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Help in Planning the Arts Showcase for the Excelsior Festival

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Join Excelsior Action Group in showcasing the projects they’ve completed to beautify the Excelsior  at this year’s Excelsior Arts and Music Festival, which will be on Sunday October 3, 2010. There will be discussion about hosting an art project such as a moveable mural, and other ideas to showcase local talent and the Excelsior Art Plan.

“We’d like to showcase and celebrate these achievements through a variety of mediums at this year’s biggest party in the neighborhood,” EAG’s Executive Director Cristy Johnston said in an e-mail.
Wednesday, August 18
6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
4702 Mission Street
(at Ruth, near Persia)

(415) 585-0110

www.eagsf.org

Excelsior Working Together on Beautifying the Neighborhood

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Volunteers work to beautify the neighborhood by painting over graffiti.

Excelsior Action Group took another step toward their vision of giving a face lift to the main entrances of the neighborhood along Mission Street in April. The two sides of Mission Street that serve as gateways to the area are seen as high profile areas to focus on. To accompany EAG’s garden project at Geneva and Mission, Ingleside artist Max Allbee and nearly 20 volunteers, mostly Lick-Wilmerding students, painted and prepared the Mission Street overpass for a new mural April 24. The windswept overpass connects the Excelsior neighborhood to the Saint Mary’s/Glen Park neighborhood to the north and acts as a natural gateway.

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