First Friday recommendations
Local ad agency E.B. Lane is using a new social media tool called Sticky Bits to promote the First Friday event and local merchants.
Sticky Bits allows iPhone and Android users to scan any barcode and instantly view, tag and upload photos, videos and information about a particular place or topic.
In partnership with Local First Arizona, E.B. Lane put stickers with Sticky Bits barcodes all over downtown for April’s First Friday event. Since then, people from all over the world have scanned and uploaded pictures, videos and comments to the barcode more than 140 times.
Our friend Jane Redden, owner of Practical Art, is featuring the show “Inside Outside” by Karrin Taylor:
Karrin’s paintings “come from within.” Which means she paints what she feels, as opposed to what she sees. Her paintings are comprised of layers— personal memorabilia, newspaper articles, obituaries of relatives, and found textures.
While the final images tend toward botanical images, she thinks of her final product as metaphors. She works on panels she constructs herself, and on found remnants such as old pallets. The artist says “the organic rawness of wood adds another layer of complexity” to her work.
The free artist reception is tonight, starting at 7p.m., and open to the public.
Beverages and snacks will be served.
For more information on what’s going on downtown tonight, check out Jackalope Ranch’s Field Guide to Downtown’s First Friday. It includes a snazzy pdf map to help you make sense of it all.
For Light Rail fans, Tony Arranaga, aka the Light Rail Blogger has some good First Friday suggestions. Mr. RailLife, Nick Bastien, offers his suggestions here.
Shooze, Booze Schmooze at Blueberry Deluxe
Come enjoy some “wining, dancing and shopping” at the Melrose Curve’s newest boutique.
- All shoes 50% off
- Play Dance Dance Revolution and get 10% of your entire purchase
- Free wine inside the shop (21+ only)
6=10 pm, 702 W Montecito Ave (in the Wagon Wheel building, next door to Melrose Pharmacy)
Live Music @ Royal at the Market
Royal Coffee Bar at the Downtown Phoenix Public Market will be featuring LIVE music with Laila Hirtz. Enjoy some freshly roasted coffee and delicious pastries as you hear the lovely sounds of some talented musicians! The show will start at 7 p.m. and go til around 10-10:30.
At After Hours Gallery, on McDowell just west of Central, the “Fridge-A-Thon Show.”
The gallery says it will have fifteen uniquely painted recycled refrigerators.
It’s part of an SRP project to get energy-inefficient refrigerators out of homes; the company will come pick up old refrigerators and give you $30. Details here.
After Hours site here.
9:32 PM
