Brownstone Summer Events Series Part I

School is almost out, which means that Summer is almost here! This Summer Brownstone will keep you posted on the coolest events happening across the U.S. So mark your calendars! Get your family and friends together to check them out.

• Long Beach Parks, Recreation and Marine (LBPRM) will host “100 Days of Summer.” Take advantage of hundreds of free or low cost cultural programs, sport activities and special events taking place between Memorial Day and Labor Day in Long Beach. Free movies in parks and beaches, museum programs, Long Beach Sea Festival events, special cooking classes at the Terrace Theater plaza and Hotel Maya, and ideas for spontaneous fun like hiking, biking, golf, tennis, kayaking swimming, and free drop-in youth and teen programs are just some of the activities listed on the site.
  
  Visit the 100 Days of Summer website for fun ideas for every day of summer 2010.

• Peter Pan in San Francisco. Direct from London, a spectacular new stage production of J.M. Barrie’s classic story performed in a state-of-the-art 1350-seat theatre pavilion. Conceived by an award-winning creative team and featuring twenty-two actors, stunning puppets, epic music, and dazzling flying sequences surrounded by breathtaking video, Peter Pan was a smash hit when it launched in London in 2009. Now the show is in San Francisco throughout the Summer.
  
  
• SF Juneteenth Festival (June 19-20) is a Bay Area event that celebrates and shares African-American history and culture through music, performing arts, living history and other cultural activities. June nineteenth is the time to celebrate the anniversary when the Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas, and read the Emancipation Proclamation declaring the end of the Civil War, which freed the slaves. Although, President Lincoln had signed the proclamation freeing the slaves in 1863, the word did not reach the people in Texas until 1865. Juneteenth is an official annual holiday in 31 states. For more information about Juneteenth visit http://www.juneteenth.com/.
  
  
• The DC Caribbean Carnival (June 26-27) is annual Caribbean style parade and festival designed to encourage cross-cultural programs within the Washington, DC Metropolitan area in the expansion of Caribbean culture, and to educate youths and adults in Caribbean arts, crafts and culture. Admission is $10.

Know of any fun events happening in your city? E-mail us (BrownstoneMag@gmail.com) and we'll post the events on our blog. On behalf of the Brownstone Team...Have a fun and safe summer!

--Brownstone Team