| Main Schedule |
| 7:00 am |
King Street closes (Empire to Old Bridge)
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| 8:30 am |
Festival opens.
Farmers' market opens.
Library Art Show opens.
Bridgewater Century Ride departs
"Family Frolic Parade" face painting & costume-making starts
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| 10:00 am |
Family Frolic Parade leaves Community Gardens |
| 11:00 am |
Welcome ceremony |
| 11:15 am |
"Town greening" action |
| 12:00 pm |
Free Corn Boil |
| 3:00 pm |
Festival closes |
| 4:30 pm |
King Street re-opens |
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Schedule subject to change without notice
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Musicians & Performers
(various locations on King St)
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| 9:00 am |
Kelly Blair
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| 9:15 am |
Bob Ardern
Sam Wentzell |
| 9:30 am |
Tom Sheppard |
| 10:00 am |
Nick Jeffrey |
| 10:30 am |
Stewart Frank
Aine Maclellan
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| 11:15 am |
No Family |
11:45 am
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Dusty Keheler
Desi Gordon
Janet Barkhouse
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12:15 pm
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Darren Arsenault
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| 12:30 pm |
Tim Merry |
1:15 pm
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Acres & Acres
Laurie Lacey
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| 1:30pm |
Naming the Twins (Century Bike Ride Stage) |
| 2:00 pm |
Jewels of the East |
| 2:30 pm |
Grass Market (Centure Bike Ride Stage) |
| 3:30 pm |
Moonshone Ramblers (Century Bike Ride Stage) |
Schedule subject to change without notice.
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Thanks to all who participated, attended and sponsored the 2010 Growing Green! Festival! The even was a huge success! Please check back here soon for event photos
Bridgewater is Growing Green!The Town of Bridgewater will be hosting a free street festival to highlight and celebrate green community initiatives. Bridgewater Sustainability Festival 2010 extends from the Bridgewater Integrated Community Sustainability Plan – a long term vision for how all people in our community can live within the Earth’s means, while meeting their basic needs. Festival organizers expect over 500 participants including guests, volunteers, vendors and performers. This festival is family friendly and there will be activities for all ages.
Admission is free to Growing Green! The festival will include music, local book readings, art displays, food & drink, kid & family activities, community group booths, skills demonstrations and workshops. All of the events are designed to promote participation and open up the discussion on living green. The festival strives to celebrate and inspire healthy, ecological lifestyles. Growing Green! is funded by the Town of Bridgewater & local sponsors and coordinated by our team of Community Volunteers, Town Staff & Council.
Date & Time: Saturday August 21, from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm. (Setup starts at 7:00 am.)
Location: King Street, between Empire St. and Dominion St. (Street closed to car traffic 7:00 am to 4:30 pm - please come on foot or park on nearby streets)
FESTIVAL GOES RAIN OR SHINE
Mission
The Growing Green Festival is Bridgewater’s way of expressing its pride in becoming a sustainable community. Through it, our community engages itself in deliberate small and large acts of vision and daring to improve our home town, build our sense of community, and celebrate the simple things we can all do to make a difference. We do so by creating an environment that explodes in a colourful and fun mosaic highlighting the unique individual passions, talents and efforts of our local people, businesses and organizations. The Festival plants positive ideas... in order to harvest a sustainable future.
Features:
- Expanded Bridgewater Farmers' Market & local food & drink
- Information and activities that help you live greener and healthier
- Environmentally responsible products and services for all areas of life
- A special "town greening" action, that everyone can take part in!
- Art display at the Bridgewater Library
- Local authors, kids activities & belly dancers!
- FREE corn boil @ Noon… and much, much more!
| Family Frolic Parade! |
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A FREE “people-powered” parade to celebrate safe walking and cycling! Starts at the Community Garden (next to Superstore). Ride your bike, walk, or skateboard! Face painting & costume making starts 8:30, parade marshalling at 9:30. Fantasy & fun for children & adults alike. Prizes for costumes & props! More info: 298-0595
More info about the Family Frolic Parade:
Costumes and Decoration of your ride
No Limits! All whimsy welcome. The goal: fun. Use Growing Green! as your theme or build a costume/decoration using sustainable practices: reduce-reuse-recycle-repair.
Start looking for costume ideas in your closet, thrift stores, borrowing from family and friends, anywhere you can re-use clothing. Costume ideas include, tree, sun, flowers, bee, water, air, and endangered animals.
Once you have creatively reused clothing for costumes, you can embellish them reusing materials. Greeting cards, newspaper, plastic bottles, magazine pages, and tissue paper make great reusable embellishments. You can also have a theme for each costume; such as, reuse, recycle, and reduce.
Noise Makers.
POTS AND PANS!!! Outdoor voices. Spoons, horns, gazoo, drum, triangle, trumpet rain stick, tap shoes, bells.
Face Painting & Family Activities: Free admission to All. Fully Accessible space.
8:30 - 9:30 on King Street under the tent between Sagor's Bookstore and Cummings Fire Safety. Family Games & activities continue after the parade as well. All free. All Welcome. Adult supervision required, participation preferred.
9:30 Marshalling & Registration
The Family Frolic Parade Marshalling area is fully accessible and on the North West corner of Aberdeen and LaHave Streets. The M.A.D.D. advertisement is posted in this knoll of the Hodge Podge Community Garden.
At 9:30 registration begins. All young people must be accompanied by a responsible guardian who may sign a liability waiver and accompany the participants on all steps of the parade.
10:00 let the parade begin!
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Bridgewater Century Ride!
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Cheer on the 150+ riders who will take part in a 115km “Gran Fondo” race around Lunenburg County to promote safe cycling. See cool bike gear! Bike rodeo & bike tours! Registration & more info: www.bridgewatercenturyride.com
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How can you get involved?
- Vendor: sell food, products & services
- Information Kiosk: provide information to community members
- Green Living Skills: teach people a skill or craft you know
- Performer or Artist: add music, color & fun to the day
- Sponsors: a limited number of sponsorship slots available for $50 each. This event can't happen without you!
- Volunteer: help out behind the scenes or during the day itself. Lots of volunteers needed!
If you would like to know more about getting involved in one of these ways, please read the Growing Green! Event Information & Guidelines, or contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 541-4390.
Festival Poster
Here you can download the Festival Poster
Important Links
2010 Growing Green! Festival Sponsors
A heartfelt thanks to the following people and organizations who have provided financial support to the festival!
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Bridgewater Transit
Energize Bridgewater
eServices Account Login and eBilling 
Clean Energy Financing Program
Downtown & Waterfront Master Plan 
Bridgewater Active Transportation 
Community Organizations Directory 
Bridgewater Fire Department
Discover Bridgewater's Built Heritage 
DesBrisay Museum 
