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Don Quixote:
A Global Celebration
IT WOULD be impossible to list all the events that comprise the worldwide celebration of the 400th anniversary of everyone's favorite Knight Errant. Instead, we offer you 35 ways to honor the life and times of Cervantes and his legendary hero, Don Quixote.
1 ~ Get your T-shirts, coffee mugs, mouse pads, umbrellas…sorry, they're fresh out of bowl-shaped helmets2 ~ Listen to famous writers as they wax eloquent about the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance
3 ~ Go to the opera, for "song shall be our delight, lamenting our joy"
4 ~ Play the story of the man of La Mancha on your computer
5 ~ Check out an online image gallery of Quixote country (are thumbnails worth a thousand words? you decide)
6 ~ Remember the old saying, “Faint heart never won fair lady”
7 ~ Join a Quixotephile's paradise and participate in this dedicated book discussion
8 ~ Picnic to the sounds of Quixote at an open-air music festival
9 ~ View evidence of Cervantes' curse, then view a contemporary film version that might have broken Cervantes' curse
10 ~ Visit a virtual museum of Quixotic artwork (for those who live in caves)
11 ~ Prove you know everything about the Quixote by taking this quiz
12 ~ Make a virtual download of the entire book
13 ~ "Listen, then, attentively awhile, and thou shalt perceive how, in the twinkling of an eye, I will confound all the difficulties and supply all the wants which do suspend and affright thee from publishing to the world the history of thy famous Don Quixote…" (audio theater)
14 ~ Visit an international exhibition of the Quixote in arts and letters
15 ~ Take on a really cool comic book if you just can't do the whole big tome
16 ~ Attend a film series and discussion
17 ~ Become a certified Cervantes scholar
18 ~ Participate in Operation Dulcinea
19 ~ Reenact the classic adventure with puppets
20 ~ Give yourself a Cervantes-inspired "mind-body workout"
21 ~ Move beyond the windmills to see a stage tribute to Cervantes
22 ~ Read your children a bedtime story
23 ~ Fiesta! Attend a Cervantes Festival
24 ~ Find the proof of the pudding in the eating
25 ~ Enjoy a young people's (pre-MTV!) concert video conducted by Leonard Bernstein
26 ~ Unite, factheads, and brush up on your trivia
27 ~ Leave your two left feet at home, lest you embarrass Sancho Panza
28 ~ Tour Quixote country and get the full immersion experience
29 ~ See the impossible dream unfold in an outdoor theater
30 ~ Learn Spanish as a second language (the mission of the Cervantes institute)
31 ~ Dine with the Don (gourmet magazine feature)
32 ~ Visit a DQ readathon
33 ~ Improve your vocabulary (for rookie hidalgos)
34 ~ Perform a Googlism: Who is Sancho Panza?
35 ~ Celebrate here with a myriad of other adventures (also en español)
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