So the afternoon began at the Pecan Street Fair – Central Texas’ largest arts + crafts fair. Amazing how much inspiration and ideas can be found at an event like this:
Reminded me of a hybrid of the Eugene Celebration, the Street Fair at UO, Portland’s First Thursday and Portland’s Last Thursday.
Hell yes there was a Greek food stand (and p.s. did I mention I am taking Greek classes now? Getting pretty good at speaking Greenglish…)
Just around the corner was Wheels of Wonderland, put on by Austin Bike Zoo. Austin Bike Zoo is self-described as this: “The Austin Bike Zoo Human Powered Puppetry began with the collaborative efforts of artists, bicycle builders, teachers and like minded folks.”
Yup. And they came together to put on a production of Alice in Wonderland. Brilliant:
Here’s a bit of footage from the production:
So as we were heading back to the car, we saw a building with a ton of people, some togas and architecture looking things, so we went inside to see what it was. Turns out it was a public performance and installation of The 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction. Crazy. Awesome. Crazy awesome:
And then the Capitol building, looking quite beautiful. Perhaps it’s because I’m from a capitol city and spent alot of time at the capitol building giving holiday performances with orchestra + choir, as well as the annual mock youth legislative session (oh, memories!)…but there’s just something about capitol buildings that I sure do love:
Yup. A good day indeed.
Very cute
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