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Fall Arts and Crafts Festival Comes to St Augustine, Fl

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FALL ART AND CRAFT FESTIVAL COMING TO ST. AUGUSTINE
52nd Annual Event!

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (Nov. 20) – The 52nd and largest edition of one of the Southeast’s favorite art and craft extravaganzas returns to St. Augustine on Thanksgiving Weekend, November 29-30. The Fall Art and Craft Festival will feature 160 of the finest regional artists, including jewelers, glass blowers, sculptors, woodworkers, gourd artists, potters, painters, photographers, textile batik artists and more, as well as jazz musicians and food vendors.

This juried festival is sponsored by the St. Augustine Art Association and serves as the primary fund raiser for this non-profit organization formed in 1924. Held at Francis Field, the festival takes place on both Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Admission is only $1 and plenty of parking will be available at the adjacent Historic Downtown Parking Facility located on West Castillo Drive just off US 1. For more information, call 904.824.2310 or go to www.staaa.org.

Each evening after the festival closes, the historic district of the oldest city will be bathed in the holiday glow of more than two million tiny white lights that make up the festive Nights of Lights – the perfect setting for dining, shopping or just strolling through the picturesque streets of old St. Augustine. For more information, go to www.nightsoflights.com.

The Fall Art and Craft Festival is sponsored in part by a grant from the St. Johns County Tourist Development Council. For more details visit www.Getaway4Florida.com or call 1.800.653.2489.

Georgia Tech’s Yellow Jacket Marching Band in Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade

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State of Georgia Represented in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Georgia Tech’s Yellow Jacket Marching Band Makes Debut in Annual Holiday Event

ATLANTA (November 24, 2008) Georgia will be well represented in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as Georgia Tech’s Yellow Jacket Marching Band takes center stage. The group is one of two college bands selected to perform during the traditional kick-off to the holiday season.

The parade will be broadcast live Thursday, November 27, 2008, on NBC from 9:00 a.m. until noon (EST). The Yellow Jacket Marching Band has been informed that they will be marching by the camera at approximately 10:07 a.m.

“With 2008 representing the band’s 100th anniversary, we cannot think of a better way to celebrate than taking part in this traditional holiday event,” says Band Director Chris Moore.

Transporting 360 members plus their instruments is no small task. The group will be transported via eight buses along with one truck loaded with instruments ranging from 30 tubas to 31 drums. The band is set leave on Sunday, November 23 for the 800-plus-mile trek.

Established in 1908, the Yellow Jacket Marching Band is one of the oldest such programs in the country. Members of the band are part of a group of more than 1,100 Georgia Tech students who sing, play or study music each semester at a university that offers no undergraduate degrees in music. Band members represent every major and many nations around the world.

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade is not the first time the band has been in the limelight. Band members appeared at the Kenny Chesney and Sugarland concert during their 2007 summer tour in Atlanta. They also were asked to perform with Keith Urban during his spring concert at Gwinnett Arena earlier this year.

For more information on the Yellow Jacket Marching Band’s major milestones, visit their Web site at http://www.gatech.edu/band/.

Holiday High Tea at Jekyll Island Club, Georgia

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Tea sandwiches, savory, warm scones with fruit compote, and exquisite petite pastries complement the perfect cup of tea served in the hotel’s Grand Dining Room. Instrumental music of the season adds to the delight of this holiday affair.4:00 p.m. at Jekyll Island Club Hotel.
Reservations are required: 912-635-2600 www.jekyllclub.com

White Lighting Ceremony in St Marys, Georgia

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Every year everyone gathers downtown around dusk for the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. The historic downtown area is already decorated for the holidays, with lots of twinkling white lights and reefs. If you live in the area, you’ll spend the time talking to neighbors and friends, while kids spend most of their time running around. The Market on the Square probably sells more hot chocolate on this particular day than any other day of the year. It seems as if everyone in Camden comes downtown for the White Lighting, so it’s a great time to catch up with old friends.

The events begins with a parade starting from the old paper mill. The parade slowly proceeds down the holiday decorated main street – Osborne Street. And when I say slowly, I mean slowly, it can take them a good 20 minutes to make it all the way downtown, so you might need a refill on that chocolate. While you wait for Santa’s arrival there are also dance and music performances on stage.

And finally, when Mr and Mrs Santa make it downtown,  the City Christmas Tree is lit. Afterwards young kids get the opportunity to tell Santa himself what they want for Christmas.

So bring your whole gang to downtown St Marys on December 2nd for the White Lighting. There is simply no better way to get into the holiday spirit!

