MOVED!: Go To Event: Dayton Street Cirque Carnival

via YSNews

DAYTON STREET CIRQUE CARNIVAL
Friday, July 5th 2011
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
@ Dayton Street Gulch

128 Dayton St., Yellow Springs, OH, 45387 

(see below for review!)

I've been making an effort to find go to events in Dayton and so far I've had luck finding things at Active Dayton. Not the most aesthetically pleasing website but the information is there. And because I want to be constructive with my criticism and on the off chance that anyone who matters from the site reads this, the blue type on grey is not the easiest to read and the quips at the top seem out of place and at first I thought they were comments. They aren't all that funny and definitely not useful; they just take up space that could be nice negative space for the already cluttered website. End of (what I hope is) constructive criticism.

Ok so this festival looks awesome from the few pictures I've seen at YSNews. I had to do some sleuthing to find info on the festival and the best info I could find was about last years festival at Zattana.net. Most of the info is regarding their act which happens to be belly dancing. So based on these tidbits: it starts at a bar, it may have belly dancers this year like last year, a kid wore a feather mask, jugglers were there and it is in Yellow Springs a place I've been wanting to go to...I am definitely going! I will post pics and a review of the festivities this weekend.

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If anyone's been to it before please share your experience!

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Review

Well I had a great time at the Dayton Street Cirque Carnival. There were jugglers, people on stilts, fire dancers, belly dancers, face painters, ice-cream and the shops along the street were open! Kyle and I were joined by two friends which made it all the more fun. It is a great place to go to as a group of friends and it is also kid-friendly. The day time was dedicated to tamer acts like the juggling (albeit they did have knives!) and the evening had more thrilling acts like the fire dancers and a circus act suspended in air (which I missed!). The music there was fun with a younger band in the day and at night it finished with a folksy jam band. I want to give a shout-out to the guy who had been on the stilts earlier in the day dancing and later was dancing on foot to the jam band. He was so full of energy and you need people like that to keep the energy so who ever you are, thanks!

Price: $-$$ (we went to Peach's Grill but they did have street food vendors)
Location: Yellow Springs; it was so quaint and rural there, I can't wait to go again!
Building: None for the carnival was outside but the shops that were open were all nice and had cute store fronts.

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