Prospective General Public Annual Outreach Events for the Libertarian Party of DeKalb (Overlap with Atlanta & Georgia & Outright)
Most of these are potential OPH booth opportunities, except for the parades, charity walks, etc... where we can display our banners, signs, shirts, and ourselves..
(A list of potential networking outreach events for individuals like award dinners, conferences, organization meetings, etc... will be composed separately.)

2001 Dates listed, = Priority Events (subject to change), = Have participated as LP here before
Event links are listed in chronological order below the calendar table.

January {6 LP DeKalb Holiday Party}	February
March	April 6-8 Atlanta Dogwood Festival - Piedmont Park 16 Tax Day Protest/Outreach - Decatur Post Office
May 4-6 Music Midtown - Midtown Atlanta 6 ABATE Swap Meet - Lakewood Fairgrounds 25-28 Decatur Arts Festival & Garden Tour - Decatur	June 2-3 Virginia Highland Summerfest - Virginia Highlands 9-10 Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival - Auburn Ave. Atlanta 16-17 Stone Mountain Arts & Crafts Festival - SM Village 17 Father's Day Festival - Stone Mountain Village 20-23 Atlanta Fest - Six Flags 22-24 Gay Pride Festival - Piedmont Park
July 4 Dunwoody 4th of July Parade (AM) 4 - Pied Piper Parade (PM) - Downtown Decatur 27-29 Great Atlanta Blues Review - Underground Atlanta 29 ABATE Swap Meet & Bike Show - Lakewood Fairgrounds	August 18-19 For Sisters Only - Georgia World Congress Center 25 Tucker Days Parade & Festival - Main St. Tucker 31 - Sept. 3 Dragon*Con - Downtown Atlanta
September 6-9 Yellow Daisy Festival - Stone Mountain Park 8-9 Granite Days Arts & Crafts - Stone Mountain Village 15-16 JapanFest - Stone Mountain Park 21-23 Sweet Auburn Reunion - Auburn Ave. Atlanta {XX LP DeKalb Garage Sale}	October 6 Chili Cook-Off - Stone Mountain Park 6 Hands On Atlanta Day - Various locations 14 AIDS Walk Atlanta - Piedmont Park Area 20 Great Decatur Beer Tasting Festival - Decatur 20-21 Highland Games - Stone Mountain Park
November 1-4 Pow Wow and Indian Festival - Stone Mountain Park 6 Election Day	December

1. Atlanta Dogwood Festivial [Arts] April 12-14 in 2002, Piedmont Park
2. Music Midtown [Music] This is a COOL website if you can handle Flash.
3. ABATE Swap Meet [Culture - Bikers] We did an OPH booth here in 2000. Many libertarian types here. ABATE = American Bikers Active Toward Education. This seems to be our area event most like a gun show.
   
4. Decatur Arts Festival & Garden Tour [Arts] Memorial Day Weekend
5. Virginia Highlands Summerfest [Arts]
6. Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival [Culture & Business - Black]
7. Stone Mountain Arts & Crafts Festival [Arts] & Father's Day Festival [Holiday] Stone Mountain Village
8. Atlanta Fest [Culture - Christian] Was at Stone Mountain in 2000, moved 'back' to Six Flags in 2001 - June 20-23. They do have vendor booths.
9. Atlanta Gay Pride Festival [Culture - Gay] June 28-30 in 2002
10. Dunwoody 4th of July Parade [Holiday] Morning parade - starts at 9:30 am. 2,000 participants in 2000 with 10,000 spectators. 2001 theme was "Dunwoody Salutes America: Neighborhoods and Families."
11. Pied Piper Parade [Holiday] Evening parade followed by concert on the square and fireworks.
12. Great Atlanta Blues Review [Music] Held at Underground Atlanta. Vending booths.
13. ABATE Swap Meet [Culture - Bikers] For info call 404-294-8900.
14. Tucker Days [Arts] We did not have a booth last year. But did campaign for Harry Browne at the event. We walked in the parade in 1998.
15. For Sisters Only [Business - Black] Georgia World Congress Center
16. Dragon*Con [Culture - Science Fiction] Hyatt Regency Atlanta (events, activities and gaming), Atlanta Marriott Marquis (dealers' and exhibitors' halls, and our art show).
17. Yellow Daisy Festival [Arts]
18. Granite Days [Arts] Stone Mountain Village
19. JapanFest [Culture - Japanese]
20. Sweet Auburn Reunion [Culture & Business - Black] Vending booths.
    
21. Chili Cook-Off [Food] Should we make Libertarian Chili and try to win? TJ says he can make good chili. Who else wants to do this?
22. Hands On Atlanta Day [Charity] 15,000 volunteers in "the nation's largest Serv-a-thon". Hands On Atlanta
23. AIDS Walk Atlanta [Charity] 10K. Sign up pledges. Can register as a team and be listed in program. Prizes available.
24. Great Decatur Beer Tasting Festival [Food]
25. Highland Games [Culture - Scottish]
26. Pow Wow Indian Festival [Culture - Indian]

The Chair's Primary Sponsor/Coordinator recommendations for these annual events: (with support from the other overlapping organizations)

Other ideas & notes:

There are also Atlanta Jazz Festivals (spring was May 21-28 & fall = Montreux is August 24 to Sept. 3)
The National Black Arts Festival Next event = July 19-21, 2001, they have multiple events per year and claim over a million attendees per year.
Friends of Sweet Auburn also hold various events throughout the year. Auburn Avenue is of course one of the most historic streets in Atlanta and one of the most famous places relating to the black community outside of Harlem.
There are also many charity events to volunteer in as a group. We did Hands On Atlanta last year. There is the Atlanta Avon Breast Cancer "3-Day" on October 5th to 7th. Looks like it already too late to register for that event this year.
There are also great fall Atlanta Falcons football games, Atlanta Braves baseball games, Georgia Tech football games

( This page last updated Tuesday, July 31, 2001 11:32 AM )