Competitive Picnicking Comes To Millennium Park

A crowd takes in music at Millennium Park's Jay Pritzker Pavilion.

Chicagoist:

Here?s another fun summer activity to put on your disposable plastic plate: On Saturday, August 11, the Grant Park Music Festival will hold its first annual picnic contest before that evening?s concert.

Finally the tranquil experience of eating outdoors with loved ones gets spiced up with some competitive anxiety. Picnicking teams? worth will be judged by how well their meal ties into the GPMF?s program, Joseph Haydn?s The Seasons (which, FYI, is not the better-known Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi). Specifically, contestants should reference the seasons and include ?themes from the evening's score, including peasant dances, thunderstorms, hunting expeditions, and work/labor.?

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