Children’s Art and Literacy Festival gears up to celebrate 10th anniversary

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Planning for this year’s Children’s Art and Literacy Pageant (CALF) is officially underway.  

“We hope that persons will come down and system their occasions in which they’re in and out and I assume everybody will seriously get pleasure from it,” mentioned Abilene Cultural Affairs Council’s Executive Director, Lynn Barnett. 

This calendar year they are celebrating their 10^th anniversary and expecting to bring 5,000+ persons to Downtown Abilene. 

“It’s a excellent healthy for Abilene due to the fact we’re all about family members and we’re all about kids,” claimed Barnett. 

Barnett instructed KTAB/KRBC the big celebration is just one of the principal factors why Abilene is identified as the Storybook Capital of The usa. 

“It appeals to mother and father with young kids,” stated Barnett. “We have a good deal of grandparents that come and bring in their grandkids and have a cousins camp through that with the weekend.”

Many people and mates seem forward to attending the party just about every 12 months as it provides new discovering options for youthful small children across the Major Place and over and above. 

One Abilene mother mentioned, “We’re so psyched. Our preferred matter we’re heading to do is the character breakfast, so we’re likely to eat with all the characters and have all the books read.” 

For Kaitlyn Dillingham, she said her mission is to take a look at all the situations going on this year. 

“Well, we have long gone to pretty considerably all of them,” Dillingham boasted. “Sometimes we missed a little of it, but it was seriously cool!”

Distinctive situations will be distribute out in the course of downtown, which includes a petting zoo, art things to do, a magic exhibit, and so considerably more. 

“It’s just a superb way to carry their families with each other and to entertain them,” Barnett vouched. 

CALF kicks off with a parade which is scheduled to get started downtown Thursday, June 9 at 5:30 pm. People are welcome to dress up as their preferred storybook figures and march in the parade.   

This is a 4-day function with just about every exercise Thursday cost-free to the community. Tickets for the remaining weekend are continue to offered for obtain until finally noon Thursday.