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March 23-25, 2007

HABA Shows at Bayou City Arts Festival


HABA was invited to demonstrate at the famous Bayou City Art Festival, under the umbrella of the Houston Arts Alliance. The festival includes over 300 jurried artists in 16 differernt categories, selected from 800 entries.

As part of the festival, HAA organized a section of the festival where craftspeple will demonstrate their craft....no selling...just demonstrating. All sales at the festival are part of a jurried show only. The festival takes place in Memorial Park in the spring and downtown in the fall.

HABA was invited to demonstrate from 10 AM to 6 PM March 23-24-25. .

To learn more about the festival go to: http://www.bayoucityartfestival.com/ .

Here are the volunteer demonstrators and schedules:

Friday
March 23
  • Tee Hines
  • Dave Koenig
  • Ed Malmgren
  • A.J. Garrett
  • Rico Ramirez
    •
Saturday
March 24
  • Tee Hines
  • Lawrence Childress
  • A.J. Garrett
  • Rico Ramirez
  • Ed Malmgren
    •
Sunday
March 25
  • Tee Hines
  • Richard Boswell
  • A.J. Garrett
  • Rico Ramirez
    •

The demonstration times were from 10 AM through 5:45 PM each day. The gates opened at 9 AM for setup. Demonstrators could not sell anything. However, they were free to pass out cards and other literature to prospective customers.

A Big HABA Thanks to everyone who demonstrated. This was a big deal for HABA! And, it was a lot of fun because everyone had some time to see what is going on at the festival.

Thanks HAA for inviting us and we hope we can come back again.

More photos from Sunday by Richard....

These are some photos from Saturday by Tee....

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