TROLLEY BUS HISTORY
TOURS
All Day – 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Trolley bus will have history guides and will continuously travel cultural loop street boundaries. 10 designated trolley
bus stops along Cultural Loop. See numbers on map for Trolley Stops
CULTURAL LOOP MARKET
PLACE
Old School Square. 9am-5pm
Vendors.
Church of God Conch Fritter Lady Trinity Lutheran Church,
Cason Methodist Church, Caring Kitchen, Hispano-Latino Cultural Alliance, Gail Russ Art Work, Cultural Loop History Hunt Booth
and Delray Beach Sister Cities.
Performances at the Pavilion
Hispano-Latino Folkloric
Dances, solo performance by Stephanie Tonnemaker, just to name a few.
EVENTS & PERFORMANCES
9:00 AM - Dedication of the
Cultural Loop by Mayor Jeff Perlman. More than speeches, giant puppets created by Blane De St. Croix and
his FAU art students will surround the speakers and lead the procession to plant the flags to start the Cultural Loop. Old School Square
10:10 AM “Thirty Years that Changed the World” The students of Toussaint L’Ouverture Charter High School for Art and Social
Justice perform a imagined conversation between Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon and Toussaint L’Ouverture (revolutionary
leader of Haiti in 1804). The puppets and giant hats create the stage set. North of Old School Square. Meet artist
Blane De St. Croix.
10:40 AM. “Thirty Years
that Changed the World”
Second Performance. Toussaint L’Ouverture High School, 95 N.E. 1st Ave.
10:00 AM – NOON Cason Cottage. Tour 1915 Florida home. 5 N.E.1st Street
10:00 AM – NOON McCall Credle-Rosenthal. Book signing of “Delray Beach”
at Cason Cottage, 5 NE 1st St
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Milagro Center Open House 101 S.E. 2nd Ave
11:00 AM Charo Oquet, Meet the sculptor of “The Trickster Dwelling”. 2nd
Ave SE & 1st St. SE
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM Gary Moore, Meet the artist of Cut and Greet and have your hair cut with a little conversation. Located at House of the Church of God Resurrection Life Fellowship, event sponsor. 5th Ave SW & 2nd Street SW
11:00 AM Sutton Chapel Gospel Choir. 206 NW 4th Ave.
11:30 AM Kathleen Holmes, Meet the sculptor of “Walk the Loop in My Shoes”. Swinton
& 2nd Street SW
NOON “The Open Door Project”, Meet the lead artist, Sharon Koskoff, and the 100 other artist of all
ages. State Representative, Adam Hasner, will dedicate the work at 12:30 PM. ML King Jr Drive & 2nd Ave NW
1:00 PM Henry Pelissier, Meet the lead artist of the “Milagro STARS Tap Tap House”. 5th Ave SW & 1st
St SW
1:00 – 3:00 PM “Open Your Doors to Diversity” Reception. Meet the young student artists
at the Cornell Museum, Old School Square
1:30 PM Sutton Chapel Gospel Choir. 206 NW 4th Ave.
1:30 PM George Gadson, Meet the artist of the “The Resiliency Factor”, Atlantic & 5th Ave NW
2:00 PM Poetry Reading at St. Paul AME Church. Called “Shared Spaces/Separate Realities”
by writer Kerry Kennedy, selected poems will be read by students and others including Delray poet Virginia Snyder. The poems come from all the cultures of Delray and show the common bond among all
people. 119 NW 5th Avenue
3:00 PM Sutton Chapel Gospel Choir. 206 NW 4th Ave.
3:30 PM Shoplive.com. Creations will demonstrate its new technology to shop live on the Internet and see
the actual items in the store. 111 Pineapple Grove Way
4:00 PM Jody Servon
Meet the Artist of Illume, the photographs on lightpoles around the Loop. Reception
at Kevro Gallery at 168 N.E. Pineapple Grove Way.
4:30 PM Rick Lowe, Meet the artist of “Culture Totems”, the sculpture with canning jars. Rick Lowe is also the lead artist
for the entire Cultural Loop. Reception at Palm Beach Photographic Center at 55 N.E. Pineapple Grove Way.
OPEN ALL DAY: CHURCHES
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church Christmas Bazaar.
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM ONLY. Once a year sale of arts and crafts; vintage
jewelry, china, etc. Lunch will be served at 11:30 AM, 12:15 PM and 1:00 PM for
$7 with St Paul’s famous chicken salad and entertainment. 188 S. Swinton
Avenue
Sutton Chapel. Gospel music, praise dance performances,
food for sale and merchandise for sale. Performances at 11am, 1:30am & 3pm.
