THERE BACK! The annual ANN ARBOR ART FAIRS start TODAY, Wednesday, July 19, 2006 and run till Saturday, July 22, 2006. About 500,000 people attend every year. That's about how many hipsters attended WOODSTOCK 1969! 47th Annual ANN ARBOR ART FAIRS Downtown ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN (Home of the University of Michigan) July 19 - 22, 2006 W - F: 10AM - 9PM SAT: 10AM - 6PM Price of admission: FREE!!! Parking: Some free parking (if you can find some), lot parking and very expensive meter parking. Those "Meter Maids" will be busy writing parking violations (if deserved). "Established in 1960, the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair is the Original of the now four award winning art fairs attracting over 500,000 attendees from across the nation and was recently named the Number One art fair in the country by AmericanStyle magazine readers survey (October 2004)." LINK: www.artfair.org Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair questions? Call 734-662-3382 Ann Arbor Summer Art Fairs Voted Best Art Fair By Hour Detroit Magazine The Ann Arbor Art Fairs featuring the Summer Art Fair were awarded Gold for the Best Ann Arbor Festival by the Ann Arbor News! LINIK: www.michiganguild.org/art_fair_summer.html Why are the ANN ARBOR ART FAIRS hip? They're in Ann Arbor, MI (a town compared to San Francisco, CA) They started in 1960. You can stock up on that "tie-dye" wear, groovy hip necklaces and "psychedelic" art. Some "headshops" display their wares. Some cool, hip, local bands play. There are many street perfomers and maybe "drummers". PIZZA BOB's LSD sub sandwich. Some hip "veggie" resturants. The 60's pizza store. The MAIZE and BLUE DELI. Smoking "herb" is a minor fine (on CITY PROPERTIES, but NOT on the U of M College STATE PROPERTIES). Still, it's safest to smoke herb hidden from the public eye, as this is also a "family" event. This is a huge event and the booths practically cover the entire town! One year, this cool, local band, played at the ANN ARBOR ART FAIRS: Mr. Largebeat. Check out their CD titles: "What's Inside the Box", "Sending Suzie Signals From Saturn", "Hologram Man", "In His Own Little Universe" and "Mystery of the OVNIs: A Tale of UFOs". Trippy stuff! They're a little COSMIC, and UFO-orientated, plus a lttle hippy. LINK: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dbrzez28/Pages/Largebeat.html In one ANN ARBOR ART FAIRS year, the ORIGINAL ARTWORKS of: JOHN LENNON, JERRY GARCIA and GRACE SLICK were dispayed inside the MICHIGAN UNION BUILDING (2nd floor), which is a U of M College building. Jerry and Grace had some cool "psychedelic" acrylic paintings!!! Some were offered for sale!!! I enjoyed seeing them. I don't know what will be featured this year. "Life is like a box of chocolates. You don't know what you will always get" - Forrest Gump. Some of the art pieces are far-out there, man. Some freaky, like "too realistic" human statuary. Some you'd swear you'd seen in an acid trip!!! However, something for everyone. Don't forget that small street section (South University?) with all of those "causes" booths, like "Legalize Marijuana", and other groups trying to make the world a better place to live in. Most are "liberal" causes, though. Alot more people attend the ANN ARBOR ART FAIRS, than the ANNUAL ANN ARBOR HASH BASH. Ann Arbor is well known for both "hip" events. I try to attend both ANN ARBOR events every year! They're both "hip" and both FUN!!! I'm planning to attend this coming Saturday. Anybody going? See you there! Peace and Love out
