Pete Morris Art blogger www.sunlive.co.nz

Registrations for the inaugural Creative Tauranga Art Fair 2011 are still being taken and the available spaces are filling fast. The ArtFair idea has been welcomed by the art community and with the number of registrations received already the day is shaping up to be a great success.

Tauranga Art Fair 2011 poster.

This new event on the Tauranga arts calendar is scheduled for Saturday 19th March 2011.

The reason for the Art Fair is to focus attention on our art and artists by having a showcase event celebrating the tremendous talent and wonderfully diverse work of artists in Tauranga and the Western BoP.

This fabulous community day out for friends and family in downtown Tauranga will add colour and vibrancy to our city centre and provide an opportunity for our local artists to display and offer their work for sale.

Art Fair 2011 is open to artists of all genres, all age groups, professional and amateur, all ethnicities , art societies and groups , Primary and Secondary schools , Polytech students , arts and crafts people and groups , potters , weavers , quilters, sculptors, poets, musicians, street art performers and others engaged in the many creative arts.

If you are a creative person or in a creative group registration forms are still available from Creative Tauranga on the corner of Wharf and Willow Streets downtown. For more information you can phone Creative Tauranga on 928 5273 or email reception@creativetauranga.org.nz

Pete Morris is an occasional painter and art lover. He is a freelance writer with a particular interest in promoting the visual arts in Tauranga.