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Imagination Bethesda 2013

A Children’s Street Festival in Bethesda, Maryland

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Imagination Bethesda 2013

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© Bethesda Urban Partnership
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 a FREE event produced by the Bethesda Urban Partnership and is sponsored by MIX 107.3 FM, DC50 (WDCW-TV), The Gazette, Washington Parent and Bethesda Magazine.

Date & Time:

Saturday, June 1, 2013
11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Location:

Along Woodmont Avenue and Elm Street in downtown Bethesda.

Participants Hosting Children’s Activities

  • Adventure Theatre MTC – Decorate a “dollipop”
  • American Plant – Plant a flower pot
  • Artworks Fine Art Studio – Pastel drawing
  • Be With Me Playseum – Paint a ceramic tile magnet
  • Beanstalk Montessori – Montessori activities
  • Bethesda Green – Make a necklace with recycled paper & play an environmental trivia game
  • Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts & Culture – Make-your-own carousel
  • Gymboree Play & Music – Movement to music, art project, bubbles
  • Huntington Learning Center – Origami (paper folding)
  • Imagination Stage – Create pirate or Peter Pan paper hats
  • Iran Cultural and Educational Center – Make-your-own bookmark, face painting
  • Joy of Motion Dance Center – Make recycled paper chains and lanterns
  • Kidville – Decorate-your-own foam frame
  • Language Fundamentals – Spanish story time and sing-along, make maracas
  • Language Stars – Foreign language storytelling and coloring sheets
  • Plaza Artist Materials – Decorate-your-own picture mat
  • Round House Theatre – Create-your-own Imagination passport
  • Strathmore – Create a sculpture
  • Washington Conservatory of Music – Play with musical instruments

Performance Schedule

11am - The Funny Guy
12pm - Kidville’s Rockin’ Railroad
1pm - Silly Bus
2pm - The Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance
2:45pm - Dansez! Dansez!
3pm - The Diggity Dudes

For more information, visit www.bethesda.org.

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