Downtown Duncan Days

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Friday, July 17th, 2015

Downtown Duncan Days is an annual community event promoting local businesses and interactive street activities.

This year the event has been re-invented. There will be lots of street entertainment such as jugglers & stilt walkers provided by Vesta Entertainment , Harrison Lee,a National Yo-Yo champion, live music, a fire show, Kids' Parade,interactive Circus Day Camp, swordplay, the 39 Days of July's Grande Parade and the popular Friday evening Fashion Show followed by a Fire Show by Vesta Entertainment.

Friday, July 17th sees the return of the Kids’ Parade to its traditional evening time slot. Judging begins at 5:30 at Kenneth & Jubilee with the parade starting at 6pm. The Duncan Volunteer Firefighters are back again to judge the fabulous costumes and provide a cool treat for all participants. A new addition to the Kids’ Parade this year is the Cycle Therapy “Decoration Station” at Kenneth & Jubilee – come and decorate your bike, wagon, stroller, or helmet! Following the Kids’ Parade, you’ll want to be at the intersection of Station & Craig for the 2nd annual Downtown Duncan Days Fashion Show at 7pm. Come and see Downtown Duncan’s very own red carpet event featuring wonderful fashion and accessories from dozens of downtown shops stylishly displayed on the runway by a lovely assortment of enthusiastic models. Be sure to stick around after the Fashion Show because as the sun goes down Vesta Entertainment will be putting on a professionally choreographed Fireshow called “Spectacular, Spectacular” to light up the summer night!

On Saturday, July 18th, the Farmers’ Market will fill City Square and the always-popular Rotary Pancake Breakfast is back from 9–11am (new location in front of Just Jakes on Craig St.) followed by the Duncan - Cowichan Summer Festival’s Grande Parade at 11am. After the Grande Parade, the streets will come alive with professional busker shows, jugglers, stilt-walkers, and yo-yo demonstrations by a 15-yr. old National champion. There will also be an interactive Art Zone where you can help create a balloon forest, community collages and add your name to a chalk “name train” that will wind its way along Station St., as well as an interactive “Flow Zone” where the Vesta Entertainment performers will demonstrate and teach various circus skills such as poi, juggling, & devilsticks. What else you ask? Well, lots of great festival food (in addition to regular fare) from our Downtown eateries of course, as well as many stores and local non-profits offering a variety of fun activities from face-painting, CPR demos, and craft stations to a skate park, psychic fair, and an RC track (by donation). And where else can you “Take a Strip off a Cop” to support this year’s Tour de Rock? JuiceFm will be live on location both days too!

*In light of the Extreme Fire Hazard currently in place throughout Vancouver Island, the Duncan BIA has made changes to our planned Fire Show scheduled for Friday evening, July 17th.  Vesta Entertainment, being the professionals that they are, have modified this exciting show using LED lights to create a spectacular spectacle to delight the entire family. You won’t want to miss this show!!