Month: August 2014

Decatur Book Festival Open Thread

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Use this post to tell us your favorite talks and events at this weekend’s Decatur Book Fest!

It’s a gonna be a fun – potentially soggy – couple of days!

Oakhurst Streetscape Improvements – See What They Will Look Like

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As has been discussed recently at Decatur City Commission meetings, the Oakhurst business district will soon be getting its long-awaited “streetscape improvements”.    Patti Garrett’s website notes that construction will begin this fall.

So it seems like good time to take one last look at the plan so you know what to expect!

Decaturish reported an October start date earlier this week.  The improvements have been 7 years in the making.

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Arepa Mia Opening College Avenue Location on Saturday, September 6th

Arepa Mia’s Lis Hernandez writes in to let us know that they’ll be opening their doors to the public next Saturday, September 6th.

The restaurant is opening at 307 East College Avenue next to Piece of Cake.

Photo courtesy of Arepa Mia’s website

Free-For-All Friday 8/29/14

Feel free to use this post to make comments and ask questions about local topics not discussed here over the past week.

Comments close on Monday.

Book as Art Gala Opening Tonight!

Here we go.  If you thought that tomorrow night’s Joyce Carol Oates keynote kicked off the Book Festival weekend, you’d be sorta right.  But there are lots of other events going on starting today!  For example, don’t miss tonight’s Book as Art gala opening at the Art Institute.

The Decatur Arts Alliance (DAA), in conjunction with the gallery of The Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur (AIA-Decatur), is bringing v.2 of the juried exhibition of artists’ books to that great celebration of the printed word, the AJC Decatur Book Festival. The Book as Art: Expanding the Limits, continues to exhibit an exciting visual component of the largest independent book festival in the country.

The gallery’s location at the Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur Gallery on the Decatur Square in the heart of the Festival grounds is ideally accessible to the more than 85,000 attendees at the Festival. The exhibition will also participate in art|DBF. The exhibition demonstrates new and creative approaches to the tangible versions of books, even as they morph into new forms and formats. The selected works of art introduce the viewer to new thinking about familiar forms, and include sculptural adaptations, exquisite applications of traditional book formats, hanging works, and other unexpected pleasures.

Jurors for the 2014 exhibition were Alex Campos, New York, NY; Mary Murphy, Atlanta, GA; and Barbara Tetenbaum, Portland, OR. Juror Mary Murphy, curator of the artists’ book collection at SCAD, will present a short gallery talk during the July 18 soft opening of the show. The gala opening will take place on Thursday, August 28, 2014.

– See more at: https://www.decaturbookfestival.com/2014/activities/the-book-as-art.php#sthash.c6O2c8o5.dpuf

And if you’re interested in learning more, the event received a great review in Burnaway earlier this week.