Unity in the Community 2010 - Drag Show, Final Song

Here is the final song of the drag show, they played We Are Family and invited people to come up to the stage and join them in a dance. A lot of people joined them, as you can see here as people were going up, even more ended up joining, but i was getting tired and hungry, so i'm not sure how many and how long it went.

Unity in the Community 2010 - Drag Show, Lady Gaga

Here is one of the more outlandish performances, they performed to one of the songs by Lady Gaga, but i forget which one. The two crawling eventually moved off the stage and the one in the jacket sang in a microphone.

Unity in the Community 2010 - Drag Show, audience interaction

Here is one of the performers interacting with the audience, walking through and over and being flirty and funny. Again, not sure what more to say here, so just enjoy the pictures.

Unity in the Community 2010 - Drag Show

Here are the first two performers from the drag show part of Unity in the Community. which was the last event of the Unity in the Community. This was really fun, and very packed. I'm forgetting if i took a picture of the crowd, but it filled all the seats in the Falcon's Nest, and there were people standing. It was very hard though to figure out exposure and white balance, as you may notice from the pictures.

Unity in the Community 2010 - Second Chances, Ken Olson

This is Ken Olson, i forget what classes he teaches at UWRF but he's big into Ireland and has led student groups there several times. He read some poems and short stories here. One was about the Kent State shootings and some were about Ireland. He's an interesting guy with interesting stories, although this venue didn't seem that great for his performance.

Unity in the Community 2010 - Second Chances, Belly Dance

Here again is Dalal doing the same belly dance, this time at Second Chances. Not sure what more to say, besides that i wasn't too keen on the split between downtown events. May have been better if they were clearer what performers where at which places. I think they wanted people to go between the two places, but it was hard as the whole thing was not very long, and i wasn't sure i i'd miss something i wanted to see by going to the other place. I still preferred when it was at the library. This too needed better advertising, although i'm not an advertising expert so maybe they did the best they could.

Unity in the Community 2010 - Second Chances, Soran Bushi

This is the first performance at Second Chances, one of the downtown Unity in the Community Events. I remembered the name of the performance this time, soran bushi, a traditional dance. I'm going to include a similar performance that happened here at the university, there is a bit at the start with a drummer that goes on for a couple minutes that wasn't at the ones for this, but it will give you an idea of what it was like.

Brief intermission from the Unity in the Community

A brief intermission from the Unity in the Community for these two mourning doves i saw on my seed covered deck. It's seed covered because the birds and squirrels love to toss seed out of the feeders on to the deck, and for some reason it doesn't go off without me doing it. Anyway, i saw these doves doing this with their wings and i was afraid they were hurt, so i grabbed the camera so i could see closer without opening the door. They seemed okay, and even moved around, grooming themselves and doing little dances around each other. They then went back to doing this. I did some research online and it seems what they were doing was sunbathing. It even described that they do this with one wing only at a time. Not sure why. I love the looks of their feathers and how you can see all the details that normally you don't see.

Unity in the Community 2010 - Quad Rugby

Here are the Quad Rugby players in the Flacon's Nest area. Very interesting but hard to get good pictures of. Not sure if i just got them warming up or actually playing, i was getting hungry and only stayed for a bit to get some shots.

Unity in the Community 2010 - Bollywood Dances

Here are the women doing the Bollywood dance where they all got together. It started out with one type of dance, Punjabi at first with the dancer in back, then moving to a more traditional style of bollywood with the dancer in front, then to a more modern version with the two dancers in the middle. They did a great job an also performed at Second Chances downtown later.

Unity in the Community 2010 - Belly Dance

This is the belly dancer Dalal, from Egypt doing a belly dance. How i remember her and where she was from is because she appeared in two events each at two places, here and the downtown event at Second Chances. She is a wonderful dancer and gave a great performance, it was a challenge trying to decide on one picture to use, so i put more up on my flickr account.

Unity in the Community 2010 - Spoken Word

This is one of the spoken word poets that performed. There were two at this location, in addition to a guy who did an acapella song. Not sure what else to say, i can't remember her name or the name of her poem, sorry about that.

Unity in the Community 2010 - Native Pride Dancers

Here are the native pride dancers, with the mother of the little girl by the balloons to the right. If i remember correctly, they were from North Dakota, but i forgot which tribe. They travel all around and do performances. The mother did a dance, the man did a flute song, the little girl danced, and the man did another dance. Last they had people come up and join them and taught them a dance with funny twist at the end with modern moves.

Unity in the Community 2010 - MuDaiko

This is the first of many, many pictures from the 2010 Unity in the Community performances, the first group taking place at the University Center of the local university. These are the MuDaiko drummers preforming one of their numbers. I arrived during part of it, as it was very difficult to find a place to park, i ended up several blocks away. Slight rant time here, the parking situation in town near the university is horribly planned. One side of the streets is basically off limits for parking during the day, so locals can park, but then they don't have enough parking for the students, much less for anyone wanting to go to events like this. Still don't understand why there isn't a parking garage or better solution, but oh well.

Another unrelated side note, today i turn 40, where have the years gone?