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Yellow Brick Road are one of the acts lined up to perform at the City Music Festival in Hamilton today.

Hope you’re all enjoying the pink-bombing that’s going on around the Island this week. Want to know what it’s all about? Like More Pink Bda on Facebook and all will soon be revealed! NTDIB is temporarily looking pretty in pink to show support. Here’s what else is going on in Bermuda:Cup Match is just around the corner and as part of the celebrations, there will be a two-day Pre-Cup Match Extravaganza at Warren Simmons Community Field (opposite Arnold’s Supermarket in Somerset) today and tomorrow. This Somerset Community Day will include street tennis with Somerset vs. St George’s, spider jump, face- painting, body art, pony rides, snow cones, a seniors’ tea from 4pm until 5.30pm daily, home-baked goods, fish fry from Willow Cuts Cricket Club, BBQ, Flea Market (Saturday only), bands, Gombeys, youth chess players and lots more. The cost is $2 for seniors and adults and free for children under 13.441 Productions, Veterans in Action and the City of Hamilton will be showcasing local talent at the City Music Festival today. From 6pm until midnight, the event will be hosted by Patrina O’Conner, a.k.a. PowerGirl, with VIBE 103 DJs, DIA, Yellow Brick Road, Chewstick and Working Title all performing live. You can also expect food, novelties and a kids’ zone. Admission is free but no coolers are allowed.The next edition of the Bermuda International Film Festival’s BIFFlix Monthly Film Series will be a screening of the film ‘Byzantium’, starring Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton, on Sunday. This will be at the usual venue of BUEI at 5.30pm. For more details, or to buy tickets, see www.pTix.bm.As part of Bermuda’s 2013 emancipation celebrations, the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs are hosting Trail of Our People, a ceremony honouring community heroes of Pembroke Parish at the new Berkeley Institute Upper Courtyard on Sunday. Starting at 7pm, the evening will also include music by Lloyd Holder and Larrita Adderly, as well as dance performances choreographed by Eric Bean. Admission is free. For more information, contact 292-1681 or visit www.communityandculture.bm.You are invited to round off the first day of Cup Match at Summer Meltdown at White Horse on Thursday, August 1. From 10pm until 3am, this event will feature New York’s finest DJ Castro from New York, along with local Dj Sheep and Jugglin Jason & Souljah 1. The first 100 to arrive will receive an e-hookah in a variety of flavours. Entry is $10 before 12.30am and $20 after. If you bring a copy of the Cup Match Fever flyer, entry is $10 all night.Now in its sixth year, Cup Match Fever is doing something different for 2013. This year, their Cup Match after-party will pit Old School against New School at Gombeys, Clearwater, with over 1,200 revellers expected. Gombeys will be transformed into a huge outdoor club on the beach, equipped with laser lights and a smoked dance floor. Team Old School will be playing the best in 80s, 90s, and up to 2005 while Team New School will be playing the hits from 2005 to the present. The party will kick off at 8pm and a coin toss will start the one hour battle at 9pm sharp. All genres of music will be played during the battle and patrons will crown the winner at 2am. The winner will then play a victory hour until 3am. Tickets are $30 and available from Kit n Caboodle, Jazzy Boutique, Gombeys, The Cave in St George’s, and all event DJs.Bermudian dancer and choreographer Eric Bean Jr. presents his latest production, ‘Through The Looking Glass’, at the Earl Cameron Theatre in City Hall from Friday, August 16 until Sunday, August 18. As well as two new works from Eric Bean, the show will feature some of Bermuda’s talented local dance artists as well as international guest performers from the acclaimed Koresh Dance Company. Showtime is at 8pm on the Friday and Saturday and 7pm on the Sunday. Tickets are $30 for general admission and $50 for Patrons, with student and group rates also available. Tickets are on sale at City Hall Box Office or at www.JariccoDance.com.Aimed at capturing the bond between fathers/male role models of little princesses, Bermuda’s 1st Annual Tiaras and Bow Ties will be on Saturday, September 28. This Daddy-Daughter Princess Dance is for young ladies aged between four and 16 years old and will be at Washington House on Church Street, across from City Hall. From 6.30pm, the evening promises to be full of fantasy and fun with hors d’oeuvres and drinks, party favours, princess face-painting, photos, and special performances from overseas princess guests Cinderella, Jasmine and Ariel. It will all finish around 9.30pm, so plenty of time to get home before you turn into a pumpkin. Proceeds will benefit Childwatch and the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust. Tickets are $80 and are available from www.bdatix.com or Kit ‘n’ Caboodle.For full events listings and flyers, please visit www.NothingtodoinBermuda.com. The above is abbreviated content from that site. If you would like your event included on the site, please go to the Submit Your Event section and add all the details and flyer.

The poster for the film ‘Byzantium’, which is being shown at BUEI.