This listing includes only major annual fund-raising events that are open to and encourage the attendance of the general public. To list a church festival, please sent the date, time, place, sponsor, brief description and a telephone number for more information by 5 p.m.

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Church festivals, 10/18 (The San Angelo Standard-Times)

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Oktoberfest kicks off today and Asia Fest is on Saturday.

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Feast of festivals among things to do (The News-Press)

“In Bed with a Mosquito,” the first video documentary produced and directed by Detroit-born and former Michigan resident Sarah Frank, will be featured at four different film festivals across the U.S.

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Michigan Filmmaker Featured at Four Film Festivals (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

The Historic Bluffton Arts Seafood Festival returnsfor itsfourth edition next week and will bringa mix of old and newto entertain and inform folksjoining in the Old Town activities. What started asaone-day event in 2005 hasbecome afullweekoffestivitiesin historic Bluffton to showcase theartsand locally harvested seafood.

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Arts Seafood Festival returns bigger and better (Bluffton Today)

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Regional Happenings: It’s time for fall festivals (Baxter Bulletin)

State support for local arts will drop and criminal background checks will be harder to get because of budget cuts announced by Gov.

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Arts hit hard by budget slashing (The Sun Chronicle)

East, say hello to West. A multicultural feast of festivals is on the menu this weekend in Southwest Florida. Asia Fest 2008.

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Asian, German festivals this weekend (The News-Press)

“Irish audiences have been warned to expect ‘fewer festivals, fewer exhibitions, less theatre and less music’ next year as a result of a near 10% drop in funding in the newly announced arts budget for 2009.”

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Irish Arts Hit by Funding Drop of Almost 10% (Arts Journal)

Meddiebempsters celebrates 70 years of singing a cappella BRUNSWICK — The Meddiebempsters , Bowdoin College’s oldest a cappella group, will celebrate its 70th anniversary with a concert in Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall on the Bowdoin campus on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 8 pm.

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Arts around the Mid-coast; Oct. 16, 2008 (The Times Record)