Good news out of Fort Worth this week when
Main Street Fort Worth Art Festival's director
Jay Downie announced to the applicants for their show that they had received more than the 1100 applications they had budgeted for and so were reducing their booth fees by $20. I was talking to
Amy Amdur of
Amdur Productions this week and she told me she was holding the prices on her events to last year's levels. In fact, she told me two of her shows were going to have lower fees. Many thanks Amy and Jay. Wouldn't it be great if this was a trend? Artists have felt very burdened by rising booth fees. It has to be a struggle for events to hold their fees down when they are, of course, faced with the same rising costs the rest of us are. Sponsors have been less forthcoming and it is a challenge for the events to balance their budgets also. I read an article in the Detroit Free Press last August about many Michigan events that were cancelled for 2008 including several that had been around for 20 years or more. Here's hoping for better days.
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