Oct. 20, 2007 - Midlothian Fall Festival (Midlothian,
TX)
Held every third Saturday in October, the Fall Festival and Scarecrow contest attracts large crowds from all over the state. The Fall Festival is a fun-filled Saturday featuring 100's
of arts, crafts, artists, food vendors and children's activities. Attendees vote for the best Scarecrow, a contest that is becoming more and more competitive each year.
A street festival with food vendors, arts & crafts booths, and entertainment. A 5K Run and a children's pageant have been added this year.
This years Festival will be held on Saturday, October 20, 2007.
Details to this event may be found at www.midlothianchamber.org
Oct.
20, 2007 - 2007 Komen Dallas Race for the Cure® (Dallas,
TX)
Join in the fight against breast cancer by participating in 2007 Komen
Dallas Race for the Cure®. The Dallas Komen Race for the Cure® is a 1K or a 5K run/walk event held at NorthPark Center. It is a co-ed race and great fun for the whole family. The Race is in its 25th year, and is part of a national 5K series sponsored by Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The goal of the event is to heighten awareness and education about breast cancer as well as to recognize and celebrate breast cancer survivorship. The Race is also the largest fundraising event for local breast cancer screening, education and research. For more info,
visit www.komen-dallas.org
Oct. 20, 2007 - Plano International Festival
(Plano, TX)
The City of Plano and the Plano International Festival Corporation are pleased to announce the Third Annual Plano International Festival to take place in Haggard Park in Downtown Plano on Saturday, October 20, 2007. It will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Festival is underwritten by the Plano City Council and is designed to showcase the many cultures that make up Plano, Collin County, and their surrounds. It will be a splendid outing for the entire family, offering an opportunity to become better acquainted with the myriad of ethnicities of a cosmopolitan City.
For more events and location information, please visit planointernationalfestival.org
Oct. 20, 2007 -
Butterfly Flutterby (Grapevine, TX)
Calling all kids - come to Grapevine to celebrate the migration of the Monarch Butterfly from Canada to Mexico. Grapevine is on their path! This fun-for-the-whole-family event includes releases of butterflies and a Gossamer Parade. New this year, join the fun at the Historic Cotton Belt Railroad District 701 South Main Street, you'll enjoy butterfly exhibits, gardening seminars and all sorts of interactive butterfly arts and crafts and entertainment. The Parade will line up at 9:30 AM at Liberty Park (corner of East Wall and Main Street) and proceed down Main Street to the Cotton Belt Railroad District.
Details to this event may be viewed at www.grapevinetexasusa.com
Oct. 20, 2007 -
Start Right, Stay Strong Challenge
(Lewisville, TX)
You’re invited to a special mall walk with Ladies’ Home Journal® to join in the fight against osteoporosis. Do your part and take a step in the right direction with a morning of fun and fitness. Saturday, October 20, 2007 at
Vista Ridge Mall, Lewisville, TX 8:15 a.m. – Lower Level, Center Court. Registration starts at 7:30 a.m.—Walk begins at 8:15 a.m. Closing Rally: 9:15a.m.
Details on this event may be found at www.LHJ.com/mallwalk
Oct.
21, 2007 - Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Opening Concert
(Dallas,
TX)
“Season Opener” 7:30 pm Meyerson Symphony Center. The “Season Opener” will feature David Bilger on Trumpet performing Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian’s Trumpet Concerto. Other works include Corigliano’s Gazebo Dances and de Falla’s Three-Cornered Hat Suite No 1 & 2. The Meyerson Symphony Center is located at 2401 Flora Street in Dallas . Tickets for these performances are $8, $15, $20, $30. You can
purchase tickets by calling (214) 528-7747 or info@gdyo.org
Details at www.gdyo.org
Oct.
