The CHUN Capitol Hill People’s Fair, Colorado’s largest arts and crafts show, celebrates its 35th anniversary this weekend. Here’s what to expect:
Attendance: An estimated 250,000 over two days.
What’s new: This year the fair introduces a wine pavilion with about 20 wines for tasting. Visitors can buy a $10 punch card, which entitles them to six tastes or two pours. While the ‘Lil’ People’s Fair is not new, it has been expanded and features a kiddie carnival. Other activities there include train rides, quad bungee trampoline, giant slide and obstacle courses.
Arts and crafts: More than 250 artists and artisans offer their works for sale.
Food: Thiry vendors offer the usual festival treats, ranging from turkey legs and roasted corn to gyros and chocolate-dipped fruits. Nine food tickets cost $5. (Turkey legs cost 13 tickets and beer nine.)
Drinks: Beer and soft drinks
Entertainment: About 100 local musical and dance acts, from big band to hard rock to Irish step dancers, perform on six stages.
Inexpensive parking: $5 at Cultural Facilities Parking Garage, Broadway and 12th Avenue.
Secured bicycle parking: $1 at the northeast corner of Lincoln Park.
Don’t: Bring pets, alcohol, drugs, weapons, rollerblades, skateboards or bicycles onto fairgrounds.
Benefits: Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods and other nonprofits and neighborhood groups.
When: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday
Where: Civic Center, Broadway and Colfax Avenue
Admission: Free
