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Wake Up The Earth Festival and Parade Postponed to May 13

Update: Jamaica Plain’s 39th Annual Wake Up the Earth Parade and Festival, originally scheduled for May 6, will instead take place Saturday, May 13.

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Let’s Wake Up the Earth! The 39th annual festival and parade, which features live music, games, kids activities, theater performances, delicious food, local nonprofit organizations and a whole lot more, is now set for this Saturday, May 13.

JP’s North American Indian Center Exhibit Telling Untold Native Women’s Stories & Leading Wake Up the Earth

The North American Indian Center of Boston has been in Jamaica Plain for 50 years as a resource of Native Americans in the greater Boston area. This week the organization is participating in two big events on Saturday: an exhibition to tell untold native women’s stories, and the organization will be leading the Wake Up the Earth Parade and opening ceremony of Wake up the Earth.

Discuss: What is Your Favorite Thing About Jamaica Plain?

Jose Godoy, left, and Sana Hashnani enjoy the U-shaped bench at Jamaica Pond on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015.
File photo: Jose Godoy, left, and Sana Hashnani enjoy the U-shaped bench at Jamaica Pond on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015.

There are so many great things about Jamaica Plain — the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Pond, the people, the businesses — so many things you can’t put them all in an opening sentence.

And at one of Jamaica Plain’s best events, the Wake Up the Earth Festival, Jamaica Plain News asked people to submit what their favorite thing is about Jamaica Plain.