Picnics & Pies, Saturday June 6th
Please join us on Saturday, June 6th
from noon - 5 pm at Lush Wine & Spirits 
(1257 S. Halsted) for our spring fundraiser, “Picnics & Pies.” The day’s activities will include:
- Wine tasting
- Cakewalk
- Activities for kids
- Bags tournament
- Amateur pie baking contest
- Beer by Goose Island
- Picnic lunches created by local chefs, including Charlie Trotter, Randy Zweiban, Ina Pinkney and Rick Bayless
Individual tickets will be sold at the event for each activity. The picnic lunches will be sold in a live auction. There is no additional fee to enter the pie contest.
Admission will be $10 in advance, $12 at the door, kids under 12 are free. Tickets can be purchased at the cafe, or online here. Please write ‘picnics’ in the designation line.
If you fancy yourself a baker and would like to enter the pie contest, email sarah@blueskyinn.org and let us know in which category you will be competing: Best Crust, Best Crumble or Most Creative. Please bring two of your pies to the event. The pie contest will be judged by Paula Haney (Hoosier Pie Mama) and Frank Sennett, Editor-in-Chief of Time Out Chicago, and one judge will be selected by raffle at the event. The winners will have their pie (named after them) featured in the cafe for the month of June.
Proceeds from this event will be used to sustain our creative arts program and our job training program for homeless and at-risk youth. We hope you’ll join us for this fun and important day.
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