News from Downtown Muncie 8/12/2005

Hey gang! We are going to try some new formats with the newsletter in the upcoming months. New is good! The newsletter has gotten to be so long and detailed we are going to try for short....like something that will only take you 5 min. to read. PLEASE give us feedback on this and other ways to make this newsletter valuable to you and other folks downtown. I need your help with the editing; please send only 4 lines max. for your event and only the current weeks news, also know that I may have to edit it down even further. People have said that the newsletter is so long that they are just deleting it. Ahhhh!! That is not what we want, right?

AUGUST

1st-27 Artist Within: presenting artist/photographer Kendrick Shadoan

1st-31st Gordy Fine Art & Framing: exhibit of Lynette Whitesell

12th Muncie Children's Museum: Unpack Stuffee's Lunch Box During Friends and Family Fun Night! Enjoy food, friends, fun and free admission from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Also daily events, call for more info.

12th DOC'S presents Souled Out Band from 9pm-12pm. Adm. $5.00

13th Vera Mae's: Summer Jazz Vignette's Frank Puzzullo duo featuring Jazz Vocalist Paula Owen. 6:30pm-9:30pm, No Cover Charge, reservations taken for dining guests only. 765-747-4941.

16th Dandelion's Flowers and Gifts are having another fresh cut flower workshop on Tues and Weds, August 17th, from 6-8 p.m. Both classes still have openings. Each "new designer" will create two arrangements and take them home. Call Dandelions @ 289-6363 to enroll.

17th Dandelion's Flowers and Gifts are having another fresh cut flower workshop from 6-8 p.m. Both classes still have openings. Each "new designer" will create two arrangements and take them home. Call Dandelions @ 289-6363 to enroll.

18-21st The Muncie and Anderson Kennel Clubs are putting on their Annual dog show at
the Delaware Country Fairgrounds. We will be trying out a Meet the Breeds event this year on Saturday where people can come and ask questions about different breeds and see the dogs.

19th Vera Mae's: Summer Jazz Vignette's Frank Puzzullo Duo featuring Hans Sturm on string Bass. 6:30pm-9:30pm, no cover charge, reservations taken for dining guests only. 747-4941

20th Artworks: annual Artist Attic event from 8:00am-4:00pm.

26th 50's Night at Our Daily Bread, Historic Johnson House 322 East Washington Street. Featuring Billy G., formerly of The Platters. Fun starts at 6 p.m. Reservations only, call 287-9247.

27th Minnestrista Rhythm and Blues with John Lee Hooker, Jr. and Clarence Dobbins at 7:30 p.m.

27th YART: 8 am to 11 pm. Great art for sale, and nothing over $50!!!! For more information contact Luke Lofland at lukelofland@gmail.com.

27th Gordy Fine Art & Framing offering classes by Lina Gordy will lead a full-day knitting workshop for advanced beginners from 9 AM to 3 PM.

SEPTEMBER

13th Gordy Fine Art & Framing offering classes by professional artist Brian Gordy ; beginning Watercolor classes on Tuesday evenings for ten weeks beginning September 13, 2005. Adults and children over 15 who have some drawing skills will be guided through basic techniques for still life and landscape painting. Intermediate and Advanced Watercolor class will be offered on Wednesday evenings for those students with some background in watercolor techniques who wish to develop personal skills and style. Both classes meet from 6 to 8 PM at Gordy Fine Art & Framing Company, 224 East Main Street in downtown Muncie.


18 & 19 Old Washington Street Festival, Saturday 10-5, Sunday Noon-5
Be a part of all the excitement and festivities during the Annual Old Washington Street Festival to be held on the four blocks of East Washington Street between Madison and Hackley Streets. The primary focus of the Old Washington Street Festival is on the architectural, cultural, and social heritage of Muncie's Emily Kimbrough Historic District and the surrounding neighborhood. Home tours and a walking tour extend the bounds of the Festival to approximately fourteen square blocks. At the hub of the Festival on Washington Street are demonstrations of crafts contemporary to the turn of the century, arts and crafts displays, musical entertainment, an ice cream social and other refreshments, antiques, a milk wagon and a hand-drawn fire pumper to take visitors back to the gas boom era. We expect the variety of attractions to draw over 8,000 people.

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OCTOBER

6th The Annual Altrusa Style Show presents: "Red Carpet To Style" at the Horizon Convention Center. Two Shows: Noon Luncheon $25 and 7:00pm Dinner $30.
Several area stores will be showing Fall and Winter fashions. Popular WLBC Morning Show host Steve Lindel will emcee. Upon arrival, guests will have the opportunity to rub elbows with 'Joan
Rivers', 'Opra', etc. (all in fun played by Muncie actors.) Great door prizes, tickets available for fabulous merchandise from local stores. Proceeds benefit Altrusa service projects focused on literacy, youth development and the advancement of women. Thanks for your support!

7th -9th Watercolor workshop by PAT SAN SOUCIE 9-4 PM located 400 arts and Journalisom Bldg at Ball State. Pat San Soucie is a renowned painter, educator and juror. She is a member of many watercolor societies including the National Watercolor Society and the American Watercolor Society. She is a Dolphin Fellow. She has received numerous awards and is widely published and included in many public and corporate collections.. San Soucie creates watermedia paintings in a unique style by pouring pigments through filters, yielding abstract textures, shapes and colors. She will teach workshop particpants different methods of creating paintings. The workshop is limited to 15 artists.

To register, send you name, address, phone number and email address and your check for $150 made out to Mitchell Place Gallery to:

Patrick Wasson Watermedia 2005 Workshop Chair 409 S. Liberty Muncie IN 47305 765-228-1247 pdubbs81@aol.com

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