
You can be art.
The city commission is scheduled to vote Aug. 1 on buying a 61-foot-long, 12-foot-high metal sculpture that forms the words, “BE ART,” as West Palm Beach’s contribution to this year’s Canvas Outdoor Art Museum event.
Designed by California artist Laura Kimpton, “BE ART” fits the theme of the show, “connections,” organizer Nicole Henry said Wednesday.
The 4-foot-deep work, illuminated from within by colored LED lights, “invites you to climb into it, to be part of it,” Henry explained. “People are meant to interact with the sculpture and take pictures in it. That’s what the ‘BE ART’ means.”
Assuming the city approves the $138,000 expenditure, the work would be delivered in time for Canvas, which kicks off Nov. 11. The location has yet to be determined. One possible spot is in front of the old city hall, which is slated for demolition and redevelopment. The money would come from the city’s Art In Public Places program, a fund to which developers are required to contribute.
The 5th Annual KidsFit Jamathon at the South Florida Fair Grounds for all summer camps takes place tomorrow, July 28, from 9:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. Come join or be a part of one of the largest summer events for camps with over 3,000 participants.
Organized by Digital Vibez a local non-profit, this year’s KidsFit will include dancing, demos, health vendors, goody bags and raffles, as well as Crazy Games Kidz Zone, Obstacle Course, Bounce Houses and other fun games and activities.
Thanks to sponsors like Quantum Foundation, Palm Healthcare Foundation, United Way Of PBC, La Granja, Healthier Boynton Beach, Finity Tek Designs, Children Services Council of PBC, Whole Food, Caridad Clinic, Alpha Media and WXEL Digital Vibez will be reaching thousands of youth with the message of promoting health by way of dance, fitness, and health education to help end childhood obesity in Palm Beach County.
For more information, contact Wil Romelus, Digital Vibez, Inc., at 561-244-9983 or
http://www.digitalvibez.org
The Office Depot Foundation will donate 20,000 “sackpacks” with school supplies to Palm Beach County-area children on Tuesday, July 26, in West Palm Beach and Delray Beach.
The first event will be in Delray at 10 a.m., at the Office Depot Store at 14539 Military Trail.
The second event, in suburban West Palm Beach, takes place at 3:30 p.m. at the Office Depot store located at 101a S. State Road 7.
The drawstring sackpacks come in seven bright and colorful designs. Each one includes a zippered pouch containing a pen, pencil, pencil sharpener, eraser, six-inch ruler and four crayons. The sackpacks do not have any Office Depot Foundation or Office Depot logos or markings.
To deliver sackpacks directly to children, the Foundation is hosting Back-to-School Celebrations in more than 15 cities across the U.S. in July and August. The National Backpack Program has helped more than 120,000 kids in Palm Beach County and more than 4 million around the world since the program began 16 years ago.
One way to beat the heat: a nice air-conditioned movie theater.
Muvico at CityPlace is making that easier. Tickets to the movies will be $5 tonight, Tuesday.
Also discounted: There’ll be $2 small, $3 medium, $4 large drinks and popcorn (each), as well as $3 candy.
For more information, call 561-833-2310.
Muvico Parisian is located at 545 Hibiscus St. in West Palm Beach.
The Historical Society of Palm Beach County is presenting a special traveling art exhibition, “ArtCalusa: Reflections on Representation,” now through Aug. 27 at the Richard and Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum in the historic 1916 Court House.
The show, in the 3rd floor courtroom gallery, features Florida’s leading historical artists, each of whom produced art based on scholarly research findings and experimental approaches in archaeology and history.
The final showing of the colorful exhibition introduces the people of Palm Beach County to their prehistoric neighbors in Southwest Florida. Historical Society of Palm Beach County is located at 300 N Dixie Hwy. For more information call, 561-832-4164.
The West Palm Beach Rotary Club has installed its 2016-2017 Officers and Board of Directors.
The president is Michele Jones, who is the youth director at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. Vice President – Jacob Webb is a Wealth Management Adviser for Merrill Lynch.
Secretary Claudia Kirk Barto is president of Junior Achievement of the Palm Beaches & Treasure Coast. Treasurer Kenyetta Haywood is a human resource manager for the School District of Palm Beach County.
