{"id":4686,"date":"2013-01-12T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T15:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2013-01-12T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T16:01:22","slug":"tickets-now-on-sale-for-5th-annual-junk-2-funk-fashion-show-at-savannah-arts-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/01\/12\/tickets-now-on-sale-for-5th-annual-junk-2-funk-fashion-show-at-savannah-arts-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tickets now on sale for 5th annual Junk 2 Funk Fashion Show at Savannah Arts Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"10\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:600px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8268618372\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\nRegrettably, I missed the Junk 2 Funk Fashion show in 2012 at the Savannah Arts Academy, but I&#8217;m planning to go to this year&#8217;s event, which is scheduled for three performances on Feb. 1 and 2. <\/p>\n<p>Tickets are now on sale online at <a href=\"https:\/\/tix7.seatyourself.biz\/webstore\/webstore.html?domain=saa&#038;event=.\" target=\"_blank\">Seat Yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last May, the Savannah Arts Academy &#8212; a magnet school that&#8217;s part of the local public system &#8212; was named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/05\/09\/savannah-arts-academy-named-top-high-school-in-georgia\/\" target=\"_blank\">the top public high school in the state by U.S. News and World Report<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty remarkable on many levels. It&#8217;s especially interesting given the fact that, even being here in the sports-crazed South, SAA has neither basketball nor football teams.<\/p>\n<p>The Junk 2 Funk Fashion Show is pretty much what it sounds like. Student designers take reclaimed and recycled materials &#8212; junk &#8212; and turn them into fashion.<\/p>\n<p>I had just been running this blog for a few weeks when I posted about the 2011 show. The response to that post was one of the first clear indications that there was a demand for what I hoped to do with this site. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/01\/31\/a-recap-of-the-3rd-annual-junk-2-funk-fashion-show-at-savannah-arts-academy\/\" target=\"_blank\">That original post<\/a> has gotten almost 900 page views and continues to get periodic hits, probably because photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryanstovall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Stovall<\/a> graciously allowed me to use some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/01\/31\/a-recap-of-the-3rd-annual-junk-2-funk-fashion-show-at-savannah-arts-academy\/\" target=\"_blank\">his photos<\/a> from that show.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_148\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Snapshot-2011-01-31-20-47-45.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148\" data-attachment-id=\"148\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/01\/31\/a-recap-of-the-3rd-annual-junk-2-funk-fashion-show-at-savannah-arts-academy\/snapshot-2011-01-31-20-47-45\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Snapshot-2011-01-31-20-47-45.jpg?fit=1158%2C866\" data-orig-size=\"1158,866\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Snapshot 2011-01-31 20-47-45\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Snapshot-2011-01-31-20-47-45.jpg?fit=300%2C224\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Snapshot-2011-01-31-20-47-45.jpg?fit=594%2C444\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148\" title=\"Snapshot 2011-01-31 20-47-45\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Snapshot-2011-01-31-20-47-45.jpg?resize=300%2C224\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Snapshot-2011-01-31-20-47-45.jpg?resize=300%2C224 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Snapshot-2011-01-31-20-47-45.jpg?resize=1024%2C765 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Snapshot-2011-01-31-20-47-45.jpg?w=1158 1158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student designer takes a bow with his models at the 2011 Junk 2 Funk - Photo by Bryan Stovall<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThis time around, I&#8217;ll probably try to shoot some of my own.<\/p>\n<p>A highly recommended community event, but I suggest buying tickets right away. The two evening performances are virtually certain to sell out and the Saturday matinee just might do so too. <\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4374909701\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regrettably, I missed the Junk 2 Funk Fashion show in 2012 at the Savannah Arts Academy, but I&#8217;m planning to go to this year&#8217;s event, which is scheduled for three performances on Feb. 1 and 2. <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/01\/12\/tickets-now-on-sale-for-5th-annual-junk-2-funk-fashion-show-at-savannah-arts-academy\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[89,976,315],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artsculture","category-livingsavannah","tag-fashion","tag-junk-2-funk","tag-savannah-arts-academy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Screen-shot-2013-01-12-at-10.56.52-AM.png?fit=294%2C219","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-1dA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}