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In Austin's hot spring and summer months, Zilker Park offers a wide range of activities for the whole family to enjoy.

Each year in March, the Zilker Kite Festival is held, attracting thousands of spectators with almost an equal number of kites in the park. In 2008, the Zilker Kite Festival Celebrating its 80th anniversary. The Exchange Club of Austin began the Zilker Kite Festival in 1929 as a means of promoting creativity in Children of Austin. Today, while promoting family time, the Exchange Club of Austin also raises money through the sale of t-shirts and concessions as a measure of fundraising split between charities prevent child abuse and Dolling up on the college's programs.

The Zilker Kite Festival is free to the public and anyone may participate in the kite competition, which has a variety of categories such as high-flying, very unusual, and the largest circulation. The only condition is that the kite must be handmade. For those who lack the ability to kite, bringing a premade kite is acceptable, but we can also learn to make a kite in the studio making kites.

Built on a hill slope in front of the Barton Springs pool is the Beverly S. Sheffield Zilker Hillside Theater. Since 1959, Broadway musicals have been entertaining Austinites on hot summer nights, and the Zilker Summer Musical is now the longest running outdoor "pay-what-you-want" production in the Course of the United States by Zilker Theater Productions, the Zilker Summer Musical brings in about 40,000 members of the public each year. The organization also hosts performances by the Orchestra Austin Symphony and the Austin Civic Orchestra on their hillside theater, where spectators can spread blankets, bring a picnic and enjoy the show while being surrounded by trees pecan 100 years.

On July 4 will bring over 100,000 spectators to the Park, which find a place for their family along the shores of Lady Bird Lake. The Austin Symphony Orchestra, which plans and produces the entire event, will set up and play the new Long Center for the Performing Arts. The orchestra runs through a variety of patriotic songs, and during the 1812 Overture, cannon shots punctuate music, and cue the fireworks begin.

Blues on the Green Paper is at the outcrop of rock in the middle of Zilker park known as Rock Island. Another free event, Blues on the Green Paper brings local acts to Austin's music loving crowd, with genres ranging from pop to bluegrass and country to blues (obviously).

Across the park from the Rock Island is the Zilker Botanical Garden. In late March, the garden at their 51st Annual Zilker Garden Festival. The festival brings in over 100 suppliers from around the area selling a wide variety of plants, herbs and garden items related. The Garden Council, which consists of 39 different clubs, runs the garden and recently teamed up with ACL Festival promoters C3, who brought in 12 different musical acts to entertain the customers garden. Throughout the summer months, the Zilker Botanical Garden will host many other events and seminars such as cactus and succulent show, and Basics on how to build a pond.

Although Austin in summer can be a time to be taxed outside, Zilker park has several reasons to get out and enjoy its great outdoors.

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