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In the News
Children’s Fairyland to Preview New Children’s
Community Theater
6/23/08
By C. J. Hirschfield.
Funded by Measure DD, Amphitheater will Provide
Needed Place for Kids’ Performing Arts in
Oakland.
Children’s Fairyland previews children’s
community theater, Aesop’s Playhouse, before
opening weekend. Guests include Oakland City
Councilmember, Pat Kernighan, and special
performances by children’s performing arts
groups...
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In the News
Once Upon A Time at Fairyland - When Fantasy
Worlds Collide
2/27/08
By C. J. Hirschfield
In one corner of the cavernous room are
frightening looking “miners” – In another corner
sits a model of a bunny – cute as a button. Oh
Lord, please keep them apart!...
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Daniel Schmidt and the creation of
Fairy Music Farm
9/30/07
By C. J. Hirschfield
Once it’s finished, The Fairy Music Farm will be
a highly interactive environment, mostly located
insideof the long-abandoned “Thumbelina Tunnel”
at the park. It will feature magical lighting
and remarkable murals, but the main focus will
be the six custom crafted musical instruments
designed by master instrument builder Daniel
Schmidt...
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Children's Fairyland gains new performance venue
7/20/07
Construction begins for Aesop's Playhouse,
which is expected to open next summer
By Matthew Cooper
Children's Fairyland has been a haven for
children's activities and arts since 1950.
But for years what many felt was needed at
Fairyland was a suitable venue to host
children's arts performances...
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Children's Fairyland starts work on 200-seat
theater
7/18/07
Bay City News Service
Inside Bay Area
OAKLAND (BCN) Children's Fairyland celebrated
the groundbreaking of a youth-oriented community
theater today, according to the nonprofit
storybook theme park...
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Fairyland offers a childlike kingdom
5/19/07
SNAPP SHOTS: MARTIN SNAPP
PUDDLES THE DUCK is having a great spring.
Puddles and his sidekick, Buddy, are the
resident ducks at Children's Fairyland in
Oakland. They usually have the run of the park,
but every spring the wild ducks at Lake Merritt
land on the Merry Meadow and chase poor Puddles
and Buddy back into their duck house. But not
this year....
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San Francisco Chronicle, Jon Carroll column
1/30/07 - If you don't know,
Children's Fairyland is an amusement park for
young children on the banks of Oakland's Lake
Merritt. It's venerable -- it's older than
Disneyland...
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Behind the scenes: C.J. Hirschfield directs
Children's Fairyland
East Bay Business Times - Not every
executive has to double-check her schedule for
puppet meetings before setting up an interview.
But when you run a venerable theme park replete
with a renowned puppet theater,...
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San Francisco Chronicle, Kiddie Heaven
6/29/06 - Through the arched, kiddie-size
doorway of the giant shoe and past the
lavender-hued gates ornamented with golden fairy
silhouettes lies Children's Fairyland...
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Press Releases
Never Grow Up: Children’s Fairyland Anniversary
Gala
OAKLAND, Calif. -
May 16, 2007 - Celebrating its 57th year as the
nation’s oldest storybook theme park, Children’s
Fairyland will host its highest-profile event of
the year – The Never Grow Up Gala, on June 7,
2007...
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Children's Fairyland Ushers in New Year With
Milestones
OAKLAND, Calif. – March 12, 2007 – Children’s
Fairyland, the charming storybook-themed park
next to Lake Merritt in Oakland, rang in the New
Year with a series of significant
developments...
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Children's Fairyland’s “Dr. Doolittle” Releases
Storybook for Children
Animal Caregiver‘s Book Based on True Chicken
Love Story
“The Adventures of Penny, the Rhode Island Red,”
is a new children’s book about a plucky chicken
born in a factory farm whose incredible journey
brings her to Oakland’s celebrated storybook
theme park...
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