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Saturday April 28th – San Francisco

pandorastrunk.com

415.252.9037…916 Natoma St 94103

Issued 3/13/07

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Announcing Pandora’s Trunk 1st Anniversary:

Visual Vaudeville & Built Burlesque

Saturday April 28th 1-7pm

San Francisco

free admission – live music – free drinks

In the grand and practical spirit of variety entertainment of old, Pandora’s Trunk presents a spectrum of the finest artists in every genre imaginable – the twist is in the format. These vaudevillians work in fabric and thread, and burlesque in paint, wood, and metal. Guests find flesh and hustle here; they find artistry and showmanship. They have an action-packed variety of experiences, and can actually interact with artists, coming away with something to remember it all by.

The focus of this eclectic arts showcase is a sample sale and indie designer showcase; each event includes a wide variety of attractions:

Art/Fashion Performance Production

At past shows this has included live painting by Dave Crosland, gonzo millinery by Medium Reality, live fashion reconstruction by Miranda Caroligne and Bad Unkl Sista, and a DIY clothing modification station. April’s anniversary show will include live screen printing, allowing guests to customize their purchases.

Live Music

This has included classical viola, folk harmonica, sitar, and celtic cello. We are pleased to provide a laid-back venue for real live music played by a real live person in a city thick with electronic beats.

Gourmet Food

Handmade chocolate truffles from chocolatier Philippe of Edible Love. Pandora also offers up a bottomless bowl of free sangria – this unspoken but undeniable invitation to stay and mingle forges surprising connections between diverse social groups.

Pandora’s Trunk debuted in March of 2006 and is very pleased to announce the celebration of a successful first year full of new connections and crowds of fresh faces. The show has grown exponentially from its beginnings and is enjoying a consistently increasing profile in the San Francisco underground.

Pandora’s Trunk is the brainchild of local artist Rachel Hospodar, an erstwhile theatrical technician who has hurricaned over the urban art and fashion scenes in San Francisco in the course of the last year. She has made the show a richly layered success by balancing on the borders between the underground fashion & music scenes, bay area indie artists, and the national crafts movement. She has been filmed for HGTV, and her local efforts have been recognized nationally by an invitation of membership to the first annual Craft Congress. The Congress is a gathering of the most active organizers in the US and worldwide handcrafts movement, including events, web, and distribution activists from across the US, UK, and Canada.

April’s event debuts a partnership between Pandora’s Trunk and Mina Dresden Gallery, giving the event an expansive new home for its first anniversary. This brings exciting new physical changes (Better lights! More room!) and adds a new dimension to inclusiveness efforts. With this move, Bay Area women prove that fine and functional arts need not be strangers on opposite sides of a tall fence (or freeway pilings). Visual Vaudeville & Built Burlesque, with its emphasis on the functional and bite-sized, is presented against the backdrop of Mina Dresden’s fine art offerings: artist Josh Hagler.

Designer Sample Sale

The work of our three resident labels:

is joined by 25 other designers and artists. Collaborators of the past are archived on the website, and the lineup for April will be updated regularly up until the show.

pandorastrunk.com

mirandacaroligne.com

badunklsista.com

mediumreality.com

minadresden.com

images for print at http://pandorastrunk.com/presskit/pressimages

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