Friday Night Kick-Off Event Antiques & Art on Elm & NC Storytelling Festival at Center City Park Friday, May 18, 2007 5:30 to 9:00pm

Start the party early this year with Friday Night Kick-off Event of the Antiques and Art on Elm / NC Storytelling Festival Friday in Center City Park on May 18. Enjoy a family-fun evening of art, music and food in the park! There will be food, drink and beer vendors on site.  FREE admission.   Masters of Ceremonies and Auctioneers begin at 5:30pm with Jennie Stencil of WXII Morning Reporter and the Idiot Box and Chris Young with Greensboro Merchants Association (GMA) Development Membership and former radio personality.   •  ENTERTAINMENT:  Entertainment will include live music by jazz vocalist Lynne Goodwin, folk/bluegrass singer Vance Archer, and jazz band Beaconwood.
	Lynne Goodwin appearing w/The Likewisejazz Trio 5:30 to 6:30pm   Lynne Goodwin has been performing with Likewisejazz Trio for almost two years and her credits include performing at the Ritz Carlton in Washington, DC for New Years Eve and being a voice talent for Kindermusik.  She is a Greensboro native, UNC-G graduate and a mother of five children.  The Likewisejazz Trio includes Phil Pierce, John Trotta and Art Wise.  The three have been performing as a group for three years and play at events such as Octoberfest, Dixieland, weddings, corporate events and country clubs. www.lynnegoodwin.com
	Bishop’s Bridge 7:00 to 8:00pm Bishop’s Bridge is a collective effort of acoustic musicians led by head fiddler, Vance Archer.  Their sound is that of “Irish or Celtic” and Old Time/Folk with American roots usually accompanied by the fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, bodhran, flute, tin whistle and bouzouki.
	Beaconwood  8:00 to 8:30  Beaconwood (as a Jazz Quartet), the talented group of students who play around Greensboro, will conclude the musical entertainment for the evening with a variety of jazz and blues and a little bluegrass in the mix. The musicians are Eric Robertson on mandolin, Bennett Sullivan on guitar, Ryan Stanford on bass, with Daniel Sheffield on drums.
•  STORYTELLING 6:30 to 7:00pm By Leeny Del Seamonds, puppet-making for children sponsored by Elsewhere Place and a screen will play a slideshow of antique pieces that will be for sale on Saturday.
•  PARTICIPATING ARTISTS FOR ‘IN THE ROUND’  Ongoing Antiques and Art on Elm presents ‘Artists in the Round’.  Five local artists will paint on five different canvases in ten minute increments, rotating to each canvas until they have completed all six paintings.  Paintings will be auctioned off at the end of the evening by Jennie Stencil and Chris Young.  Proceeds will benefit future downtown art events.  Sponsored by TwoArtChicks and Artmongerz.
Distraction	Tracy M. Hayes                                   Tracy works in several mediums including painting, collage and sculpture.  Her works often feature the juxtaposition of natural things like plant and animal life and the unnatural like pharmaceuticals and technology.  Collection pieces can be seen at her studio space in Artmongerz, TwoArtChicks, Center for Visual Artists and in private collections in Fairburn, Georgia. www.myspace.com/tmhayesart
Beautiful Fraud	Barrett Stanley Barrett Stanley primarily works in clay, watercolor, pencil, ink, acrylic and in web animation and operates a studio called Vesta Ceramics.  Barrett is married to artist, Joanna Blitch and resides in the South. www.vestaceramics.com
Staring At Mount: Approaching the Clouds	Joanna Blitch Joanna Blitch primary concentration is in ceramics after becoming interested through a clay class at Appalachian State University where she earned her BFA.  Joanna is originally from the South and her artistic nature was first nurtured by her family.  She now operates a studio called Vesta Ceramics that opened in 2001 with husband and artist, Barrett Stanley.
Harmony	Eric Strom Eric Strom’s artwork is a mix of his academic art training and the influences of the comic books he grew up reading.  He works primarily in acrylic and oil and his pieces come to life with his use of bold color.  www.myspace.com/erikstromart
monument	Charlotte Chipman Strom                                                   Charlotte uses several different styles including oil, acrylic, ink, watercolor and casein paints.  She also likes to use charcoal and dry pastels.  A human persona tends to appear in most of her works, as she enjoys rendering the human form.  Charlotte also explores motion, cause and effect and action and reaction on the canvas.   www.myspace.com/charlottestromart
•  PUPPET MAKING FOR CHILDREN  Ongoing Elsewhere  Place will set up an area where children can make puppets from recycled materials, they will also be set up on Saturday on S. Elm Street.   •  LIVE AUCTION  8:30 to 9:00pm Auction off the paintings, proceeds to benefit DGI’s Antiques and Art on Elm and NC Storytelling Festival. ------------------------------------------------------------ Antiques and Arts on Elm is sponsored by Downtown Greensboro Inc. with support from Downtown Greensboro Artists, Antique Dealers, and Downtown Business.