J’Adore Bastille Day – Los Angeles

Who doesn’t love Bastille Day? No one doesn’t love Bastille Day, that’s who. Not only is Bastille Day an excuse to wear your most questionable of fashions and get chocolate wasted on a vat of red wine, you, but you can enjoy a day of all that is wonderful about France.

Spend a languid summer’s day soaking up the famous French joie de vivre, practice your accent, play petanque, be entertained by spectacular French performers, and sample some of the finest French foods and wines known to man.

Don’t miss the hilariously cheeky Parisian Waiters Race, the fiercely competitive Petanque Tournament, Tahitian dancers (a celebration of colonialism!), and an open-air French market.  As always, it’s more fun if you get into character, so dive head-first into French culture and revel in some good-natured cultural fun.

Sunday, July 11, noon – 9pm (enough time to sleep off the Bastille Day Eve hangover)

Elysian Park – Monticello Old Lodge
Corner of Stadium Way and Scott Avenue (next to the Dodgers Stadium)

$5 entry, free for kids

French Canadians welcome….but just this once.

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