Cereal Festival Featuring the World's Longest Breakfast Table
- 8:00 a.m. Cereal City Classic - Battle Creek Family YMCA
- 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Vendors
- 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Tennis Clinic
- 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. - Community Breakfast
- 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. - Food Stamp and WIC Outreach
- 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Food Bank's "Empty Bowl" Event
- 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Food Bank's Bake Sale
- 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Community Garage Sale
- 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Children's Activities
- 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Heritage Battle Creek, Sojourner Truth Institute and Adventist Village historical displays
- 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Battle Creek Knights Basketball Clinic
- 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Street Hockey
- 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Cub Scout Pack 328 Fitness Stations
- 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Battle Creek Blaze "Skillz and Drillz" Football clinic
- 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Farm to Fork Cooking Demonstration (in conjunction with WMU Kendall Center Brown Bag Lunch Series)
- 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Battle Creek Bombers Baseball clinic
- 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Learn to Kayak
- 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Pickleball
- 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Habitat for Humanity "Holy Smokes" barbecue cook-off
- 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Y-Center Climbing Wall
- 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Learn to Curl
Center Stage Schedule
*BRING LAWN CHAIRS AND/OR BLANKETS TO RELAX AND ENJOY CENTER STAGE ENTERTAINMENT*
- 8:00 a.m. - Opening Ceremony/Star Spangled Banner - Jaime Moore/Jerry Ball
- 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. - Jaime Moore/Jerry Ball
- 9:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. - Dana Wells-Jenney
- 10:30 a.m.-11:00a.m. - Jaime Moore/Jerry Ball
- 11:00a.m. SURPRISE EVENT
- 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Karaoke contest
- 1:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Project 32
- 3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. - Tony Fields/Doug Decker
- 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Terrie Lea and the Mustangs
- 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. - DooWops
- 6:45 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Toppermost Beatles Tribute
- 8:30 p.m. - "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" (Rated "PJ")
June 11 - Cereal Fest Parade - 6:00 p.m.
June 12- World's Longest Breakfast Table - 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
The Battle Creek Cereal Festival is an event that celebrates the City of Battle Creek and features the World's Longest Breakfast Table, and new events that celebrate a community proud of its rich and varied past. The event will include a parade, concerts, and healthy living activities, events that help provide food for the food banks and information tents that will offer an interesting array of heritage to our visitors. This event will help explore the many faces of Battle Creek's heritage including the birthplace of the cereal industry, the home of former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth, Seventh-day Adventist visionary Ellen White, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg who transformed health care in the nineteenth center and cereal industry magnates C.W. Post and W. K. Kellogg.
Be a part of history and a long tradition in Battle Creek, join the 2010 Cereal Festival Parade. The Parade will take place on Friday, June 11, 2010, kicking off at 6:00 p.m., in downtown Battle Creek. We encourage everyone to pull together groups, businesses, floats, walking units, bikes, strollers, etc., etc., etc., to be a part of this extravaganza as we kick off the 2010 Cereal Festival featuring the World's Longest Breakfast Table which will be a day-long family event on June 12th. We encourage children to decorate bicycles, parents to decorate strollers and children to dress as their favorite cereal character. To become a part of this exciting event click here: PARADE APPLICATION
The morning begins with the Cereal City Classic. All races (5K, 10K and 5K Fun Walk) begin at 8:15 a.m. All races leave the YMCA from the corner of Clay Street and Penn Street.
The World's Longest Breakfast Table (free to the public) will be served from 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m., on Saturday, June 12, 2010, in downtown Battle Creek. Activities will continue throughout the day including kayaking, climbing wall, historical displays, physical fitness stations, Vendors, Community Garage Sale, and entertainment, concluding with a children's movie in the evening in Mill Race Park. The movie will be rated PJ - which means come down in your favorite pair of pajamas, bring your blanket or snug sacks and stretch out on the Park grass great movie viewing.
The Cereal Festival is once again offering businesses, families or individuals the opportunity to sponsor a table at the World's Longest Breakfast Table. There will be 151 tables representing each year of the City of Battle Creek. Tables will be posted with a sign depicting the year along with historical facts representative of that year. In addition, sponsors will be able to have their own message on the sign. For a $100 sponsorship fee you will be able to market to between 29,000 - 40,000. To complete the sponsorship, please click on World's Longest Breakfast Table - A Community Family Reunion - Donation Receipt and return with your check to the address at the bottom.
People wishing to volunteer or contribute can visit HandsOn Battle Creek.
