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American outdoor festival: you?re welcomed to the world of arts

Added: 12/29/2005

Imagine yourself a place, where beautiful nature, perfect weather, a great quantity of new interesting people and a plenty of free air are united. What can be better for a good rest? And what should you say if get a lot of arts in addition to all mentioned above? Now you really have a chance to get it all and even more. This chance is Red River Revel Festival in Louisiana.

1976 was a year of birth of the most famous American outdoor festival of arts. It was established by Junior League as a present for the Shreveport's bicentenary. The popularity of the event grew very quickly and now more than 200 000 people visit annually this eight-day outdoor festival.
The Revel is a real celebration of arts. It includes a great variety of artists of all types, such as painters, potters, weavers, jewelers, musicians, theatre, ballet and clowns. So, independently of your private tastes and preferences you will surely find what you like during American outdoor festival in North Louisiana.
It will be great time for you and your family if you decide to come there. Red River Revel is a paradise not only for arts-admirers, but also for those, who like good food and new music.
If you're fond of testing new dishes, Red River Revel welcomes you to its festival of ethnic food. There are a lot of people, who wait all the year long to go to this grand event and to delight not only performances and arts, but also their favourite delicious dishes, cooked by the best chefs of America. Outdoor festival on the banks of the Red River always attracts the most famous chefs and gives them a possibility to win Grand Prix in the food competition while treating the guests of the festival.
If you want to make a surprise to your children or if you are just planning a family vacation, you can't find the better place than Red River Revel. A lot of entertainment facilities are waiting for your children there. And at the same time, when you are enjoying the arts, your children will be busy with their own competitions and games. The Revel has a special area exclusively for children's activities. There are even performance stages and food booths there. Your children may take part in Street Performances, climb special Walls, fly kites, dance on stilts and do a lot of other fascinating things. And do not scold your kid, when he appears in front of you, his face is painted brightly. It is one of the popular children entertainments at the festival, as well as Hair Braiding and Temporary Tattoo.
But the most favourite game for children at the Revel is Geological Dig. The festival has special site for your kids to make exciting and absolutely unexpected anthropologic and archaeological discoveries.
Becides, the Red River Revel has gained its popularity as an education centre. There are a lot of professional artists and teachers there, who will teach you and your children how to play the performances, how to dance, how to paint and much more. Your children will also get the beginnings of aesthetic education. You see, you'll get a large profit when go to this festival, non saying about aesthetic pleasure of beautiful performances and pictures.
The one of the main principles of the Revel is that it is an entirely non-commercial and non-political event. Only arts, music and artistic skills rule there. All money, gathered during the eight-day festival, goes back to the cash of the Revel, so every next event is always better and bigger than the previous one.
If you like to travel alone, the Red River Revel will be thankful for your help in organizing of the festival. It is a good old tradition for many people from different countries to go to the Revel as volunteers. Such people help to compose the schedules and programs, to arrange accommodation for festival guests and to do a lot of other work, necessary to make the festival possible. During the festival they work at the food booths, at the children grounds and at the theatre stages as assistances. So if you want to enjoy the arts and to do something useful, go to the festival and you will find new friends and very hospitable atmosphere there. The allure of such activity is so large, that thousands of people come to Louisiana every year to help in festival organization. A lot of people made a habit to volunteer, so they are real friends and are always happy to meet each other at the Revel. And you may join them any time you want to. Just pack your luggage, go to the USA, Louisiana in September (the festival itself starts in October) and you will get a lot of positive emotions and unforgettable impressions.
See you at the Red River Revel!



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