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This year’s All Things Italian Festival features:

•Live italian music and dance performances
•Free family fun - Bocce (Italian lawn bowling) and Morra (hand game)
•Sidewalk chalk art called Madonnari
•Canvas and face painting for children
•Piazza on the Square featuring fresh pasta making demonstration
•Free drawings of pasta, Italian wine and Italian-themed art print - more

• Exhibit of influential Italian Americans from Ellis Island; Italian artifacts

• Italian automobiles and motorcycles
• Strolling Musicians
• Local Art Galleries
• Digital Photography Contest for teens and adults - $200 cash grand prize - click here to register (prizes will be announced June 20th)

The Fairfield Town Square was transformed into an Italian ‘piazza’ for the evening. This year a crowd of over 3,500 came from all over Iowa to enjoy the festivities.

Street Festival

Friday June 5th 2009 6-10 PM

Click HERE for pictures of the 2008 Festival

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Photo Contest Winners

This year, the festival entertainment will be highlighted by the performance of renowned clown, juggler and Italian performance artist Douglas Grew. Doug has performed as a core member of Chicago circus/theater troupe, the Midnight Circus and is a graduate of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Clown College. An associate of CircEsteem/Chicago Youth Circus, Douglas also enjoys teaching. Doug has taught Physical Theater at the college level through the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Commedia dell' Arte workshops at the Chicago Improv Olympic comedy theater.

Proceeds

Last year, SOFIA was happy to donate a portion of the proceeds from the All Things Italian Street Festival to the following causes:

•Scholarships for local students visiting Italy

•Pimsleur Italian language course for the Fairfield Public Library

•1st Fridays Art Walk

•Relay For LIfe

•Southeast Iowa Women's Shelter

•IAF/Abruzzo Earthquake Relief Fund

PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED!