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We just wanted to send out a huge and sincere THANK YOU to everyone who helped make our first event a great success (and a helluva lot of fun)!

We’ll have photos and additional info about participants coming soon, as well as video from the night courtesy of the awesome guys @ Resonate TV (!!!), but we did just want to take a moment to say THANKS to the vendors, artists, bands, DJs, Hell Gate, in bloom members/partners, QCA/QAX, everyone who came out, and everyone who helped spread the word about A Summer Night’s Dream.

Stay tuned for more and please get in touch if you’re interested in working with us on a future event.

love,

in bloom

* photo of julianna shubinski, mike free, audrey dimola, liz nieves & adrienne darnell by christo casey

Big thanks to Alia from The Q Note for featuring us in their latest post about Queens Art Express!

For photographer Lizabeth Nieves and writer Audrey Dimola, QAX is also an opportunity for the duo to launch the In Bloom Collective (inbloomcollective.com), devoted to curating one-of-a-kind local arts events. For the collective’s debut at Hell Gate Social (Saturday, 7 p.m.), Nieves and Dimola have assembled “A Summer Night’s Dream,” a mélange of artwork, vendors, film shorts, and live music from favorite bands such as Illimanjaro. Dimola is thrilled QAX has ventured into Astoria: “We’ll be there to sound the alarm for our neighborhood and all the ridiculously talented people working, playing, and creating here,” she notes.

Read the full article HERE, and be sure to subscribe to get The Q Note right in your inbox!

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Our first official event, as part of QCA’s Queens Art Express!

PRESS RELEASE:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 2011

in bloom collective curates one night Summer mini-festival in Astoria for Queens Art Express

ASTORIA, NY - Queens Council on the Arts’ Queens Art Express festival is expanding into Astoria for the first time, and in bloom collective is joining the celebration with a one-night FREE event: A Summer Night’s Dream. Featuring local art, music, film, and vendors, this mini-festival at Astoria’s Hell Gate Social kicks off the Summer and showcases some of the best of our borough’s talent in a variety of mediums.

The night begins at 7pm with short films curated by Michael C. Freeland, with the premiere of Michael Hall’s “Lost Hero.” Our local vendors also begin selling at this time. Attendees can feel free to peruse the selection of unique art, clothing, jewelry, accessories and more, all in one place, featuring: Jen Pressley, Christine Haber (I Heart Astoria), Brandie Fitzgerald, Tania Nunez, Karina Casines, Jessica Alpern, and Joanna Trumino (The Flower Tiki).

Hell Gate becomes an art gallery for the night as well, with paintings, drawings, and prints exhibited by Dennis Borowsky, Bernadette Claffey, Carlos Detres, Frank Gonzales, Marc Hofrichter, Alice Lipping, Ben Louria, Mario Savinon, and Bethany Trust, with Adrienne Darnell’s summery snapshots set as a dreamy projected backdrop.

To round out the night, in bloom has rounded up three acts from across the musical spectrum: catch RatTrap Bumpkin, Circus Life, and Hops with Illimanjaro starting at 8:30pm, and let a DJ set by Maneuver UnLTD (featuring Last Looks, Hey Ricky, and Frankie Pancakes) carry you off into the rest of the night.

You can also count on drink specials between 7 and 9pm, as well as a very special in bloom cocktail for one night only!

Join us for one night to celebrate Queens and what a dreamy Summer we’re hoping 2011 will bring…

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ABOUT THE COLLECTIVE

in bloom collective was founded in 2011 by Lizabeth Nieves and Audrey Dimola, with Adrienne Darnell and Mike Free. in bloom is dedicated to producing unique localized events in the Astoria/Long Island City, Queens area, with an emphasis on cultivating and curating the unexpected. inbloomcollective.com

ABOUT QUEENS ART EXPRESS

Queens Art Express (June 16th-19th) is a spring arts festival produced by Queens Council on the Arts that features performances, exhibitions, art events and great places to eat in the unique cultural communities along the route of main veins of the borough. queensartexpress.com

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