The Brazoria County Association for Citizens with Handicaps(BACH) is hosting the 2011Fun Fest at the Alvin-Manvel KC HallSaturday (Aug. 6) from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The Fun Fest features numerous activities and games for kidssuch as carnival games, a petting zoo, pony rides, and facepainting. all children’s celebration activities are free and opento all children regardless of their ability or disability.
DECATUR – Decatur Celebration has continuously grown and evolvedthroughout its existence, but the 26th festival may very well beone that will be remembered down the line as a year of greatchange.
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Santiago de Cuba has just concluded its famous annual carnival. These now traditional fiesta in the east of the country — lasting over a period of nine days for twenty-four hours a day — kept people in the streets drinking beer, tasting Creole food, dancing to popular music groups and moving to the rhythms of street bands of drummers.
Half-built stadiums, transport problems and rising street violence are threatening World Cup, writes Sam Green in Rio de Janeiro
Saturday, 30 July 2011
It is unlikely that guests at the five-star Hotel Santa Teresa in Rio de Janeiro were thinking about the World Cup when masked gunmen burst into their rooms in the middle of the night and robbed them last week.
Campfire and S’Mores Nights Join educator Katie Fisk around the campfire & learn about nighttime insects. Briar Bush Nature Center, 1212 Edgehill rd., Abington; Registration required: 215- 887-6603. $10; $5 children. 7/27. 8-9:30 pm.
Collegeville Farmers’ Market Fresh produce, baked items, local wines, crafts & more. Downtown Collegeville, Main St.
COLTON – the annual celebration Colton Country Day will stage its frog-jumping contest Saturday, July 23, along with a large flea and craft market, an open house at the museum all day, a used book sale at the library, games for kids, a barbecue, and big band music, all in the downtown area around the museum and the Episcopal church.
SNYDER — Melissa Elam isn’t sure exactly how long Snyder’s Fourth of July celebration has been going on.
“Let’s put it this way: I’m older than 40, and I can remember coming to it as a child,” said Elam, executive director of the Snyder Chamber of Commerce.
Weather for Bearsden
Saturday 09 July 2011
Temperature: 12 C to 18 C
Temperature: 11 C to 18 C
Temperature: 11 C to 18 C
Wind direction: North west
Temperature: 10 C to 18 C
Wednesday 13 July 2011
Temperature: 11 C to 18 C
KCRiverfest | Saturday and Sunday
DRUMRIGHT — Call it the company picnic that got out of control.
Railroad Days Committee Chairman Dennis Clark declared the 34th edition of Railroad Days a success Sunday afternoon as the event drew to a close. Including many diverse events from a car show and on-track displays to a flea market, carnival and volleyball tournament, the festival brought together people from throughout the community and surrounding area for a two-and-a-half-day celebration of trains and Galesburg. Clark, a self-described gopher (as in “go for this, go for that”), said this year’s festivities went “great.” “of course, we were impacted by weather,” Clark said, speaking about Saturday afternoon’s rain, but he also pointed out that the weather was “beautiful” all day Sunday as well as Friday night and Saturday morning. “Sunday really filled out the weekend.” “Rain dampened the carnival yesterday … but people really came out today because of that,” Clark added. Clark was particularly taken with Sunday’s Showcase of Cars. “the car show is absolutely gorgeous,” he said, adding that he also thought the Galesburg Historical Society’s tram tour and the rail tours were quite well received. “the rail yard tours were full even during the rain.” the toy and model train show at Carl Sandburg College this weekend also was an enormous draw for Railroad Days. it is the largest such show in the Midwest, including similar shows in St. Louis and Chicago. likewise, the railroad museum saw greatly increased attendance this weekend. overall, Railroad Days seems to have grown this year from previous years, Clark said. for instance, the three point basketball shoot-out almost tripled its attendance this year with 54 participants. the support of BNSF railroad was greatly appreciated in this year’s Railroad Days. “We’re always happy to have a cordial and working relationship with BNSF,” Clark said, adding that organizers and the railroad are “always exploring ways to bring different pieces of equipment for display.” next year’s festival may dramatically increase in size as the city marks its 175th anniversary and Railroad Days its 35th year. Plans for next year’s festival include an anticipated excursion train to a destination like Yates City as well as increased vendor participation among other ideas. Clark was adamant about wanting as many different organizations involved as possible. “Railroad Day’s gained a volleyball tournament this weekend,” Clark said, speaking about the tournament sponsored by the United Way. “People and organizations can sponsor their own activities.” in particular, Clark is hoping to find a volunteer organization that could run free games for children between ages 3 and 6. the other area that Clark hopes to work on in the future is the physical organization of Railroad Days. the event is somewhat divided between the rail depot and museum in the east and the carnival and park in the west. Clark hopes to one day have a corridor of vendors joining the two halves.
