Apryl and I had a good time at this years Bucktown Arts Festival, which took place practically right outside our door at the Senior Citizens Memorial Park this past weekend. The festival has been showcasing local and regional talent for the past 22 years and is run completely by volunteers. Last year when we moved up here, we missed the festival by one weekend. Which is probably for the best, since it might have been just a little too much to take in right away. Along with the art tents, there were poetry readings, theatre performances, live music, food, games for the kids, and even a short film festival.
And while it was extremely convenient and cool to be so close to large happening, I probably got the biggest kick out of the amount of folks that didn’t live in the neighborhood, but traveled out to Bucktown to attend our festival. And while there was a good crowd on Saturday, Sunday seemed to be twice as packed.
Along with window shopping, Apryl and I partook in watching the short film festival (our favorites were probably “Carmichael and Shane”, “Profiles In Science,” and “The Hideous Secrets of Hock Streedlefork”), watching performances such as an Aztec dance, and checking out bands like…
…The Diminisher, who certainly wouldn’t seem out of place on the Makeshift label.
And, of course, I had to pay a visit to my neighborhood pizza joint My Pie’s vendor station.
Unfortunately, we didn’t have the recourses to buy any of the artwork, but we did have some favorite artists: Stan Piepenburg, Hiroshi Ariyama, and Dolan Geiman.
I did however get a cool t-shirt!
Check out all 17 photos from the weekend.