Photo by: N.L. Belardes
One Bakersfield Woman's Blog to Mankind
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Noveltown and the Bakersfield Art Rave
From Noveltown’s press release:
Noveltown helps sculpt Bakersfield Art Renaissance through film/poetry
Noveltown is partnering up again, this time to help bring poetic storytelling and film to Bakersfield’s Downtown Sculpture and Assemblage Show on August 19th & 26th.
Bakersfield Art Rave, in association with MÁS magazine (masbakersfield.com), Bakotopia (bakotopia.com) and Noveltown (www.noveltown.net) brings A.S. Ashley’s army of local artists downtown for a first-of-its-kind show! Known for his controversial, theme-oriented group art exhibits, this “art czar” is pulling out all the stops in offering the largest collection of sculptures, assemblages, and “combines” ever shown in Bakersfield. The future CAPISTRANO’S restaurant (19th and Eye Street ) is providing the space for this 4,000 square foot event; showcasing 15 local artists exhibiting over 80 pieces of artwork.
“For Noveltown, this event brings factory-themed assembly line poetry from the heart of industrial Bakersfield through words and images,” says Melody Saberon. “For our poets, it’s the art of building, discovery and culture change. For Bakersfield, the Downtown Sculpture and Assemblage Show brings more fluidity to culture and the arts. That’s the dream—to help build culture, right?”
Included in the show will be film clips and poetry provided and shown by Noveltown. This cutting-edge offering is just another example of Noveltown’s ever-expanding reach into various aspects of our Arts community as it helps fuse Bakersfield’s blossoming Art Renaissance.
THE DOWNTOWN SCULPTURE AND ASSEMBLAGE SHOWSATURDAYS~AUG. 19th & 26th~5pm-Midnight~$5 Admission@ CAPISTRANO’S 1534 19th Street (19th and Eye)
Noveltown (www.noveltown.net) publishes 1-3 books per year, has a new website with a new look, and is proud to be working towards leading the way in publishing in the Southern Central Valley… Noveltown will also be one of the media at the upcoming Yosemite Writers Conference (yosemitewriters.com).
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Personally I’m very excited about this art show. I was down at Capistrano’s on Sunday checking out the space and saw a preview of some of the amazing sculptures and assemblage pieces being dropped off for exhibit. Bakersfield hasn’t seen anything like this before. Only A.S. Ashley, the Art Czar, could bring together such a creativity explosion in art.
Me and the Art Czar, A.S. Ashley discussing art and poetry...
I’m very honored to be apart of Noveltown’s industrial factory-themed poetry and film collage project along with amazing local writers: N.L. Belardes, Black Dog, Greg Goodsell, Julie Jordan Scott, the Art Czar, and even a Buckaroo. This exciting industrial factory-themed film with embedded poetry is being put together by Landen Belardes, the War Days Director and Zowietown editor. It’s an exciting collage of image and poetry you won’t want to miss…
Hectic Films will be showing some creepy mini films and the Cinema of the Lords trailer will be shown as well.
Bakersfield’s Downtown Sculpture and Assemblage Show is all the rave so you all better come out and support your local artists, filmmakers, and writers.
From Noveltown’s press release:
Noveltown helps sculpt Bakersfield Art Renaissance through film/poetry
Noveltown is partnering up again, this time to help bring poetic storytelling and film to Bakersfield’s Downtown Sculpture and Assemblage Show on August 19th & 26th.
Bakersfield Art Rave, in association with MÁS magazine (masbakersfield.com), Bakotopia (bakotopia.com) and Noveltown (www.noveltown.net) brings A.S. Ashley’s army of local artists downtown for a first-of-its-kind show! Known for his controversial, theme-oriented group art exhibits, this “art czar” is pulling out all the stops in offering the largest collection of sculptures, assemblages, and “combines” ever shown in Bakersfield. The future CAPISTRANO’S restaurant (19th and Eye Street ) is providing the space for this 4,000 square foot event; showcasing 15 local artists exhibiting over 80 pieces of artwork.
“For Noveltown, this event brings factory-themed assembly line poetry from the heart of industrial Bakersfield through words and images,” says Melody Saberon. “For our poets, it’s the art of building, discovery and culture change. For Bakersfield, the Downtown Sculpture and Assemblage Show brings more fluidity to culture and the arts. That’s the dream—to help build culture, right?”
Included in the show will be film clips and poetry provided and shown by Noveltown. This cutting-edge offering is just another example of Noveltown’s ever-expanding reach into various aspects of our Arts community as it helps fuse Bakersfield’s blossoming Art Renaissance.
THE DOWNTOWN SCULPTURE AND ASSEMBLAGE SHOWSATURDAYS~AUG. 19th & 26th~5pm-Midnight~$5 Admission@ CAPISTRANO’S 1534 19th Street (19th and Eye)
Noveltown (www.noveltown.net) publishes 1-3 books per year, has a new website with a new look, and is proud to be working towards leading the way in publishing in the Southern Central Valley… Noveltown will also be one of the media at the upcoming Yosemite Writers Conference (yosemitewriters.com).
*******
Personally I’m very excited about this art show. I was down at Capistrano’s on Sunday checking out the space and saw a preview of some of the amazing sculptures and assemblage pieces being dropped off for exhibit. Bakersfield hasn’t seen anything like this before. Only A.S. Ashley, the Art Czar, could bring together such a creativity explosion in art.
Me and the Art Czar, A.S. Ashley discussing art and poetry...
I’m very honored to be apart of Noveltown’s industrial factory-themed poetry and film collage project along with amazing local writers: N.L. Belardes, Black Dog, Greg Goodsell, Julie Jordan Scott, the Art Czar, and even a Buckaroo. This exciting industrial factory-themed film with embedded poetry is being put together by Landen Belardes, the War Days Director and Zowietown editor. It’s an exciting collage of image and poetry you won’t want to miss…
Hectic Films will be showing some creepy mini films and the Cinema of the Lords trailer will be shown as well.
Bakersfield’s Downtown Sculpture and Assemblage Show is all the rave so you all better come out and support your local artists, filmmakers, and writers.
Looking forward to seeing you there....
Looks like we might finally meet! I'm really looking forward to this event...I'll be bringing the husband after rehearsals for "The Full Monty" (plug, plug). :)
Thanks for the mention. Would you post your poem from the show?