Parks Stewardship Forum

This article looks at the origins of Compared to What, a non-profit arts program that was in operation during the 1970s in Washington, DC. It focuses on the organization’s collaboration with the National Park Service in several DC-area parks, among them the National Mall, Anacostia Park, and Rock Creek Park, and argues that such engagement prepared the founders of the organization to be a major player in the go-go promotion scene of the 1980s, notably in organizing the Go Go Live at the Capital Centre concert.