Last night, a good friend and I went to the annual block party at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum. Several months ago, we’d seen images from last years party and really wanted to attend this year’s event. The highlight was the Brooklyn Jumbies stilt dancers who figure prominently in these images. There were also other dancers and a steel band to provide the music. Guests could also visit the museum for free and try their hand at making art, including stone carving and printmaking. After, we had a rather adventurous late supper at a Middle Eastern restaurant in Cambridge that halfway through our meal converted into a dance club. While some diners may have been put off, we thought it was an amazing and amusing experience. Cheers!
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Interesting to see such events and experience the vibrant culture that comes with it.
This festival was new to us and brought new sights and experiences. Cheers
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The colors are so vivid! Cannot even imagine dancing on stilts, lol. Very talented people.
Thank you. The colors were amazing. Yes, I can’t imagine walking on stilts either. I tried it as a boy and it did not go well. Cheers
Nice colors and stilt dancers are amazing to see in person – they used to have them in Disney parades
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The restaurant to club transition must have been interesting and glad you saw the better side –
Hope he food was good –
Thank you. We really enjoyed the stilt dancers. Oh gosh, this restaurant has great Middle Eastern food. Cheers
I love love love middle eastern food!
And what a nice was to wind down after a festival
Which reminds me that I have missed so many local festivities this year -might need to check our out and about calendar
The blue’s in the pictures are sooooo vibrant! Love all the pictures, esp the last two (the child making art and the art on display) Beautiful 😀
Thank you, Himali. Yes, I loved the colors. We were sad we did not get to the printmaking until it was too late. Next year!
Super vibrant and high on energy. I am also sad you missed the printmaking. But you got to take some very interesting shots 😀
Nothing like street festivals. People have to get together and have fun, at least once a year 🙂
And this was a great one. Cheers
Ooh … I would love to go to this. And I would love to visit that restaurant.
The block party is held every summer. I learnt of it in January and waited 8 mos. Tbe restaurant is Zulu’s in Cambridge. They seated us at 9:45 and then the dancing started about 10:20 or so. Order the Middle Eastern pupu platter for two. Cheers
I’m definitely making a note of the block party (see you there, next year!) and Zulu’s will be seeing us very soon (time and pupu platter duly noted) … we both love Middle Eastern food so a recommendation of a good and fun place to enjoy it is really welcome. Thank you so much, Chris 😊
I’m not sure the waitress was supposed to seat us at 9:45. She left and the waitress who stayed said she hoped we were not put out by the dancing. We told her we loved it. My friend and I stayed after we finished and paid to watch a bit more. The waitress said we were welcome to stay and dance but that was more action than we were looking for. Cheers
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Buona domenica 🙂
Thank you. 😊
WoW! This looks like so much fun, Chris! Your shots are amazing! I love the colours and the costumes! I´ve always been fascinated by stilt dancers. And I love the pic with the boy so intent on carving the stone. Great job, Chris! And how awesome that your dinner turned out into a dance club of a sort – what fun! 😀
Thank you, Sarah. I was really looking forward to this shoot and it did not disappoint for all of the reasons that you mentioned. Cheers!
Cool! Looks so fun! 🙂
Thank you. It was great a great time. We wanted to arrive earlier and have more time but there was a lot of traffic. We still got to see and do a lot. Cheers
Nice Article… Mr Milfordstreet
Thank you so much. Please call me Chris. Cheers
Oh really…Sure I do like that