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Art & Culture Committee
Third Annual North
Beach ArtWalk
September 25
- 26, 2010
Visual artists, poets, musicians,
performers: This is your
chance to show your work to local, Bay Area, and international visitors,
in your own North Beach studio or a local business.
A bigger and better ArtWalk for
2010 with:
- A printed and online map
that identifies all registered artists and merchants, including your
name, art form, venue, and website/contact info
- A website that lists all
participating artists and merchants
- An ArtWalk "passport"
that will reward visitors to many venues with special offers from participating
merchants
- A chance to present your
art or performance on Saturday evening
- Music in Jack Kerouac
Alley on Sunday
- A public space showing
work from all participating artists, open both days
- A preview party for all
participating artists and merchants on Friday night
- Bay Area and international
promotion
Ways to participate:
- Showcase your work in
a North Beach venue
- Register so you can be
listed on the ArtWalk map and website
- Plan a special event or
performance for Saturday evening
- Musicians: perform in
Kerouac Alley on Sunday
Choosing your venue:
- You can present your work
or event in your own studio or garage, a gallery, or on the sidewalk!
- If you'd like to have
your artform showcased in a neighborhood business, contact a merchant
directly, or see the continually updated list of participating businesses
(coming soon) and make arrangements with the merchant.
Saturday evening events
- If you're a musician,
poet, or other performer and would like to have a Saturday evening event,
check that the venue you're interested in is open at that time and
willing. Then let us know and we'll specify on the map.
Sign up now to make this year's
ArtWalk better than ever!
Priority deadline to sign up and
get on the ArtWalk map for $25 is June 15, 2010.
Absolute deadline is June 30; the late deadline fee is $50.
Just fill out the application
(click here to download) and mail, with your check, to:
THD
Art&Culture, P.O. Box 330159, San Francisco 94133.
Questions? Email
art&culture@thd.org.
Local businesses and merchants:
North Beach ArtWalk is an excellent
way to increase foot traffic to your space and generate additional interest
in your business while you support the vibrant North Beach arts community.
ArtWalk will also be promoted around
the Bay Area and internationally.
You can participate by:
- Being listed on the ArtWalk
map and website
- For $25, your business
will be featured on the official website and printed event map, which
is handed out to hundreds of locals and visitors to the neighborhood.
- Registration includes
the Friday night preview party for all participating artists and merchants.
- Offering space to an artist,
performer, poet, or musician for the weekend
- Artists will contact you
directly to make arrangements.
- If you are open on Saturday
evening and willing to host an artist or performer then, be sure to
let us know on your application.
- Offering special discounts
or items through the passport
- Visitors will get a stamp
or sign-off at each venue they go to. Offering a special such
as a free cappucino or reduced-price item for those with a certain number
of stamps (say, 10) will lead visitors to your business.
- Becoming a sponsor of
North Beach ArtWalk 2010
- $100 - $249 will highlight
your business in color on the map.
- $250 - $499 will include
your logo with your color map listing.
- $500 - $999 will list
your business name on the ArtWalk poster.
- $1000 or more will include
your logo and business name on all Artwalk publicity.
- To become a sponsor or
for more details on sponsorship, email Julie at art&culture@thd.org. Vesuvio, the North Beach Merchants
Association, and the Hotel des Arts have already signed on as sponsors
of ArtWalk.
Priority deadline to sign up
and get on the ArtWalk map for $25
is June 15, 2010. Absolute deadline is June 30; the late deadline
fee is $50.
Sign up now to make this year's
ArtWalk better than ever!
Just fill out the
application (click here to download)
and mail, with your check, to:
THD
Art&Culture, P.O. Box 330159, San Francisco 94133.
| Below are the nine winning poems in
THD's poetry in public places
competition. |
| Confetti, Sally Doyle |
| Boundaries, Sally Doyle |
| Lost America, Wendy Arnell Brophy |
| Nothing Adds Up, Sally Doyle |
| On the Rooftop, Joe Shakarchi |
| Poet's Walk, Joe Shakarchi |
| Red Currents, Philip Hackett |
| Russia, 1931 (For Osip Mandelstam), Barbara Alexandra Szerlip |
| Twelve Bells In One Mansion, Candace Loheed |
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