Little Five Arts Alive

Little Five Arts Alive Returns to Bring
Art & Community Development to Little Five Points

Building upon the success of the 2016 program, Little Five Arts Alive, a free weekly series of outdoor arts events, returns to the heart of Little Five Points!    Arts will enliven Findley and Davis Plazas (at the corner of Euclid and Moreland Avenues) every Saturday and Sunday from 5pm-8pm beginning April 22nd and running through November 5th.

This year’s programming will again highlight a wide variety of artists -- music, dance, theatre, visual arts, crafts, circus, performance art and more.    We are mixing it up with lots of surprises for our Little Five Points neighbors and visitors, including chances to be both spectators and participants.   You might listen to a great band or duet,  try your hand at a graffiti wall or chalk sidewalk art, or get an impromptu salsa lesson.   New this year, you can sit, watch, nosh and sip at tables on Findley Plaza with food and drink service provided by The Porter Beer Bar, 4-9pm on Saturday and Sunday.    And the plazas are getting a facelift with some new plantings and yarn bombing through a beautification project courtesy of a Little Five Alive, a community organization made up of neighborhood representatives and members of the L5P Business Association. 

Each month, we will feature one Spotlight Weekend with a theme that our artists and partners will use as their jumping off point.  On the second Sunday of each month, Little Five Arts Alive will provide local artists the opportunity to sell their work through a curated creative Little Five Arts Alive Artist Market.

This coming Opening Weekend, we celebrate Record Store Day on Saturday, April 22, so our spotlight theme for the weekend is the Atlanta Music Scene.   Sound artist Meredith Kooi brings her Bucky Dome to Findley Plaza where she will set up shop with her hyper-local radio show, broadcast only in our plaza area.   Come by and listen to her interviews of some of Atlanta’s most interesting musicians and check out all of the Record Store Day events at nearby Criminal Records.   We’ll also be hosting performances of R&B and gospel music (Mandi Strachota) and neo-funk soul (Nubian Sounds), and you’ll have the chance to make your own free music-inspired button with cool collage materials while you listen, courtesy of artist Chelsea Steverson.  On Sunday, you can listen to Americana music (Blackfoot Daisy), watch and learn salsa dance, experience freestyle rap in the round (Soul Food Cypher), and be amazed at King Quic’s street style-and break dancing.

So come on out to celebrate Record Store Day and Little Five Arts Alive’s Atlanta Music Scene weekend, April 22 and 23!  It’s FREE, courtesy of Horizon Theatre Company, the Little Five Points Community Improvement District and ArtPlace America.

Opening Weekend: April 22-23
In conjunction with Record Store Day, Little Five Arts Alive will spotlight the Atlanta Music Scene

Saturday, April 22

Findley Plaza:

Meredith Kooi:
Enter The Bucky Dome Zone 5-8pm

Hyper-local live radio show
Listen: mixlr.com/buckydomezone

Davis Plaza:

Mandi Strachota 5-7pm

R&B/Soul/Gospel

Nubian Sounds 7-8pm
Neo-funk Soul

Button Making with Chelsea Steverson

Sunday, April 23

Findley Plaza:
Blackfoot Daisy 5-7pm
Americana Music

Soul Food Cypher 7-8pm

Freestyle Rap in the Round

Davis Plaza:

Salsa Arte 5-7pm
Latin Dance Demo & Instruction

King Quic 7-8pm
Street-Style Dance

Background on Little Five Arts Alive: 

Little Five Arts Alive is a project formed from a partnership between Horizon Theatre Company and the Little Five Points Community Improvement District, and supported by a grant from ArtPlace America.

“We will focus on art that connects and celebrates our community, inspires hope and positive change and is accessible to diverse audiences,” said Horizon co-artistic/producing director Lisa Adler, a Little Five Points CID board member. “Our goal is to bring positive artistic energy to the area that can draw pedestrian traffic and create a welcoming, attractive, engaging, walkable arts destination in which arts, entertainment, dining and shopping thrive.”

Little Five Arts Alive is an example of a national trend in arts philanthropy and programming known as Creative Placemaking—where artists, designers, arts organizations and local leaders collaborate on innovative projects that help build stronger communities and improve the quality of life for residents. ArtPlace America defines creative placemaking as the use of the arts to “shape the social, physical and economic futures of communities.”

Laura Moody, [email protected] 

404.621.5677
littlefiveartsalive.com

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