Our First First Friday Showing will be mulitifaceted.

Written By Robin Wade

Our first First Friday showing will be a big-un. (one block in the center of Court Street) during the city's monthly celebration - June 6.

Four facets of our multiple personalities will be "revealed";

  • Robin Wade Furniture
    • We'll be displaying a fairly large showing of our work.
  • The Great Cypress Creek Raft Race - 1978 - 1985
    • We'll be displaying via digital slide show hundreds of great old photos of the event that took place three decades ago.
  • No Raft Race
    • Just to help clarify confusion, there will be NO Raft Race on July 19.  The City of Florence (and RWF, and the Great Cypress Creek Raft Race Assn) can not condone such behavior.
    • No Raft Race tattoos (temporary - on site)
    • No Raft Race aloha shirts
    • No Raft Race block prints
    • Several downtown businesses will have a few coupons for each of these products.
  • Wildwood Creek Festival
    • This first annual event is coming together swimmingly
    • This year's theme "Acoustics in the Creek".  This mash-up with a focus on our local natural environment will be colliding with cool creek currents, local (acoustical) musical creatives, and a few environmental evangelists celebrating  - "Water".
    • wear your tennis or creek shoes
    • bring your lawn chair
    • immerse your feet in the slow cool cypress creek currents
    • while listening to soothing acoustics from one of our local gifted musical creatives, as well as a few our our most respected neighbors who have just a few words about this year's focus "water".
    • Registration for this event will begin during this First Friday showing.  Tickets will be limited, so if you want to attend  . . .
  • No Raft Race
    • Just to help clarify confusion, we will have several ways that we'll be getting the word out - that there will be NO Raft Race on July 19.  The City of Florence (and RWF, and the Great Cypress Creek Raft Race Assn) can not condone such behavior.
    • No Raft Race tattoos (temporary - on site)
    • No Raft Race aloha shirts
    • No Raft Race block prints
    • Several downtown businesses might have a few coupons for each of these products.
  • Wildwood Creek Festival
    • This first annual event is coming together swimmingly
    • This year's theme "Acoustics in the Creek".  This mash-up with a focus on our local natural environment will be colliding with cool creek currents, local (acoustical) musical creatives, and a few environmental evangelists celebrating  - "Water".
    • wear your tennis or creek shoes
    • bring your lawn chair
    • immerse your feet in the slow cool cypress creek currents
    • while listening to soothing acoustics from one of our local gifted musical creatives, as well as a few our our most respected neighbors who have just a few words about this year's focus "water".
    • Registration for this event will begin during this First Friday showing.  Tickets will be limited.  Please note that the time of the event has changed.  It will begin at 5pm.  So, however you may be "commuting" to this little bend in the creek, please keep this in mind.

If you are interested in any of these "facets" please join us for the fun!

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
robinwadefurniture.com
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