Our Grand Opening = A Thankful Celebration!

Photo credit: Holly Apperson

SHAMc ... we have been working on this building - this concept - for about four years. How many of you were part of the team that voted 3x every day to win the $50,000 Pepsi Refresh grant? Raise your hand if you attended HOLIDAZZLE or LuWOW. 

Who bought a Blinky or painted a sign post? Did you attend the groundbreaking ceremony and shovel dirt? What about the fence posts or mosaics? Did you help to create the panels that are now SHAMc's outer walls?

Gareth Asher, breaking ground.

Look how far we've come!

There is so much that went into this building - so much creative effort and hundreds of creative minds dedicated to being a part of the SHAMc Collective! Now it's time to celebrate!

Join us for SHAMsGivinG:  a weekend of Thanksgiving, SHAMc style!

Thanksgiving weekend, Friday, November 25, 12 p.m., to Sunday, November 27, 6 p.m., at the Safety Harbor Art & Music Center:  702 2nd St. N. Safety Harbor, FL 34695

What yummy dish will you create and share?

Bring a dish to share for our SHAMsGivinG Feast on Friday. (Times to be announced and we will be sure to edit them in to this post.)

Music will happen throughout the weekend and
The lineup includes:


Shaun Hopper, Victor and Penny, David Herraro, Brooke Ramel, Bing Futch, Aimee and Kurt, Hailey Steele, Urban Gypsies of Florida as well as our #SongFestFamily alumni:
Gareth Asher, Geri X, Daphne Willis, Ryan Montbleau, Emily Kopp, and
Callaghan.

Multi-talented Kip Kelly is also in the musical lineup. Besides being part of the entertainment, Kip will bring a special Crooked Thumb SHAMsGivinG brew to help us celebrate!

There will be fun throughout the whole weekend. On Friday we will enjoy our SHAMsGivinG Harvest Potluck. On Saturday we will offer music, mosaics and mural painting. Stay into the evening and parade through the streets with us at dusk. You are encouraged to whimsically decorate and bring a Dollar Store umbrella, and wear a costume or your Blinky if you have one! Be sure to return on Sunday to participate in the community mosaic panel that will become part of SHAMc.  We are excited to welcome back MooNiE the Magnif'Cent to host Storytie and Safety Harbor Writers & Poets  will share poetry, open mic style. Oh, and we aren't going to tell you what, but we will have a BIG SURPRISE in store too!

MooNiE

You have been, or you soon will be, a huge part of our magic. Please come & help us celebrate.

It's Time! It's Time! We Really Did it!

We all know how long this "big moment" has been holding its breath. We started asking you to vote way back in what ... 1909? Well, hey, here we are! We won the Pepsi Refresh grant last year, we raised money through picket painting, HOLiDAZZLE, T-shirt and wire heart sales, the city's generous check (from proceeds made during Seafood Festival!) and from all of your generous donations and participation. 

So, now what? Well ... it's time to celebrate, dear SHAMc supporters! So come out on Sunday, May 6, from about 2:45 to 9:30 p.m. (or somewhere in between) to participate in this fun, happy event. We will start at the 8th Avenue Pub, right off Main Street in Safety Harbor. It's a family-friendly place and the owners and staff have been wonderful, continuous SHAMc cheerleaders. The Pub has both indoor and outdoor seating. 

There'll be, talking, laughing, and listening to some fantastic music. At close to 6:00 we will parade to the Safety Harbor Art and Music Center (Oh, that felt soooo good to type!) and we will hear Mayor Steingold talk about the future SHAMc. It will be a short but exciting groundbreaking. Then we will do a little more celebrating in a way only Kiaralinda and Todd can think up (nothing huge, just very cool!) and then we will parade back to the Pub for more great music! 

Music? you ask. Why, yes, of course we'll have music for you! Have you heard Shaun Hopper perform? How about Gareth Asher? Imani Woomera? Rebekah Pulley? Tony Wylie? The Hummingbirds? TJ Weger? Well, how about Shannon Whitworth? 

May 6th is going to be like one huge fun, free concert! What a great way to bring in what we have all been so excited about! Now, breathe, we're almost there! (See you May 6th!)