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    This young Harry Potter fan got her chance to create huge bubbles with the help of the bubble-making loops provided by Violet Ray-Kaneko.
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    Bubbles employee Mary Grounds helped promote all things bubbles prior to the Bubble Promendade around the plaza.
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    The color guard team led the Bubble Promenade participants, including Kinetic Race vehicles, foward to a couple loops around the Arcata Plaza.
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    It wouldn’t be a Bubble Promenade without Shoshanna Rose spinning bubbles around her, along with a couple of Rhutabaga Queens for Life and Shae Freelove on walking stilts.
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    This bubble parade participant got a transportation assist for the loops around the plaza.
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    Face painting, flag waving and bubble blowing were everywhere in the Bubble Promenade.
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    Young Caleb got a hooping lesson from his mother, Dori Larson, on the play zone on the plaza.
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    A large crowd gathered on the plaza to watch the first of three performances by members of the Humboldt Aerial Collective.
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    McKenzie Dibble of the Humboldt Aerial Collective was wrapped up in the aerial silks in her performance on the plaza.
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    Members of the Humboldt Aerial Collective performed three shows on the plaza.
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    This member of the Humboldt Aerial Collective used a large ring instead of aerial silks for her performance on the plaza.
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    Lyndsey Battle sang her original lyric, “When life hands you six strings, just take four,” while playing her ukulele during the live music performances on the plaza that also included the Undercovers, Stevie Culture & the Irie Rockers, Conman Bolo and Community African Dance & Drum.
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    Rhutabaga Queen for Life Wendy Burns’ Kinetic Rad Science vehicle and team created bubbles as they looped around the plaza in the Bubbles Promenade.
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    Violet Ray-Kaneko, supported by Brian Kaneko (left) carrying the supply bucket, became the Pied Piper of huge bubbles in the Bubble Promenade around the plaza.
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    Children transformed this large temporary skateboard park ramp located on the plaza into a children’s slide when not in use by skateboarders.
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    Ken Hamik (right) handed over this young girl’s artwork to Cherie Newell to hang up to dry at the spin-art booth run by the Arcata Chanber of Commerce.
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    Young baseball fans stepped up to the autograph tables staffed by Humboldt Crabs baseball players around noon on the plaza prior to the afternoon Crabs game.