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Lilac Festival (Calgary)
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Lilac festival is an annual street festival held in Calgary
, Alberta
, Canada
. It celebrates the lilac
(Syringa) flowers and was first organized in 1989 by the 4th Street Business Revitalization Zone.
The festival takes place along the 13 blocks of 4th Street (between 12th Avenue South and Elbow Drive) in the Beltline and Mission
neighborhoods on the last Sunday in May. It lasts for one day and features entertainment stages with street dancing, as well as craft, food and entertainment stalls.
Lilac festival has been voted Calgary's best free festival in 2006. In 2005 it had an estimated 120,000 attendance.
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
, Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. It celebrates the lilac
Lilac
Syringa is a genus of about 20–25 species of flowering woody plants in the olive family , native to woodland and scrub from southeastern Europe to eastern Asia, and widely and commonly cultivated in temperate areas elsewhere....
(Syringa) flowers and was first organized in 1989 by the 4th Street Business Revitalization Zone.
The festival takes place along the 13 blocks of 4th Street (between 12th Avenue South and Elbow Drive) in the Beltline and Mission
Mission, Calgary
The Mission district is an inner city neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada that originated as Notre Dame de la Paix, a Catholic mission, and was for a time the incorporated Village of Rouleauville...
neighborhoods on the last Sunday in May. It lasts for one day and features entertainment stages with street dancing, as well as craft, food and entertainment stalls.
Lilac festival has been voted Calgary's best free festival in 2006. In 2005 it had an estimated 120,000 attendance.
- 2007 - the festival was held on May 27.
See also
- Festivals in Alberta
- Lilac Festival (Mackinac Island)Lilac Festival (Mackinac Island)The Lilac Festival is a ten-day annual festival held in honor of the common lilac at Mackinac Island in the U.S. state of Michigan. The festival, which has been held since 1949, begins on the second Friday of June and concludes, on the third Sunday of June, with the horse-drawn Lilac...
- Lilac Festival (New York)
- List of festivals in Calgary