Check back often for more details!
Court House Lawn:
Will have a variety of entertainment, belly dancers, singers, local dancers, high school choirs, The Lamplighters Barber Shop Quartet. Please e-mail Becky Cwiek to sign up to display your talent....we still need many more, please contact as soon as possible!
Open Ceremony of Tuxedo Dressed Male Escorts parading down Grand River to the Courthouse Lawn to begin at 5:30 p.m. Lead by bag piper David MacDonald.
David Mac Donald in piping in Honor of the late Jeannine MacDonald.
Volunteer Stations will be at DDA Office at 122 State Street for those working at the Courthouse/Raffles, and dunk tank people and at the Opera House for those assigned to work from there. (Volunteers will know which station to check in).
Card Writing Station at DDA Office and a collection of decorated luminary bags from previous years.
Also on the lawn.....Dunk Tank, information booths from St. Joseph Hospital, Komen Mid-Michigan, University of Michigan Cancer Center and free massages.
50/50 Raffle info: Tickets will be sold throughout the evening all around town....Tickets are $2 each or 6 for $10. Drawing will be at main stage at 9 pm. Need not be present to win but respond to your text or cell phone call within 15 min. from drawing. All names and phone numbers need to be written clearly on the back of tickets for drawing.
Flash Mob Dance: 6pm and 8pm on Court House Lawn and on streets of Howell!!.....100 participants so far! Go to Facebook page to learn "dance" put together by Joanie Maciak. "Howell Pink Party Flash Mob 6/16/11.
The Detroit Institute of Arts has loaned Howell's Main Street Arts Initiative seven masterpiece reproductions for their Inside Out Program! Walk around our Historic Downtown and enjoy the open air gallery. Don't miss Howell's permanent art installations, "The Spirit of Howell" and "Guiding Our Way", behind First National Bank.
See if you can locate all seven masterpieces:
Dairy Queen: Annunciatory Angel
First National Bank: Reeds and Cranes
Opera House: Celadon and Amelia (from the Opera)
Library: Violinist and Young Woman
Yax Jewelers: Study for Birds
Uptown Coffee: Cafe Scene in Paris
Howell Western Wear: Interior of St. Peter's, Rome
The Opera House will be opening the Marilyn Monroe personal artifact exhibit during the Pink Party from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Admission is a minimum $3.00 donation - with all proceeds going to Susan G. Komen for the Cure! Stop in - it's really quite special and exclusive to Michigan!! You'll love it - Marilyn fan or not! The chair Marilyn is sitting on in this photo is one of the awesome items in the exhibit.
