Honk! Festival

October 9-11, 2009

Cambridge

We are doing the Honk! Festival again this fall, on October 9-11, at Davis Square and environs, and we are fully expecting it to be as exciting as it was last year. (For images of last year's festival, including the parade, see www.honkfest.org.)

Some exciting aspects planned for this year's Honk! Festival include:
Friday afternoon and evening honking by guest bands and local host bands, traveling by MBTA to East Cambridge, East Boston , Boston Common, and other communities in the metropolitan area.
Guest artists from Rome (Titubanda) and New Orleans (the Pinettes, an all-woman brass band).
A Sunday night concert with as many bands as possible, in the Somerville Theater on Davis Square .

AND...

The Honk! Parade: Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet, a giant processional performance that will take place Sunday, October 11 from noon to 2 p.m., starting at Davis Square in Somerville and ending at Harvard Square .

Can you and your organization join us this year? We would love to have your participation! It would be great if you could

1. Let me know if you and/or your group are interested and available to help.
2. Help us get the word out to others: because we need
a) individuals to help with banners, giant puppets, signs, marshalling, etc.; and
b) would welcome the participation of other community groups, clubs, gangs, schools, etc. who might like to create cheap and fantastic big moving street images with us.
3. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

We are planning to have an organizational and brainstorming meeting about the Honk Parade the first week in September, somewhere near Davis Square, so we can share ideas about how to develop our abilities in making fantastic, glamorous, joyous, thought-provoking, exciting, entertaining, artistically compelling, and socially and politically relevant parading art to complement the sounds of the 25+ brass bands from around the U.S. and world who will join us. I will let you know when and where this meeting is happening when we finalize the details.