Saturday, October 8, 2016

12:00PM, Opening Ceremony in 7 Hills Park

Come celebrate the official beginning of HONK! with the first horn blast, the HONK! Cantastoria, and the buzz and energy of over 25 brass bands converging on 7 Hills Park in Davis Square.

1:00PM – 9:00PM, Bands play all around Davis Square

Over 25 brass bands from around the world will fill the nooks and crannies of Davis Square.

Time	7 Hills Park	Chester Street	Davis Sq Plaza	VFW Dilboy Hall	Kenney Park	Statue Park	Elm @ Grove
1:00p	Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band	Hartford Hot Several	Mayday Marching Band			Expandable Brass Band	Leftist Marching Band
2:00p	Boycott	Dirty Water Brass Band	Yes Ma’am Brass Band		Forward! Marching Band	Le Pompier Poney Club	The Brass Balagan
3:00p	School of HONK Open Rehearsal Set (more info)	Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble	Extraordinary Rendition Band	The Party Band	Environmental Encroachment	aNova Brazil	What Cheer? Brigade
4:00p	Original Pinettes Brass Band	The Bread & Puppet Circus Band	Detroit Party Marching Band	La Fanfare Invisible	Rude Mechanical Orchestra	Forward! Marching Band
5:00p	Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band	Leftist Marching Band	Hartford Hot Several	Expandable Brass Band	The Brass Balagan	The Party Band
6:00p	Le Pompier Poney Club	Brass Messengers	School of HONK Performance Set	Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble	Yes Ma’am Brass Band	The Bread & Puppet Circus Band
7:00p	Environmental Encroachment	Extraordinary Rendition Band	Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band	Dirty Water Brass Band	Mayday Marching Band	Detroit Party Marching Band
8:00p	La Fanfare Invisible	Original Pinettes Brass Band	Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band	Rude Mechanical Orchestra	Brass Messengers	What Cheer? Brigade

• See this schedule with maps of all of the locations…

Please don’t miss the HONK exhibits which are scattered around Davis Square and the surrounding area:

Honk In Four
Designed and created by Patrick Johnson with the support of the Somerville Arts Council
Inside-Out Gallery, CVS storefront windows, 1 Davis Square

This piece attempts to capture the spectacle, energy, and beauty of the HONK! Festival. As a participant of the festival, everywhere you look there is something stunning and unique; a colorful costume that required hundreds of hours of work to produce, a crowd dancing and surging with the energy of brass music, a band with incredible choreography, and community groups marching in service of important causes. I found a single viewpoint was not enough to convey the overwhelming beauty of the experience, so I employed four screens to express the intensity of the festival. I could not be happier to exhibit this in the heart of Davis Square. Just as the Honk Festival aims to reclaim public space, it was important to display this work in a public space and provide a small taste of the Honk experience.

The installation was created by Patrick Johnson, a Somerville resident, and features imagery captured by Gabe Bornstein, Diego Perez, Geoffrey Cook, and Patrick Johnson. Many thanks to Heather Balchunas and the Somerville Arts Council.

HONK! at the Nave Gallery Annex
HONK! supporters from the Nave Gallery Annex, located at 53 Chester St. in Somerville, have sent out a “call for entries” (deadline September 17th) soliciting photographs taken during HONK!s past, to be included in their upcoming HONK! Deconstruction of Joy. The exhibit runs from October 6-31, with an art opening on Thursday October 6th from 6-8 pm. The exhibit is being organized by Leonardo March, a photojournalist hailing from Puerto Rico, who is now based in Boston. For further information: www.navegallery.org/wp/honk-deconstruction-of-joy.

 

Photo by Peter Lee