St. Petersburg International Folk Fair Society and its Asian Pacific Rim member groups stage the Asian Pacific Rim Festival. Among the offerings are exotic foods, arts and crafts, drumming, an Asian beer garden, demos of tai chi, gigon and exercise, Indian bangra music, and performances by a Samoan fire eater, Fijian warrior dancers, Bollywood-style and classical Indian dancers, Thai, Hmong and Chinese dancers, and others. Through Oct. 12, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sun., England Brothers Bandshell Park, 5121 80th Ave. N., Pinellas Park, free.
This article appears in Oct 8-14, 2008.