Getting Up in NYC - Live Paint and Block Party

Posted on August 10, 2005
Filed Under Art Show, News, U.S, East Coast |

With corporate ties, but it seems like it’ll be a great event – from Ecko.com website:

On August 24, 2005, *ecko unltd. will lock down 22nd St. between 10th & 11th ave. in New York City for the first Getting Up Block Party. The event will feature 20 legendary graffiti artists painting sides of NYC subway cars – LIVE! Featured artists include DASH, WEST, KET, COPE2, TKID, CES, SONIC, IZ THE WIZ, MIN, DURO, TATS CRU, WANE, WEN, DERO, CYCLE, SMITH, PINK, DOC, KEL1ST, MARE139, CRASH, DAZE, and GHOST.

Music will be provided by DJ Kool Herc, Prince Paul, DJ Spinbad, and more.

The event takes place on W 22nd Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues.

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4 Responses to “Getting Up in NYC - Live Paint and Block Party”

  1. Tease on August 11th, 2005 8:07 am

    woh that’s a line-up! guest appearance by Trane? :grin:

  2. StreetRes » Blog Archive » Get Up Event Cancelled on August 20th, 2005 9:21 am

    [...] Contest Get Up Event Cancelled Looks like the Marc Ecko sponsored Get Up event might not be going down – NYC officials have revoked the permit for the event, sayi [...]

  3. anon. on August 20th, 2005 10:43 am

    what time does this start?

  4. Rich Newman on August 25th, 2005 9:05 pm

    Hey the event did happen and I made a qt slide show Direct download with
    http://www.tagyerit.com/media/subwayblockparty.mov

    it’s 10.7MB big

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