Friday, January 12, 2007
Calabash Gourd Festival, California
Forestville, California
Calabash Fall Festival - A must "do" for a great cause and lots of fun.
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Calabash is the annual fall festival sponsored by Food for Thought, Sonoma County AIDS Food Bank, and the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. It is a fundraising festival in honor of Life, and it is a memorial to all who have lost their life to AIDS.
A calabash is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable or harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil, or pipe.....that is, until Food for Thought got involved. At this unique annual event, over 100 artist create and donate beautiful gourd art for the sake of raising money for Food for Thought and their expanding projects.
This is a wonderful one day collaboration of local artist, musicians, food & wine sponsors, and a community with a whole lot of heart. Calabash Festival - a celebration not to be missed.
