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Browse the Near Southside Guide
Check out this comprehensive listing of the Near Southside’s many restaurants and retail destinations! The Near Southside Guide has all of the information you need to enjoy and explore the neighborhood. From nightlife to brewery tours, bed and breakfasts to bars and pubs, we’ve packaged our best locally owned and operated businesses for your convenience. Click the cover graphic on the left to browse the guide.
Open Streets: Sunday, April 28th, 12-4pm
Presented by Fort Worth South, Inc., with generous sponsorship from Dunaway Associates, Buyers Barricades, Tarleton State University, Luke’s Locker, and The T.
Download the activity map showing over 50 fun things to do on W. Magnolia Avenue between 8th Ave. and Hemphill.
Enjoy an afternoon of car-free W. Magnolia in the exciting Near Southside, with the roadway opened up to bikes of all types, skateboarders, food trucks, roller derby, yoga classes, art activities, face painting, live music, and much more. Experiencing Open Streets on a bike makes it easy to see and experience everything, and Fort Worth Bike Sharing system will provide bikes at three stations for those that can’t bring their own. This is the biggest Open Streets yet, so don’t miss it!
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Open Streets: Sunday, October 28th, 12-4pm
Presented by Fort Worth South, Inc., with generous sponsorship from Buyers Barricades, Dunaway Associates, FitWorth, Tarleton State University, and The T.
Enjoy an afternoon of car-free streets in the exciting Near Southside, with roadways opened up to bikes of all types, skateboarders, food trucks, yoga classes, art activities, face painting, live music, and much more. The route will include W. Magnolia Ave. from 8th Ave. to 5th Ave., then down 5th Ave. through Fairmount to Allen. As this FortWorthology video and Channel 11 news story show, Open Streets is always a great time for all ages!
Special thanks to the City of Fort Worth, Steer FW, Cowtown Marathon, Creative Magma, Think Handy, and the tireless and loyal volunteers from Fort Worth South, Inc. and the Fairmount Neighborhood Association.
Activities: Bike slalom, basketball, skate park, obstacle course, face painting, chalk art, dog adoption
and more!
Food: Stir Crazy Baked Goods, Salsa Limon, Gepetto’s Pizza, Sassy Hot Dogs, Happy Tomato Salsa, Holy Frijole, and all of your favorite Magnolia Ave. restaurants!
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Oct 13th ArtsGoggle Program Available!
How to make the most out of your ArtsGoggle evening? Our fall ArtsGoggle program is available to help you make a plan. ArtsGoggle is Saturday, October 13th, 4-10pm, with over 70 venues, hundreds of artists, and dozens of musicians and amazing bands scattered across the Near Southside. Our program lays it all out for you with detailed listings of venues, artists and bands.
Don’t miss the block parties along newly reconstructed Park Place Avenue and along Daggett Street in South Main Village. Magnolia Avenue will be full of activity as always, with dozens of venues, including some new additions that you won’t want to miss. It will be convenient and safe to get around without driving, with shuttle service provided by The T running 5-10pm. And if you want to raise the fun a notch, take advantage of the Near Southside’s bike route network and enjoy an easy ride with friends while rolling from venue to venue.
Download the program in pdf format (set up for double-sided printing), or pick up a copy at one of the ArtsGoggle venues the evening of the event. Thanks to Stephanie Buchanan for her assistance in putting the program together!
May 18th Spring ArtsGoggle Program Available
The program is now available for FWSI’s 2013 Spring ArtsGoggle, set for Saturday, May 18, 4-10 pm. We’re proud to have 69 participating venues for the Near Southside’s grassroots gallery crawl, as well as over 150 artists and dozens of bands and musicians. You’ll be able see everything if you get started early, and make sure to visit the various clusters of venues and music scattered across the district and easily accessible via Molly the Trolley and Fort Worth Bike Sharing. Magnolia Ave, Park Place Village, Jennings, and South Main Village once again feature a wide range of art, music, and food, and the new group of venues around the 8th Ave/Pennsylvania intersection promises to be a popular stop as well.
Download program in pdf format (set up for double-sided printing), or pick up a copy at one of the ArtsGoggle venues the evening of the event. Thanks to Stephanie Buchanan for her assistance in putting the program together!
FWSI Launches All New Website
Fort Worth South, Inc.(FWSI) welcomes you to our freshly rebuilt and relaunched website. We’ve worked with the excellent web design team at Creative Magma, Inc. to fully update our site and make it easier and more enjoyable to find all the information you need about Fort Worth’s Near Southside and FWSI.
The website has two goals: 1) Provide an overview of the Near Southside with detailed information about the district’s destinations, events, and future attractions; and 2) Provide information about Fort Worth South, Inc. — the non-profit working to revitalize the district — and the FWSI members that make all of our work possible.
Pop Up Parks!
We love our membership businesses in the area for all the do! Sometimes they get a little creative in their free time. Everybody needs a little bit of fun though right? In this latest act of creativity, one of our local advertising agencies, Creative Magma, took over a parking spot in front of their office and built a little beach. The weather that week was nothing short of blistering hot and soaking up the rays sounds just about spot on!
Click to see pictures and read more! (more…)
Register Now For Fall ArtsGoggle!
Saturday, October 13th 4:00-10:00 pm, interested in participating in the next ArtsGoggle? Here you can register as an artist, band or venue online.
ArtsGoggle is a grassroots gallery crawl held twice a year since 2004. Around 60 Near Southside businesses are transformed into art galleries for a Saturday evening each spring and fall, hosting artists and musicians from the neighborhood and throughout the region. The event has steadily grown in popularity and draws thousands of visitors each year. (more…)