Do you make clothing, costumes, jewelry?

[Jacques Treatment]

SMACC needs more people who make jewelry, clothing, costumes, and other fabric products. A table costs $50 and comes with THREE memberships, so you can share the table and expenses and still get out and enjoy the rest of the show; a $200 Best Table prize will be awarded by audience ballot (this prize will go *up* as we get more corporate sponsors). The show is July 24-25, 2010 at the Doubletree Hotel in Dearborn, with the exhibition/dealer's room open from 11am-7pm both days. Right now, we've got four film studios who will likely need your skills in order to fill out their movies' wardrobes, so it's a good way to score even more paying gigs.

Please contact me at michael@idea-men.us for more information.

--Michael Marcus

Hamtramck Idea Men

http://idea-men.us

founders of SMACC

http://smacc2010.us

[Nienna]

So what are the details with this? I don't really have the revinue to make up a ton of stuff, but I might be able to get a few things ready. I sew, so leather work, jewelery, knitting...

[Jacques Treatment]

So what are the details with this? I don't really have the revinue to make up a ton of stuff, but I might be able to get a few things ready. I sew, so leather work, jewelery, knitting...

Here's a basic summary: SMACC's exhibition/dealer room is open 11am-7pm on both Saturday and Sunday, July 24th & 25th, 2010. $50 gets you a table to sell the items you create plus THREE memberships--that way, you can keep the table manned and still get a chance to talk with other types of artists about possible collaboration (like doing wardrobe work for one of the attending film studios)--you can also choose to sublet a portion of your table to other creators to help share the cost. There is also a $200 prize for Best Table as chosen by audience ballot.

In order to keep table and general admission costs low, so that people coming to SMACC will have money in their pockets to spend, there is no catering at the event beyond a mid-show coffee-and-soda break for dealers and performers. With so many inexpensive food options available just outside the hotel, I thought this might be the best way to go. Most of the events like this that I've been at charge around $70 per table, for only one membership, and for the extra $20, all you get are a few off-color hot dogs and a helping off a sad-looking veggie tray. I think the math is better this way. :-)

--J,

bringing a sammich

[TheOsakaKoneko]

I think it sounds like great fun and I'm very tempted, but I'm concerned how the crowd turnout will be since it's a new event and costs money to get into..will it be advertised a lot? How do you intend to get people to come?

Also, I've been trying to find a list of summer art fairs in the Detroit area and I haven't been able to find anything...perhaps someone knows someplace I should look? I want to not only make sure this one doesn't conflict with any others that would also result in less crowds, but also plan out other fairs to do this summer as well!

[Jacques Treatment]

I think it sounds like great fun and I'm very tempted, but I'm concerned how the crowd turnout will be since it's a new event and costs money to get into..will it be advertised a lot? How do you intend to get people to come?

Also, I've been trying to find a list of summer art fairs in the Detroit area and I haven't been able to find anything...perhaps someone knows someplace I should look? I want to not only make sure this one doesn't conflict with any others that would also result in less crowds, but also plan out other fairs to do this summer as well!

Well, I'm getting a media sponsorship from Metro Times, including some promotional articles; contacts at the Free Press have offered to help me promote there, and I have other friends involved with some high-traffic blogs throughout the metro-Detroit area and the Detroit Film Office (all this aside from advertising and press releases as the event gets closer). Aside from that, if everybody who buys a table or a performance slot has ten people show up (and they're encouraged to, since everyone who shows up gets a ballot to vote for the Best Performance and Best Table cash prizes), that's 720 people right there. Frankly, I should hope that the 32-hour concert and film festival for only $10 should draw a significant audience, too.

I've done a fair amount of work getting research from HATCH and Artserv to make sure that there's nothing opposite us. We're a week after we were told Ypsilanti's Shadow Art Fair is going to be, and we're out of the line of fire of most other types of conventions I know about. Besides, if you read our contract, you'll see that you have until June to cancel and get your money back.

Anyway, if you want to lower your risk even more, team up with some other interested people you know and split the table cost. That's part of what the three-membeship policy is all about, anyway.

--J,

gettng SMACC'd around.

[TheOsakaKoneko]

Well, I'm getting a media sponsorship from Metro Times, including some promotional articles; contacts at the Free Press have offered to help me promote there, and I have other friends involved with some high-traffic blogs throughout the metro-Detroit area and the Detroit Film Office (all this aside from advertising and press releases as the event gets closer). Aside from that, if everybody who buys a table or a performance slot has ten people show up (and they're encouraged to, since everyone who shows up gets a ballot to vote for the Best Performance and Best Table cash prizes), that's 720 people right there. Frankly, I should hope that the 32-hour concert and film festival for only $10 should draw a significant audience, too.

I've done a fair amount of work getting research from HATCH and Artserv to make sure that there's nothing opposite us. We're a week after we were told Ypsilanti's Shadow Art Fair is going to be, and we're out of the line of fire of most other types of conventions I know about. Besides, if you read our contract, you'll see that you have until June to cancel and get your money back.

Anyway, if you want to lower your risk even more, team up with some other interested people you know and split the table cost. That's part of what the three-membeship policy is all about, anyway.

--J,

gettng SMACC'd around.

I'm not at all concerned about the cost! The $50 is reasonable and well worth it. I'm honestly more concerned for the time it takes! But I think I should do this, it sounds fun.

[Jacques Treatment]

I'm not at all concerned about the cost! The $50 is reasonable and well worth it. I'm honestly more concerned for the time it takes! But I think I should do this, it sounds fun.

I would really appreciate it, too! Another artist and publisher just signed up today, and I'd really love to balance that out with more fashion, woodworking, and other crafts. Props, wardrobe, and jewelry are really underrepresented as yet. This is mainly, I think, because I have a lot of illustrators and publishers as friends.

--J,

motioning for tables

[TheOsakaKoneko]

Hey, any idea how big a space will be for this? I just remembered about it and saw the price went up to 70... T__T ...but as D:K is playing I'm still kinda tempted. But since it's a table instead of a space, I'm not sure how much room there is at each space?

[Jacques Treatment]

Hey, any idea how big a space will be for this? I just remembered about it and saw the price went up to 70... T__T ...but as D:K is playing I'm still kinda tempted. But since it's a table instead of a space, I'm not sure how much room there is at each space?

The tables, according to the hotel, are 2' X 8', as I recall. If you want us to *remove* your table so that you can have clothing racks there, that can be arranged easily enough. We're running out of tables, too (single digits left now!), so it would be a good idea to pick one up soon! Remember, this *does* come with three memberships, so you and another clothier/crafter could go in on this together, if you wanted.

--J,

always open for business

[TheOsakaKoneko]

Thinking about it, but if the space is only 2x8 it's unlikely anyone selling clothing or anything large like that could share...but it's an indoor venue so that makes more sense. Thanks for the info!!

[Jacques Treatment]

Thinking about it, but if the space is only 2x8 it's unlikely anyone selling clothing or anything large like that could share...but it's an indoor venue so that makes more sense. Thanks for the info!!

Note: The *table* is 2' x 8'--remember that with the table gone, the space behind it where a person would *sit* at the table becomes open for use; that would give you at least a 5' x 8' space where you would have clothing racks. I have a feeling that that's what "Ties that Bynde" and Woolly Mammoth Designs are planning on doing. Mind you, they also have different products, as I understand it.

--J,

putting the ORGAN in organization