For more information, please call 912-882-4000.T

Christmas tree in the park
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Savannah College of Art and Design President Paula S. Wallace honored with first annual ELLE DECOR Vision Award

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NEW YORK – Savannah College of Art and Design President Paula S. Wallace was honored with the first ELLE DECOR Vision Award Monday, Nov. 17, at the inaugural Women In Design event, co-sponsored by ELLE DECOR and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Held at the Harold Pratt House in New York City, the event celebrated outstanding female achievement in the fields of architecture, communications, fashion, interior and product design.

“What an honor! This is huge, getting something like this from ELLE DECOR and Cooper-Hewitt, two of the world’s great standard-bearers of design,” said Wallace. “I’m sure they have the wrong person. They say I have vision. I don’t know. If that’s true, I suppose it’s because I’m entirely unable to think about anything but the future for SCAD. It’s my life’s work, my magnum opus—and the best job in the world.”

SCADAn academic visionary, Wallace co-founded the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1978. Thirty years later, SCAD is the nation’s most comprehensive art and design university, offering more degree programs and specializations than any other art and design university in the United States. The university’s more than 9,000 students study at campuses in Savannah and Atlanta, Ga., Lacoste, France, and online via SCAD-eLearning.

Under Wallace’s leadership, SCAD was named the “Hottest for Studying Art” among “America’s 25 Hottest Colleges” by Kaplan/Newsweek, and was recognized as one of “America’s best colleges” and “America’s best graduate schools” by U.S. News and World Report.

Wallace’s mission at SCAD is to provide a bridge from academia to professional life, ensuring that SCAD students are prepared for successful careers in the fields of art and design. In support of this mission, Wallace created shopSCAD and Working Class Studio, two inventive concepts that enable SCAD students to promote their work in the marketplace.

ShopSCAD is a boutique with locations in Savannah and Atlanta where SCAD faculty, students and alumni present and sell their original work, including clothes, books, jewelry, tableware, paintings, prints and stationery.

Working Class Studio, a product development venture, marries function to fine art in product lines sold in retail stores domestically and around the world. Working Class Studio recently has collaborated with Williams Sonoma/west elm, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Henri Bendel and Showtime, among others.

Wallace also created many of the university’s most innovative academic and outreach programs, including SCAD Style, a full month of style and design events including lectures, exhibitions, trunk shows and book signings. SCAD Style begins every year with the Étoile Awards in New York, where the university annually honors important figures in style and design.

Wallace has advanced the SCAD legacy of historic preservation and its commitment to renewing urban landscapes through an impressive series of restoration projects in the medieval village of Lacoste, in Midtown Atlanta and in the historic district of Savannah. Most recently, SCAD restored a 19th-century synagogue, several historic public school buildings, the oldest extant railroad depot in the United States, and a mansion considered to be the oldest, most complete and single most important representation of Atlanta’s storied New South, post-Civil War period—transforming them into thriving homes for SCAD academic programs. This commitment to the building arts has earned awards for SCAD from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Art Deco Societies of America, the American Society of Interior Designers, and the American Institute of Architects.

“For some, design is merely decoration, but for women in design, it is so much more—it is essential,” said Margaret Russell, editor-in-chief of ELLE DECOR. “This award is about recognizing women such as Paula who are making their mark in a field historically dominated by men. Paula isn’t just changing the course of the design world, but is helping to change the world itself. That’s why she is the perfect person to receive our first ELLE DECOR Vision Award.”

Wallace’s vision has been lauded by many other leaders in the art and design world as well. “I am extremely impressed by the fact that one woman had a vision and she made it happen, and is helping so many people,” said Diane von Furstenberg, acclaimed designer and president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Added Tom Ford, president and CEO of Tom Ford International, “The vision of this woman who founded this school is incredible. It is absolutely mind-boggling.”

In addition to the award ceremony, the Women in Design event featured a panel discussion with several leading women in design, including architect Annabelle Selldorf, interior designers Bunny Williams and Celerie Kemble, and fashion designer Cynthia Rowley.

The evening also featured the unveiling of pieces from finalists in the Rado Design Competition, in which talented SCAD female students and alumnae were asked to envision a design specific to their field using Rado’s Ceramica collection of timepieces for inspiration. In addition to a trip to New York City and a watch from the collection, the winner will receive a feature in both ELLE DECOR and the Rado newsletter.

For more information on the first annual Women in Design awards event, visit www.elledecor.com/womenindesign.