Press: What's the Word on the Fest
1. Vendors Wanted:
http://theblacklistpub.ning.com/forum/topics/vendors-wanted-for-arts-and-culture-fest-in-flatbush-near
2. Vendors Wanted: https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynArtsCouncil/posts/356048724415705
3. Arts & Culture Fest To Grace the Q's Plaza Each Saturday Thru October: http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2012/02/arts-culture-fest-to-grace-qs-plaza.html
4. Brooklyn Arts Council: http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/1396
5. CB14: http://www.cb14brooklyn.com/arts-culture-fest/
6. Brooklyn Mamas: http://brooklyn.mamasnetwork.com/tag/innovative-arts-and-culture-fest-launches-in-flatbush/
Our Press Release:
Innovative Arts and Culture Fest launches in Flatbush
The Creative Side brings arts, design and culture to an under-used plaza
Brooklyn, NY, February 21, 2012--Arts and Culture Fest, a production of The Creative Side, will launch on Saturday, April 21, 2012 as a one-of-kind artisan market for artists and designers to sell their handmade goods to the Flatbush community. An innovative project supported by Community Board 9 and fiscally sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Fest will be located at Parkside Plaza, an outdoor plaza in front of the Parkside Avenue Train Station (B and Q Trains) in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Arts and Culture Fest will feature for artists, crafters, and designers. It will also have monthly events– from musicians performing, poet and writer readings, hands-on children’s workshops and activities. For shoppers, the Fest will provide unique items and will add to the process of revitalizing an under-used and vacant plaza, and most importantly, it will provide sales and income for artists and designers in Brooklyn.
“We are planning a unique blend of artisans and designers whose work will show the talents of the city and provide new ways of exhibiting in the public sphere and selling art and design objects outdoors” says Atim Annette Oton, co-founder of The Creative Side. Oton used to live East 21st Street in Flatbush which is about 3 blocks from the site when she went to college and a few years after she finished; thus, she is familiar with the proposed location. “I used to ride the train from that station daily for about 7 years and I always wondered about possibilities that could make it interesting. It became one of the first places I thought about when conceiving the idea for Flatbush.” She continues, “as the co-chair of the Economic Development Committee in Community Board 8, I am extending my interest in economic development and revitalization of communities through art, design and commerce in a new venue and neighborhood that I have ties to. My mother and brother still live in the area, and I spend Sunday diners in the neighborhood.”
The concept for the outdoor plaza involves 30 vendors showing and selling a wide range of functional, collectible art, crafts and design items. These vendors will sell handmade jewelry, t-shirts and fashion items, and home décor; and other vendors who sell soaps, incense and body products. According to Javaka Steptoe, award-winning illustrator, artist and author, who initiated the idea with Oton, “the Arts and Culture Fest is coming to my neighborhood and it will showcase some of the culture heritage and work of artists and designers to consumers. It will offer an alternate venue of commerce, creative arts marketing and a showcase for art and design goods right here in Flatbush, Brooklyn.”
The market will operate on Saturdays from April 21st until October 20th, 2012. It was originally presented to Brooklyn’s Community Board 9 in June 2011. For Pearl Miles, district manager of Community Board 9, “Arts and Culture Fest is a wonderful addition to Flatbush. It will re-energize an empty plaza in our community.”
The Creative Side was established in 2011 as a collaboration of Atim Annette Oton and Javaka Steptoe to launch and maintain an Arts Venue and Business Opportunity for artists to sell their work in Brooklyn. For additional information, please visit our website at http://www.artsculturefest.com
http://theblacklistpub.ning.com/forum/topics/vendors-wanted-for-arts-and-culture-fest-in-flatbush-near
2. Vendors Wanted: https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynArtsCouncil/posts/356048724415705
3. Arts & Culture Fest To Grace the Q's Plaza Each Saturday Thru October: http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2012/02/arts-culture-fest-to-grace-qs-plaza.html
4. Brooklyn Arts Council: http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/1396
5. CB14: http://www.cb14brooklyn.com/arts-culture-fest/
6. Brooklyn Mamas: http://brooklyn.mamasnetwork.com/tag/innovative-arts-and-culture-fest-launches-in-flatbush/
Our Press Release:
Innovative Arts and Culture Fest launches in Flatbush
The Creative Side brings arts, design and culture to an under-used plaza
Brooklyn, NY, February 21, 2012--Arts and Culture Fest, a production of The Creative Side, will launch on Saturday, April 21, 2012 as a one-of-kind artisan market for artists and designers to sell their handmade goods to the Flatbush community. An innovative project supported by Community Board 9 and fiscally sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Fest will be located at Parkside Plaza, an outdoor plaza in front of the Parkside Avenue Train Station (B and Q Trains) in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Arts and Culture Fest will feature for artists, crafters, and designers. It will also have monthly events– from musicians performing, poet and writer readings, hands-on children’s workshops and activities. For shoppers, the Fest will provide unique items and will add to the process of revitalizing an under-used and vacant plaza, and most importantly, it will provide sales and income for artists and designers in Brooklyn.
“We are planning a unique blend of artisans and designers whose work will show the talents of the city and provide new ways of exhibiting in the public sphere and selling art and design objects outdoors” says Atim Annette Oton, co-founder of The Creative Side. Oton used to live East 21st Street in Flatbush which is about 3 blocks from the site when she went to college and a few years after she finished; thus, she is familiar with the proposed location. “I used to ride the train from that station daily for about 7 years and I always wondered about possibilities that could make it interesting. It became one of the first places I thought about when conceiving the idea for Flatbush.” She continues, “as the co-chair of the Economic Development Committee in Community Board 8, I am extending my interest in economic development and revitalization of communities through art, design and commerce in a new venue and neighborhood that I have ties to. My mother and brother still live in the area, and I spend Sunday diners in the neighborhood.”
The concept for the outdoor plaza involves 30 vendors showing and selling a wide range of functional, collectible art, crafts and design items. These vendors will sell handmade jewelry, t-shirts and fashion items, and home décor; and other vendors who sell soaps, incense and body products. According to Javaka Steptoe, award-winning illustrator, artist and author, who initiated the idea with Oton, “the Arts and Culture Fest is coming to my neighborhood and it will showcase some of the culture heritage and work of artists and designers to consumers. It will offer an alternate venue of commerce, creative arts marketing and a showcase for art and design goods right here in Flatbush, Brooklyn.”
The market will operate on Saturdays from April 21st until October 20th, 2012. It was originally presented to Brooklyn’s Community Board 9 in June 2011. For Pearl Miles, district manager of Community Board 9, “Arts and Culture Fest is a wonderful addition to Flatbush. It will re-energize an empty plaza in our community.”
The Creative Side was established in 2011 as a collaboration of Atim Annette Oton and Javaka Steptoe to launch and maintain an Arts Venue and Business Opportunity for artists to sell their work in Brooklyn. For additional information, please visit our website at http://www.artsculturefest.com
