BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard The Bite of Downtown makes its debut today A new food festival, the Bite of Downtown, debuts today at 5 p.m. Booths from more than a dozen downtown restaurants will offer small plates, priced from $2 to $5. Also, look for such activities as sidewalk chalk
Some of the restaurants will donate proceeds to FOOD for Lane County, a news release says. Maps with the list of participating restaurants will be available at each restaurant and at an information table in the Broadway Plaza Broadway Plaza is the name of various places:
More information is at www.downtowneugene.com. Vaudeville performers offer a circus for adults Circus Contraption Circus Contraption (founded in 1998) is the name of a one-ring circus, vaudeville and dark cabaret troupe based in Seattle, Washington. The troupe, which employs about a dozen performers, uses live, original music paired with old-style circus performances, heavily influenced by is an adult-oriented variety cabaret act - with the emphasis on "adult." "Designed to stimulate all aspects of the human organism, Circus Contraption mixes traditional circus skills Circus skills are a group of pursuits that were traditionally used as a form of entertainment in circus, sideshow, busking or variety/vaudeville/music hall shows. While most circus skills are still being performed today, many are practiced by non-performers as a hobby. such as trapeze and aerial dance, acrobatics acrobatics Art of jumping, tumbling, and balancing. The art is of ancient origin; acrobats performed leaps, somersaults, and vaults at Egyptian and Greek events. Acrobatic feats were featured in the commedia dell'arte theatre in Europe and in jingxi (“Peking , juggling and clowning with elements of cabaret, vaudeville and physical comedy," a news bio says. A Sunday show is at the WOW Hall, 291 W. Eighth Ave, starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Lowell rolls out the 13th Blackberry Jam Festival LOWELL - The 13th annual Blackberry Jam Festival starts today and runs through Sunday at Rolling Rock Park. The free event features live music, children's activities and lots of blackberries. This year's festival highlight is a water sports water sports Urophilia, see there exhibition featuring wakeboarding Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water behind a boat. It was developed from a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques. , water-skiing and surfing. There also will be a quilt show, art show, $10,000 fishing derby, 3-on-3 basketball tournament, greased pole climb, car bash, food, parade, crafts and a pie eating contest. Today's schedule of events starts at 5 p.m. On Saturday and Sunday, the festival gets under way at 10 a.m. - The Register-Guard |
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