The club has approximately 100 members representing a cross-section of professions and industries. It completes 25 international, national, and local service projects helping over 5,000 people annually.
For more information call 561-254-4789 or e-mail info@rotarywestpalmbeach.org
Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League has teamed up with Telemundo 51 to host NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations’ Clear the Shelters second annual nationwide pet adoption drive on Saturday.
The West Palm Beach shelter will offer the public fee waived adoptions as part of the July 23 initiative to find new homes for homeless pets. The only cost to adopters on this day is the $20 license fee required by Palm Beach County.
“Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League is committed to finding forever homes for all of our animals and now is the perfect time to stop by the League if you are thinking of adding a new member to your family, “said Rich Anderson Executive Director and CEO of the shelter.
This year’s Clear the Shelters event comes after last year’s inaugural effort found homes for nearly 20,000 pets nationwide.
Peggy Adams is at 3100-3200 N. Military Trail in West Palm Beach. The adoption drive takes place from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The shelter will also have Early Bird Adoption Specials from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., which include:
All day specials include:
15 percent off all Boutique *exclusion apply
For information, visit PeggyAdams.org or call 561-686-3663.
This August, gastro-pub City Tap® opens at CityPlace.
The pub specializes in craft beers as well as American-regional cuisine featuring artisanal brick oven pizzas and flatbreads, mussels four ways, vegetarian options, and composed dishes from lemon-herb chicken to crispy Florida red snapper.
Its bottled craft brews come from local, regional and specialty breweries.
The pub will accommodate up to 50 seated guests as well as bar patrons, indoors and outdoors, with a 15-foot multiscreen television and an open view of the kitchen.
Daily happy hour specials will feature $1 raw oysters.
City Tap®, at 700 Rosemary Ave., will serve lunch and dinner seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., and brunch with an unlimited Champagne and Bloody Mary’s Bar every Saturday and Sunday.
For more information call 561.508.8525, or www.wpb.citytap.com.
Johan’s Joe prides itself on moist pastry, but not this moist.
The pastry chef at the Swedish-style cafe opened up shortly before six this morning to find two to three inches of water throughout the 3,000-square-foot shop at 401 S. Dixie Highway.
According to General Manager Melissa Wood, a pipe burst under a sink, spreading water through the back and front hallways and dining area.
“It was a mess when we got there,” Wood said. “Our pastry chef came to open the place and she called me pretty stressed out.”
The downtown cafe is closed for the day but will reopen tomorrow. A restoration company is hard at work with mops and industrial fans and vacuums. The furniture’s out on the sidewalk.
Johan’s Jӧe Swedish Coffee House & Café opened in Sept. 2015.
The shop boasts a custom blend of Sweden’s most ethical and environmentally friendly coffee and tea from Löfbergs Lila, as well as Scandinavian baked goods, croissants, pastries, muffins, bagels, gourmet sandwiches, salads, soups, and breakfast and lunch options.
Impact The Palm Beaches, a women’s philanthropy, is seeking local initiatives developed for community awareness and improvement to apply for significant grants raised by its members. Additionally, the group is looking to bolster its membership to 300-plus participants by the end of 2016.
Impact The Palm Beaches is a charitable fund of the Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties. The nonprofit invites women to join with a gift of $1,000 each and to use the money for $100,000 high impact grants awarded to non-profits that demonstrate unique proposals to create social change within our community.
Last year, Impact the Palm Beaches awarded its first $100,000 grant to Live Fresh Palm Beach County, a mobile showering service for the homeless population. Since the awarding, Live Fresh Palm has given thousands of homeless men, women and children the simple opportunity to maintain basic hygiene, an activity most of us take for granted, but would never want to be without. Additionally grants were awarded to Take Stock in Children and Legal Aid Society.
This year, Impact the Palm Beaches aspires to award three $100,000 Impact grants.
If you are a local non-profit and are interested in applying for an Impact Grant, visit http://impactpalmbeaches.org/grants/.
If you want to become a member of Impact the Palm Beaches and parlay a small contribution into a high impact and effective vehicle for social change, contact co-founder Deborah Johnson at info@impactpalmbeaches.org or visit this link (http://impactpalmbeaches.org/join-us/ ) to learn more and sign up.