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<\/a>Pedestrians moved from block to block to hear the music and see the sights. There was far too much occurring on the sidelines of Adams Avenue for a single bystander to witness, but a few happenings stood out.<\/p>\n
The Schitzophonics \u2014 headlining the Blindspot Records stage at Smitty\u2019s Service Station \u2014 had the audience in the streets moving and grooving. The Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra amused and delighted with their CD release party at the Adams Avenue Car Wash Stage.<\/p>\n
At Adams Avenue Integrative Health, acrobatic yoga artists fascinated passersby. Art Kids of San Diego painted electrical boxes. At the Book Tree, people stopped to watch artists painting en plaine aire.<\/p>\n
Jesse Lee Chase particularly admired the \u201cmesmerizing\u201d work of Rory Canfield, who was working on an abstract in acrylics.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t really describe my work,\u201d Canfield said. \u201cSome people call it psychedelic art. I paint in the moment. Things develop as I work.\u201d<\/p>\n
A man with his daughter stopped for a moment to watch him work on the painting.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople in this area enjoy the creative process,\u201d Canfield said.<\/p>\n
John Tice, owner of Book Tree, had called on event organizer Johnny Tran to locate artists best representing the businesses and personality of the avenue. Tice moved his bookstore to Adams Avenue in 2005.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis event gets better and better every year because it is such a good fit for our street,\u201d Tice said. \u201cNormal Heights attracts businesses that are not mainstream. It\u2019s the same for art. More and more people who think differently find Adams Avenue as a haven.\u201d<\/p>\n
Event organizer Adam Rosen paired up with Tran in recent years to plan Art Around Adams.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Tran] seeks out both well established and new artists and curates the art to fit the impromptu galleries that form within the businesses involved in the event,\u201d explained Rosen.<\/p>\n
At the event, when people had their eye-full of painting delights, they could move on to the palette of music and dance elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Young dancers from the San Diego Junior Theater entertained everyone with their swing dance performance in front of the car wash.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, Rayme Sciaroni, artistic director of Junior Theater, said it was the first time that the group had performed for the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully it will become a tradition,\u201d Sciaroni said. \u201cThis is my own neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Laura Hodge of San Diego Creative Arts Project, located on 30th right off of Adams Ave, had several youth groups doing creative performances. Hodge paired up with Lindsey Lawlor\u2019s giant robotic giraffe.<\/p>\n
Art Around Adams started in 2004 as a much smaller and simpler shadow of its current form, explained Rosen. It has grown from a few blocks to a two-mile stretch.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe event has always focused on getting the public out to explore the community and build a relationship with the businesses that make up that area, through art, music, and whatever other eclectic performance we can throw at it,\u201d Rosen said.<\/p>\n
As the oldest business district in San Diego, other than Old Town, Adams Avenue has seen the most change of them all.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like to compare it to the way Greenwich Village used to be in the old days. Our Avenue has become legendary. And this event really helps it,\u201d Tice said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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