Whats The Blurb: Urban Arts Festival

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Welcome to What’s The Blurb, created by Josie Marine to keep you informed on fun things to do in Utah. The goal of this blog will be to update you on different activities or places to go here in Salt Lake City,as well as some surrounding cities. What’s The Blurb will be going around and reviewing different local restaurants, boutiques, events happening around the city. I will also post events before they happen, so you not only know what you should have gone to, but have a chance to catch it the next time around.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Urban Arts Festival

This Past Saturday, May 21^st I was lucky enough to attend the first Urban Art Festival. This street fair had tons of fun attractions at it. There was a section where kids could to learn to ride skate boards, paint, and make necklaces or bracelets. They had tons of art there and all sorts of different booths. For example one was a clothing company, Ensoul who had DJs and a few performers. Another, Uprok Records had a wall where Graffiti artist could do what they do best.

Some of my friends even held down the SLUG booth all day, informing people about their alternative magazine.

Now no matter what end of the fair you were at there was music, from live bands to DJs and even a group who played on tubs and cans. Four performers with their drum sticks in perfect synchronization banged away on different sized plastic tubs and other cool noise makers.

Now I might be a bit bias, but the Bboy Federation all style qualifier was a huge success. When the DJ Big Mike played and the dancers gave it their all, the area was surrounded by people watching and cheering for the dancers they liked. The all style battle that was held was a qualifier for an event ALL OUT in June. The winner De’Von McCullough who has a very diverse dancing style and was able to change styles due to the music that was being played, will not have to battle in the prelims at the All Out event as a prize for winning the qualifier.

DJ Big Mike