Please join us at the first-ever Family Garden at this year’s Castro Street Fair! This safe, fun and dedicated space for children and families will feature arts and crafts activities, such as face painting and button-making; kid-friendly food & refreshments; and resources for LGBTQ families.  Family Garden is hosted by the Castro Network, along with partners Our Family Coalition, COLAGE, and the San Francisco LGBT Community Center’s KidSpace. Find us at 18th and Noe Streets from 11 am – 2 pm!  For more information about the Family Garden, please contact Joseph Peralta at 415-865-5530 or email atjosephp@sfcenter.org.

Brought to you by:

The Castro Network is a program of the SF LGBT Community Center and is funded by the Department of Children, Youth and their Families through the Community Convener Initiative. The Castro Network connects service providers, public agencies, schools, merchant and residential groups, residents and visitors to the neighborhood to better serve children, youth and families in the Castro community.

A cozy Middle Eastern lounge of plushy, cushy, comfy relaxation for your loving pleasure!

• Bibi has featured tons of local performance artists, musicians and DJs in our *8* mega parties, so far!
  
• Plus we’ve donated over $10,000 of the proceeds to local and international organizations!
• Plus, plus Bibi is fiscally sponsored by the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee!
• And even more love, Bibi was recognized as a San Francisco LGBT Pride Official Event in 2007, 2008 & 2009!
• Sign up for our email list, our club events happen every 4 months (JUN, OCT, FEB)
  

SUN OCT 4 Bibi’s Love Lounge @ Castro Street Fair’s World of Wonderment:  FREE

FRI OCT 9 SFBG & Bibi Party @ de Young! FREE

SAT OCT 31 Bibi MEGA CLUB PARTY: HALLOWEEN @ Club Six!

Bibi|SF is also one of the various co-sponsors of the Arab Film Festival in San Francisco OCT 15-25.

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Shake those hips!

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• Acro Yoga will be unveiling for couples of all kinds the Secrets of “BALANCED RELATIONSHIPS”
• Bibi|SF Presenting “Bibi’s love Lounge” A cozy Lounge of plushy, cushy relaxation for your loving pleasure.
• Red Hot Burlesque will be entertaining non stop at the BACHELOR/ETTE PARTY Tent
• Playland-Not-At-The-Beach is schedule to bring a sampling of their world famous SIDESHOW
• Charlie Horse’s crew will recreate scenes from Dr. Seuss’s world known Whoville and Lorax
• Tiara Sensation team will populate a MARRIAGE MIDWAY hosting multiple games for lovers and loved ones
• The New Eccentrics will reprise their YBCA successful offering: UNICORN GLAMOUR SHOTS with Splenduh the Unicorn!
• The Brain Machine will make its second visit. Artist/Scientis/Inventors Mitch Altman and Michael Wertz join forces once again to offer faire goers this marvelous experience
• The guys from Trikone SF will show off in a BOLLYWOOD EXTRAVAGANZA designed to tantalize and amaze all around
• Aesops Chapel constructed entirely of oversized tinkertoys will bring you a smile as you witness WONDERMENT CELEBRITY WEDDINGS.
• Franklin Stein & the bride of Franklin Stein will marry before a universal monster party,  Dr Seuss Thing One and Thing Two will also tie the knot, and the King of Wonderment will honor two very special community members.
• Origami Paper  Zoo Challenge! A paper petting zoo for all to see.  The community at large is invited to get those creative juices flowing and have some fun by folding their own entry and have a chance to win $100.
• A FAMILY GARDEN provided by The LGBT Center from 11am-2pm
• And the first ever ACCOUSTIC STAGE featuring performer and music groups Pi, Calvin & Tum Tum Show, and the Mad Maggies
• Feral Faerie Folk, Wondering Musicians, Circus folk, all walking around to and fro, interacting with all city folk attending this wondrous event.

We are also very happy to present the following timed shows:

Contribute to the wonderment by entering our origami challenge: Origami Paper  Zoo Challenge! Get those creative juices flowing and have some fun by folding your own entry and have a chance to win $100.  All submissions will be on display at the Castro Street Fair World of Wonderment Animal Paper Zoo, This great event will take place on October 4th, 2009 in the heart of San Francisco’s Castro District – 18th street between Noe and Hartford – All models will be judged by a panel of origami experts on location, so all entries must be in by October 1st, 2009.

Official Rules:

1. Origami submissions can be entered by an individual or a group team
2. Models may be an ORIGINAL (your own creation) or a REPLICA (someone else’s creation).
3. Glue/tape may be used.
4. Please fill out one ENTRY FORM (see below) for each model submitted.
5. World of Wonderment will provide each participant as many 9′ by 9′ sheets of paper as previously agreed upon
6. World of wonderment will also provide participants with space in which to fold paper
7. All models become property of Barnaby’s Entertainment
8. Please include stands to display your origami, if needed.

