Save the Date! Neighborhood Nights and Queen Anne Art Walk To Begin In June!

The Upper Queen Anne Merchants Association begins hosting Neighborhood Nights this month; every Thursday businesses will be open late until 8:00pm, with a new Queen Anne Art Walk the third Thursday of every month starting June 21^st.

“My hope for Neighborhood Nights is to offer busy people a way to make it easy to shop and dine in their neighborhood. Our great local restaurants, cafes and other businesses are already open late. By having Neighborhood Nights the same night as the new Queen Anne Farmer’s Market, we hope to offer several reasons to enjoy shopping and dining in Queen Anne during the warmer weather,” says Joan Webster of Queen Anne Frame who is also the current president of the Upper Queen Anne Merchants Association.

In addition, Webster says businesses would benefit by pooling our resources to create increased foot traffic and exposure to new customers, brought to Queen Anne Avenue by all of our restaurants, unique shops and the new Queen Anne Art Walk. Thereby strengthening the business community and the identity of the business district.

The Queen Anne Art Walk will be on the third Thursday of every month to coincide with Neighborhood Nights and the Farmer’s Market. Kim Flanery-Rye of Bouncing Wall has been heading up this project.

Flanery-Rye, whose passion and background is in art, says that when she first moved into Queen Anne with her business, she thought it was interesting that a well-established neighborhood like Queen Anne would not have an art walk.

Her hope for the art walk is to create an environment of art appreciation, “For the neighborhood attendees, I hope it will give them an opportunity to meet many of the artists and be exposed to additional art they would not be exposed to otherwise. For the artists, I hope it will give them another venue to showcase their work. For the local businesses and participating merchants, I hope it will provide further exposure of their businesses.”

Jaime Bagnariol