For more: Holly Kuchera’s Shot Spots Calendar & http://cameracouncil.blogspot.com

Pro rodeo with bull riding, bareback riding, team roping, barrel racing, steer wrestling, tie down roping, saddle bronc, wild cow milking, cowboy poker, and calf scramble. Each night following the rodeo there will be a live band.

Advance Tickets (until Fri, Sept 3):

• Adults: $10, Children (4-12): $6, Under 3: Free

Day of the Rodeo Tickets:

• Adults: $12, Children (4-12): $6, Under 3: Free

The Lowertown Concrete and Grass Music Festival is a free outdoor event held at Mears Park, downtown Saint Paul. The festival is a unique partnership of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, Ordway Center, Schubert Club and the Twin Cities Jazz Festival.

Concrete and Grass celebrates the opening of the performance season and includes a range of genres, including: jazz, opera, chamber music, rock, dance, roots and world music.

FREE

The Trail Loppet is a 5K (3 miles) and Half-Marathon on the trails of Theodore Wirth Park. Mostly on dirt paths, the Trail Loppet feels like it takes place in the north woods, but starts and finishes less than 3 miles from downtown Minneapolis.

FREE

5000 yellow rubber ducks will race throughout the event. Lots of great prizes! Adopt a duck for five dollars each. Lots of food, kids games, and entertainment.

FREE

The event will commemorate the late autumn harvest celebrations that are native to Vietnam. Participants will handcraft origami and bamboo lanterns, and will assemble and decorate miniature storybooks telling the folktale of the moon festival. Storytellers, vendors and food (for purchase) will also be available. The festival will culminate with a foot parade in and around Rice Park at dusk, with lanterns lighting up the evening and songs filling the air!

FREE

See raptors released back to the wild, participate in children’s activities and educational displays, and observe live eagles, hawks, owls and falcons up close!

Releases are at 11:30am and 2:00pm.

FREE

Cafesjian’s Carousel – May 1st – September 6th – Como Zoo, St Paul, MN
Blooming Butterflies – June18th – September 6th – Como Zoo, St Paul, MN
Aveda Butterfly Garden – June19th – September 6th – MN Zoo, Apple Valley, MN
MN Renaissance Festival – Weekends: August 21st – October 3rd — Shakopee, MN
MN State Fair – August 26th – September 6th – St Paul, MN

Photo Trip Date: Sunday July 11th, 2010 – 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Photo Trip Location: Como Zoo & Marjorie McNeely Conservatory – 1225 Estabrook Drive, St Paul, MN

Photos by Crosstown Attendees:

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A day amongst the animals and flowers. The polar bears have a brand-new (okay, month-old) space and the Blooming Butterflies tent was open. In addition, the Carousel was running and the Summer Show in the Conservatory in full swing.

If you attended, don’t forget to send me, Holly Kuchera,  (hkuchera@yahoo.com) any images you’d like to share on the club website! (jpg, 600 pixels on the longest side, please!)

Thanks for joining us! Hope you had a good day!

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Experience life along the Minnesota River. Meet traders and Civil War soldiers, and observe demonstrations in the encampments. Enjoy an imaginary ride upriver via the moving panorama show. Ride the Percheron horse-drawn trolley and play games. Visit Mr. Robert’s lunch counter at the depot. Photographic opportunities abound at The Landing (formerly Murphy’s Landing)!

Encampment weekend: May 29th – 31st

http://www.threeriversparks.org/events/T/the-landing-encampment.aspx

Civil War period encampment, historic buildings with period furnishings and costumed actors on site. A perfect opportunity for trying out “aged” photos in monochrome (black & white, sepia, etc).

If you attended, don’t forget to send me, Holly Kuchera,  (hkuchera@yahoo.com) any images you’d like to share on the club website! (jpg, 600 pixels on the longest side, please!)

Thanks for joining us! Hope you had a good day!

–Holly & Geoff Kuchera

The Camera Council (formally TCACCC) is pleased to present an exciting day of photo programs, vendors, MN Wildlife Animals, door prizes, great food, and the 2010 Interclub Awards.

Saturday, March 27, 2010 at Chippewa Middle School in North Oaks, Minnesota

Programs include:

• Darrell Gulin, Canon Explorer of Light
• Brian Peterson, Minneapolis StarTribune
• Lee Radzak, Split Rock Lighthouse and Minnesota Historical Society
• Dale Bohlke, Photographer Crex Meadows Wildlife Management Area
• Ron Timm, Professional Photographer and Instructor

To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Spring Break the Camera Council is offering the same admission price as 1986. $25! Spring Break reservations could not be easier. One price buys admission to all Programs, Lunch, Dinner, Coffee Breaks, Vendors, the MN Wildlife Animals, and the 2010 Interclub Awards.

Registration closes March 21st!:

http://www.cameracouncil.org/images/2010SBv2.pdf

Chivalry, combat, cooking and costume. Caponi Art Park and the Society of Creative Anachronism bring you the Middle Ages as they should have been: without the strife and pestilence! Authentic pavilions will be on display in a Medieval Village as artisans and noblemen in period dress present interactive demonstrations and activities to the public, including rapier, armored combat, pewter casting, musicians and dancing, cooking, heraldry and various fiber arts.

For more infomation contact Holly Kuchera at least a couple of days prior to the event.

Sponsored by: Members of the Society for Creative Anachronism’s Barony of Nordskogen Chapter and the Caponi Art Park