The deployment of the Carnival Miracle on a year-round basis will bring welcomed growth to the country’s cruise sector in the short and long term, according to Director of Cruise Development in the Ministry of Tourism Carla Stuart.
The Palatine Jaycees are once again sponsoring one of the largest festivals in the area in the 54th annual July 4th celebration on June 30th through July 4th at the Community Park on Palatine Road and Northwest Highway.
PHILADELPHIA — The overnight celebration welcoming back the days of summer, Kimmel Center’s Citibank Summer Solstice Celebration, kicks off the season in high gear with musical entertainment and festivities beginning noon Saturday and running through 2 a.m. Sunday.The annual community celebration showcases Philly-based talent, rising stars and more for a 14-hour stretch of live entertainment in every corner of the center for $10 ($5 for children 12 and under).New this year, Solstice begins at an earlier time with noon-time drum circle, led by Shawn Hennessey and Philly-based percussion ensemble Leanna Song in the Commonwealth Plaza. Audiences are invited to BYOD (bring your own drum) and join in on the family fun activities, and then experience an eclectic mix of classical, blues, R&B, jazz, hip-hop, dance, Latin, world music rhythms and DJs spinning music into the night with additional late-night surprises.Center for Emerging Visual Artists will present a gallery of visual art available for purchase.The Summer Solstice Celebration also opens up an evening time slot on the coveted Commonwealth Plaza stage for the YouTube Summer Solstice Contest Winner to perform.Afternoon entertainment includes exhibits from the please Touch Museum and Philadelphia Zoo, and The Plants and Ernie & Neal, the Threeds Oboe Trio, the Kimmel Center Youth Jazz Ensemble and the Rennie Harris RHAW hip-hop performance entertain audiences of all ages.The evening heats up with SA VA Boutique Fashion Show; a first Person Arts story Slam; guitar virtuoso and recording artist Milos Karadaglic; singer-songwriter Phil Roy performing with Philly Chef Marc Vetri; Brazilian band Minas Troupe (with Delaware County roots) — bringing a 10-piece carnival to the celebration — and singer-songwriter Nicole Reynolds.Kicking off late-night revelry, audience favorite Bob & Barbara’s Drag Show will take center stage in the plaza, followed by DJ Ultra Violet and Ethel Cee, and Reef The Lost Cauze, featuring DJ Caliph-Now and DJ David Blakk.Perelman Theater will transform into a late-night dance party with Irish rockers Blackthorn (from Delaware County) and ArcheDream for Humankind and many more acts.
The point of Carnival—beyond getting drunk, getting it on, and letting yourself go one last time before Lent ushers in a season of repentance—is to bring everyone together. Sure, some of that coming together involves krewes throwing favors to the begging throngs, like the holdover from feudal times and earlier that Carnival is. But Carnival is primarily a community celebration and a moment when the usual barriers dividing people who ordinarily have nothing to do with one another break down, if only for a little while. Inhibitions and reservations get lowered, with masks and costumes finishing the job alcohol begins. while getting extra points for the difficulty of shooting at least some scenes in the midst of Mardi Gras—I’m just assuming some of those location moments couldn’t be faked—“Carnival Time” captures that spirit beautifully and lets the spirit carry over to the episode itself. “Carnival Time” is one of the best episodes the series has produced, in part because it feels so cohesive and so poignant in the way it lets its characters storylines rhyme against one another, mixing giddy moments with heartbreak and making it all feel like part of the same world, and part of a world bigger than the show itself.