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Article: Belly dance and comic book convention comes to Richmond
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- Oakland Tribune
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- October 8, 2009
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RICHMOND -- The annual Carnival of Stars Belly Dance & Comic Book
Convention, an event that has filled Centennial Hall in Hayward the
past five years, arrives at its new home at the Richmond Memorial
Auditorium, 403 Civic Center Plaza, this weekend.
The event will feature continuous professional belly-dance
performances and other entertainment, live music, workshops, panel
discussions Mediterranean-style food, comics vendors and artists
from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday.
"The Richmond Auditorium was available, it was just renovated,
and we had been trying to get a location closer to the (greater) Bay
Area than Hayward," said Janine Ryle, who will have a dance ...