25 - 28,
2007 - Walking With Dinosaurs (Dallas,
TX)
These pre-historic creatures that once ruled the earth are back! It took hundreds of people six years and $20 million to bring these dinosaurs back to life. The dinosaurs are
life like and life sized. It is an unprecedented production - all designed to let audiences take a step back in time. In act one, the beasts parade into the arena gnashing and cavorting as a safari-suited paleontologist describes their attributes … in the second half, the action cranks up, culminating in a spectacular clash as a T-Rex mom defends her baby from predators. Sonny Tilders' triumphant creature design ensures ‘Walking With Dinosaurs’ is a truly spectacular spectacular.
This is a must see for the whole family. Details at www.dinosaurlive.com
or www.americanairlinescenter.com
Oct. 27,
2007 - 7th annual Festival of
Pumpkins (Paris, TX)
Paris Main Street presents the 7th annual Festival of Pumpkins. Extremely popular, the Festival of Pumpkins continues to attract record crowds with an estimated attendance last year topping 10,000. Come out in the morning and enjoy the various competitions like the pet and owner look-a –like contest, munch on some kettle corn as you peruse the motorcycles and vote for the best bike, shop for unique finds at a downtown shop and in the evening lay back on your blanket in the grass and listen to some cool live music from local favorites.
There’s something for everyone! For more information, visit www.festivalofpumpkins.com
Oct.
27,
2007 - Life is good Pumpkin Festival (Dallas,
TX)
On Saturday, October 27 attend the Life is good Pumpkin Festival at West Village in Uptown. To prepare for the festival there will be a Great Pumpkin Carve-off on Friday, October 26. Get a team together and start the fun early by signing up to help carve over 4,000 pumpkins. This is high energy assembly line pumpkin carving with the team who carves the most pumpkins crowned the Life is good 2007 Great Pumpkin. Then return on Saturday with family and friends to enjoy live music, great food, games for both the young and young at heart and the sight of 6,000 pumpkins set aglow at dusk, including those on a 40 foot tower. Located two steps from the Cityplace DART rail station. For more information visit
www.dallaspumpkinfestival.org
Oct.
29,
2007 - Old Red Courthouse History from the Ground Up (Dallas,
TX)
On Oct. 29, 2007, between 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. join us for a talk by
Frances James about the Old Red Courthouse History from the Ground Up,
a Brown-bag Luncheon. Join local historian, Frances James, for a special talk about history from the ground up. Learn how we can use historic Dallas County cemeteries to explore the history of the earliest Dallas County citizens from the 1840s. Old Red Museum is located in Dealey Plaza at 100 South Houston Street in Downtown Dallas. General admission is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, $5 for children ages 5-16, Free for children ages 4 and under. For more details, please visit Old Red Museum’s website at
www.oldred.org or call 214-745-1100.
Oct. 30,
2007 - ING Presents Jennifer Lopez & Marc Anthony (Dallas,
TX)
Superstars Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will co-headline their first tour together this fall. It's a mega-wattage match-up of some of the most exciting music in the world, and Lopez's first concert tour ever. The star power and performing prowess the duo bring to the stage is unequaled. During the tour, Lopez and Anthony will perform separate sets of their own material and will perform together as well. Each set will include songs in both English
& Spanish. www.americanairlinescenter.com
Oct. 30,
2007 - “Moonlight” Concert (Dallas,
TX)
Let us send shivers down your spine as ADC unites the macabre of Halloween and the ethereality of All Souls. The concert exploits the haunting acoustics of the Victorian Cathedral Guadalupe and includes readings from authors such as St. John of the Cross, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allen Poe with music from Heinrich Schutz, Samuel Barber, Johann Sebastian Bach, Gyorgy Orban, Hugo Distler, John Taverner, and others. The performance will be preceded by a 7:30 p.m. carillon concert featuring the Cathedral’s 52-bell carillon — the largest instrument of its kind in the city of Dallas. Tickets are $20 general admission; $15 seniors (age 60+); $5 students (with valid ID). And are available in advance by calling (214) 942-5085 or at the door.
www.artsdistrictchorale.org
