Early Sunday morning, May 2, 2010, the streets of Carlsbadistan will close and the booths will pop-up throughout the Village in preparation for the bi-annual Carlsbad Street Faire. Need a new miracle mop? A salsa making machine? A blender or miniature surfboard with your name on it? Then the Carlsbad Street Fair is the place. Arrive early, park politely, and stay all day. Just be careful in the beer garden.
Click the links for Carlsbadistan coverage of past faires: November 2009, November 2008, November 2007. Wow, we’ve been around a while. Guess we’re almost three!
The Carlsbad Beach Fest’s main focus is to provide citizens and beach users with the opportunity to participate in a beach cleanup. To take part in the cleanup and earn a raffle ticket, please sign in at the California State Parks Welcome Station down on the sand at Tamarack/Frazee State Beach at Pine Avenue. The beach cleanup will take place from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m on Saturday, May 1st. Trash and recycling bags will be made available. Participants should bring gloves.
But that’s not all. There will be live music, entertainment and at 9 AM beach volleyball legend Karch Kiraly will host a free volleyball clinic. Throw in 15 artists, a food court, and magicians and it makes an amazing day at the beach in Carlsbadistan. For more information click the link below.
We’e been skipping out on the Thursdays On The Coast Art Walks lately and we’ve been missing out. Don’t follow our example this week. Get on the streets of Carlsbadistan from 5:30 – 8:30 PM Thursday April 29, 2010. It will be a good time.
While the most fun comes from actually running in the Carlsbad 5000 with the civilians, there is a deep, deep elite field in this Sunday’s 25th running of the “world’s fastest 5k.” Two-time Olympic medal winner Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya will lead the field to take down Sammy Kipketer’s 13:00 road 5k record set in Carlsbad in 2000.
“Nobody has come close to Sammy’s mark since 2001,” recalls running historian Toni Reavis, 20-year broadcaster of the race. “That record has taken on a Beamon-esque stature in the ensuing years, especially Sammy’s first miles in under 4:00!”
On Sunday, April 11, 2010 the Village of Carlsbadistan will be filled with the stomp and clomp of runners as The Carlsbad 5000 “world’s fastest 5k” returns. And while we don’t enjoy all the visitors as much as we should, having Coast Highway closed for most of a day is a wonderful thing.
Today, April 5, 2010 is the last day to save $5 on the $30 entry fee for the Junior Carlsbad running on April 10, 2010 in the Village of Carlsbadistan. The race is for runners (and crawlers) from 0 to 12 years old.
11 Races for Every Age Group and Fitness Level
FREE GIFT to First 500 registered
Finisher’s Medal Awarded to Every Runner!
Receive a FREE Race T-Shirt!
Family-Friendly Weekend Promotes Fitness Fun!
Awesome Awards for top 3 girl/boy finishers (ages 5-12)
The Wendy Wasserstein play features NVA Ensemble Member Kristianne Kurner with John DeCarlo, Kelly Iversen, Brian Mackey, Anthony Phifer, Frances Regal, Sunny Smith and Jacque Wilke, with musical accompaniment by Linda Libby.
Wendy Wasserstein’s groundbreaking play about identity, family, feminism and art follows Heidi Holland from insecure student at a high school dance in the 1960’s to successful art historian promoting female artists in the late 1980’s. Through Heidi’s travels, we are able to peek in on the changing roles of women in our society in the last half of the twentieth century and explore what defines success and how we go about searching for meaning in our lives.
Tonight is the last “pay-what-you-can preview” tonight (Friday April 2, 2010) at 8 PM. The play runs through April 25, 2010. Click here to buy tickets or call the New Village Arts Threatre box office at (760) 433-3245.
Wondering what you’re going to do to keep the busy all day on Easter weekend? The Carlsbad Parks & Rec department has that all figured out with the EGGStravaganza Spring Festival on Saturday, April 3, 10 AM to 1 PM at 6600 Hidden Valley Rd, Carlsbad.
Come celebrate the spring with music, fun games, arts and crafts and a Fun Zone with bounce houses, a giant slide, obstacle courses and a chance to “soak the bunny.” Collect eggs in the ongoing “Egg Scramble” activity between 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Children race to collect assorted eggs on the baseball fields, grouped by age. This activity sends groups of approximately 20 children into the out field to collect as many eggs as they can.
With a start time of 10 AM that means you have an hour to roll by the Apple Store and pick up your iPad before rolling over the park. Perfect timing. Click the link for more details.
Live stream of Southern California plein air painter Toni Williams’s exhibition and opening reception from Carlsbadistan’sThursdays on the Coast presented at Ivanffy-Uhler Gallery.
Carlsbadistan Boy Scout Troop 748 will serve a pancake breakfast to the community on Easter morning (April 4, 2010) at the Carlsbad Senior Center at 799 Pine Street from 7:30 AM until Noon as part of their 52nd Annual Pancake Breakfast.
The delicious all-you-can-eat breakfast consists of pancakes, eggs, fresh fruit and coffee. Breakfast patrons can look forward to sitting indoors at beautifully decorated tables and having fully-uniformed Scouts “wait” on them. The nearly 40 Boy Scouts now in Troop 748 will use the proceeds for activities to advance rank towards the ultimate goal of Eagle Scout.
Tickets are $4 a person for pre-purchase or $5 at the door on Easter Sunday. For more information follow the jump or call 760-729-1357. [click to continue…]
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