Mardi Gras Fair Day
Fair Day is the kick off event for the official Mardi Gras season in Victoria Park, Sydney for Sydney's wider LGBTQI community and their friends, family and pets. Up to 70 000 people routinely turn out to sit on the grass, browse the stalls and catch up with old friends or make some new ones. Fair Day 2011 saw record numbers of attendees. Entertainment came from the Foxtel Main Stage included a set from Zoe Badwi and Garcon Garcon, and included one of the biggest ever "Mr and Mrs Fair Day" competitions. Approximately 250 volunteers assisted with 220 stalls made up of many LGBTQI community groups.
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Famous quotes containing the words fair and/or day:
““He neither shall be christened
In white wine or red,
But with fair spring water,
With which we were christenèd.””
—Unknown. As Joseph Was a-Walking (l. 17–20)
“The LORD went in front of them in a pillar of cloud by day, to lead them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light, so that they might travel by day and by night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 13:21,22.