The 41st annual Adams Morgan Day is coming to the neighborhood on September 8, and with it all the usual festivities, local vendors, and merriment along a closed stretch of 18th Street Northwest.

The street will be shut off to traffic between Columbia Road and California Street between noon and six p.m. that Saturday, per organizers. You can expect two stages set up just south of Columbia Road and at Marie Reed Plaza with musical acts hosted by Songbyrd Music House and Record Café, a bevy of interactive arts performances in an area dubbed the Artists’ Alley, a student arts-and-crafts sale run by the Marie Reed Elementary School PTA, and mobile exhibits highlighting the history of the neighborhood organized by the D.C. Public Library, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, and American University.

There will also be family-friendly activities like obstacle courses, Connect Four, and Jenga, and kid-friendly activities like soccer and flag football. The Adams Morgan Community Alliance is organizing the event.

Adams Morgan Day is the longest-running neighborhood festival in the city, threatened only once before in 2015 when financial problems and possible mismanagement of funds (there were tens of thousands of dollars worth of unpaid bills from the previous year’s festival) nearly canceled the whole event. That year, neighbors made do with a grassroots celebration, though they had to keep 18th Street NW open to traffic.