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Contest winner and Tampa art happenings

by Wendy Withers

The winner of my exciting art contest is Barbara Waters for her super-duper spooky poem! So, I’ll be sending out her book on Monday!

Now for the excitement. Tomorrow, there will be an art festival in Ybor City (part of Tampa). I’ll be there taking pictures, interviewing artists, and generally making a nuisance of myself.

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Tickets are $8, and there will be jugglers, puppeteers, an art gallery showing, and so much more! Thanks to some of my friends who told me about this event. My friend Kenny is a juggler and will be there showing off his mad skills.

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I have some video of his contact juggling and fire breathing on my other blog.

Before I head out to the art festival, I will be at Flavor Fest, a big-time Christian type hiphop festival. I’ll be there doing some research for an article I’m working on; it should be interesting.

Before I sign off, I thought I’d mention something I saw on Barbara Waters’s blog while I was grabbing my link for her contest winning announcement.

Halloween’s over, so quite a few people are moving their focus over to the winter holidays, i.e. the gift-giving holidays. I found this on Barbara’s blog:

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I decided to take the pledge; every year I make my presents, unless I give someone a book from my overwhelming collection. Or, I buy from the artists I’ve found on Etsy. You can also take the pledge. My recommendation is to go to Etsy. They have a huge selection of products for Yule, Christmas, Channukah, Kwanza, Hunnuwanzmas, and any other holiday we can think of to give presents on.


4 Responses to “Contest winner and Tampa art happenings”

  1. barbara Says:

    hey there! I just checked my email and found the pingback from this entry!!!! How very cool is this? I am looking forward to the book. Thank you!!!!!!

    (can she possibly use enough !!!!s?)

    thank you, really

  2. linda Says:

    The juggler ken is awesome ! i saw him at the ren fair and ken’s party. there is also a art/craft fair at riverhills park on the nov 10-11 (one light past busch-turn left -turn right at the stop sign follow the road and turn right into the park. be sure to check out urban d at the flavor fest as well as the breaking and the tables with rap and hiphop…

  3. Artists Passion » Blog Archive » Troupe Profile: Tableau Vivant Nouveau Says:

    [...] is Adam’s intro to his show at a recent art festival at Silver Meteor Gallery in Ybor [...]

  4. barbara Says:

    hi there - I just saw a link back from this article - you know, with everything that has been going on in my life, I totally forgot about this - have you sent the book out yet?

    thanks again for the fun. ;)


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