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Full Press Release - Earth Day at Lipe Art Park
Contact: Rick Destito
(315) 374-6487
Rickdks@earthlink.net or Call:

LIPE ART PARK TO HOST CITY-WIDE EARTH DAY EVENT
ON SATURDAY, APRIL 26

Celebration to Feature Free Food, Live Music, a Litter Mosaic and
the Giant 'Litter Bug'

(SYRACUSE, N.Y.) -- On Saturday, April 26, 2008, Lipe Art Park in Syracuse will be the site of a very unique Earth Day event. Coordinated by The Gear Factory, La Liga, Naef Recycling, and Alchemical Nursery, and sponsored by The Gifford Foundation, 40 Below Public Arts Task Force, Go Green Initiative, Syracuse Center of Excellence, Nojaim's Supermarket, Naef Recycling, and New York’s Creative Core, the celebration will split the day into two parts.
From 8:00 a.m. to noon, “The Gear Factory and Alchemical Nursery Clean Up” will organize volunteers to pick up trash and litter along West Fayette and South Geddes streets, as well as Lipe Art Park. Volunteers will meet at the intersection of those streets. Clean up supplies, coffee and donuts will be provided.
From noon to 4:00 p.m. the real fun happens. The general public and Earth Day clean up crews from across the city are invited to Lipe Art Park to help create two thought-provoking works of art: the Litter Bug sculpture and the Litter Mosaic. This portion of the event aims to have children and adults decorate a nine-foot-tall sculpture in the form of a bug and to create a mosaic with litter from their respective clean-ups.

Rick Destito, owner of The Gear Factory, is the artist that will build the nine-foot-tall Litter Bug sculpture from recycled materials, and the mosaic will be designed and put together by La Liga’s Teen Program.

The goal of the Litter Bug, according to event organizers, is to look at the act of littering and actually show what a monstrous thing a ton of litter can be. The other message of the sculpture and the Litter Mosaic is that anything in life is what we chose to make of it -- even litter in this case can be turned into intriguing works of arts.

For more information about the Community Earth Day Celebration at Lipe Art Park, e-mail Rick Destito at rickdks@earthlink.net or Call: 315-374-6487.

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About Lipe Art Park

Located in Syracuse on West Fayette Street between West St. and South Geddes St., Lipe Art Park was an un-utilized two acre strip of green space until 2007 when a group of artists, community members and civic organizations transformed the space into an exhibition space for artists and a neighborhood park for residents.

Providing artists with opportunities to create and exhibit within a historic Warehouse District, Lipe Art Park engages the community in the reclamation, revitalization and improvement of their urban environment. Lipe Art Park is a space where art, nature, and the city come together in a unique setting. The Art Park is open to everyone, and includes a rotating collection of artwork from emerging, mid-career, and established artists.

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