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just for the halibut
■The Street Faire opens today
with a wide variety of food, drink,
shopping, music and art
ByAiixKerl
Oregon Daily Emerald
Frisbees flying, halibut flying and
babies crying — boy howdy, it’s
time for the ASUO Spring Street
Faire, the true rite of passage for the
coming of spring.
This year’s Faire, which runs to
day through Friday, will feature
more than just food qnd craft booths.
There will be a 24-hour art marathon,
20 bands will play over three days in
the EMU Amphitheater, and Cam
pus Recycling is attempting to make
the event waste-free.
This year, there will also be a few
more food booths. The Street Faire's
organizers felt bad about making the
nonprofit groups pay a fee for the
space, so this year the nonprofit
groups will be along the Amphithe
ater breezeway and they won’t be
charged a participation fee. The
move means more room for art and
food booths, and Street Faire organ
izers said the food court will be the
biggest it’s ever been. There will be
the standard India House and
Bangkok Grill booths, but new ven
dors include Kettle Com and Just for
the Halibut, which will serve fish as
well as elephant ears.
Along with adding all the new
food, there is a plan to compost it, as
well. At the Fall Street Faire, Cam
pus Recycling reduced overall waste
by 50 percent through recycling and
composting efforts, according to
Karyn Kaplan, the recycling manag
er. This year, there will be six recy
cling stations on 13 th Avenue that
will include compost bins, and all
cardboard, glass, plastic, metals, re
cyclable paper, plates, napkins and
chopsticks will be recycled.
“Composting is on the cutting
edge right now,” Kaplan said.
Campus Recycling has encour
aged food vendors to buy things that
are compostable, and student
workers will be directing people to
place compostable waste in pro
vided containers.
The music lineup was organized
by campus radio station KWVA.
Tambi Boyle, ASUO marketing di
rector, said that the organizers of the
Street Faire enlisted KWVA’s help in
getting bands in order to have a vari
ety of different music.
“KWVA has more tentacles in the
band community than we do,”
Boyle said.
Charlotte Nisser, general manager
for the radio station, said that the
idea was to get a variety of interest
ing bands that would appeal to a col
lege audience.
“KWVA is an outlet for the under
represented,” Nisser said. “And
many of these bands are under-rep
resented.”
On Wednesday the music will
start at 10 a.m. and go until 5. p.m.
On Thursday, bands will play from
10 a.m. to 10 p.m. On Friday the mu
sic will start at 10 a.m. and go until 4
p.m. Each day from 10 a.m. until 2
p.m., there will be all-acoustic sets so
that the noise level will be low dur
ing the Career Fair and classes.
Highlights of the Faire include:
Wednesday: Justin Martinez will
rock the acoustic as Basic Assump
tion unplugged.
Thursday: Honey Vizer, a Eugene
resident who has been playing her
Thomas Patterson Emerald
Plenty of shiny things were in evidence at last year’s ASUO Street Faire. This year’s Faire,
held today through Friday, will undoubtedly be similar.
guitar, banjo and accordion for years
now, will perform. She has been
carving out a comer for herself in the
world of country-folk-punk. Bitesize
is from the Bay Area and plays short
songs about automobile accidents,
body parts and freak love.
Friday: Papa’s Soul Kitchen plays
R&B, soul and funk. The band mem
bers said they like to groove and
want to spread messages of peace,
love and understanding. Miami Air
lines, which plays a form of mexi
cali-ska kind of like Sublime, will
also play.
There will also be a 24-hour art
event sponsored by a group that
calls itself The Experiment. The art
marathon will take place during
the Street Faire at a booth near Con
don Hall. The event will run from
noon Thursday to noon Friday.
From 10 p.m. Thursday to 10 a.m.
Friday, the event will take place at
the EMU Amphitheater.
The marathon is a fund-raiser for
Inside-Out, a two-day art festival that
will take place the first weekend of
June at the McDonald Theatre. The
Experiment has organized a variety
of art events throughout the last two
terms to raise money for the event.
Mary Rasmussen, visual arts coordi
nator for the UO Cultural Forum, is
one of the event’s organizers.
“The idea is to have people creat
ing and producing art for the straight
twenty-four hours,” Rasmussen said.
“Basically, we are all artists that
would normally be doing art at the
wee hours of the night, and we have
decided to present it as a spectacle in
order to help make a local two-day
art show possible.”
The organizers have scheduled a
varied group of artists to do sculpt
ing, art demonstrations, painting,
an interactive continuing art piece
and poetry. The group cannot have
amplified music, however, because
it is restricted to the Amphitheater
during class hours.
“We also wanted to make art
more visible on campus, because it
seems as though support for the arts
isn’t such a priority in an athletics
driven school,” Rasmussen said.
E-mail reporter Alix Kerl
at alixkerl@dailyemerald.com.
Schedule of bands
playing at the
Spring Street Faire
All bands will play in the EMU
Amphitheater; bands playing
between 10a.m. and 2 p.m.
will be performing acoustic sets.
Wednesday, April 24
10 a.m. Introduction
11 am. Jttslin Martinez
12 pm Lady lingers
1p.m. Rex Morning Star
2 pm John Shipe
3 pm, Wallace
4 p.m. Beard
Thursday, April 25
10 a.m. Jamie Rust
11 a.m. Honey Vizer
12pm0ddibie
1p.m. Latin Dancers
2 p.m. KWVA
3 pm. Bitestee.
4 pm. Paradigm
5 p.m. Hillbilly Holocaust
. 6 pm. Mr. Sparkle
7 pm, Alpha Charlie
8 p.m. Two Sucks Short
9 pm. Alter Ego
Friday, April 26
10a,m.TBA
11 am. Papa’s Soul Kitchen
12 pm. Nature Boy Saints
1p.m. C.C.S.
2 p.m. Miami Airlines
3 pm. Cober
4 pm. Opening ceremony for Asian
Heritage Month
For more Information call
theASUO at 346-3724
or KWVA Radio at 346-4091.
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