Last October I did a fun little 5K in Royal Oak MI that was helping promote the arts. This year they moved it up to this coming Sat to coincide with the Royal Oak Arts, Beats, & Eats festival, and are including four tickets to the event with each entry.
The festival runs Thursday through Monday (Labor Day) and is a very large and popular one.
For years it was held in Pontiac, but moved to Royal Oak just last year and was a huge success.
This is not bands that can find no where else to play, but some really good ones, and are listed on the site.
Plenty of food and beverages from area restaurants that have set up special booths to show off their stuff, and adult beverages abound.
I'm posting the link to the two sites here since some MI people may not check the MI chapter posts in time, but I will post it there too.
The race: http://www.michiganyoutharts.org/5k/
The festival: http://www.artsbeatseats.com/
Of special interest: The festival site has a twitter feed and is heavy into social media. The guy in charge of social media for the event was hired when he gained notoriety while being fired from his last job as director of Chrysler social media.
He's the one who mistakingly tweeted to ALL Chrysler followers instead of just his friends: " For a place that calls itself the Motor City the people sure don't know how to F$%#^@# drive!" He of course spelled it out and got his 15 minutes plus a change of employment.
Anyone that thinks they are interested, and any glass artists that want to come and run and camp this one too give me a shout!
The festival runs Thursday through Monday (Labor Day) and is a very large and popular one.
For years it was held in Pontiac, but moved to Royal Oak just last year and was a huge success.
This is not bands that can find no where else to play, but some really good ones, and are listed on the site.
Plenty of food and beverages from area restaurants that have set up special booths to show off their stuff, and adult beverages abound.
I'm posting the link to the two sites here since some MI people may not check the MI chapter posts in time, but I will post it there too.
The race: http://www.michiganyoutharts.org/5k/
The festival: http://www.artsbeatseats.com/
Of special interest: The festival site has a twitter feed and is heavy into social media. The guy in charge of social media for the event was hired when he gained notoriety while being fired from his last job as director of Chrysler social media.
He's the one who mistakingly tweeted to ALL Chrysler followers instead of just his friends: " For a place that calls itself the Motor City the people sure don't know how to F$%#^@# drive!" He of course spelled it out and got his 15 minutes plus a change of employment.
Anyone that thinks they are interested, and any glass artists that want to come and run and camp this one too give me a shout!
