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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Yarrgh! Maritime Bacchanal and Pirates Festival in Red Hook Saturday, July 30


Ahoy, mateys! Dos the word "bacchanal" shiver yer timbers? And have ye always wanted to run away to Pirate Camp?

Then get yerself to IKEA/Erie Basin Park in Red Hook this Saturday from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. for the mother of all Maritime Bacchanal and Pirates Festivals. And bring yer sniveling bilge brats, too.

What be happening: Pirate Theatre for Kids, Pirate Sea Shanteys, Piratory, Pirate reenactments, flintlock demos, Interactive Pirate Camp, Visiting Pirate Ship, Ocean Explorers, Maritime Career Opportunity, Pirates Ecocruise, Live Afro Beat Music on a theme design stage, Pirate Costume Contest, Vendors, Refreshments, Prizes and more. More here.

Presented by UDEC Enviromedia Mobile - the Amazing Traveling Maritime and Nature Museum on wheels at IKEA/Erie Basin Park, in Red Hook Brooklyn.



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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    You may want to consider this for any pirates in your family:

    http://noquartergiven.net/

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  2. AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 12:47 PM

    We are here now--stay home!!! It sucks as a festival--4 tents, little to do and stuff aint that interesting for adults or kids. Massive fail. There is a Johnny Depp lookalike.

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  3. mcbrooklynAugust 1, 2011 at 12:06 AM

    Damn! What happened to the (and we quote) "Pirate Theatre for Kids, Pirate Sea Shanteys, Piratory, Pirate reenactments, flintlock demos, Interactive Pirate Camp, Visiting Pirate Ship, Ocean Explorers, Maritime Career Opportunity, Pirates Ecocruise, Live Afro Beat Music on a theme design stage, Pirate Costume Contest, Vendors, Refreshments..."???

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  4. AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 8:00 AM

    If the "flintlock demo" was a loud gun repeatedly going off without warning that scares small children, yeah, that was there, too. A nice touch for getting rid of the target audience because we all know kids like repetitive sudden surprises.

    To be fair, there was a nice gentleman in one of the tents with two parrots that could be petted. This was the only nice thing of the event. The music was canned music unrelated to pirates. No costume contest, though one of the tents was selling costume bad pirate stuff, but also angel wings and rainbow wands.

    The parent and kid exodus soon after arrival made clear that better things lie elsewhere, anywhere but there.

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  5. DownstateAugust 1, 2011 at 11:32 AM

    Well that is just sad. We were thinking about going but overslept. How can they advertise a visiting pirate ship and cruises etc and Pirate Camp and not have them? Deceptive advertising!

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