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Chocolate, Chocolate
and More Chocolate Dominate Downtown Glendale February 5-7
The weekend before Valentine’s Day, Feb. 5-7, is a
delicious delight for the senses as the
15th Annual Glendale Chocolate Affaire takes over downtown
Glendale to create a chocolate-lover’s dream!
Chocolate purveyors from Arizona and around the nation
gather in Glendale for this award-winning festival, which
celebrates not only chocolate, but romance and the arts as
well. Chocolate confections will include everything from
chocolate truffles, sweet potato fries with chocolate and
brown sugar glaze and tropical hot chocolate, to deep-fried
chocolate bars and organic dark chocolate.
The Chocolate Affaire is sponsored by Arizona’s famous
candy makers, Cerreta’s. The candy factory will offer
tours all weekend, so visitors can get a behind-the-scenes
look at how the chocolatiers create everyone’s favorite
candy. Shuttles will be
available to the tours; there is a no-animal policy on
shuttles with the exception of service dogs and service dogs
in training.
In addition, the festival has become the largest
gathering of national romance novelists in the Southwest.
This symposium of literary romantics offers fans the
opportunity to get up close and personal with authors, as
well as the chance to attend free writing workshops given by
the experts.
Families with children will enjoy myriad activities,
including hands-on arts and crafts, face-painting and a
rock-climbing wall. Horse-drawn carriage rides will be
available throughout the weekend to take couples or families
on a scenic, charming ride through the historic Catlin Court
district.
Event hours are Friday 5 - 10 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to
10 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. The event is located in
the heart of Historic Downtown Glendale, in Murphy Park,
located at 58th and Glendale avenues.
The Horse & Carriage will run all event hours. Mini
Pony Rides available Friday from 6-10 p.m., Saturday from
6-10 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.
The Glendale Chocolate Affaire festival was named one of
the Top 100 Events in North America by the Washington Post,
the Seattle Times and the American Bus Association. The
event also was bestowed with the 2003 Governor’s Tourism
Award for the Best Special Event in Arizona.
The Glendale Chocolate Affaire is sponsored by
Cerreta’s Candy Company, Kokopelli Winery, 3-TV KTVK, The
Arizona Republic, YooHoo, KMLE, KOOL and JAMZ.
For more information on the Glendale Chocolate Affaire,
call our special events hotline at 623-930-2299.
2010 Glendale Centennial Plein
Air Painting Event at the Glendale Chocolate Affaire
The city’s Library & Arts Department, in
collaboration with the Marketing/Communications Department,
is sponsoring the 2010 Glendale Centennial Plein Air
Painting Event at the Glendale Chocolate Affaire. The art
competition will be held Saturday, Feb. 6, between 8 a.m.
and 5:30 p.m. Click
here to read more about the plein air event (pdf).
Author Notes
- Donna Hatch, best selling author at
Wild Rose Press for two consecutive months for her
Regency romance, The Stranger She Married, she
also was a finalist in the Golden Quill Contest,
recognizing outstanding published authors. Her
current novel and upcoming novella, Trouble Hearts
have both received four and five star reviews, and will
be available at the Chocolate Affaire.
- Multi-published author, Judi McCoy is
donating all her book royalties for Hounding the
Pavement, the first in this series, to Best
Friends, the largest no-kill shelter in the United
States located in Kanab, UT. Because Hounding
the Pavement is so popular, she recently landed a
three-book contract
- Hounding the Pavement is currently available,
and will be on sale during the Chocolate Affair.
This novel is a true testament to McCoy's love of man's
four-legged pals.
- This year, multi-published author, Judy
Duarte’s Mulberry Park, a women's
fiction novel, was a finalist in the RITA, a prestigious
award promoting excellence in the romance genre, as well
as a Golden Quill finalist, and recently won the Maggie
Award.
- Award winning author, Vijaya Schartz’s, A
DESPERADO FOR CHRISTMAS received a Preditors and
Editors Readers Poll Award 2009 in the Short Romance
category.
- ANAZ-VOOHRI received a Cameo Award for the
cover in 2007, was a finalist in the Golden Quill 2007,
and nominated for the Reviewers' Choice Award by
Ecataromance as an eBook in 2006, and for the Best
Science-Fiction Fantasy Novel in the 2006 Preditors and
Editors Readers Poll.