209 SW 4th Avenue
Church of God Resurrection
Life Fellowship. Open House. Art exhibit by Gary Moore at Bahamian church house. SW 2nd St and SW 5th
Ave. Church of God is event sponsor.
Delray Community Missionary
Baptist Church. "Voices of the Community”
choir rehearsals and performances, written display of church history, oratorical presentation of church history and selling
of soul food. 94 SW 5th Avenue
Greater Mt. Olive Missionary
Baptist Church. First church organization
in Delray Beach. Permanent exhibit entitled “Black Pioneers of Delray Beach”. 40 NW 4th Ave.
St Pauls AME Church. Second oldest church organization in Delray
Beach. Exhibit of artifacts from church and its founders. 2 pm poetry readings. 119
NW 5th Ave
OPEN ALL DAY: MUSEUMS,
HISTORIC HOUSES & GALLERIES
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Cason Cottage. 10:00 AM –
Noon ONLY. The Delray Beach
Historical Society will lead tours of home of Rev. John Cason Sr. The house is a permanent exhibit reflecting south Florida
lifestyle from 1915 to 1935. 5 N.E.1st Street
Cornell Museum. 10:30am-4:30pm.
“A World of Puppets: Art and Imagination”
- South Florida Puppet Guild, tells the story of puppets as theatrical art forms and educational tools. From construction and costuming to characters and cultural diversity, the exhibit includes a variety of
hand, rod and shadow puppets, marionettes, and giant puppets. “Open Your Door to Diversity,” Student Art Exhibit in the Interactive Children’s Gallery. Student Showcase Gallery: Jenny Wang” Old
School Square
Crest Theater Gallery. “Dos Artistas, Un Poeta”–Paintings & Poetry by Cuban artists.
Old School Square
ODIUM. Opens at Noon. An exhibition of sculpture by emerging Florida
artists at 247 Pineapple Grove Way.
Museum of Lifestyle and Fashion
History: 10am-5pm. Antoin Sevruguin & the Persian Image. A glimpse into the history of Iran during the late 1800s through the eyes of one of
the Iran’s most creative photographers. Also “Hats, Handbags & Gloves” exhibit. 322 Pineapple
Grove Way
Palm Beach Photographic Centre Anima. Large-scale digital images
by Timothy Morrissey exploring the Jungian theme of Anima. 55 Pineapple Grove
Way
Pop Culture Museum at Creations. “The
Godfather” and other movie costumes. 111 Pineapple Grove Way
Pineapple Grove ArtWalk Sculptures and murals on Pineapple Grove Way between Atlantic Avenue and 3rd Street
NE. Florida artists - Giannina Coppiano Dwin, Tim Curtis, Robert Chambers, Carlos
Betancourt, Carlos Alves, Dominique Labauvie, George Gadson, Leslie Fry and Sharon Koskoff.
Other artists - Peter Reiquam, Anna Evans, Joshua Levine, Sandy Gellis, Shaun Cassidy, Robbie Barber, Rian Kerrane,
J. Paul Sires, John Martin, David Floyd and Rudy Rudisill..
SD Spady Cultural Arts Museum. Tour
of the historic home of African American educator SD Spady. “Old African
American Neighborhoods of Delray Beach” and “Carver High School” exhibit of artifacts dating back to 1940’s.
Paintings by Harvey Stephens, Jr. 170 NW 5th Ave
The Milagro Center Open House. 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Come observe the classes
in the Children's Migrants Arts Program and visit the Center's Art Gallery. Two
Saturdays a month, artists provide free cultural arts classes to migrant children from Belle Grade and from Boynton Beach's
Caridad Clinic. 101 S.E. 2nd Ave
Women in the Visual Arts Gallery. “Rhapsody
in Art “exhibition at 322 Pineapple Grove Way. Hospital Art display at Pineapple Grove Way & ML King Jr Drive
OTHER EVENTS
Delray Beach Green Market. 8am
– 1pm. Arts, crafts and food. Atlantic Ave & 2nd Ave SE
Olde Fashioned Holiday Craft
Show organized by the Delray
Beach Southern Handcraft Society. 9am-5pm.
Located in vintage gym at Old School Square.
Delray Beach Public Library, "Cuba… On the Street",
photography by Rolfe Ross, 29 SE 4th Ave
Delray Art League Outdoor Art
Show at Veterans Park on
Atlantic Avenue & Intracoastal Waterway. 9am-5pm
www.delrayconnect.com
The Delray Beach Cultural Loop was developed by Pineapple Grove
Main Street in conjunction with Delray Beach Cultural Alliance and many volunteers. Rick Lowe, Lead Artist. Glenn Weiss, Project Director. Lori Durante, Project Manager
