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South Main Mardi Gras Party
Join us for the SoMa Mardi Gras Parade!
Saturday, February 18th
Parade starts at 12Noon
On South Main Street from 24th to 12th Street
Bring your own folding chairs and blankets to enjoy the parade.
Bring your bike and decorate it to be in the parade.
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Before, during, and after the parade there will be all sorts of activity on Main Street:Oxford America will be having their open house at 1300 Main Street from 11:00am to 4:00pm. Join them to mix, mingle, and walk through their new facilities, and enjoy food, beverages, and music!
Piano Kraft will have live music played by Don Nichols from 12:00pm to 3:00pm
Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church will have a children’s activity table along the parade route.
The Root Cafe will be serving chicken and sausage jambalya (meat from Falling Sky Farms and Cove Creek Acres) over Indian Bayou Farms brown jasmine rice for the Mardi Gras parade, along with Cajun iced tea. The Root Cafe will also be hosting a small outdoor local foods and urban garden expo from 10:30am to 2:30pm in the cafe parking lot, featuring several of their suppliers (Willow Springs Market Garden, Little Rock Urban Farming, Kent Walker Artisan Cheese) and other food and garden-related organizations (Arkansas Sustainability Network, Arkansas Native Plant Society, Delta Garden Project, Central Arkansas New Agrarian Society).
The Green Corner Store will have vendors selling their goods. There will be Curley Bob’s sauce tasting, Valerie Goetz from Native Works will be providing an artist demonstration, artist Vanya Gilmore will do a simple craft with children, Etniq Mineral Makeup free costume makeup demos, and there will be Mountain Bird Pure Coffee samples. The store will also be passing out treats for your pooch.
USA Drug will have some activities for kids outside their store.
Ashley Ann’s Event Planning is having special Mardi Gras Themed Window Decorations – think very cool!!
The Bernice Garden is having Rosen’s Big Band (Rosen Music) from 12:00pm until 3:00pm and the Mockingbird Hillbilly Band from 3:00pm until 5:00pm. The Food Truck Little Rock and Hot Dog Mike will be out in the garden serving up hot sandwiches and hot dogs.
Boulevard Bread is dishing up a special Gumbo.
The Community Bakery is having sampler’s of King Cakes.
And to top it off, SoMa will be selling beer and water at the Oxford America Parking lot.
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There is still time to be part of the parade. If you are interested in being a parade walker or have a float email soma@southsidemain.org with your contact information. The line up will start at 11:30am at 24th and Scott Street.
Parade is sponsored by The City of Little Rock, SoMa and the SoMa Business Alliance.
Check out more info at www.southsidemain.org/events.html
Call for Sculpture Competition entries announced on KATV Channel 7 Daybreak
This February 11, 2012 Liz Sanders and Stephanie Simoni visited on KATV Channel 7′s Daybreak to talk about the call for proposals for the 2012 Sculpture Competition.
Click here to Watch the Video.
Entries Sought for Bernice Garden Annual Sculpture Project
Arkansas sculptors and artists are invited to enter the fourth annual Bernice Garden Sculpture Project.
Bernice Garden, 1401 S. Main St., Little Rock, consists of landscaped areas with a crushed granite foundation for the artwork. Next to the sculpture garden is a concrete patio, benches and 20 parking spaces. The sculpture exhibition is part of a multi-staged development plan of the garden.
The competition is open to all artists/teams residing in Arkansas and working in any discipline or media.
Sculptures must be able to stand up to the elements and should be maintenance-free. Artists/teams are responsible for all construction, delivery, installation, and removal of artwork. The sculptures will remain in Bernice Garden for a year.
Up to five sculptures will be considered, and each artist/team will be considered for one artwork only. The budget must include all design fees, materials, construction, installation, removal, maintenance and liability insurance.
Artists selected will receive $2,800 per artwork with an additional design fee of $200 for the finalists’ development of a model for the proposal. The artists/teams retain ownership of the artwork.
The call for entries is open until 5 p.m. April 20. Artists/teams who have previously placed work at the Bernice Garden should wait four years before submitting a new proposal.
Applications are available here.
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