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Target Family Days - Culture, Crafts & Curry

Target Family Days, generously sponsored by Target, will transform Courthouse Square, into a walkable assortment of themed family entertainment this summer. Featuring Live Music, Street Performers, Cooking Demonstrations, Themed Face Painting, Hands-on Art Projects, Food, Bounce Houses and More, there will be something for everyone on two more Sundays in August and September. Plus, the street will be closed to through traffic, making a stroll along Broadway a fun and relaxing family experience.

August 21st – Culture, Crafts & Curry Theme
Featuring
- Curry Fest! Curry Food Booths & Tastings
- Cooking Demonstrations
- Bhangra Empire
- CA Kung Fu and Tai Chi Institute
- San Mateo County History Museum Victorian Days
- Krystle’s Tahitian Dance
- Chinese Hands-on Art Stations w/FREE projects with Hidden Dragon Station
- Inflatable Play Area
- Asian Themed Face Painting
- Bay Area Parent Celebration Booth
- Yummy Food & More!

Target Family Days Featured Entertainment

Curry Fest
The inaugural Curry Fest, part of Target Family Days will feature and celebrate the cuisine, culture, music and art that surround the global regions of curry. As part of this celebration, guests will be able to take part in many festive activities:
• Curry Tasting: Our multiple food vendors will be selling tastings of curry for you to taste as well as full meals that will satisfy your appetite for all things curry. Curry tastings will be sold for $4 a tasting or $10 for 3 tastings.
• World Bazaar: Vendors will be on hand selling food products, arts & crafts, decorative items and more from different curry cultures around the world.
• Culinary Demonstration: Learn the secrets to making great curry at home. Our expert chef from the Amber Indian Restaurant in Santana Row will demonstrate a delicious curry dish with tips and secrets you can take with you.
• Music and Dance Performances: The Arya Dance Academy and Kriyaa Dance Academy groups, representing different curry cultures, will fill the stage with a variety of Indian dances from traditional to Bollywood.

Bhangra Empire
Come to the Bhangra Dance Party! Bhangra Empire is a Bay Area dance team that does “bhangra,” a folk dance from the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. Bhangra Empire has taken this traditional dance form, and has made it contemporary by fusing very high energy and exciting elements. In 2009, the team was invited to perform for President Barack Obama’s First State Dinner. In 2010, Bhangra Empire was named one of America’s foremost up-and-coming talents by Michelle Obama and was photographed for Harper’s Bazaar magazine. The team was also featured in Season 5 of America’s Got Talent, and has competed & placed in countless bhangra competitions across North America! Watch Bhangra Empire perform an exciting bhangra routine, and then learn some fun dance moves to some great bhangra beats!
http://www.bhangraempire.com

California Kung Fu and Tai Chi Institute promotes both the physical and spiritual growth in our students by teaching both the external and internal martial arts styles. Our ultimate goal is to enhance a student's life through the understanding and application of the values and discipline taught in the Chinese Martial Art styles, traditions and culture.
http://wushutaichi.com

San Mateo County History Museum Victorian Days
Celebrate San Mateo County during their annual festival with a stroll down History Lane, crafts from yesteryear and deciding whether local millionaires were Victorian Villains. Make your own flags, rag dolls, boat models, masks, stained glass "windows," and more to take home. Explore the museum and try the scavenger hunt. Costumes from the Victorian era encouraged.
http://www.historysmc.org/

Krystle’s Tahitian Dance
A Tahitian Dance Group based out of Redwood City who will be performing 3 types of dances, an Aparima which is an upbeat dance that tells a story, an Ahuroa which is a slower moving, graceful dance similar to Hawaiian Hula dancing and an Otea which is a fast moving, hip shaking dance to live drums. At the end of the performance, there will be the opportunity for the audience to participate in learning the Tahitian Dance with one of the dancers on stage.
http://modernesian.com/

More information at: http://www.redwoodcity.org/events/targetfamilydays.htm

Along with Target Family Days, other exciting FREE evening events include: Movies on the Square on Thursdays, Music on the Square on Fridays, Dancing on the Square on Tuesdays, and Jazz on Main on Mondays. Other ongoing events in the coming months include seven special outdoor exhibits featuring Art on the Square.
Full details at http://www.redwoodcityevents.com

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