City to hold Feedback Festival for downtown arts on May 3

Published 12:46 pm Tuesday, April 23, 2013

On May 3, the City of Redmond is inviting residents, business owners, developers, property owners, artists and the public to come together for the first-ever Feedback Festival: A Public Forum on Arts in Downtown.

This interactive forum will migrate from one downtown site to another while focusing on the vision and strategies necessary to create a successful Arts Master Plan within the downtown core. The event is sponsored by the city in partnership with the Redmond Arts Commission, Equity Residential, Top Pot Donuts and One Redmond.

The Feedback Festival is designed to offer a series of fun conversation starters designed to stimulate a creative dialog about the role the cultural arts can play in Redmond’s developing downtown neighborhood. Attendees will have the opportunity to comment on draft recommendations within the Downtown Cultural Corridor Master Plan to activate an empty storefront and create a place for discussion about the cultural arts.

The forum will begin at 2 p.m. with a workshop led with cultural arts professionals. Food trucks will be on the scene at 4 p.m. for a street-side reception. A public forum will run from 5-8 p.m. The conversation will continue with a Taste of Redmond at local downtown Redmond establishments, sponsored by One Redmond beginning at 8 p.m.

Activities will launch at the street level of Red160 Apartments located at the corner of 161st Avenue Northeast and Cleveland Street. Attendees are required to RSVP to T. Craig Sinclair at tcsinclair@redmond.gov.

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