The third in a series of great First Friday Art Walk programs is coming up this week. Some highlights:

Shop at your favorite stores until 8 pm; visit 7 galleries and find local artists’ work in many shops and restaurants; enjoy music from Foxglove; delight to the Rock Rose Belly Dancers; free family swim and skate at the Rec Center 7-9 pm (behind City Hall); Water Soluble Oil Paint Demo and Play at Racine’s 6-8 pm; make your own mask contest at Cowlick’s Ice Cream, 5-8 pm. It’s great fun.

Just look around in downtown Fort Bragg and you can see the renewal happening with newly-paved streets, new shops, new galleries and more. The Fort Bragg Promotion Committee and local merchants this Friday night launch the First Friday Art Walk as part of an on-going series of monthly events planned to reintroduce Mendocino Coast residents to downtown shopping.

The monthly Art Walks, to be held through October, will feature some combination of music, dancing, art and late evening shopping as the major draw to downtown stores and restaurants.

Activities scheduled for August 1, from 5 pm to 8 pm: (more…)