Festivals
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The event will exhibit some of
Knievel’s most famous motorcycles
and memorabilia, and visitors will
have a chance to meet the man
himself. Also planned is a concert
with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.
Knievel spokesman Bill Rundle
said in a prepared statement
that Knievel was proud of his
hometown.
“Evel left Butte to do such fa
mous stunts as the bus jump at
Wembley Stadium in London
... and the jump across the Snake
River Canyon in Idaho, but he nev
er let anyone forget where he came
from,” he said.
The celebration is timed to
catch motorcycle enthusiasts trav
eling on their way to Sturgis, the
nation’s largest biker festival, in
South Dakota.
For more information, visit
www.knievelweek.com or call
(888) 782-3835.
Sturgis Rally, Aug. 5 to 11
Sturgis is legend. For six days,
bikers of every shape, size and
persuasion descend upon Sturgis,
S.D., to engage in as much over
the-top biker excitement as the
law will allow. Bikes, vendors and
rock ’n’ roll come together for the
ultimate rally vacation.
This year marks the 62nd annual
Sturgis Rally, and some of the
camps (over time, groups of people
have camped together and built tra
ditional groupings of camp
grounds, food, entertainment and
events that happen only in their
camps) have been organized and
rallying for more than 20 years con
secutively.
With names like The Buffalo
Chip Campground, Hog Heaven
and the Jackpine Gypsies, these
camps mean serious biker business.
Contests run the gamut from
The World Pickle Lickin’ Federa
tion’s Pickle Lickin’ Contest,
Thanks for the Mammaries Sili
cone Contest, Topless Drags and
the Chamber of Commerce-spon
sored Buffalo Feed.
Be warned, the police are pre
pared; the Sturgis Web site promi
nently lists the fines for popular
violations of the law.
For more information, visit
www.sturgis-rally.com or call (605)
642-8166.
Elephant Garlic Festival,
Aug. 16 to 18
According to the Fifth Annual
Elephant Garlic Festival, in North
Plains, “Fun stinks!” That’s the slo
gan of this three-day event celebrat
ing all things elephant garlic. The
focus of the festival, according to
volunteer Loyd Hubbard, is food
— garlic food — with 20 food
booths featuring products such as
garlic pancakes, deep-fried garlic
chips, garlic ice cream, garlic
lemonade and garlic lattes and gar
lic wine.
The festival also focuses on phys
ical shape, with the Elephant Gar
lic Emperor and Empress contest,
which rewards the people whose
body most closely resembles the
stinky herb.
Hubbard said this year’s event fea
tures an expanded children’s pro
gram , with puppet shows, balloon
acts, juggling and ventriloquism.
“Kids will rule at this festival,”
he said.
For more information, call (888)
771-3708.
•Burning Man Festival,
Aug. 26 to Sept. 2
Burning Man is becoming leg
end. Now in its 17th year, this
arts-and-freaks festival, held on a
monstrously large, dry lake bed in
Nevada, is a community of more
than 25,000 people that gather
each year in the desert to partici
Courtesy photo
A young cowgirl strikes a pose during the kids parade at the Bohemia Mining Days.
pate and interact with each other
in a very different way than oc
curs in what veterans call “the
real world.”
Like Sturgis, Burning Man is or
ganized into camps. Participants
create their theme camp and are
responsible for bringing every
thing they might need for survival
in the desert. Beyond that basic
structure of the city’s roads and
portable toilets, the event’s organ
izers don’t allow vending or pro
vide food or entertainment. It’s up
to each attendee to create enter
tainment. Basically, everyone
gathers together and plays.
As the festival’s Web site ex
plains, “You belong here and you
participate. You’re not the weird
est kid in the classroom — there’s
always somebody there who’s
thought up something you never
even considered. You’re there to
breathe art. Imagine an ice sculp
ture emitting glacial music — in
the desert.”
For more information, visit
www.bumingman.com or call (415)
863-5263.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival,
through November
Officially born on July 2, 1935,
Oregon’s annual tribute to the clas
sic playwright is world-renown. In
Sept. 2001, the festival welcomed
its 10 millionth ticketholder.
The festival is held in scenic
Ashland and features a constantly
changing lineup of plays, directors
and actors. Over the years, the fes
tival has videotaped productions
for the Lincoln Center and per
formed at the Kennedy Center. In
the past 10 years, organizers have
completed two multimillion dollar
expansion and renovation projects.
The event long ago expanded be
yond Shakespeare’s works, and it is
now known for introducing new
works and innovative productions
of classic works.
In Oregon theater, there is no
substitute for the Shakespeare Fes
tival, and this season’s productions
began in February and continue
through November. Some of this
year’s highlights are Edward Al
bee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?” and Shakespeare’s “Mac
beth” and “Titus Andronicus.”
For more information, visit
www.orshakes.org or call (541)
482-4331.
State and County Fairs
These classics of Americana
need no introduction; come on in
and have some cotton candy. Here’s
a sampling of fairs in Oregon:
• Marion County Fair, July 11 to
14, in Salem, call (503) 585-9998
• Multnomah County Fair, July
16 to 18, in Portland, call (503)
233-5777
• Jackson county Fair, July 16 to
21, in Central Point, call (541) 774
8270
• Crook County Fair, July 17
to 21, in Prineville, call (541)
447-6575
• Yamhill County Fair and
Rodeo, July 19 to 21, in McMin
nville, call (541) 447-6575
• Benton County Fair and rodeo,
July 30 to Aug. 3, in Corvallis, call
(541)757-1521
• Clatsop County Fair, July 30
to Aug. 3, in Astoria, call (503)
325-4600
• Baker County Fair, July 31
to Aug. 4, in Baker City, call (541)
523-7881
• Lane County Fair, Aug. 13 to
18, in Eugene, call (541) 682-4292
Contact the editor in chief
at editor@dailyemerald.com.
festivals strengthen
community ties
Festivals, and the cultures that
accompany them, seem to be a part
of human nature. Early accounts of
human gatherings contain festival
like descriptions, and academic re
search about festivals includes
phrases such as “cultural and be
havioral consonance” and “eco
nomic geography. ”
The Free Festival movement
in Britain, which arguably began
in earnest on the Isle of Wight
with Hawkwind concerts in the
late 1960s, moved the alterna
tive-culture festival scene for
ward dramatically
In America, The Grateful Dead
—and the jam rock bands that fol
lowed its touring model — devel
oped an alternative-culture scene
of its own, developing a nomadic
band of festival-goers that criss
cross the country looking for the
miracle of a free ticket.
American mainstream culture
lias also solidified its own festival
format. Carnivals and Mrs have
been held in America for more
than 100 years, celebrating farm
ing and showmanship. Legends of
shifty barkers and too-incredible
to-be-believed sideshow acts by
the hundreds accompany the real
ity of homespun crafts, agricul
ture, com dogs and Ferris wheels,.
Stereotypes abound about wild
behavior at festivals, as though they
are deeply connected to the human
need for chaos. These archetypes
are everywhere; the caricatures that
exist in the counterculture are ram
pant in mainstream culture as well.
From toothless "camies” using
methamphetamines so they can
work 18-hour days to dirty
“crusties” taking hallurinogenics
as they follow jam rock bands, the
images fill people’s minds with dis
gust, excitement orbotfa,
Festivals seem to play an im
portant role in building commu
nity. as farmers share their crops
with urban-dwelling neighbors
and alternative-culture lovers
find places to stay and people to
trust. Nearly anyone can find fes
tivals to build their community
and find release from the daily
grind, Try an Internet search with
those keywords—the links are al
most endless.
—Michael /, Kleckner
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