Save-the-date for Elmira’s Masterpiece Weekend!
July 11 & 12, 2009
Familiar with the energy, enthusiasm and richness of the region’s artist communities, Elmira Downtown Development is confident Elmira will become an art destination experience. The Second Annual Elmira Street Painting Festival will foster such interest and attraction, gathering local, regional and national artists and visitors to engage in the outdoor creation of what we hope will be become one of Elmira’s long-standing legacies.
In sixteenth-century Italy, street painting began when roaming artists transformed nondescript pavement into art with their chalks. Four centuries later and an ocean apart, street painting continues to thrive as a vital element of artistic expression in community festivals across the United States, each drawing thousands upon thousands of visitors–viewers at art.
The Second Annual Elmira Street Painting Festival will offer a rare glimpse into the creation of art for both artists and viewers, challenging the perception of artistic environments from that of the lights and walls of a traditional museum setting, to one constrained only by the streetlights and sidewalks of a non-traditional canvas, the pavement.
Join artists and community members as we celebrate art and Elmira, outside of the box, outside of the gallery – simply and magnificently, outside!
A number of musical acts will perform during the festival. Saturday, the lineup is Paul Speck, 12:30 to 1 p.m.; Alvin & The Upsetters, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.; The Relics, 4-5 p.m.; and Banooba, 6 to 8 p.m. Musical lineup for Sunday: Grey Matters, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.; and Wendy Owen & Renegade, 2:30 to 4 p.m.
Leave us a comment and let us know if you plan on creating artwork or attending!
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June 18th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Leslie School of Dance will have a performance over by rounding third from 11:00am to 11:30am. They will also be hosting a dance table down the street by New York State Fitness. Dance demonstrations (in jazz, tap, ballet), crafts, and information regarding dance, nutrition, etc. will be given. Come join in the fun! Celebrate the arts. It’s definetly something in this area that not enough people cherish.
June 18th, 2009 at 8:51 am
That’s great to know, and I will definitely stop by to see Leslie’s. My daughter took jazz/tap/ballet there for many years and it was a wonderful experience.
June 18th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Stop by and Watch? Nope I am on the dance floor (upright)as long as I dont have 2 beers and a cell in my hand and some freak slam dancing behind me. LOL !!!
June 18th, 2009 at 10:37 am
I promise i won’t be fixing my hair….
June 18th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Double Dutch Bus coming down the street… oh wait. short bus. my bad!
June 18th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Nothing like doing the “MOON” walk on someones face!!
June 18th, 2009 at 10:43 am
CRACK KILLS!
June 18th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Ok….lets tell the real story here. Paula fell on her ass on the dance floor at Sand Dollar. The funny thing is she specifically told me not to fall that night in my heels. Being her faithful bodyguard, I reached down and pulled her up off of the woman’s face faster than lightening to try and lessen her embarassment. Unfortunately, I disolocated her shoulder and we laughed for half an hour! Damn steroids…I reduced my dosage.
June 18th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
But please remember this was all while remaining her dignity with being able to not spill a drop of the two beers she was holding, or the cell phone either. now that is sacrifice. body for booze!!
June 18th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
I will say, I was quite gracefull going down! Leslie, my trusty bodyguard, thanks for ripping me up of the floor with the force of three men! I am still looking for parts of my shoulder. All this while Deanna was fixing her hair and amazed at the whole scenario couldn’t speak or move, just laugh her ass off. LOL
July 9th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
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