SCENE: Waverly, AL 9th Annual OLD 280 BOOGIE 4/18

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are proud to be bringing more Fine Cultural Events to South East Alabama

The Town of Waverly presents
The 9th Annual OLD 280 BOOGIE Multi-Cultural Arts & Music Festival
Saturday, April 18
10:30 am -5:30 pm / FREE
Art Exhibits, Kids Activities, Great Food and Live Music featuring:

DRAKE JENNINGS (Elvis) Performance, old pals The PINE HILL HAINTS, and from Lafayette, LA The FIGS! plus more ...Stay Tuned

SCENE: DO-Nanny 2009, Seale AL

The folks in Seale, AL are readying for the 2009 Do-Nanny, being held March 26 - 29 on Butch Anthony's place on Poorhouse Road. The Do-Nanny was founded by Frank Turner, the "mayor" of Pittsview, 13 years ago at his office compound in Pittsview, not long after beginning to collect the work of Butch, John Henry Toney, and Buddy Snipes. Turner passed away in August 2008 but hats off and many thanks to his spirit and vision and in his honor the Do-Nanny carries on - bigger, better and more ways to get involved.

Do-Nanny is held on the Anthony homestead

MOVIES AND WORKSHOPS..........make your 5min or less doo movie now, and get it to "the Laster's three" by Mar 15th........DVD or videotape is fine....participate.......the "WoWFest" Woods of Wunder Movie Festival aims to be the world's premier lo-fi movie festival, and the ONLY one in the world that allows 'hand-cranked", or "4D Primordial" formats that involve live action performance built around a "moving picture" core........we are all-inclusive, so if you have a "hi-fi" approach, that is more than welcome, absolutely, but we want to encourage participation, invention, and creativity and any and all levels and splatter that on a level playing field.....whoever gets the most clap wins. Here is a great "lo-fi" technique for the technically challenged.......shoot a short on your cellphone, capture it on a point-and-shoot in movie mode, plug that into a tv and play it while recording it on a vcr or dvd recorder.....movie done.......you can, of course, just start with the point-and-shoot movie, but if you get something good with your cell, this is a good lo-fi way to get it to the doo.....plus you would get extra points for the extra lo-fi transfer.........contact the WowFest administrators, "the Lasters three" by clicking on them in the top friends on this site for info on where to send your movie........if you think you can just show up with it on doo-day like before, be WARNED here, you will be stripped naked and publicly ridiculed...........send them a movie asap.....ok.....go......

WORKSHOPS.........these are going to be FUN and EXCITING, and a supremely awesome way to spend a day, so come for the "Full Doo", by arriving on wed to camp, and enjoy the thurs workshops......they are $3 ea, payable in 7 different currencies, including pie and drawerings.......you can take one and GIVE one, or take two, or give two, or take one and extend your siesta.......so far, we have workshops lined up for Organic Gardening, Papermaking, Traditional Southern Stitchery, Tinctures and Elixers, "Wild-carding", and a couple more i can't think of at this moment.....Here is a rare opportunity;......just look up, or make up, anything you want, from the mundane to the bizzare, and think of a homegrown, lo-fi way to present and interact on the subject for 2-3 hrs and COME GIVE A WORKSHOP!......this will be a live-action process this first time out, so jump in and PARTICIPATE.......final workshop times and locales will be listed on wed eve on a chalkboard......if you are signed up to give a workshop and no one signs up for it, no big deal, just join in another one that is going on and move ahead, or reschedule or combine it......this is free-flow creative interaction......sculpt with it.......THURS WILL BE FUNx10, so be here now, then......more on these later.............another tip.....if you want to do a workshop on scandinavian camel dung and it's uses in medicine and art, but are a skeerdy cat, or need some help massaging that idea into a 2-3hr presentation, i can consult with you personally on how to do that.... oh, speaking of massaging, it looks like we will have an on-site masseuse this year, and hopefully as part of the thurs program..
"In conversations with Frank over the past few years he always said he didn't know how much longer he could do it..," recalls Matt Jankowski. "He was an amazing man with a glorious past and gifted an even greater future to the world with his encouragement of a new generation of intuative visionaries. GONE but not forgotten... indelibly etched in my creative soul. Thank you to the Mayor Frank Turner. Amen!"

ART: Jerry Brown Arts Festival - Hamilton, AL

We barely made it the first time. The sun, which had been napping behind a blanket of soft gray clouds, peeked out just long enough to say goodnight. It’s 5PM and Brown’s Pottery in Hamilton closes at 5PM, but we were only about 20 miles away though and they tell us to “come on by.”

Jerry Brown is a 9th generation potter. He digs his own clay, mixes it with his mule and still uses the old glazes, casts and molds.

He has been honored as a “National Heritage Fellow,” has pieces in the Smithsonian and a letter from the 1st President Bush thanking him for maintaining traditional folk art in Alabama. His showroom is on a small, unlit, backcountry road, housed in a windowless trailer across from the mule’s red barn home. His pieces are both utilitarian and decorative - rooster teapots, birdhouses, plates, cups, rows of angels, and his famous face jugs. His workshop is attached and he demo his handiwork. His house, across the street. His property is idyllic – softly rolling hills, a pond, rows of stark white gourd bird houses. Jerry and his wife run this small family business and pass their craft down and along to the next generation in line, just as Jerry’s daddy did and his daddy before him.

In 2003 the city of Hamilton and the Hamilton Area Chamber of Commerce created The Jerry Brown Arts Festival: Reflections of the South. The Jerry Brown Arts Festival is (JBAF) is a juried art exhibition heading into its seventh season in 2009. The festival, which was selected as a Top 20 event for the month of March 2009 by the Southeast Tourism Association, is supported by the Northwest Alabama Arts Council, headquartered in Hamilton, AL, and is a yearly project of this 501 (c)(3) organization.

2009 DATE: MARCH 7-8
NEW LOCATION: Old Wal-Mart Building, 1500 Military Street South, in Hamilton