Schedule (2012)

Thursday, October 4th

See Thursday’s schedule…

Pre-HONK! musical performances

NOTE: change of Pre-HONK! time and venue due to rain!

8:30 – 11:00pm, Union Square in the CrossFit Somerville gym
(35 Prospect St, Union Square)

8:30 Chaotic Noise Marching Corps
9:00 Dirty Water Brass Band
9:30 Church Marching Band
10:00 Emperor Norton
10:30 Environmental Encroachment

(in the unlikely case it doesn’t rain, we’ll revert back to the original 7p schedule and venue)

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Friday, October 5th

See Friday’s schedule…

3:00 to 5:00p: HONK! IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS
Bands play for community and after-school groups

4:00 to 7:00p: LANTERN MAKING WORKSHOPS
Come make your own lantern in Hodgkins-Curtin Park, which can be used in the night time lantern parades. A great family event!

7:00 to 9:00p: LANTERN PARADES
Sidewalk processions around Davis Square accompanied by bike lights, paper lanterns, flashlights, and other forms of DIY lighting. Parades leave from Hodgkins-Curtin park.

7:30p to 1:00a: HONK! KICK-OFF
Johnny D’s Uptown Restaurant & Music Club
17 Holland St, Davis Square, Somerville, MA 02144
617-776-2004
Friday Oct 5, 7:30pm, $12 door, 21+

7:30 Church Marching Band
8:30 Brass Messengers
9:30 Veveritse
10:30 Young Fellaz Brass Band
11:30 Pink Puffers Brass Band
12:30 jam with all of the above (and maybe others)

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Saturday, Oct 6th, 12:30 – 9:00p

See Saturday’s schedule…

12:30p: OPENING CEREMONIES
in 7 Hills Park (behind the Davis Sq. T stop)

HONK! ON DAVIS SQUARE
More than 30 activist street bands, from around the world, perform outdoors for free.

Time 7 Hills Park Chester Street Davis Sq Plaza VFW Dilboy Hall
1:00 Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band Caka!ak Thunder AfroBrazil Forward! Marching Band
2:00 Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band The Bread & Puppet Circus Band Leftist Marching Band Hungry March Band
3:00 Minor Mishap Marching Band Dirty Water Brass Band Himalayas What Cheer? Brigade
4:00 The Carnival Band The Brass Balagan Loyd Family Players The Expandable Brass Band
5:00 Extraordinary Rendition Band Church Marching Band Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble Rude Mechanical Orchestra
6:00 Detroit Party Marching Band Himalayas Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band Seed & Feed Marching Abominable
7:00 What Cheer? Brigade Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band The Bread & Puppet Circus Band Extraordinary Rendition Band
8:00 Rude Mechanical Orchestra Gora Gora Orkestar Environmental Encroachment Minor Mishap Marching Band
Time Grove Street Highland Kenney Park Statue Park Winter Street
1:00 Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble Seed & Feed Marching Abominable
2:00 Chaotic Noise Marching Corps Brass Messengers Brass Liberation Orchestra
3:00 The Hill Stompers Veveritse Pink Puffers Brass Band Detroit Party Marching Band tint(A)nar
4:00 DJA-Rara Pick Up Band Rehearsal Lungs Face Feet Environmental Encroachment Forward! Marching Band
5:00 Gora Gora Orkestar Chaotic Noise Marching Corps Young Fellaz Brass Band Brass Messengers Leftist Marching Band
6:00 Dirty Water Brass Band The Hill Stompers Caka!ak Thunder Hungry March Band Brass Liberation Orchestra
7:00 Loyd Family Players The Expandable Brass Band Veveritse Pink Puffers Brass Band The Carnival Band
8:00 Church Marching Band Lungs Face Feet DJA-Rara Young Fellaz Brass Band The Brass Balagan

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Sunday, Oct 7th

Noon – 2:00p: HONK! PARADE to “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet”
featuring HONK! bands and community groups, from Davis Square to Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest celebration. The parade leaves Davis Square at 12 noon, travels down Elm Street, then Beech Street onto Massachusetts Ave to Harvard Square.

2:15 – 6:00: HARVARD SQUARE OKTOBERFEST
HONK! bands perform at the Harvard Square Oktoberfest (www.harvardsquare.com).

Time Winthrop Park Eliot Triangle Palmer Street Alley Charlie’s Kitchen Church & Mass Ave
and Main Stage
2:15 Veveritse The Carnival Band Seed & Feed Marching Abominable The Hill Stompers
2:45 Himalayas Brass Liberation Orchestra Forward! Marching Band Dirty Water Brass Band
3:15 DJA-Rara Church Marching Band The Expandable Brass Band Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band The Bread & Puppet Circus Band
3:45 The Brass Balagan Loyd Family Players Detroit Party Marching Band Extraordinary Rendition Band Hungry March Band
4:30 Lungs Face Feet Brass Messengers Minor Mishap Marching Band Rude Mechanical Orchestra
5:15 The Primate Fiasco Young Fellaz Brass Band Environmental Encroachment What Cheer? Brigade 5-6PM Main Stage
Pink Puffers Brass Band

8:00p – 12:00a The HONK! Festival ALL-BAND BLOWOUT CONCERT
The final blowout concert will feature almost every band (over 30 of them!) raising sweet HONK! music up to the roof inside the spectacular Sanders Theatre in Harvard Square.

Location: Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets: $15 general admission, $10 for students, available at the HONK! merchandise booth during the festival (cash only), and at the door (credit cards accepted).

Advance tickets can be purchased at the Harvard Box Office by calling 617.496.2222 (TTY 617.495.1642), online at www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online, or in person at the Holyoke Center: 1350 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
[hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 12:00-6:00 pm]

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Monday, October 8th 10:00a – 2:00p

HONK! Symposium
Harvard University School of Education, Gutman Library (lower level)
Appian Way – Cambridge, MA
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10:00 am – 12 noon: Plenary session “Inclusion and Quality: Contradictory or Complimentary?”
12:00 – 12:45: Lunch Break
12:45 – 2:00:  ”HONK! in Today’s Classroom”
12:45 – 2:00: “What makes a HONK! band HONK?”
12:45 – 2:00: “The Nuts and Bolts of HONK! Organizing”