Events

To celebrate Nurses Week Penn Medicine hosts an annual health fair where health care workers, community partners and volunteers engage with local residents to share resources and raise awareness on important health topics. Featured this year will be: hands on CPR training, Narcan overdose reversal training, cooking demonstrations, health screenings, Vetri Mobile Teaching Kitchen, prizes, and more. Hall Mercer and Penn Presby will be providing Behavioral Health screenings

ConsentFest is an outdoors, all-ages celebration of consent and bodily autonomy in all its forms! The event invites people to imagine a world where consent is a priority. Activities include: •Wedge Recovery Centers will be doing Behavioral Health Screenings •Face painting •Animals to pet (with consent!) •Vendors selling merchandise from earrings to children’s books, body oils to greeting cards •Live music •Consent-based bodywork/massage •Lil Pop Shop popsicles! •Drag queen Storytime •Community organizers sharing how their various campaigns are part of building consent culture •Lots of organizations committed to consent education [...]