22nd Annual Lilac Festival (2011)

[RicoLance21]

22nd ANNUAL LILAC FESTIVAL

Post your pics of the festival here.

[RicoLance21]

My pics from noon-2pm

May 29, 2011
Temp: 12deg.C, Mainly Sunny

[Deepstar]

Great shots Rico. I wasn't able to get down there this year, glad you could capture some photos.

[Canadian Mind]

A lot of cute blondes in that city. Probs the wives/mistresses of all the millionaires in that city though.

[ummagumma66]

I tossed some of mine on to my blog. I have no idea how to export them to here, so I'll leave a link...

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[Western Spaghetti]

I was up in Calgary this weekend and went to the festival. It's grown much bigger than the last time I went. I would put attendance at 100k-150k.

[Jimby]

I wouldn't let my blond sister wives go to the Lilac Fest. I made them stay home and count my money.


Lilac Fest on 4th Street by LUMIN8, on Flickr

[UofC.engineer]

I wouldn't let my blond sister wives go to the Lilac Fest. I made them stay home and count my money.

Sister wives? Are you a polygamist? haha

[mersar]

Sad I didn't make it down there (despite living pretty much beside it, I was stuck out in Shepard all afternoon). CPS estimate was 120,000 people I believe I saw on twitter

[frinkprof]

I went down and checked it out. I had actually forgotten about it until I saw someone tweet about Lilac Fest, and lucky for me there was still plenty of time for me to walk down. On the way out the door I thought "Oh, I should bring my camera. Ah forget it, there will be tons of photos posted on SSP." Looks like a lot of the photographers I had thought would make it down didn't. It was perfect weather this year.

I think it's time for the event to expand a few blocks. Maybe go to 12th Ave. to the north (it ended at 13th) and expand a block or two in each direction on 17th Ave.

[DizzyEdge]

Originally Posted by frinkprof

I went down and checked it out. I had actually forgotten about it until I saw someone tweet about Lilac Fest, and lucky for me there was still plenty of time for me to walk down. On the way out the door I thought "Oh, I should bring my camera. Ah forget it, there will be tons of photos posted on SSP." Looks like a lot of the photographers I had thought would make it down didn't. It was perfect weather this year.

I think it's time for the event to expand a few blocks. Maybe go to 12th Ave. to the north (it ended at 13th) and expand a block or two in each direction on 17th Ave.

Thanks for bringing that up, because 17th ave was indeed blocked off from 1st st sw, to 5th st, and then again from 5th st to 8th st. Yet there was nothing on 17th, there were barricades discouraging access from 4th street to 17th as well. I couldn't understand why they would block off a large section of 17th ave but not use it for anything that could spread out the crowd.

[mersar]

Originally Posted by DizzyEdge

Thanks for bringing that up, because 17th ave was indeed blocked off from 1st st sw, to 5th st, and then again from 5th st to 8th st. Yet there was nothing on 17th, there were barricades discouraging access from 4th street to 17th as well. I couldn't understand why they would block off a large section of 17th ave but not use it for anything that could spread out the crowd.

Partially it was just to prevent people from getting stuck where it dead-ended. It would be an idea to get it to go down 17th ave a bit as well, but that might take convincing the Uptown 17 BRZ to get involved (Lilac Fest is organized by the 4th Street BRZ)

[DizzyEdge]

Originally Posted by mersar

Partially it was just to prevent people from getting stuck where it dead-ended. It would be an idea to get it to go down 17th ave a bit as well, but that might take convincing the Uptown 17 BRZ to get involved (Lilac Fest is organized by the 4th Street BRZ)

Well at least it shows that blocking off the streets isn't something that can't be done. Good point on getting the BRZs to do something jointly. I don't think the Uptown 17th brz does any sort of festival, so maybe this is a discussion whose time has come.

[mersar]

Originally Posted by DizzyEdge

Well at least it shows that blocking off the streets isn't something that can't be done. Good point on getting the BRZs to do something jointly. I don't think the Uptown 17th brz does any sort of festival, so maybe this is a discussion whose time has come.

Lets hope so. I've heard rumors that there is a leadership change coming to Uptown 17, so maybe the new people running it will explore that option.

[Bigtime]

We were down there for a few hours, didn't bring the camera though.

[Neon_Xeon]

This reminds of the stampede, now if only the stampede would come a bit sooner....

[Surferguy]

I had a booth this year (Como Designs) Frink came in and introduced himself and witty stopped in as well! It was busy! Had a great response though!

Cheers,

surferguy

[Innersoul1]

Originally Posted by Surferguy

I had a booth this year (Como Designs) Frink came in and introduced himself and witty stopped in as well! It was busy! Had a great response though!

Cheers,

surferguy

I really like your work. What are the price points of some or your pieces?

[Surferguy]

Originally Posted by Innersoul1

I really like your work. What are the price points of some or your pieces?

Thank you Innersoul,

Prices will range based on size. Starting at 65/piece for the 412 series (pics are on facebook only right now) to 85 - 125 for the clocks and 300 for the reticulation series.

Custom work starts at 50 sq/ft.

I can send you a catalouge if you have interest and feel free to contact me anytime!

Cheers for looking,

surferguy

[Radley77]

The other big event this Sunday May 29th was Calgary's Scotiabank Marathon. I heard there were 9800 runners this year. The volunteers and organizers did a fantastic job and weather was ideal (~+5C and warming through the race)!



Photo from: http://www.facebook.com/#!/CalgaryMarathon