The Ketchikan Area Arts
& Humanities Council’s
35th Annual
Blueberry
Arts Festival
First Saturday in August
- August 7, 2010, 10 AM to 5PM
Main Street - Ketchikan,
Alaska
Thousands of Ketchikan residents and
visitors celebrate the blueberry in style with the annual Blueberry Arts
Festival. The summer staple offers over
100 booths featuring local art and handcrafted treasures. The Festival makes a fast start with the Fun
Run followed by
cheering on your favorite
slug during the Slug Races. Family fun
continues with food and game booths, a blueberry pie-eating contest, the Battle of the Bands,
trivia contest and the Great Blueberry Race.
The Pet & Doll Parade kicks off the festivities on Friday, August 6,
followed by the opening reception for the Blueberry Juried Art Show. Complete the evening with the 13
annual Gigglefeet Dance Festival! The
Festival finishes Sunday, August 8 with the annual Richard
Brautigan and Dick Whitaker Memorial Trout Fishing in America Poetry Slam.
2010 Sponsor: Conoco-Phillips, Royal Carribean Cruise Lines
Step right up! Step right up!!! Meet Mike the Handsome, Dashing Dave, Lovely Little Lolo, and the evil Baron Vegan von Hamburger: the Handsome Little Devils! The Squirm Burpee Circus is classic Vaudeville comedy with incredible high-skill circus acts and a plot rooted in American Melodrama. It is a masterful creation with gorgeous hand-crafted props and costumes, death-defying stunts, trick juggling swing dancing, quick wit and hilarity. A one-of-a-kind cast of gifted performers, incredible jugglers, playwrights, improvisational Burpee Circus is unlike anything you've ever seen!
Click HERE for the Handsome Little Devils Website.
