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23rd Annual Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine Arts & Music Festival
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The Waukegan Park District is hosting the 23rd Annual Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine Arts & Music Festival on Saturday, August 19, 2023 from 11am to 4:51pm at Bowen Park, located 1800 N. Sheridan Road. The festival celebrates Ray Bradbury with arts and music. Art vendors, including painters, sculptors, and photographers, will have their art for sale.
Ray Bradbury, born in Waukegan on August 22, 1920, was an author and screenwriter in fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery. Some of his most famous works include elements of his hometown of Waukegan in them. Ray Bradbury passed away on June 5, 2012 and he is honored in numerous ways in Waukegan.
| Acoustic Stage | Time | Pavilion Stage | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Tong | 11am to 11:30am | Ordinary Hero | 11am to 12pm | |
| Sophie | 11:35am to 12:05pm | Jack Tell | 12:15pm to 1:15pm | |
| Rafael Torrez | 12:10pm to 12:40pm | Zion Ari | 1pm to 2:30pm | |
| Jeff Jazzman | 12:45pm to 1:30pm | Destruction Baby | 2:45pm to 3:45pm | |
| Funology | 1:35pm to 2:20pm | Crooked Moon | 4pm to 4:51pm | |
| Juiette Z. Payne | 2:25pm to 3:10pm | |||
| Zion Ari | 3:15pm to 4pm | |||
| Jack Tell | 4pm to 4:51pm |
New this year, local actors will perform Ray Bradbury’s Zero Hour, a suspenseful radio play about a children’s game called “invasion” that starts to become terrifyingly real as the time moves to five o’clock, the designated zero hour for the Martian invaders’ arrival. The play will begin at 6pm in the Dr. Lynn Schornick Theatre in the Jack Benny Center for the Arts.
Preregistration is not required to attend this free, family-friendly event. For more information, contact Angela Marcum at amarcum@waukeganparks.org or (847) 360-4746.
Sat, August 19, 2023
11:00am - 4:51pm
Bowen Park
1800 N. Sheridan Road
Waukegan,
IL
60087
Free