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[Summer 07] - Bringing heat for free! - Free Summer Event Listing
Ok, so as you all know, NYC as large as it is, does what it does every year, every spring summer and fall, it does it for the people.
So this year I thought I'd start the listing off with something fresh and exciting. Add alittle flavor to the normal 'events' we are all used to, so check'em if you got the time to roam the city....
As always, please contribute...
Untitled
"Untitled: An Exhibition of Original Skateboard Art" Opens April 12
Curator Cey Adams Sez: "Skateboarding's Come to the 'Hood"
"Untitled: An Exhibition of Original Skateboard Art," a group show featuring the work of nearly four dozen artists, will open to the public with a reception at the Eyejammie Fine Arts Gallery on the evening of Thursday, April 12 between six and nine o'clock. The gallery is located at 516 W.25th Street, Suite 306, between 10th and 11th Avenues. The show will remain up through Saturday, May 5.
The show has been curated by Cey Adams, the legendary graphic designer who ran Def Jam's in-house design studio for 15 years. "I met [black skateboarding pioneer] Stevie Williams half a dozen years ago, but I never thought much about the culture," Adams says. "All of a sudden I noticed all these kids skating in my Brooklyn neighborhood and I thought, 'Wow! Where is this coming from?'" In fact, it largely comes from such popular rappers who skate as Pharrell, Kanye West, and Lupe Fiasco, the latter of whom had a huge hit in 2006 with a love song about skateboarding called "Kick Push." The skateboard craze, which originated in southern California 30 years ago, had never before meant much to black urbanites.
Accordingly, Adams says that "Untitled" is meant to acknowledge "a new wave of black and Latino skateboarders and skateboard artists." The show includes boards designed by such notable visual artists as Chris Yormick, Claw Money, Cycle, Dennis McNett, Douglas Miles, Espo, Ezo, Ghost, Haze, Jen "Props" Larkin, Morning Breath, Dr. Revolt, Shepard Fairey, Sket One, Greg Lamarche, Keene "Team" Carse, Tristan Eaton, Andy Kessler, and Jahmal Williams. Sacha "SHR" Jenkins has contributed a board in memory of pioneering black skateboarder Harold Hunter.
"Untitled" is sponsored by Consolidated Skateboards, Kid Robot, Mass Appeal, and Phat Farm.
For more information about the artists, please go to untitledshow.com.
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NYC STREET FAIR SCHEDULE
Sat. April 14
17th Annual Upper Broadway Spring Festival
Broadway, 110-118 Sts. (east side of Broadway)
Sun. April 22
16th Annual West Side Spring Festival
Broadway, 96-110 Sts. (east)
Sun. April 29
14th Annual Spring Crafts Festival
Broadway, 66-72 Sts. (west)
Sun. May 6
19th Annual Broadway Spring Festival
Broadway, 86-96 Sts. (east)
Sun. May 27
20th Annual Livable West Side Festival
Broadway, 72-86 Sts. (west)
Mon. May 28
Annual Cedar Lane Street Fair Teaneck, New Jersey
Sun. June 3
30th Annual Plantathon & Crafts Fair
Broadway, 73-86 Sts., (east)
Sun. June 24
17th Annual Columbus Avenue Summer Festival
Columbus Ave, 86-96 Sts.
Sept. 13-23
80 th Annual Feast of San Gennaro Mulberry St.-Canal-Houston
Sat. Sept. 15
14th Annual Upper Broadway Autumn Festival
Broadway, 110-118 Sts. (east)
Sun. Sept. 30
19 th Annual Upper Broadway Harvest Festival Broadway,
96-110 Sts. (west)
Sat. Oct. 6
15th Annual Upper Broadway Fall Festival
Broadway, 110-118 Sts. (east).
Sun. Oct. 14
16th Annual Broadway Fall Festival
Broadway, 86-96 Sts. (west)
Sat. Oct. 27
33rd Annual Americana Jazz Festival
52nd Street, Madison-Seventh Aves.
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Last edited by EarnYourKeep on Apr-25-2007 at 18:05
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