Downtown Burbank Newsletter

DOWNTOWN BURBANK NEWSLETTER - JUNE 2006

The Downtown Burbank Fine Arts and Chalk Festival returns for an engagement Saturday and Sunday, June 10 and 11, 10:00 A.M. to dusk. The event, which has expanded to include live music, pottery wheel demonstrations and chalk artists, has built a large following in the past two years. The festival has grown to 80 artists, with canopies and booths lined along San Fernando Boulevard between Magnolia and Orange Grove and on the AMC Walkway. The Downtown Burbank Fine Arts and Chalk Festival is free and open to the public.

The two-day outdoor exhibition is a juried collection of fine artists produced in partnership with West Coast Artists. All work is original, one-of-kind and executed by the artists themselves, with nothing manufactured, imported or purchased for resale.

All of the artists are scheduled to attend in person with a number of them executing works on-site. The public will have the opportunity to share in the artistic process and to watch skilled artisans work in a variety of media: oils and watercolor, photography, sculpture in wood, stone, metal, clay, iron and glass, fiber art, precious stones, jewelry, pottery and stained glass.

For further information or to find out how to participate in the show, please contact Ronda Mills at 818.709.2907 or apply via the internet at www.westcoastartists.com

TECHNICOLOR'S INTERACTIVE SERVICES AND INTERNATIONAL VERSIONING SERVICES RELOCATE TO DOWNTOWN BURBANK

Technicolor Interactive Services and Technicolor International Versioning Services, divisions of Technicolor and part of the Services division of Thomson, SA, recently announced the relocation of operations from their current headquarters at 1117 Isabel Street in Burbank, to a brand new, state-of the-art design and production studio in the Cusumano Civic Plaza building at 250 East Olive Avenue in Downtown Burbank.

Technicolor Interactive Services offers comprehensive design and production resources to video game developers and publishers, while Technicolor International Versioning Services creates localized versions of major motion picture releases in a wide variety of foreign languages for Hollywood film studio clients.

The new facility, which consists of 40,000 square feet of office space, production suites, editing bays, and sound mixing studios, is scheduled to open in late June. The debut of the innovative location will coincide with an official grand opening event to be attended by Technicolor executives, Los Angeles-area media, city and county government officials, area business owners, and community leaders and dignitaries.

"The new facility provides both business units with the necessary space, design resources, and production capabilities required to effectively meet the needs of its growing client base, including the many film studios and media-related companies in the vicinity," said Ron Horwitz, executive vice president of new media and international versioning services. "We are looking forward to being part of the burgeoning Downtown Burbank business landscape."

Headquartered in Camarillo, California, Technicolor is the world's leading provider of services to the media and entertainment industries. For more information: www.technicolor.com .

DO YOU WI-FI?
Surfing the web in Downtown Burbank is as easy as 1-2-3. And best of all, it is free. All a customer needs is a laptop with a wireless card (most models built after 2002 have them already installed. Even without a built-in receiver, it is easy to buy and install a "wireless card" from any major computer store.) Downtown's Wi-Fi coverage area extends from the Holiday Inn to Burbank Boulevard, and from the Metrolink Station to Glenoaks. The hotspot offers many opportunities for users to access the Internet on laptops, notebooks, smart phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) or hand-held game devices.

If you haven't tried using this latest step in computer technology, please check out the complete "how-to" on the Downtown Burbank website, www.downtown-burbank.org.

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