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A Deep Pool of Fall Activities in Silver Spring
Downtown Silver Spring will host a fall festival from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday with something for everyone in the family. For children, the festival offers hayrides, Halloween storytelling and crafts, a Gymboree kids corral, parachute games and other activities. Adults can participate in beer tasting and making, cooking demonstrations and tastings, salsa lessons, a General Motors car show, an art show and a couch upholstery demonstration. Youths can shop for a Halloween costume, pick up a pumpkin in an outdoor pumpkin patch, watch a graffiti mural demonstration, get fall makeup and clothing tips, compete in a pumpkin pie-eating contest and try out a temporary tattoo. Events without alcoholic beverages are open to all ages. The festival will be in the area surrounding Ellsworth Drive and Fenton Street. Prices vary; most children's activities are free. For information, call 301-587-0867 or visit http:/
Art for a Cause At Bethesda Row
Local businesses present the 11th annual Bethesda Row Arts Festival this weekend, featuring food, music, children's activities, street performers and an outdoor gallery with more than 10,000 pieces of art for sale. About 180 artists and crafters will exhibit photography, jewelry, glass, ceramic, drawing, pastes, oil painting, water color, wood, metal, fiber, printmaking, sculpture, digital art and mixed-media works. Proceeds will benefit the National Institutes of Health's children's charities. The free festival will run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday in the area surrounding Elm Street and Woodmont and Bethesda avenues in Bethesda. For information, call 301-816-6958 or visit http:/
Takoma Park's Tribute To the Humanities
The Takoma Park Arts and Humanities Commission will host the second annual Arts and Humanities Day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday with free demonstrations, lectures and performances by Contradiction Dance, Triple Goddess Tribal Belly Dancers, acoustic guitarist Patrick Smith and others. Washington National Opera vocalist Jennifer Corey will perform selections from Puccini and Rossini operas and the Broadway musical "Wicked," with interactive demonstrations of opera props, costumes, lighting and equipment. The event, which is part of Americans for the Arts' National Arts and Humanities Month, will be at the Takoma Park Community Center, 7500 Maple Ave. For information and a full schedule, call 301-891-7119 or e-mail sarad@takomagov.org.
