenspace was named a 2023 Great Place in Pennsylvania by the state chapter of the American Planning Association (APA-PA)? It's true! In announcing the award, the APA-PA noted that the site provides “a vibrant community gathering place that incorporates native landscaping, streetscape improvements, a performance stage, benches, colorful shade umbrellas, solar-powered umbrella tables that provide free Wi-Fi and evening lighting, and an Americans with Disabilities Act-accessible walkway. Unique to the design is that the painted walkway has the appearance of a stream to highlight historic Mill Run that runs underneath.”

See https://planningpa.org/news/2023-great-places/ to learn more.

Development of The Greenspace was undertaken as a collaboration between The Arc Crawford County, the City of Meadville, and the Art-Environment Initiative. Seasonal events are held in this open air venue for celebrating the arts, culture, wellness and community!

Support for The Greenspace came from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ (PCA) Creative Communities Initiative and the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Keystone program, with additional local support from The Arc Foundation, Marquette Savings Bank, the RDL Family Foundation, Porter Consulting Engineers, and Allegheny College, the city of Meadville, and more than 100 community participants.

To learn more about The Greenspace, and the role of Mill Run in Meadville’s history, please visit https://www.arcofcrawfordcounty.org/.

02/09/2025

02/06/2025

With The 10/20 Collective – The Greenspace just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉 Check them out! Wonderful organization!

02/06/2025

More info on Erie Arts and Culture Grant Awards Event last week!

02/06/2025

Last week we attended an Erie Arts and Culture event at 1020 Arts The 10/20 Collective. Connections with other artists were made and the The 10/20 Collective is amazing (great show there!). So proud of Meadville which received THREE Flex Fund Grants! One each for The Greenspace, Meadville Community Theatre and French Creek Community Theatre Meadville

01/30/2025

Interested in proposing an event?
Link to site use form is in the first comment!

01/23/2025

Hot off the Press! We've created a new page for The Arc Community Greenspace! Please like us/follow us and share with friends! We've been around since 2018 but have shared events and project information through The Arc's FB page and others. We are going independent this season and have lots of news to share! Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571989756179

An open air event space that celebrates art, culture, and wellness while fostering community inclusion.

01/23/2025

Calling interested local/regional performers! Interested? We'd love to hear from you! Details below.