SLAM Festival August 2 & 3
- Mimi Matsuda
- Jul 25
- 4 min read
Friends, it's the 15th annual SLAM Festival, coming soon! I will be at my booth and ready with lots of art!
Here is a schedule of the festival events:
Saturday, August 2nd
9:00 AM Tenacious Cycle Spin class
10:00 AM Songwriter Round: Jakob Alexander, Andrew Drinnan & Amber Scally
11:00 AM Boomerang
12:00 PM IndepenDANCE
1:00 PM Stuart Weber
2:00 PM Alex Robilotta Trio
3:00 PM Bozeman Belly Dance Collective
4:00 PM Sleepless Elite
5:00 PM Hot Milk & the Flower Pallets
6:00 PM Emma & the Ledge
7:00 PM The Waiting
Sunday, August 3rd
9:30 AM Bend Beyond Community Yoga class
11:00 AM Bzn Municipal Band
12:00 PM Verge Theater
1:00 PM Sorry I'm Olive
2:00 PM Bozambique
3:00 PM Hornbread
4:00 PM BozamBIG
Demonstrations and Workshops
ENTER TO WIN!
Mitch Sander original painting raffle!
$5 per ticket or $20 for five.
Raffle winner will be drawn at 5pm on August 3rd.
Buy Raffle Tickets
Saturday, August 2nd
11:30am to 12:30pm Quill Bill - Porcupine Quillwork Embroidery
An Indigenous North American Artform. Bill will describe and demonstrate various techniques of porcupine quill embroidery. He will also survey the history and demonstrate basic techniques (wrapping and embroidery) of porcupine quillwork, including their various uses among northern plains tribes.
1:00pm to 2:00pm Deenya - How to Shimmy (and Undulate)
Deenya, Belly dance extraordinaire, will discuss the shimmy and undulation, and how and where they are used in belly dance. She will teach the attendees how to do a ½-time shimmy and a ¾-shimmy to recorded music & then lead the audience in a short shimmy dance. (15-20 mins.) She will follow up with a ‘How to do an Undulation’ - same process as for shimmy but different movements. (15-20mins.)
2:30pm to 3:30pm Damien Montgomery - Creating Beaded Layerwork
Montgomery will build, from scratch, a complex piece of beadwork and talk about how to mix/match this style of jewelry with your personal style.
4:00pm to 5:00pm Art + Science
Artist Sara Mast and local bioEngineers have come together to create a set-up that shows how water remediation and sustainable building materials are possible with ELMs (engineered living materials). We will have ‘art+sci’ objects on display made with local clays and PEM glass (vitrified glass that is transformed trash, a byproduct of waste-to-energy plasma gasification technology).
Sunday, August 3rd
11:30am to 1:00pm Katherine L. Wright - Plein Air Watercolor
Katherine will walk participants through a short drawing session, applying a wash (possibly with mask), followed by different ways of adding detail to a watercolor painting done on-site.
1:30pm to 3:30pm Hannah Uhde - Acrylic Painting on Copper WORKSHOP
Hannah will lead participants in a painting of a cowboy or a trout on a copper plate. Participants will follow along as she explains how to take best advantage of a non-white and metallic background as well as adjust the palette for the colors used.
This workshop has a $10 cover to pay for provided art supplies. Space is limited.
4:00pm to 5:00pm Art + Science
Artist Sara Mast and local bioEngineers have come together to create a set-up that shows how water remediation and sustainable building materials are possible with ELMs (engineered living materials). We will have ‘art+sci’ objects on display made with local clays and PEM glass (vitrified glass that is transformed trash, a byproduct of waste-to-energy plasma gasification technology).
Food Vendors
1. Mountain Fresh Italian Ice
2. Mafia Pizza
3. Bridger Bagels
4. Prairie Dogs
5. Bozeman Tropical Sno
6. CC Gormet
7. D&D Poppers
8. Piece of Crepe
9. Georgettes Galettes
10. Sweet Caroline's
Artist Market Booths
1. Jo Newhall
2. Anne Ross
3. Rowan Nyman
4. Katzie Hughes
5. Kaz Chaffin
6. Alison Throop
7. Beth Aimee
8. Levon Pentecost
9. Brook Froelich
10. Rosemary Hatzell
11. Darian Montgomery
12, Jess Nelson
13. Deana Albers Lloyd
14. Marianne Robilotta
15. Elise Holmes
16. Bill Mendoza
17. Lisa Ernst
18. Mimi Matsuda
19. Kelsey Clarke
20. Jill Johnson
21. Alison Sweeney
22. Mandy Mohler
23. Kim Shirley
24. George Kalantzes
25. Coming Soon!
26. Andrew Houser
27. Susan Hayes
28. Herb Johnson
29. Maggie Guttormson
30. Courtney Murphy
31. Nick Mask
32. Kallie Audet
33. Emily Gonzales
34. Kelly Hartman
35. Morena Garcia
36. Katie Sisum
37. Sharie Williamson
38. Ritva Porter
39. Ashleah Elias
40. Sue Spanke
41. Leland Buck
42. Matt Saporito
43. Amber Scally
44. Stephanie McGeorge
45. Keira Masters
46. Courtney Wilkey
47. Joe Graham
48. Sarah Light
49. Chau Nguyen
50. Kimberly Olsen
51. Robert Kramer
52. Hannah Sukut
53. Catlin Rex
54. Juliana Sukut
55. James Rendle
56 & 57. MSU Guilds
Family Activities
Booths
61. Read Montana
62. Moku Party, face painting
SLAMs Family Activity Tent will be open from 10 am to close Saturday and Sunday. Come create with us!
SPECIAL EVENT! Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm the Weinermobile will visit SLAM! Find them on Bogert Place, noted by the red rectangle on the map below.
Silent Auction
Be sure to visit the silent auction booth at SLAM and show us your support by bidding on these AMAZING items that have been generously donated by local businesses!
🌟The amazing poster art was done by the mega talented Wilson Raska of Blackhammer Company, Bozeman Montana.
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