Comments for Curated Culture Commentary http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com Behind-the-scenes / First Fridays Art Walk Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:04:16 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 Comment on Starting the New Year off with Richmond.com! by Christina http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=45&cpage=1#comment-28 Christina Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:04:16 +0000 http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=45#comment-28 Oh Joe, I approved your comment so I could say you're wrong. Sure, not every website's great, but Rich.com has improved their coverage of the arts and cultural community, providing a wealth of content to its coverage. We greatly appreciate their support of First Fridays and the devotion to our program and helping us with our marketing efforts. I hope you will reconsider your feelings if only alone on helping our organization. Thanks for checking out the blog. Oh Joe, I approved your comment so I could say you’re wrong. Sure, not every website’s great, but Rich.com has improved their coverage of the arts and cultural community, providing a wealth of content to its coverage. We greatly appreciate their support of First Fridays and the devotion to our program and helping us with our marketing efforts. I hope you will reconsider your feelings if only alone on helping our organization. Thanks for checking out the blog.

]]> Comment on Starting the New Year off with Richmond.com! by JOE http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=45&cpage=1#comment-27 JOE Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:36:26 +0000 http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=45#comment-27 You are sadly mistaken if you believe Richmond.Com is all things Richmond...Huh...come on now. Richmond.Com is a corporate joke of a media source for frat boys and sorority girls. I.E. they could care less about art! You are sadly mistaken if you believe Richmond.Com is all things Richmond…Huh…come on now. Richmond.Com is a corporate joke of a media source for frat boys and sorority girls. I.E. they could care less about art!

]]> Comment on Urgent News! Wintery Mix Forces Closures During First Fridays by Kimberly http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=102&cpage=1#comment-26 Kimberly Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:31:46 +0000 http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=102#comment-26 Bless you, Christina! You've been working around the clock to figure all of this out. I can't wait for First Fridays in March. Bless you, Christina! You’ve been working around the clock to figure all of this out. I can’t wait for First Fridays in March.

]]> Comment on It’s so nice to receive an award from City Council…especially if you know about it. by Charles Samuels http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=82&cpage=1#comment-25 Charles Samuels Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:44:38 +0000 http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=82#comment-25 Christina - I again apologize for the confusion. The same week that First Fridays received the recognition from Style Weekly we went to work preparing the award. Unfortunately, the earliest date we could present the award was January 25th. There was some confusion with my staff and you were not notified in a timely manner. The buck stops with me and I apologize again for not personally confirming that you were available that night. Charles Samuels Christina – I again apologize for the confusion. The same week that First Fridays received the recognition from Style Weekly we went to work preparing the award. Unfortunately, the earliest date we could present the award was January 25th. There was some confusion with my staff and you were not notified in a timely manner. The buck stops with me and I apologize again for not personally confirming that you were available that night.

Charles Samuels

]]> Comment on Richmonders of the Year! by Unity Sound http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=59&cpage=1#comment-20 Unity Sound Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:24:35 +0000 http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=59#comment-20 You obviously need more reggae at First Fridays. You obviously need more reggae at First Fridays.

]]> Comment on Richmonders of the Year! by Mitzi Humphrey http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=59&cpage=1#comment-19 Mitzi Humphrey Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:59:24 +0000 http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=59#comment-19 Congratulations, Christina, on all you have accomplished with First Fridays! You have true stick-to-it-iveness! You've discussed insightfully some of the finer points of the issues involved in your remarks above. Since so much was made about the discussion of demographics in the STYLE article, I once again want to call attention to Artspace and art6's venturesomeness in being the first non-profit art galleries on the NORTH side of Broad Street, IN Jackson Ward, with a strong community presence and involvement. We have loved our location at 6 East Broad from the beginning and hope to be able to remain. art6's landlord, Jim Sease, who also owns the Tarrant's Building, says that our building IS grandfathered in as far as the CO goes, and we will be pursuing this possibility again with him soon. He may have documentation of that--which I, and apparently city hall, do not. Congratulations, Christina, on all you have accomplished with First Fridays! You have true stick-to-it-iveness! You’ve discussed insightfully some of the finer points of the issues involved in your remarks above.

Since so much was made about the discussion of demographics in the STYLE article, I once again want to call attention to Artspace and art6’s venturesomeness in being the first non-profit art galleries on the NORTH side of Broad Street, IN Jackson Ward, with a strong community presence and involvement. We have loved our location at 6 East Broad from the beginning and hope to be able to remain. art6’s landlord, Jim Sease, who also owns the Tarrant’s Building, says that our building IS grandfathered in as far as the CO goes, and we will be pursuing this possibility again with him soon. He may have documentation of that–which I, and apparently city hall, do not.

]]> Comment on Get your can to First Fridays by Mitzi Humphrey http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-18 Mitzi Humphrey Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:47:14 +0000 http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=26#comment-18 Congratulations, Christina, on all you have accomplished with First Fridays! You have true stick-to-it-iveness! Congratulations, Christina, on all you have accomplished with First Fridays! You have true stick-to-it-iveness!

]]> Comment on Richmonders of the Year! by -bernadette. http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=59&cpage=1#comment-17 -bernadette. Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:06:42 +0000 http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=59#comment-17 Living in Richmond all my life I’ve always realized that Richmond events are almost always black or white in attendance, sometimes almost exclusive either way. Be it the Folk Festival, the 2nd Street Festival, whatever. People can argue the reasons, but let’s face it it’s mostly just the habit of Richmonders. But I have to say I’ve gone to many First Friday art walks and I find First Fridays though majority a white audience there is a good percentage of black folks in attendance, (basically a mirror of the art community in Richmond). I see other black people, couples, young black folks, and black families, and it’s not a rare occurrence, I see folks that look like me all the time. Some look like regular First Friday goers some look like they may have happened upon the event but everyone is enjoying the festivities. Like I said Richmonders are creatures of habit but like Christina stated above the art walk has “broken the trend of Richmond event demographics”. Living in Richmond all my life I’ve always realized that Richmond events are almost always black or white in attendance, sometimes almost exclusive either way. Be it the Folk Festival, the 2nd Street Festival, whatever. People can argue the reasons, but let’s face it it’s mostly just the habit of Richmonders.
But I have to say I’ve gone to many First Friday art walks and I find First Fridays though majority a white audience there is a good percentage of black folks in attendance, (basically a mirror of the art community in Richmond). I see other black people, couples, young black folks, and black families, and it’s not a rare occurrence, I see folks that look like me all the time. Some look like regular First Friday goers some look like they may have happened upon the event but everyone is enjoying the festivities.
Like I said Richmonders are creatures of habit but like Christina stated above the art walk has “broken the trend of Richmond event demographics”.

]]> Comment on Starting the New Year off with Richmond.com! by Carver & Jackson Ward News » First Friday rescheduled to Jan.8 - Richmond, Virginia http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=45&cpage=1#comment-16 Carver & Jackson Ward News » First Friday rescheduled to Jan.8 - Richmond, Virginia Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:28:16 +0000 http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=45#comment-16 [...] dot Com becomes the new online sponsor of FF. From the blog:   “This was a hard decision. There are so many great online resources in RVA, with some [...] [...] dot Com becomes the new online sponsor of FF. From the blog:   “This was a hard decision. There are so many great online resources in RVA, with some [...]

]]> Comment on Your generosity goes a long way by Christina http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=31&cpage=1#comment-5 Christina Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:47:07 +0000 http://www.curatedculturerichmond.com/?p=31#comment-5 We collected 75 lbs of food!!! Great job for first time out. We collected 75 lbs of food!!! Great job for first time out.

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