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QUAKERTOWN ALIVE!presents
2008
MAY 17th / 10 AM - 5PM THIRD and W. BROAD STS. QUAKERTOWN, PA 18951
[See our Visitors Page for driving directions.] RAIN or SHINE: (Rain location: Strayer Middle School, 1200 Ronald Reagan Drive, Quakertown) Come Celebrate the Arts in Upper Bucks County Nearly 100 fine artists and crafters, food, live music, carriage rides, strolling entertainers & more!
Live Stage Performers
W. Broad Street Stage (Third & Broad Streets)Miss Cindy's School of Dance 10-11 AM Original Musical Artists: Wayne Scott Farley 11 AM-1 PM Laura Higgins 1-3 PM Matt Duke Band 3-5 PM 
W. Broad Street Stage performancesmade possible by QNB Community Bank and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Sound engineered by D. Freeman and Sonlight Productions
Children's Courtyard Stage(224 W. Broad Street)Jonathan Swift, Magician 11-11:30 AM O'Grady-Quinlan Academy Irish Dancers 11:30 -12 Wagstaff & Company, Puppeteer 12-12:30 PM Jonathan Swift, Magician 12:30-1 PM Wagstaff & Company, Puppeteer 1-1:30 PM Wagstaff & Company, Puppeteer 2-2:30 PM Children's Courtyard performances QNB and Univest
The Day's Events
- Nearly 100 Juried Fine Artists & Crafters will be displaying their work right on W. Broad Street, between Front and Fourth Streets, and at the Quakertown Train Station (weather permitting)
- Food, fun, and community group booths interspersed among the artists throughout the downtown, along W. Broad Street from Fourth Street to the train station on Front Street
- Stop in the local retail stores and restaurants for Arts Alive specials or just to see what they have
- Childrens Courtyard: 224 W. Broad Street, Sponsored by QNB Community Bank and Univest, featuring arts & crafts for children age 12 and under, plus the magic of Jonathan Swift, the puppeteering of Wagstaff & Co., Irish dancing from the O'Grady-Quinlan Academy, and Q-Bot character from QNB
- Annual Bill Baker Memorial Senior Art Show, Sponsored by LifeQuest, at the new location for the Katie Stauffer Memorial Art Center, 223 W. Broad Street

Original artists entertain the stage audience at Third and W. Broad Streets - $2 Horse-Drawn Carriage Rides, sponsored by QNB Community Bank, boarding at Third and W. Broad Sts.
- Strolling Performers: Giggle Mill Improv Troupe, Tootsie the Clown & friends, Juggler Extraordinare Dick Grainer
- Children's Book Author Book Signing, Lion Around Books, 302 W. Broad St.
- Bucks County Community College Art Mobile, Third Street
- Student Art Exhibit, Quakertown High School, Park Ave.
- Free Oil Painting Workshop, Michele Randell, (Ages 11-15) at Studio 116, 116 E. Broad Street (across the RR tracks), 1-4 PM
- Automobiles from the Faulkner-Ciocca Dealerships, Train Station, at Front and W. Broad Streets
- Radio Station B101 BuzzBee and the Bee Crew, 211 W. Broad St., 2-4 PM
- In-Door Flea Market, Quakertown Fire Company #1, W. Broad St. near Fifth, 9 AM-4 PM
- Impromptu dance performances by Miss Cindy's School of Dance at the Broadway Cafe, 241 W. Broad Street

Juggler Dick Grainer demonstrates the ups and downs of juggling
Sponsors
This day made possible by the work of our Events Committee volunteers, the Quakertown Alive staff and the contributions from the following organizations: Your Community Bank  Bucks County Commissioners
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