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HOW TO PLAN A FESTIVAL
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TEXAS > GULF COAST > FESTIVALS
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| 7/29-7/31/10 | Clute, TX |
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Activities include live national entertainment acts, a mosquito calling contest, 5K fun run, barbecue and fajita cookoffs, horseshoe and washer tournaments, a carnival, and a variety of both food and arts and crafts booths. Also featured are fun contests for youth and adults. |
| 8/6-8/8/10 | Houston, TX | Houston International Jazz Festival
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The festival events are held in three locations. The Red Cat Jazz Cafe hosts the opening reception, Discovery Green invites the whole family to outdoor concerts where they can enjoy hours of music, great foods and shop in the arts and crafts booths and the Worthham Theater Center is the site for the Kroger Mayor's Scholarship Jazz Brunch featuring Jazz Educations's Summer Jazz Workshop All-Stars. |
| 9/16-9/19/10 | Rockport, TX | 22nd Annual Hummer/Bird Celebration | Thousands of tiny hummingbirds migrate here to eat before they head south. Our event showcases 25 homes with many birds attending multiple feeders in beautiful garden habitats, with hummer/banding. Lectures by well-known speakers on hummers, other area birds, butterflies, and the habitat, are given at the high school auditorium. More than 75 vendors offering nature-related wares, and a plant sale, are featured in the high school commons area. Boat tours give birders and dolphin-watchers much to see. |
| 10/8-10/10/10 | Rockport, TX | 36th Annual Rockport Seafair | The 36th Annual Seafair is a sea-themed fun festival right on the water for the whole family. Watch hilarious crab races, dance to great live entertainment, and eat delicious seafood entrees. Your kids will love the water entertainment area where learning is made fun, and they can enjoy the full carnival of fun rides. Area and guest chefs conduct seafood demonstrations with sampling. Saturday's land parade is great fun in which to participate or just watch. The gumbo cookoff, arts & crafts show, and cardboard boat race are not to be missed in this three day event which has something for everyone. |
| 10/9 - 10/10/10 | Katy, TX | Katy Rice Harvest Festival | Celebrate Katy's agricultural heritage with arts and crafts, food, carnival, photo contest, rice cooking contest and continuous live entertainment on two stages. Musical acts include: Eder-Mace Band, DunVille, The Convertibles, The Trishas, The Silverado Band, Bayou Roux (w/parade), The Grateful Geezers, The Zydeco Dots, Scooter Brown Band, Micky & The Motorcars Sat: 10am-Mid; Sun: Noon-6pm |
| 11/4-11/7/10 | Rockport, TX | 4th Annual Rockport Film Festival | The Rockport Film Festival's mission is to celebrate independent cinema on the Coast. The festival provides a venue for independent filmmaking to be seen, heard, and discussed in one of America\'s top 10 coastal art colonies. A partnership between Rockport Center for the Arts and the Rockport Rotary Club, both cultural creativity and humanitarian collaboration are supported by the Rockport Film Festival. The RFF is not like all those big festivals with hectic schedules, multiple venues, sky-high admission and blocked-out hotel rates. The RFF offers an affordable retreat where art meets environment, where filmmakers and professionals can network and relax. |
| 11/19-11/20/10 | Galveston, TX |
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Features over 100 arts and crafts vendors, a silent auction, pet adoptions, used book sale, Libbie's Place Sweet Shoppe, a coffee & danish bar, luncheon selections available for purchase, and much more. Join the fun at Moody Memorial First United Methodist Church just two blocks from the Gulf. Festival proceeds support mission and outreach work in the Galveston area. Admission is free. Fri: noon-6pm; Sat: 9am-4pm |
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