Thursday, October 31, 2013

Raw opening event Sat Nov 2, 7:30 doors open

Jointly with Fulton St. CoOp They have 3 bands and open doors at 5pm.
321 East Fulton St.  Lancaster.

The Exhibition is:  The Rock Poster Show, featuring hundreds of Posters from a variety of local collectors and several of my large hand painted Tower Records Displays.  We will also have posters for sale to benefit our Street Sign Fund.  Vintage rock posters!

Our band Flicker closes the night.  

Sunday, October 13, 2013

The Street with No Name

Will be getting a sign very soon.  Our banner is mounted on the building now so when you do find us you can see it from over 100 ft!

For those with a GPS it is easy, simply use Tobacco Alley or Avenue -both work.  NO NEED for a house number. We would have loved to call the venue Tobacco Alley, but as it is it seems there is enough confusion and difficulty for folks finding us, so, Avenue it is.  Verge will only be a series, our getting it up and rolling series that will be us working with musicians and our guests to evolve into what our space can offer not the venue itself.  So ok, good, THAT is SETTLED.

Walkers, at Molly's Pub by Musser Park, walk toward the cemetery on Shippen, turn right after Fulton Street and we are 100 ft on the right.

Driving, Park on Chestnut by the park or Shippen, the Southbound extension of Lemon Street and follow the above directions.  There is no  public parking on Tobacco Avenue, but much around us on the surrounding streets.

Met with the Mayor and MOOSE on Thursday, and the street will be paved pronto, and the Tobacco Avenue Arts District or Arts Triangle is officially established.  TOHO for short.  It is an arrowhead shape the tip runs from Marion at Lime St, down Tobacco Avenue, across Shippen from Musser park to the Cemetery, Chestnut St, and down New Holland Avenue past the Science Museum, Cork Factory, to the Drum Shop.  The bottom boundary is across Ann St.   The Majority of residents are warehouse dwellers living in the remains of Lancaster's over 1000 Tobacco Warehouses and factories which thrived at the turn of the last century.  We have a few working factories in the triangle.  A complete list of businesses and arts venues are being drawn up.  Most notably, we have Molly's Pub bordering us at the SW tip, Lancaster Brewing Co., Quips, the Cork Factory has its restaurant and the wonderful coffee house and brunch destination The Bakers Table.  So lots of food and watering holes are at the flanks.  Arron Shifflet's Fulton Street Co-op and our space are at the tip.  We have design Studios, Photographers, Painters, and more.  Lancaster Cemetery, entrance on Lemon Street is still a beautiful walk for sculpture and history buffs.