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Saturday, August 7, 2021
Location: Lincoln Park
1450 High Street, Alameda
(Near the Rose Garden)
Suggested Set-Up Time: 10:00 am (or earlier for the best picnic spots)
Pack a picnic basket, don your most fetching hat, and join us for an elegant
Turn of the Century picnic among the roses in Old Alameda.
Late Victorian or Edwardian costume is admired but not required. As the August
weather in Alameda can be very changeable, we recommend hats, shawls and
parasols.
The event is not a general potluck. Please bring your OWN picnic lunch. As there
are only a couple of picnic tables in the Rose Garden side of the park guests
may want to bring blankets to sit on or even chairs and tables. Period-looking
picnic furniture and accoutrements are very welcome and add ambience to the
event!
Please be certain to follow the recommended health and safety guidelines that
are in effect at the time of the picnic, and check back frequently. If
restrictions are tightened up the event may be cancelled.
For an example of what a PEERS event is like, check out this YouTube video of our Charles Dickens Bicentennial Ball
The Period Events &
Entertainments Re-Creation Society, Inc., is a Nonprofit Corporation dedicated
to remembering, researching, and re-creating the performing arts of the past.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, we endeavor to accomplish our noble goals
by sponsoring events, giving classes, performing in various living history
events, and just generally carrying on. Historic dance, drama, music, literature
and costume are all a part of PEERS’ activities. More than anything else, we are
dedicated to the idea of entertainment as something for people to do
rather than watch.
The main activities of PEERS have traditionally centered around our historical
and literary re-creation events.
These have covered a wide
number of historical periods and have included such diverse events as a
Canterbury Tales Feast & Ball, a recreation of Lord Capulet’s Ball from Romeo
and Juliet, an outdoor Restoration Fete and Ball, an 18th-Century Scarlet
Pimpernel Ball, a Mostly Mozart Ball set in the Amadeus universe, a Hamilton
Ball, a Jane Austen Tea, Fete and Assembly, a Phantom of the Opera Masquerade
Ball, a Sherlock Holmes Mystery Party and Ball, an Edwardian Music Hall, a
bi-lingual Moulin Rouge Ball, a Tango Tea, a 1920’s Speakeasy, a 1930’s Mystery
Party, a 1941 Evening in Casablanca, a Film Noir Black & White Ball, a variety
of Victorian Balls and our famous annual Le Bal des Vampires. As a change of
pace we also give fantasy and science fiction-themed costume balls set in a
galaxy far, far away, on Middle Earth, on starships bound for adventure, and in
historical times visited by a certain time-traveling Doctor.
How do you participate in the activities of PEERS? First of all, by coming to
our events. You may pay at the door, purchase tickets in advance, or subscribe
for a year’s worth of events. If you’d like to be on the mailing list for our
fliers and/or on our electronic mailing list, just send a message to us at
peers@peersdance.org. And, of course, like all nonprofit organizations we are
happy to accept donations. Donations may be made by check or via PayPal, and
PEERS is also registered with eScrip.
When you attend a PEERS event, you have a great deal of flexibility in how to participate. Many people dress up in appropriate costumes, but many do not. Some people choose to portray particular historical or literary characters; others simply come to enjoy themselves. The choice is yours. Remember the cardinal rule of PEERS: If you’re having fun, you’re doing it right!
Photographs
from Past PEERS Events by Jean Martin
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Contact the Period Events and Entertianments Re-Creation Society:
PO Box 2321 Alameda CA 94501 510-522-1731 peers@peersdance.org
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