For a complete schedule of events, please click on the link below to see our Calendar. Performance Calendar
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"When you tap into people’s sense of play, miracles happen," states Kitty Love, program director.
The 2008 program was funded by a generous grant from the City of Asheville, by downtown residents, businesses and other generous and concerned stakeholders, and supporters of the arts and our creative community. We would also like to thank the Mountain Xpress for their generous contribution to this program.
You can be our hero too!
Please donate! Click on the donate options through the Arts 2 People website www.arts2people.org, or mail your tax-deductible contribution to our po box, listed on our website.
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About me: Asheville’s community came together this past spring and summer and filled Pritchard Park with performances, art, crafts and more. Area non-profit Arts 2 People, as well as generous neighbors, businesses, and the City of Asheville joined efforts to utilize creative local resources to make a difference with this pilot program. Park goers and park passers by experienced local performers, musicians, drummers, clowns, magicians, contortionists, belly dancers, dancers, vaudeville actors, and hula hoopers in Pritchard Park downtown. Other activities included interactive art fun and special events such as an artists’ market, workshops, classes, and more.
Program Director Kitty Love states, “The goal of the PPCAP is to reconnect the community to what a public square can be. It is ideally a place that brings us all together for enjoyment of the unique experience of who we collectively are, and what we collectively create. It is a showcase for our talents, a stage where we can express our values and concerns, and a meeting place to recreate, refresh and rejuvenate our connections to each other. Integral to the success of this vision is the participation of all of us, both as stewards of the park and stewards of the larger community experience.”
The series program schedule consisted of lunchtime events Monday - Thursday from 11:30am to 1:30pm and early evening events Monday - Thursday from 5pm to 7pm with various Saturday artists’ market 10 to 4pm.
This concept came into being when the City Council appointed The Pritchard Park Committee to discuss the possibilities of greater use of Pritchard Park. They met throughout the year and involved community input in the decision making process. The committee then issued a report citing best practices for parks with similar issues in other cities, including arts programs such as this one, and noted the great success enjoyed by other cities upon implementation of similar programs. Members of The Pritchard Park Committee have recommitted to the stewardship of the park through a Pritchard Park conservancy group, which will oversee The Pritchard Park Cultural Arts Program in coordination with the City, and will bring this and other programs to the park in the future.
The Pritchard Park Cultural Arts Program creates a hospitable atmosphere in the park for everyone to enjoy by entertaining locals as well as tourists. This program is a way for the entire community and the government to invest in the diverse creative experience that is Asheville by means of cultivating relationships amongst the people that pass through downtown on a daily basis. PPCAP enables a variety of local artists to perform in the park without the need to apply individually for a permit, and they will receive generous financial compensation for their work. Arts will be used as a community asset to bridge the boundaries of age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status to bring more positive attention to this currently underused park, by means of simple grassroots ideas.
The 2008 program was funded by a generous grant from the City of Asheville, by downtown residents, businesses and other concerned stakeholders, as well as supporters of the arts and our creative community. The City of Asheville has pledged $10,000 to the project. Business leaders, developers and others donated an additional $15,000. IOf we are to continue this project next year we will need to raise funding for the 2008 program. If you are interested in donating or helping us to fundraise, that would be greatly appreciated by many who have benefited from this program.
The Pritchard Park Cultural Arts Program welcomes your ideas and proposal submissions, donations, and volunteer inquiries. Suggestions and feedback are welcome. There are many sponsorship opportunities available to support this creative and innovative project. Anyone interested should contact PPCAP director, Kitty Love. Please send us a message if you are interested.
Arts 2 People is devoted to promoting the role of the arts as an integral part of our culture by serving the entire community through arts outreach, bringing the arts to those in need of the healing power of art, supporting the careers of artists, and through community cultural development. Arts 2 People’s many projects include The Lexington Ave. Arts and Fun Festival (LAAFF), The REACH Programming series, The Asheville Mural Project, Moving Women, The Faces of Asheville and more. Expect to see many of LAAFF’s performers popping up at Pritchard Park this summer; we are all excited to be part of cultivating Asheville’s performance and art scene. To find out more, visit www.arts2people.org.
