The Christian Youth Theatre, Icarus Puppet Company, Native American storyteller Abel Silva, and ventriloquist Lynn Trimble round out the family entertainment schedule. Throughout the performance and arts venues will be face painters, balloon sculptors, stilt walkers, and a variety of food and refreshment booths. Admission buttons will need to be worn by those attending the performances and arts activities and are now being sold at 31 retail and civic locations in Escondido, San Marcos and Valley Center. Admission is free to children, five years of age and under. The First Night Escondido 2001 buttons admitting wearers to a New Year s Eve s evening of food, arts and crafts, music, dance, comedy, and other entertainment will go on sale at 31 locations in Escondido, San Marcos, and Valley Center November 3.
Admission is free for children five years old and under.
Entertainment by more than 40 performers and groups, participatory arts activities and crafts, food and entertainment stands will be at 14 locations on the streets of Downtown Escondido, the California Center for the Arts, and City Hall. The First Night buttons will need to be worn this year in order to gain admittance to the entertainment and arts venues. Admission is free to children, five years of age and under. Not only can a group's members sell buttons, their board members and volunteers can expand the fund-raiser by selling buttons at their businesses and workplaces, allowing their organization to earn a donation for every button they sell. Those attending the upcoming alcohol-free December 31 celebration will need to wear the colorful rectangular buttons to be admitted to the 14 entertainment and arts venues on the streets of Downtown Escondido, at City Hall, and the California Center for the Arts.