Jon doesn’t like me to talk about the festival until at least January but I can’t help it. The news of next summer’s beaver festival keeps getting better and better. Yesterday I found out from the street artist Amy Gallaher Hall that she’d like to start work the day before the festival. So she can do a larger piece and there can be something visibly in progress by the time folks come on the day. That means we might be able to get a news crew out there and have it on the evening news promoting the event! This morning she wrote to say that we should bring a stepladder to photograph the piece when its finished and to put photos on social media while its happening and to keep for future use.
She asked for barricades to protect the work that night so I asked the city about this. They are okay with the idea provided that our event insurance covers the artist the day before the event also, so I wrote our insurance team and got them started thinking this way. I suppose we’ll end up paying more for the extra coverage and another day of chalk but ohhh it is so worth it.
Just imagine this with beavers.
This morning we’re off to Wild Birds Unlimited in pleasant hill for their 35th anniversary event. We’ll be exhibiting there with other wildlife friends and talking to the good folks about their new flat-tailed neighbors up the block on Willow Pass rd. Mike Eliot who owns the store and handles the event is always a very thoughtful host – much more generous with his guests than I am at the beaver festival. He provides tents, tables, coffee and pizza to his exhibitors!
Shhh, don’t get any ideas.
