New for 2011!
This year marks the initiation of a new exhibitor online registration system that will make your experience as a festival exhibitor smoother, easier and more efficient. The system will effortlessly guide you through completing and submitting your registration details in a single online location.
It’s also environmentally friendly by eliminating printing and mailing hard copies of the traditional application. Use this new system if you are an artisan, a commercial vendor or a non-profit booth. Click here to visit our new online registration system.
About Art & Soul A symbol of downtown Oakland’s renaissance, Art & Soul is a great entertainment value that sizzles with two music-packed days featuring Jazz, Rock, Gospel, Latin, R&B, Acoustic and Blues performed by national recording artists and top local talent.
Youngsters will love the kid-friendly carnival rides, interactive art projects, face painting and roaming costumed characters.
Stroll through the Artisan Marketplace, sample exotic foods and tasty treats from a multicultural menu and view great art.
Art & Soul, the Bay Area’s coolest festival, has direct transit access and free parking for thousands of cars.
Stay tuned for the announcement of the FEATURED PRODUCER (hint: it’s a local producer who has producer for Bun B, Young Buck, Trina, Devin Tha Dude, Nipsey Hussle, and wayyyy more) and the HOST of the whole shabang. As always, Okeefe of SF’s The Blacksmiths will be holding down the wheels of steel, and the flyer was done by Chills Designs!
Sponsored by the Bay Area Producers Conference. The 3rd Annual Bay Area Producers Conference will be held at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville on Saturday August 20th, 2011. For more information go to http://www.bayareaproducersconference.com/
Black Up is the new sonic move from Shabazz Palaces. Like rich velvet hijabs or gold threaded abayas. Luxury as understood by the modest. Shabazz Palaces. If Bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in Seattle instead of the Atlas Mountains, this would be their album. Forward thinkers but nostalgic for a sparer time when ancient astronomers only recognized five planets. Hip hop. Black light uses electromagnetic radiation to eradicate microorganisms, but shabazz didn’t come to kill a sound, just to shine their own incandescent lamp on this. Hear. Hard and clear. Fifty thousand years in the making. Honorable.—palaceer pink gators. Produced by Knife Knights.plcrs at Gunbeat Serenade Studio in Outplace Palacelands. It was recorded and mixed in Lixx-alog by Blood.