Elastic Park is in the running for a $50,000 grant that would enable us to get this traveling exhibit featuring giant balloon dinosaurs started. Please vote for us daily during the month of March so we can get this show on the road!
Elastic Park is an exhibition of epic proportions in both scale and significance, featuring a unique blend of art, pre-history and community building. The multi-thousand-square-foot, interactive exhibit (scalable to fit available space) was inspired by Michael Crichton’s popular literary creation, Jurassic Park.
The highly-unusual medium used to create this exhibit? Balloons! Tens of thousands of them, which tend to draw a very diverse crowd both for the construction and display phases. This is key, since all large scale Airigami creations are community-based art projects. Community members are invited to participate in the up-to-100,000-balloon installation, working alongside an international crew of skilled artists led by internationally-renowned “airigamist,” Larry Moss.
Once completed, visitors to Elastic Park will walk among the creatures of the Triassic through Cretaceous periods, as described in Crichton’s work, with input from pre-history experts. An audio tour with original music and actors’ voices will guide everyone through, describing the creatures, the art, and telling the story.
This project is ready to launch, the exhibit is designed, the artists are ready — even a few key venues are in place. All that’s missing is the funding to get the tour started!
That’s where you come in. We have been chosen (YAY!) as one of 729 projects competing for grant money from the Pepsi Refresh Project, and now we need your vote! Please visit www.refresheverything.com/ElasticPark and let’s get this show on the road! THANK YOU!
How to vote: Go to the voting page. Click on the button that says “Vote for this idea”. It’s a big white button that you can’t miss toward the top of the page. If you don’t actually see a message saying that your vote has been counted, please click the button again. If your vote has been accepted, it will let you know. And please vote every day this month. You are allowed to vote for 10 projects every day.
Get a daily reminder: A number of people have asked to get daily reminders. We’ll send out a once a day reminder to vote and we’ll try to include other fun things like dinosaur pics and jokes with each reminder notice. Sign up now.
