Very exciting news (some definite, some just possibilities) for art cars in Durham:
1. The Durham Central Park people asked me to drive in their 4th of July parade tomorrow afternoon. It sounds like a pretty small parade: maybe just Wool E. Bull, the police, a bunch of kids and me. And also possibly the Indepedant's art car, which I've never even seen. (I wrote to Toby Galinkin, the doll car woman, and asked her to come too, but alas she already had plans. This all happened just a couple of days ago.) This is just to get some buzz going, because they want to plan a real art car parade for 4th of July 2005. They asked me to be on the planning committee.
2. Ms. Film Festival is doing a benefit in October called "Chicks Rock." They asked me to do a DIY workshop in which we will turn a donated truck into an art car. We're hoping to have an unofficial art car cruise (like a parade, but no stopping traffic and no permit) after the workshop & featuring the new art truck.
3. Today in the Foster's parking lot a guy came up to me and said that he works with the Carolina Theatre, and they are planning an event this fall with John Waters, and would I be available to possibly chaffeur Waters and have him do a photo op with my car? Let me repeat that. John Waters. In my car. Eeeee!
He said it's still largely up in the air, they're not sure yet if Waters is going to come, but if he does come they had discussed having my car involved. (I guess to show Waters that Durham is just as wacky as Baltimore. Take that, personality quiz that called me a sober follower!)
For years I've been wishing there were an art car community in the Triangle. I even tried to start a club called TRACK, Triangle Regional Art Car Klub. (We had exactly one meeting with 3 people: me, Toby and Deb Allen, who lives north of Raleigh and used to drive a nifty painted car.) So you can imagine how thrilled I am about these developments. All of which have come up in the past few days. I haven't even had a chance to write about it until now.
Who knows, maybe in a few years we'll have a real art car community here. I would so much love to have a group like that. Just some other art car folks who would get together once in a while for dinner, just for the fun of parking all our art cars in the same place. Or cruise up and down Ninth St. or Franklin St. or Hillsborough St. Or caravan with me to Artscape. Basically, I want not to be Durham's lone art car kook anymore. I want to be part of a whole gang of kooks!
Rock! That should be both a lot of work and way cool.
I do not work for the theatre. I am a volunteer who helps sometimes with special events. It is being talked about the Waters thing. Your car came up as an idea.
Your contact me link does not work so how can you be contacted.
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i cannot even begin to tell you how excited the ms films/chicks rock crew is about the art car workshop! you rock!
If you are driving John Waters, I am coming to Durham.
how did the parade go on sunday?
i want to be part of the band of kooks!
I've been waiting for John Waters to come to a convenient town for let's see.....forever! If he comes to Durham, it will literally be a dream come true. Eeeeeeee!
John Waters in this town would be cool. John Waters in my car, *that* would be a dream come true. Eeeeeee!
Lisa, you are definitely one of the art car kooks. You and me, we're Durham's crazy art car chicks! When you start decorating 9 Westy we're going to have to do regular caravans around town.
woohoo! my little isuzu '87 is the truck being donated for the ms films festival art car workshop! this workshop is going to rock, the ms. film festival folks rock and YOU rock!! oh, and afterwards i guess i'll be an art car kook as well; i'll wear the title proudly =)