Asian Cultural Center of Vermont (ACCVT) presents Brattleboro’s Tanabata-Obon Festival, 2012, downtown, in Pliny Park Park, corner of Main and High Streets.
This festival celebrates a Japanese tradition: the double festivals of summer in a single evening observance, downtown, during the July Gallery Walk.
Obon is a celebration of ancestors and remembrance of loved ones and the departed. Tanabata is a star festival for communities to make wishes for the future (happening each year when the paths of two of the brightest stars, Vega and Altair, meet in the sky).
The public is invited to walk a lantern-lit path to the Table of Remembrance. People can write wishes on little pieces of paper in many colors (tanzaku) which are then put on a ‘tree’ made from bamboo. 
This is a free event for all ages.
