Museum Without Walls: AUDIO Launch Event

DATE: June 10, 2010
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
LOCATION: LOVE Park (16th Street and JFK Blvd)

On Thursday, June 10 the Fairmount Park Art Association will launch Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO, a multi-platform, interactive audio experience created to engage the public with Philadelphia’s preeminent collection of public art and outdoor sculpture.

The event will offer participants an opportunity to experience and learn more about the AUDIO program and to meet some of the audio segments’ “voices,” who will be stationed along the Parkway at various sculptures from 11:30 a.m. – 12: 30 p.m. Three attendees will also have a chance to each win a 2GB iPod shuffle pre-loaded with all 35 Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO segments.

Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO invites passersby to stop, look, listen and experience public art in a new light, through professionally produced three-minute interpretive audio segments revealing the untold histories of 51 outdoor sculptures at 35 stops along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Kelly Drive. The diverse narratives are told by over 100 authentic voices with personal connections to the artwork.

The launch event will feature Penny Balkin Bach, Executive Director, Fairmount Park Art Association; Gary Steuer, Chief Cultural Officer, City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy; and Mark Focht, Executive Director, Fairmount Park, City of Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation. A sign dedication at the LOVE (1976) sculpture by artist Robert Indiana will follow the program introduction. Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO ambassadors will distribute program maps and guide participants interested in experiencing the program.

For more information about Museum Without Walls: AUDIO, visit www.museumwithoutwallsaudio.org

Press Contacts: Canary Promotion, (215) 690-4065
Megan Wendell, megan@canarypromo.com
Emaleigh Doley, emaleigh@canarypromo.com

Electronic Press Kit features hi-res photos + press release downloads www.canarypromo.com/museumwithoutwalls

Preview select audio programs online at www.vimeo.com/channels/museumwithoutwalls

Click here to download the Launch Event Media Advisory

Click here to download the Musuem Without Walls: AUDIO Press Kit (large file)