FREE FUN READY TO FLOW IN NOHO.Live performances ranging from fire-eating to belly dancing will be featured throughout the fifth annual NoHo Theater and Arts Festival An arts festival or art fair is a festival that focuses on the visual arts, but which may also focus on other arts. Arts festivals in the visual arts are exhibitions. this weekend. And it's all free. The festival, which will begin at 11 a.m. today and conclude Sunday evening, provides a showcase for the many actors, artisans and musicians who live in and around the North Hollywood and Universal City areas. The sidewalks will be like an open market on Lankershim Boulevard, between Magnolia and Weddington streets, during the festival. The Universal City-North Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and Valley Theatre League co-produce the annual event. Festival officials say partnerships with the city's Cultural Affairs Department and the Community Redevelopment Agency have ensured that the festival has remained free to the public. Sponsors of the festival this year include the Daily News and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. There will be ample free parking. All shows will take place on one of three stages on Lankershim Boulevard between Magnolia and Chandler boulevards. Festival hours will be 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday. Main Stage Today 11 a.m. - Rainbow Gospel Choir 11:45 - Country Knight Cloggers 12:30 p.m. - Children's Bell Choir 1:15 - The Martin Dancers 2:15 - JPJ JPJ John Paul Jones (Navy slang) JPJ Jabatan Pengankutan Jalan (Ministry of Transport, Malaysia) Jazz Band 3:15 - Festival Ceremony 4:30 - Maqam (Turkish belly dancers) 5:30 - TGM TGM Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (first president of the Republic of Czechoslovakia) TGM The Games Machine (Italianvideogame review site) TGM Total Gaseous Mercury TGM Transglutaminase TGM Trunk Group Multiplexer Band 6:30 - Community Players (musical performance of ``Jesus Christ Jesus Christ: see Jesus. Jesus Christ 40 days after Resurrection, ascended into heaven. [N.T.: Acts 1:1–11] See : Ascension Jesus Christ kind to the poor, forgiving to the sinful. [N.T. Superstar'') Sunday Noon - Art of the Dance Academy 1:30 - Joe Tremaine Dance Co. 2:15 - North Hollywood Baptist Church Choir 3 - Spanish Kitchen (rock) 3:45 - Slush slush n. 1. Partially melted snow or ice. 2. Soft mud; slop; mire. 3. Nautical Grease or fat discarded from a ship's galley. 4. A greasy compound used as a lubricant for machinery. (rock) 4:45 - Darcy's Kitchen (rock) 5:45 - Kanary 6:30 - 818 (pop) 7:30 - Home Grown (bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species. ) Stage Two Today 11 a.m. - RNR RNR Rock 'N Roll RNR Royal Naval Reserve RNR Ribonucleotide Reductase RNR Receive Not Ready (ITU-T; ISDN) RNR Research News Reporter RNR Rest and Relaxation RNR Registry of Nursing Research RNR Rest and Recreation Puppets Noon - South Andes (traditional acoustic) 1 p.m. - Ann Drexler (jazz) 2 - Lorin Salm (mime) 2:30 - Holly Dexter (acoustic) 3:30 - David Lowell (escape artist) 4 - Tracy Thielen (novelty songs from Dr. Demento days) 5 - Michael Starr (vocalist) 6 - Matilda Haywood (blues) 7:30 - Stephanie Stephenson (singer/guitarist) Sunday Noon - RNR Puppets 12:30 p.m. - Rebecca M (singer/guitarist) 1:30 - Ann Drexler (jazz) 2:30 - South Andes (traditional acoustic) 3:30 - Saar (vocalist) 4:30 - Holly Dexter (acoustic) 5:30 - Matilda Haywood (blues) 6:30 - Chuck E. Weiss & the Goddamn god·damn also God·damn interj. Used to express extreme displeasure, anger, or surprise. n. Damn. tr. & intr.v. god·damned, god·damn·ing, god·damns To damn. adj. Liars (rock) Stage Three Today 11 a.m. - Pyrophilia (fire-eating illusionists, jugglers) 11:45 - Brian Leader (singer) 12:45 p.m. - RNR Puppets 1:15 - Lorin Salm (mime) 1:45 - Rebecca M (singer/guitar) 2:45 - David Couzens (juggler juggler Entertainer who keeps several plates, knives, balls, or other objects in the air at once by tossing and catching them. The art of juggling has been practiced since antiquity. , unicyclist) 3:30 - Debra DeLiso (dancer) 4 - Peruvian (cultural music) 5 - Lorin Salm (mime) 5:30 - Shaunnevy Steevans (sword swallower) 6 - Debra DeLiso (dancer) 6:30 - Pyrophilia (fire-eating illusionists, jugglers) Sunday Noon - Caballero cab·al·le·ro n. pl. cab·al·le·ros 1. A Spanish gentleman; a cavalier. 2. A man who is skilled in riding and managing horses; a horseman. Dance Studio 12:45 p.m. - Debra DeLiso (dancer) 1:15 - RNR Puppets 1:45 - Bella the Clown 2:30 - Pyrophilia (fire-eating illusionists, jugglers) 3:15 - Debra DeLiso (dancer) 4 - Peruvian (cultural music) 5 - Lorin Salm (mime) 5:30 - David Lowell (escape artist) 6 - David Couzens (juggler, unicyclist) 6:45 - Pyrophilia (fire-eating illusionists, jugglers) For more information, call (818) 508-5155. |
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