Pete Morris Art blogger www.sunlive.co.nz

The busy team at Creative Tauranga are now working on the planning of the inaugural Creative Tauranga Art Fair 2011. This new event on the Tauranga arts calendar is scheduled for Saturday, March 19 – 2011.

The reason for the Art Fair is to focus the wider community's attention on our arts' community by having a showcase event celebrating the tremendous talent and wonderfully diverse work of artists in Tauranga and the Western Bay of Plenty.

This fabulous day out for friends and family in downtown Tauranga will add colour and vibrancy to our city centre and provide an opportunity for our local artists to display and offer their work for sale.

The Art Fair is open to artists of all genres, all age groups, professional and amateur, all ethnicities, art societies and groups, primary and secondary schools, polytech students, arts and crafts people and groups, potters, weavers, quilters, sculptors, poets, musicians, street art performers and others engaged in the many creative arts.

For further information read the October edition of Creative Tauranga's 'Creative Beat' magazine.

Registration forms and related details can be obtained from Creative Tauranga on the corner of Wharf and Willow Streets downtown.

Spaces are limited so be sure to register early for this exciting day to be staged early in 2011.

For more information email: [email protected]