- RELICS and WHITE TIGER were
finalists in the Golden Quill contest
- ASHES FOR THE ELEPHANT GOD won the
Independent Publisher Book Award in Visionary Fiction in
2001.
- Multi-published author, Valerie King
was the recipient of the 2005 Romantic Times Career
Achievement Award for Regency Romance.
- Pam Tracy, a multi-published author,
received a first place award for Broken Lullaby, a romantic
suspense in the American Christian Fiction Writers' Book
of the Year contest.
- Debut novelist, Kelly Hanzlik, and
author of Nana’s Girl is donating all the
proceeds from her book to The Breast Cancer Research
Foundation in loving memory of her grandmother,
Katherine Mahan.
Author Signing Schedule
| AUTHOR NAME |
FRIDAY |
SATURDAY |
SUNDAY |
| Abby Irish |
5-10:00 PM |
10-10:00PM |
12-5:00 PM |
| Buffy Christopher |
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10-4:00 PM |
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| Carol Webb |
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10-5:00 PM |
12-5:00 PM |
| Carolyn Hughey |
5-10:00 PM |
10-10:00PM |
12-5:00 PM |
| Cathy McDavid |
6-10:00 PM |
1-8:00 PM |
12-5:00 PM |
| Denise Jeffries |
5-10:00 PM |
10-10:00PM |
12-5:00 PM |
| Donna Hatch |
5-10:00 PM |
10-10:00PM |
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| Eden Robins |
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10-4:00 PM |
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| Erin Quinn |
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1-5:00 PM |
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| Judi McCoy |
5-10:00 PM |
10-10:00PM |
12-5:00 PM |
| Judy Duarte |
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10-5:00 PM |
12--1:00 PM |
| Kathryne Kennedy |
7-9:00 PM |
7-9:00PM |
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| Kelly Hanzlik |
5-10:00 PM |
10-10:00PM |
12-5:00 PM |
| Kim Watters |
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10-5:00 PM |
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| Linda Andrews |
5-9:00PM |
10-2:00PM |
12-3:00PM |
| Marie Patrick |
5-10:00 PM |
10-10:00PM |
12-5:00 PM |
| Pam Tracy |
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10:6:00PM |
1-5:00PM |
| Peg Parsons |
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10-4:00PM |
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| Rebecca Boschee |
5-10:00 PM |
10-10:00PM |
12-5:00 PM |
| Shirley Maks |
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10-5:00 PM |
12-3:00PM |
| Stacy Cornell |
6-10:00 PM |
12-8:00PM |
12-5:00 PM |
| Susan C Yarina |
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12-5:00PM |
12-5:00 PM |
| Tia Dani (Bev Petrone/Chris Eaton) |
10-10:00PM |
12-5:00 PM |
| Tina Gerow/Cassie Ryan |
5-10:00 PM |
10-10:00PM |
12-5:00 PM |
| Tina LaVon |
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10-5:00 PM |
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| Valerie King |
7-10:00PM |
7-10PM |
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| Vicki Gaia |
5-10:00 PM |
10-10:00PM |
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| Vijaya Schartz |
5-10:00 PM |
10-10:00PM |
12-5:00 PM |
| Wendy Ely |
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10-4:00 PM |
12-4:00PM |
Entertainment Line-up
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i love chocolate stage
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Cocoa Cabana Stage
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Friday, February 5
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Friday, February 5
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5:00
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Peppermint James
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5:00
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Come Back Buddy
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7:00
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Urban Country
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7:00
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Nineball
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Saturday, February 6
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Saturday, February 6
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10:00
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Chris Lukert
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11:00
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Purely Dance Performance
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1:00
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Pheed
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Noon
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Dancin' Dads
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4:00
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Groove Inc
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1:00
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Arizona Dance Artistry
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7:30
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Peppermint James
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2:00
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The Craig Davis Comedy,
Magic & Juggling Show
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4:30
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Jeff Hunt Band
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Sunday, February 7
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7:00
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The Polyesters
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Noon
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Hans Olson
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Sunday, February 7
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2:00
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Caribbean Cruisers
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noon
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Dance Gallerie
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1:00
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Leap of Faith Dance +
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2:00
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Wagner Dance and Music
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