TRAVEL BEAT : POPPY PARTY.Byline: Susanne Hopkins The city of Lancaster The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. Its main town is Lancaster, from which it obtained its city status. Other towns in the district include Morecambe, Heysham, Slyne, and Carnforth. will celebrate California's state flower with its annual Poppy Festival from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at Lancaster City Park, 43011 N. 10th St. West. Arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. and fine-arts booths will be featured, along with a variety of musical entertainment, food booths, a flower market, environmental displays and gardening lectures. Carnival areas and a children's crafts corner will be included as well. Cost is $4 for adults, $2 for seniors 62 and up and children ages 6 to 11. Children under 5 are admitted free. Free shuttle buses to the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve The Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve is a California wildlife reserve located in the rural westside of the Antelope Valley in northern Los Angeles County. Constitutionally, it is a state park. Its namesake is the state flower, the California Poppy. are available with paid admission (if the poppies are blooming). For information, call (805) 723-6077. Art of Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. You can mix a lot of art with a jaunt to Santa Barbara today through Sunday when the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum holds its annual ``Art About Town'' celebration. Opening receptions will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight at galleries throughout downtown Santa Barbara. Thirty artists' studios and 11 galleries will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, offering demonstrations in painting, sculpting sculpting Cosmetic surgery The surgical reshaping of a tissue. See Deep tissue sculpting, Facial sculpting. , printmaking printmaking Art form consisting of the production of images, usually on paper but occasionally on fabric, parchment, plastic, or other support, by various techniques of multiplication, under the direct supervision of or by the hand of the artist. and glass-blowing. Some studios will provide refreshments, others will offer musical performances and poetry readings. Self-guided tours begin at the Contemporary Arts Forum offices, second-floor Arts Terrace of the Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center, 653 Paseo Nuevo. Tickets, which include a map and discounts for shops and restaurants, are $10, $8 in advance. And from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, docents will conduct daylong bus tours featuring stops at a private art collection and various studios, topped off with a gourmet lunch. Cost is $75 per person, which also entitles participants to tonight's reception and the self-guided tour. Information: (805) 966-5373. Share a muddy moment Visitors can get down and dirty from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and again April 19 when Mission San Juan Capistrano
Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded on All Saints Day November 1, 1776 by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order. holds its third annual Rite of Spring Mud Slinging Festival. By hand or with a brush, participants will apply mud and straw to the mission's historic adobe buildings, which date to the 1700s. The mud seals the adobe bricks and protects them from further deterioration due to the elements. |
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