Cricket Press will be attending the Flatstock Poster Convention in Austin, Texas during the SXSW Festival. This is the 29th Flatstock to date, and the Austin Flatstock is always FREE  to attend & definitely open to the public. We are in a new room this year, so check below for a convenient map to help you find over 75 poster artists from around the world displaying & selling their rock posters. Hope to see you there!

Dates:

• Wednesday March 16th – Saturday March 19, 2011

Hours:

• Wednesday 3/16 – 2pm – 6pm  (note this is the ONLY half day)
• Thursday 3/17 – 11am – 6pm
• Friday 3/18 – 11am – 6pm
• Saturday 3/19 – 11am – 6pm

Location:

• Austin Convention Center – Level 1, Ballrooms A, B, C at 500 E. Cesar Chavez St., Austin, TX 78701 (see map below)

The FLATSTOCK poster show is presented by the American Poster Institute (API). It is an ongoing series of exhibitions featuring the work of many of the most popular concert poster artists working today.

The API is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to serving poster artists and promoting the art form. Both the API and its FLATSTOCK series were organized in 2002 as a result of conversations between interested artists and supporters frequenting the popular website GigPosters.com. The best concert posters have always captured both the essence of the music they promoted and the spirit of the time in which they were produced. This is as true today as it was in San Francisco during the Sixties.

The FLATSTOCK shows provide the general public with an ongoing series of opportunities to see fine poster art in person and to meet the artists who’ve created it — they provide the API with a way to present the poster artists collectively while showcasing the breadth of individual styles they represent.

**Cricket Press Shipping Schedule:**
To ensure that your items arrive for Christmas please place orders by these dates:
International Orders……December 9th
Domestic Orders………..December 17th
We cannot guarantee any shipment, placed after these dates, to arrive by Christmas.We will continue to accept orders through the season, but anything ordered after December 23rd will not be mailed until after New Years Day.

Thank you! And Happy Holidays!!!

We’ve been fielding a lot of requests the past few days about the My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves poster.

We’ve put the word out with their management to see who or where we can direct people to in case there are any more of these available, and am still waiting on a response. We’ll put the word out on our website, our blog, and on Twitter if anything changes or of they release any remaining posters.

Thanks again for all the interest!

It’s called Up! Fair and it’s a free, all-day event celebrating the independent creator with hands-on workshops (make your own mini comic, learn how to screen-print) , panel discussions (the hows of independent publishing, using today’s media for marketing, how to be a dynamic storyteller), and professional development courses (adobe programs, digital coloring). The event is to encourage and educate today’s authors on their medium, art, and options. The first floor will be full of tabling authors & comic artists selling their books and talking with the public. A reception is scheduled during the 19th Gallery Hop where an exhibit of participating artist’s work will be displayed and the organizers will offer a panel discussion on the upcoming event. We keep using the word celebration…because fundamentally that is the feel behind what we’ve organized.

Sara is one of the organizers of the event and will be offering a DIY Screenprinting workshop on Sat. Nov. 20th. More details to come!

For more info please visit www.upfair.org