May 17-24, 2011: Star Wars, Airplane, Native Am, & Chalk Art Fests, Open Studios, Re-enactments, and Naked Girls Reading
Last weekend I made it out to Springfield for their pancake festival, parade, and fireworks. It wasn’t the hugest festival ever, but a good excuse to check out a new city. Try it! Make this weekend an excuse to go to some out of the way tiny New England location and see what the locals are cooking up. I hope you are having an awesome week. Now get out there and do something fun!
-Johnny
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This week’s top items are below, or see the complete Boston Events Insider.
| Sat 5/21WorcesterStar Wars Day at the Higgins Armory |
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| Here’s a great way to start the week. My favorite museum in Worcester is the Higgins Armory, where they have all manner of medeival suits of armor and weapons. But this week, they add Star Wars re-enactors, and you can meet costumed “stormtroopers” from Star Wars and learn about ancient knights. 100 Barber Ave, Worcester, MA.508-853-6015. see details on the complete Events Insider more |
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| Sat 5/21Southeast MassGeneral Aviation Fun Day |
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| Slightly more grounded, it’s helicopters! And airplanes! And trains! And they’re free! 10 AM- 4 PM. New Bedford Regional Airport, New Bedford, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Sun 5/22Metro WestWonderful Wellesley Annual Veterans Parade |
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| It’s not memorial day yet, but I couldn’t resist putting this veteran’s parade up top. After the 1pm parade, they have fireworks at dusk! Washington Street, Wellesley, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Fri 5/20 – Sun 5/22Metro WestStow SpringFest Celebration |
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| Festivals come and go, but how many have a silent movie with live music, a lego contest, hayrides, a Revolutionary War re-enactment, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show? Wow! Now that’s creative. Center School, Stow, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Sat 5/21 – Sun 5/22Boston MetroNative American Cultural Awareness (NACA) 1st Annual Spring Powwow |
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| And here’s one of only a very few Native American events that you can get to by subway each year. In addition to the opportunity to learn about Native culture, pow wows offer great traditional music, dancing, vendors, and food. There’s always fun stuff for kids, too. 10 AM – 5 PM at the National Guard Armory. 70 Victory Rd., Dorchester, MA.617-364-3718. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Sat 5/21Boston MetroWBOS Earthfest |
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| Although this is is not exactly obscure — it is well advertised everywhere — this belated Earth Day festival is always fun. WBOS sponsors this free concert outdoors on the Esplanade (one stage for mainstream rock bands, one stage for kids music) with lots of exhibitors and cool stuff to do. This year’s lineup features OK Go, Sponge, Atomic Tom, and Ed Kowalczyk. 10 AM- 1 PM. Hatch Shell, Esplanade, Boston, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider more |
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| Sat 5/21Boston MetroSomerville Porch Fest |
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| This is a cool grassroots project where all kinds of Somerville musicians will give free performances all day on their front porches. Check the website for a map of locations. A Somervillian porch near you, Somerville, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
And a lot more this week at Boston Events Insider, the most popular events blog in New England, including:
Cambridge Open Studios – North/West, Lexington Open Studios, East Boston Open Studios, NERO Roleplaying Weekend, Full Moon Canoe Trip, Acton Minute Man Day, The Battle for Needham, Naked Girls Reading: Fang Fiction, Mayor Menino’s Bike Fesitval, Northeast Geocache Bash, Observatory Night at Harvard, Spring Observatory Open House, Patio opening day at Noir, Charles Sumner & Civil Rights, Artist’s Plein Air Day, MSCPA Equestrian Trail Ride and Fundraiser, Winchester En Ka Fair, A Taste of Blacksmithing, Woburn Spring Carnival, My Perestroika, a THANG: Music and Dance at The Nave Gallery, The Segway Experience, Boats, Birds, and BBQ, Pittsfield 3rd Thursdays Downtown – Opening Weekend, Motif #1 Days, Play-Jurisms! a weekend of creativity! copyright! ethics! appropriation!, Bluegrass On The Bogs, Hoppin’ Mad Mud Run, Annual Beacon Hill Hidden Gardens Tour, Arts at the Armory’s Spring Fever Market, Downtown Crossing Art Fridays, Culinary Historians of Boston Banquet, Nantucket Wine Festival, Hammonasset Kite Festival, Hotel Cassiopeia, Boston Handbell Festival, Popular Music of the Gaslight Era, Wayfaring Strange: An Offbeat Song-Swap at the Armory, Boston Typewriter Orchestra, The Vagina Monologues, Opera Project Light and Power, Brookline Puppet Slam, Boston Theater Marathon XIII
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