St. Petersburg's EDGE District to vibrate with art this weekend

Booker Creek Arts Festival committee members, from left: Alli Arnold, Debbie Reeser, Jenee Priebe, David Grant, Leslie Curran, Chad Mize, Sean Mulligan, Richard Seidel and Nicole Waters. nbsp;( Provided to St. Pete Catalyst )A thousand ideas coalesced into Leslie Curran’s concept for St. Petersburg’s inaugural Booker Creek Arts Festival, which takes place this week (Nov. 12-15) in the EDGE District.In the end, it came down to this: “The City wants to keep saying we’re a City of the Arts,” Curran explains. “And I think we’re on the cusp of something really good. But it doesn’t always have to be the same, if it can just be shown that art is everywhere.”Named for the ever-resilient natural trickle that flows through the area, the Booker Creek Arts Festival delivers a professional, juried art show directly into EDGE businesses, nearly 40 of them including hotels, boutiques, breweries, salons and restaurants large and small. Even the St. Petersburg Police Department.The festival team has in