For a complete schedule of events, please click on the following link to see our Performance Calendar.
Who I'd like to meet: As part of the Pritchard Park Cultural Arts Program, there was an
artists' market Saturdays through the end of September.
This program is a part of the City of Asheville's efforts in
partnership with the community to make the park into a place we can
all enjoy. As a part of this program there have been performances
throughout the week as well. Arts 2 People is proud to be the
coordinating non-profit! Do your part to enliven the park, make some
sales, and get some great exposure.
For more information and to apply, please visit www.arts2people.org.
While you're there, check out the Lexington Avenue Arts & Fun
Fesitval, Asheville's largest independent street fair, drawing over
10,000 visitors!
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Kitty Love
Arts 2 People
Executive Director
www.arts2people.org
For a complete schedule of events, please click on the link below to see our Calendar. Performance Calendar
For the second year in a row, WNC magazine is putting out the
call to Western North Carolina’s emerging visual artists. It’s a
crowded field around here for talented people and sometimes it can be
difficult to get your work seen by the public. That’s why we’re looking
for painters, sculptors, ceramicists, photographers, mixed media
artist, fabric artists, and any other type of local visual artist who’s
looking for their opportunity to reach a wider audience.
We’re accepting submissions for On the Verge, a juried competition,
from now until Friday, January 15, 2010. Submit your entry at www.wncmagazine.com/otv. The selected visual artists
will not only be featured in WNC magazine’s Arts Issue in June,
but will also have their work exhibited in a month-long show at Flood
Gallery & Fine Arts Center in the heart of Asheville’s River Arts
District.
Hey Folks,
Just spreading the word about a special show this Thursday July 30th at The Grey Eagle in Asheville, NC.
Grupo Fantasma with special guests Sol Driven Train. Tickets are only 10.00 in Advance (you can get them at www.thegreyeagle.com), and 15.00 at the door
The last Grupo show in town sold out, so get your tickets in advance!
It is going to be one special night of music, and we hope to see you there!
Saturday Night, July 25th...as Bele Chere winds down for the evening, The Boiler Room and Grove House light up the night and continue the party! Drinking, dancing, DJ's, live music and drag queens--all under one roof...all at the Grove House...all night long Saturday night!
Come check us out as we play at The Boiler Room along with our friends Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun and Kavish (from Atlanta and Winston-Salem respectively). Check them out @ myspace.com/todaythemoontomorrowthesun and myspace.com/kavish13 . Come prepared to party and to dance your ass off--and bring all your friends! See ya there!
Modo ( http://www.modomusic.net ) will be performing at the Emerald Lounge on Saturday, July 4th with The Discordian Society. Check out the myspace for new tracks from the upcoming Self-titled EP. Show starts right after the fireworks.
Just wanted to reach out and let you know that Modo ( http://www.modomusic.net ) will be performing at the Orange Peel on Saturday, June 6th with Josh Blake and the Big Money Band. Check out the myspace for new tracks from the upcoming Self-titled EP. We hope to see you there!
Hi Pritchard Park Arts! We're playing @ The Boiler Room w/ Vertigo www.myspace.com/listentovertigo Saturday April 25th @ 10pm 11 Grove St Asheville, NC <>>> Click the Event link below for more details and to learn more about Vertigo! Click Here To View This Event <>>> Hope to see you there!
Okay, here's the thang, y'all... I'm doin' a set at White Horse Black Mountain TONIGHT, 3/2/09 from 8-9... I guess this is sorta like an audition... as they wanna see & hear me before they actually use me on one of their shows... & I know this is very last minute, but I'm asking... NO, I'm begging you to come on out tonight & gimme a li'l moral support.
NO COVER tonight! White Horse Black Mountain is a great venue... a smoke-free music hall in downtown Black Mountain with a great house sound system & there ain't a bad seat in the place!
Thanking you in advance for your support... Dave Foraker
