Festival is finally getting going
Well, there as been much upheaval in my life in the past two months, and the Festival has been just setting. However, things are going much better now, and I hope to get more activity happening at our place very soon.
First of all, my brother died, not unexpected, but sooner than expected. He was the last of my birth family, and I miss him greatly. And that came two weeks after having a bad annual mammogram. Two biopsies, two ultrasounds and two MRIs later, I still don't know exactly what is going on. But, for right now, the problem is stable. (I'm working on it...just noting much to say about it.)
My exhibitor's chair got sick and has had to drop back in her participation. However, I'm getting two other people to come in and help with the office work. One may be able to take over the exhibitor chair job (I hope!!!) and keep the ball rolling. The biggest job for the exhibitors chair is in August (assign booth spaces), September (get lists ready to publish in programs), and Occtober (Handle exhibitors when they check in and keep them happy and productive).
The Festival launched a Tee Shirt Design contest last week. It should prove to be very interesting! Submitted designs must be based on a famous dead artist's famous work - keeping color, design, over-all theme, but personallizing it to our festival. (Examples I used in pubs are Monet's "Waterlillies" with our tents setting on the lilliepads, or Michaelangelo's "David" with a cell phone to his ear and packages covering the anatomy. I personally like the idea of a Calder mobile with tents and gift bags and people eating food as the mobile units.)
We'll see. We are getting a respectable number of applications from our website (www.bellavistafestival,org) that my sponsoring organization thought was useless. I'm happy!
More as it develops.
First of all, my brother died, not unexpected, but sooner than expected. He was the last of my birth family, and I miss him greatly. And that came two weeks after having a bad annual mammogram. Two biopsies, two ultrasounds and two MRIs later, I still don't know exactly what is going on. But, for right now, the problem is stable. (I'm working on it...just noting much to say about it.)
My exhibitor's chair got sick and has had to drop back in her participation. However, I'm getting two other people to come in and help with the office work. One may be able to take over the exhibitor chair job (I hope!!!) and keep the ball rolling. The biggest job for the exhibitors chair is in August (assign booth spaces), September (get lists ready to publish in programs), and Occtober (Handle exhibitors when they check in and keep them happy and productive).
The Festival launched a Tee Shirt Design contest last week. It should prove to be very interesting! Submitted designs must be based on a famous dead artist's famous work - keeping color, design, over-all theme, but personallizing it to our festival. (Examples I used in pubs are Monet's "Waterlillies" with our tents setting on the lilliepads, or Michaelangelo's "David" with a cell phone to his ear and packages covering the anatomy. I personally like the idea of a Calder mobile with tents and gift bags and people eating food as the mobile units.)
We'll see. We are getting a respectable number of applications from our website (www.bellavistafestival,org) that my sponsoring organization thought was useless. I'm happy!
More as it develops.