HONFEST IS BACK!
JUNE 14th and 15th of 2008! Join us for food, fun and TONS OF HONS!
Be sure to visit the main stage for the Miss Hon Pageant and the stage near falls road for live music and dancing.
As usual, we will have a host of food and merchandise vendors for you to visit. Take home some Hampden kitsch and have a bite to eat with a cold draft beer or a Pink Flamingo, Blue Beehive or a Hon Punch!
Don't forget the contests, HON! Denise has some real treats in the works this year. Details to follow.
TWO DAYS OF FUN
Last year was such a success that Honfest 2008 will once gain be a two day party! The Miss Hon 2008 Pageant will span the two days and there are some surprises in store for other main stage events! Check back to the schedule page for more details as they unravel.
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS!
We need your help. There's a lot to be done at Honfest and what better way to join the fun than to help out awhile, hon? You even git a free teeshurt!
WE'RE IN THE NEW YORKER HON!
In a NEW YORKER MAGAZINE article by Michael Schulman dated April 28, 2008, there is talk of Baltimore being the setting for two Broadway musicals inspired by John Waters: “Cry-Baby,” and “Hairspray.”
According to the article, Tom Noonan, president of the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association, was recently in New York to preview "Cry Baby," and to prepare for a new marketing campaign aimed at New York theatregoers. An ad for this campaign is in the works, sporting the slogan, “You’ve seen the musical, now visit the set.”
More from the article includes a mentiopn of the Honfest Tradition. Read on, Hon!:
"The “Cry-Baby” campaign will include a microsite on Baltimore.org, directing visitors to John Waters hot spots—“stores he likes, bars he frequents,” Rogers said. While it may seem odd that Waters, whose most indelible screen image of Baltimore may be of a drag queen eating dog feces, has become the city’s poster boy, he “encapsulates what Baltimore is all about,” Noonan insisted. “Baltimore has a quirkiness to it,” he explained. “You can go down to Lithuanian Hall for the Night of 100 Elvises, then to Hampden for the HonFest, where you’re gonna want to wear your spandex and your beehive hairdo. We’re a city that likes to poke fun at itself.”"
