Queen Mary Art Deco Festival!
Ray Goldenberg
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Queen Mary Art Deco Festival
Labor Day Weekend - September 2-5, 2005
LONG BEACH, Calif., Aug. 16
The Queen Mary Art Deco Festival, presented by the RMS Queen Mary
Foundation in association with the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles, is
scheduled for Labor Day Weekend, September 2-5, 2005, aboard the Queen
Mary in Long Beach, California. The Festival is expected to become an
annual Labor Day Weekend event for the historic ship, long considered
an Art Deco treasure. The proceeds from all activities will benefit
conservation and restoration of the impressive collection of original
art aboard the 1936 ocean liner. More information is available at
www.queenmary.com or www.adsla.org, or by calling (562) 435-3511. Art
Deco attire is encouraged.
Adults tickets are $29.95 -- Seniors and Military $26.95 -- Children
(5-11) $18.95. Tickets include all activities in the Art Deco Bazaar
and the Vintage Car Show, the Queen Mary Self Guided Shipwalk Tour,
two Guided Historic Tours, the Ghosts & Legends Show and the Scorpion
Submarine. Tickets for the Tours, Lectures and Film Festival may be
purchased separately at $10 each, but an Art Deco Festival General
Admission is required. Multi-day and hotel packages are also
available.
Activities will include a Friday evening welcome reception sponsored
by the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles; an Art Deco Ball, preceded by
a Silent Auction, and Sunday Brunch and Tea Dancing. A Bazaar in the
Exhibit Hall will feature dancing to recorded Art Deco classics all
day Saturday and Sunday, as well as Art Deco vendors buying and
selling vintage merchandise. Six lectures will share information about
everything from ship interiors to textiles to design, architecture and
"How to Dress Deco." The Art Deco Film Festival will present "Dinner
at 8," "Top Hat," The Big Broadcast of 1938" and "Metropolis." Art
Deco walking tours will explore the Queen Mary, historic downtown Long
Beach, and the Wilshire District and Union Station in Los Angeles.
There will be a vintage car show, dance lessons and book signings.
The Festival will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the 1925 Paris
Exposition, birthplace of the Art Deco movement, and celebrate the
Queen Mary's 70th Anniversary Season that began last year with the
anniversary of her launch and naming (September 26, 1934) at
Clydebank, Scotland, and continues through 2006 with the 70th
anniversary of her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New
York City (May 27-June 1, 1936).
Organizations participating in planning for the event are Long Beach
Heritage, the Historical Society of Long Beach, the Steamship
Historical Society of America, Southern California Chapter and others.
For more information about the Queen Mary attractions, hotel,
restaurants, banquet and meeting facilities or group rates, the public
may call (562) 435-3511 or visit the Queen Mary at www.queenmary.com.
Also home to Tibbie's Dinner Theater, the Laugh is Hope Comedy Club
and the Globe of America Academy for Dramatic Arts, the Queen Mary is
located at 1126 Queens Highway at the south end of the 710 Freeway, on
the water in Long Beach, California.
Brian K
Ah yes, Art Deco I knew him well. His cousin Art Nouveau was the pretty
one. While poor Art Deco was just outright tacky. ;-)
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