Direct your questions about all entries to:

• Max Barnaby
• Barnaby Entertainment
• 1519 Mission Street
• San Francisco, CA 94103
• Phone: (415) 515-8219
• email: max@worldofwonderment.org

Good Luck!

(come back soon for your entry form)

Castro Street Fair 2008 Participants - Photo by Jashiro Dean

(This list is rapidly growing – check with us for updates)

Production Team:

Castro Street Fair
Barnaby’s Entertainment

Organizations Participating:

The following is a list of who is involved and what they are doing.

• Acro Yoga will be unveiling for couples of all kinds the Secrets of “BALANCED RELATIONSHIPS”
• Bibi|SF Presenting “Bibi’s Love Lounge” A cozy Lounge of plushy, cushy relaxation for your loving pleasure.
• Red Hot Burlesque will be entertaining non stop at the BACHELOR/ETTE PARTY Tent
• Playland-Not-At-The-Beach is schedule to bring a sampling of their world famous SIDESHOW
• Charlie Horse’s crew will recreate scenes from Dr. Seuss’s world known Whoville and Lorax
• Tiara Sensation team will populate a MARRIAGE MIDWAY hosting multiple games for lovers and loved ones
• The New Eccentrics will reprise their YBCA successful offering: UNICORN GLAMOUR SHOTS with Splenduh the Unicorn!
• The Brain Machine will make its second visit. Artist/Scientis/Inventors Mitch Altman and Michael Wertz join forces once again to offer faire goers this marvelous experience
• The guys from Trikone SF will show off in a BOLLYWOOD EXTRAVAGANZA designed to tantalize and amaze all around
• Aesops Chapel constructed entirely of oversized tinkertoys will bring you a smile as you witness WONDERMENT CELEBRITY WEDDINGS.
• Franklin Stein & the bride of Franklin Stein will marry before a universal monster party,  Dr Seuss Thing One and Thing Two will also tie the knot, and the King of Wonderment will honor two very special community members.
• Origami Paper  Zoo Challenge! A paper petting zoo for all to see.  The community at large is invited to get those creative juices flowing and have some fun by folding their own entry and have a chance to win $100.
• A FAMILY GARDEN provided by The LGBT Center from 11am-2pm
• And the first ever ACCOUSTIC STAGE featuring performer and music groups Pi, Calvin & Tum Tum Show, and the Mad Maggies
• Feral Faerie Folk, Wondering Musicians, Circus folk, all walking around to and fro, interacting with all city folk attending this wondrous event.

(for the most updated list of participants please visit www.worldofwonderment.org)

Our Biggest supporter is of course, the great people at Castro Street Fair Board of Directors. Their guidance, problem solving, and resource sharing is simply invaluable.

Mama Calizo Voice Factory, Dwayne Calizo’s helpful advise, support, as well as his incredible DIY know how is much appreciated.

We will not go thirsty thanks to the generous help of Taylors Tonic Chai Cola.

Join the World of Wonderment Patrons club

Sponsors to WORLD OF WONDERMENT Enjot the following:

• Listing on our Web page for all Annual Donors
• Prominent Placement of Company Logo in and around World of Wonderment grounds
• Special thank you card signed by all World of Wonderment Performers
• Invitation to the annual “World of Wonderment Thanks you” reception
• Personalized World of Wonderment gift
• Special invitation to private parties

Remember your donation is a tax-deductible contribution.

Why Join?

World of Wonderment was created by Barnaby’s Entertainment with the goal to encourage play  in the hearts of all fare attendants.  We guarantee you and your loved ones a smile and a great memory.  It is also an joint creative outlet for multiple art and performance organizations in and around San Francisco.  We are a family and we are happy to call you one of our own.  Your contribution will help us do the following:

• Continue our mission of providing free entertainment to the Castro Street Faire attendees.
• Fund the commissioning of original performance by queer and queer friendly art makers
• Expand our outreach to the community-at-large

We hope that the World of Wonderment Patrons club will be an important financial force behind the artistic growth of World of Wonderment in the future. The World of Wonderment Patrons Club will be able to help move this outstanding organization in new and challenging directions.

As a friend and supporter of the World of Wonderment, your tax-deductible contribution will help assure this great event a place in the San Francisco arts community for years to come.

If you wish to become a World of Wonderment Patrons club please call 415.515.8219 or email us at max@worldofwonderment.org.

We thank you (and everyone mentioned above) from the bottom of our hearts!

The Brothers Barnaby./

Map - click to download a PDF Version of it.

Barnaby’s World of Wonderment is an interactive entertainment area focusing on the performance arts and showcasing a wide variety of local theatre, street and circus performers. Invoking the spirit of old carnie festivals, the world of wonderment features skilled talkers, amazing curiosities, burlesque performers, vaudeville entertainers, wandering musicians — just to name a few.

The Brothers Barnaby invite you to join us in reclaiming the good old days. Dress in your Sunday finery and take part in this living art installation.

Have an idea that you’d like to contribute to the fair? Send them to switchboard@worldofwonderment.org