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Turners Falls' Big Downtown Party
Saturday August 8, 2009
2pm-8pm on Avenue A

Parade, Food, Street Vendors, Music, Games, Fashion Show and more. This year featuring Rachel Teumim's FABRICATION, a recycled fashion show starting at 6 pm. Master of Ceremonies - our very own Patch resident - Monte Belmonte!

Read Arn Albertini's article in August 8th Recorder here!

If you have a table at the Block Party - Click here 

Music from:

  7 PM Watcher

5 PM  Naia Kete

4 PM Seven Mile Line

3 PM Houserhythm

 2 PM AfterGlo

Fabrication Fashion Show!

Listen to Fashion Show audio clip here.

Organized by designer Rachel Teumim (pictured at right in a dress she made entirely out of men's ties), Fabrication features works from local designers using only re-used materials from sweaters re-incarnate to decks of playing cards. Some designers are veterans of Turners Falls' laundromat fashion show, some are working to make their designs their business, while others are just flexing their creative biceps. Models will strut to the beat of catwalk tracks emceed by Jamie Berger. While items made from re-purposed household items may fall into the less wearable high couture category, others are intended for pedestrian use. Some fabulous one-of-a-kind garment will even be available for purchase! The show will start at 6 pm.

Party!

The Block Party will kick off with a parade at 2 pm, including a dog parade!  Show up with your dog and show him/her off! The parade will be followed by a full day of food, street vendors, kids activities, artists tables, community group tables, music all day long. The Brick House Community Resource Center will also be holding its Healthy Start back to school event at the party with free school supplies, dental screenings ID packs and maybe even a haircut! Southworth Paper Company will have a paper making set up. A special traveling van from the Mass. Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) will be parked at the party providing nature and conservation interpretive programs and contains a variety of environmental education material. Painted on the side of the van is a Massachusetts environmental mural and inside are interesting items including plastic casts of beaver and raptor skulls, animal puppets, rocks, games and other items that tell stories that can engage the public in nature and conservation. Come expecting classic street fare including hot dogs, hamburgers, hand cut fries, pizza, fried dough, snow cones and cotton candy as well as homemade ethnic foods, Panini, chili and more.
Call Lisa Davol 413-230-9910 for more info.

Get Involved!

Would you like to help make this year's party a success? We need help with:
• Making donation cans for businesses to put out 2 weeks before the party
• Helping with Kids Games
• Handing out and collecting RiverCulture surveys
• Manning the RiverCulture Table
• Making Parking signs and Bathroom signs and putting them up.
• Setting up stage in early morning
• General set up needs
• Clean up at the end of the day.
• Coordinating recycle bins with Franklin County Solid Waste. We have the bins reserved but they need to be picked up at the Energy Park in Greenfield, set up and returned. Also they need to be monitored and emptied.
• Trash monitoring - Ask Tom Bergeron if we can use the dumpster at DPW dept again this year. Block Party trash receptacles will need to be emptied when full.
• Coordinating needs of the musicians Green Room
• Block Party Rain Room Clean up party on Friday July 24th 5pm at Old VFW building on Avenue A
• Delivering Block Party Postcards

We are in need of some pop up tents for kids games and RiverCulture tables. Please let us know if you have some we could use for the day.

Please respond to volunteer here - TFMAvolunteer@gmail.com   or call Jen at 617-497-8701

For general questions, call Lisa Davol at 413-230-9910 or email her at riverculture@montague-ma.gov