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Brouhaha - a festival of fun.


LIVERPOOL'S International Festival of Street Theatre was founded during the 1980s to foster pan-European cultural links in the wake of the collapse of Cummunism.

Its original name was Brouhaha, meaning a commotion of activity.

Most memorable was the sight of young people from the former East Berlin who brought tiny pieces of the old Berlin Wall wrapped wrap  
v. wrapped or wrapt , wrap·ping, wraps

v.tr.
1. To arrange or fold (something) about as cover or protection: She wrapped her fur coat closely about herself.
 in newspaper, as gifts for their Liverpool Liverpool, city (1991 pop. 448,300), NW England, on the Mersey River near its mouth. It is one of Britain's largest cities. A large center for food processing (especially flour and sugar), Liverpool has a variety of industries, including the manufacture of electrical  friends.

Since then, the festival has also had participants from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Cuba Cuba (ky`bə, Span. k`bä), officially Republic of Cuba, republic (2005 est. pop.  and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. .

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EASY RIDER: Trick cyclist Danny Zappareli at last year's festival
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Publication:Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Date:Mar 11, 2002
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