yeah that's me can't you tell
just wearing my hat and sunglasses you
okay oh oh here I am yeah I'm right here
we are out on the plaza with some very
very impressive pyrotechnics and we have
Alexa ray here good morning good morning
hi thank you for having us
Chadwicks harris yep that's me alright
what are we looking at over here a
couple of our people over here so we've
got AJ in the corner he is our head of
art and vending coordinator I'll bring
over here I've got J rows which is our
other safety and he's our music and
stage coordinator right over here I've
got Zeke spinning snakes he's one of our
glyph representatives and over there
we've got Robert who's gonna be one of
our instructors for a Great Lakes low
festival Great Lakes what Great Lakes
low Festival Chad where you tell us a
little bit about it
Great Lakes flow festival is going to be
a four-day flow arts retreat in Lake
Orion Michigan about 45 minutes north of
here it's focused on learning teaching
and practicing floors
what flow excite its flow art flow arts
so Florence is an exclusive term used to
represent a form of self-expression that
integrates technical skill and movement
with or without a prop so our team is
actually spinning some of them right now
so if you look over here at Zeke Chad's
gonna go join them but if you look at
Zeke he's got snakes which is the
variation of POI over here we've got
Robert he's been in contact staff so as
you can see he's got the two wicks on
each end so it's contacts you roll it
over your body and then shad who just
joined them has a dragon staff which
once again is another stick but it's got
several spokes on at the end so yeah
that's a little bit about us a little
bit about the floor it's you can do hula
hoops poi any of that kind of stuff well
I see you got two guys standing by with
wet towels in case something goes awry
what imagine practice makes perfect but
sometimes practice doesn't always go
perfectly absolutely and safety is one
of our major major concerns in fact it's
one of our values we have seven values
so we have safe expression supportive
community growth passion and fun and
notice safety came first because
without safety we can't do any of the
other things that we love so much so
we've got a J and J Rose here with the
towels making sure we keep them safe
he's got a do Bateen we've got fire
extinguishers all the things to keep us
safe so um but yeah so alright well
thank you thank you for joining us this
morning Alexa Chad why because well I
just want to introduce my own personal
protection squad in case something went
awry it's hot out here so careful always
on a job always on the job alright let's
go inside Totti what do you know Jason I
have artist Debbie Demi Anna vich and
Shelley Kemp executive director of the
Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce lady thank
you so much for being here thank you for
having okay and I'm glad we're in here
and he's out there does about the art of
fire and what it's all about it is this
weekend it's Saturday and Sunday it's in
downtown real oak on Washington Avenue
and it Saturday it is 10:00 to 10:00 to
7:00 and Sunday it's 11:00 to 5:00 and
it is we have over 100 artists that are
clay artists metal artists and glass
artists which is what we do here and
it's we have lots of demos there's live
music lots of obviously places to go in
downtown real oak to eat and shop so of
course I'm speaking Debbie tell us about
your work my work is made entirely of
glass there's no paint whatsoever and
I'm gonna show you a little bit about
how I apply it I start with a sketch
then I move into outline with glass frit
then we're gonna have to hold it up for
one more second okay I can see it now
okay question these are the colors that
we see in here you guys are glass
particles yes these are the glass
particles these are young and heavy my
favorite tools plastic spoon I love it
and I used this to sprinkle it on into
the design that I've drawn for me and
then fire it to one thousand four
hundred and sixty-five degrees and
that's how you have to fire every layer
really a different color right so is
this some of your work over here this is
my work the far end is a rainbow trout
and that is representative of our
incredible waterways in Michigan I'm
very fond of Michigan the leopard is
from the zoo if you're wondering how
that became Michigan but he represents
the endangered species that I'm so very
fond of and promote those bluebirds
these are my bluebirds of happiness stop
me in my track I just love that in the
morning I look at them and they just
make me smile so that's what they're all
about all you heard is the Sleeping Bear
sand dunes and again this is my love of
nature and remembrance of all our times
in in sleeping bears and usually we're
gonna go back to really country where
can people get more information you can
go to art of fire ro and you can also go
we have Facebook pages and also you can
go to the Chamber of Commerce website
and there is we have a listing of all
the artists all the schedule of when the
demos are happening just about
everything everything you know so no all
right ladies thank you so much and we
want to give a special good morning and
shout out to Bob Oh was your husband we
just wanted to say a quick hello hey Bob
have a great day