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Imagination Bethesda

A Children’s Street Festival

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Imagination Bethesda is a children’s street festival celebrating children and the arts, including musical performances, dance troupes, roving entertainment and hands-on art & craft activities. The free event in downtown Bethesda features face painters, costume characters, balloonists, jugglers and more. Local businesses and educational organizations will host a variety of activities to entertain and energize the 12-and-under crowd.

Imagination Bethesda is produced by the Bethesda Urban Partnership and sponsored by Martens Volkswagen, MIX 107.3 FM, RCN, Washington’s WB, The Gazette and Washington Parent.

Date & Time:

Saturday, June 6, 2009
11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Location:

Along Woodmont Avenue and Elm Street in downtown Bethesda.

Participants Hosting Children’s Activities

Adventure Theatre, All Fired Up, Audubon Naturalist Society, Barnes & Noble, Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad, Bethesda Transportation Solutions, Bundles of Cookies, Color Me Mine, Huntington Learning Center, Imagination Stage, Iran Cultural and Educational Center, Kids Moving Company, Montgomery County 2nd District Police, MusiKids, NIH Friends of the Clinical Center, Round House Theatre, Strathmore, The Writer's Center, Wu Shen Tao Health and Martial Arts and Yoga Tales.

Performance Schedule

11 a.m. Dawn Crafton Dance Center
11:30 a.m. Motion Mania Dance Center
12 p.m. Imagination Stage
12:30 p.m. B-CC High School Theater Arts
1 p.m. The Funny guy
2 p.m. Joy of Motion Dance Center
2:30 p.m. Los Quetzales
3 p.m. Iran Cultural & Educational Center
3:30 p.m. Tappers with Attitude

For more information, visit www.bethesda.org.

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