Paul Szmal: Good morning, it's 7.51, it's FLX Morning, it's almost Friday, and that would be the first Friday of the month, and by complete coincidence, the Geneva BID has a first Friday program. Catherine Price is here. Hello. Good morning, Ted, it's nice to see you this morning.
Catherine Price: So what's new this year is the partnership with the Dove Block Project, so tell us, for people that might not be familiar, a little bit about the Dove Block and how this partnership came together and what it's going to mean. So, you know, the Dove Block, since I took this position as Executive Director, has been amazing partners with us as we have hosted events downtown, and I just love their mission, which is to bring art in a very reachable, attainable way. So this Friday, the art gallery opening is actually Geneva City Schools. Wow. Yeah, right? So you get to go in and you get to see, support your community, and see what the artwork, see the artwork that these kids are doing right now, and then they have a host of programs throughout the year, so that you can go and you can learn to paint, you can learn how to, I'm trying to think of the other one, one of the ones that I've done, ornament decorating at the holidays. They have summer camps for kids, and you know, I think that the arts keep getting pushed to the side in our political climate, and well, actually it's not just this political climate, it's been happening for years, and I just think that what they are doing is amazing, and we're so happy to partner with them so that every first Friday there's going to be a new opening, they'll have wine, and cheese, and live music, and you can see a wonderful exhibit put together by the community, or someone in the community.
Paul Szmal: I'm a bad boy, I still haven't been to the Dove Block. Oh yes. One of these days, very soon I will.
Catherine Price: You need to, and they even have a wonderful movie theater, when we did our film festival, they hosted a whole day of programming for our film festival, small independent short films.
Paul Szmal: So it starts at the Dove Block, and then there's a whole bunch more after that, tell us what's going to be happening tomorrow.
Catherine Price: So the fun thing about it is that the Dove Block is one of our anchor locations, so you know that they will be there with an exhibit opening every Friday, but various locations around town. So this Friday will be a little bit smaller, just because it's spring, we're getting our groove on. So we have live music at the Smith Opera House, of course Rochester Philharmonic is playing, Linden Social has a solo acoustic, there we go, that's the word, with Aaron Lip, Dave Turner will be playing at F2T Kitchen by the lakefront, and yeah, you know, other locations are going to have, Hogwallow has $5 margaritas and $6 appetizers, Total Recall is offering $5 Fridays in the arcade now, Chichinos is giving 20% off during the first Friday hours. There's just a giant list of downtown locations participating, it's all on our website, GenevaDowntown.com, we have let all the local hotels know, I'm talking to you, which is very exciting, and then as we move forward, we'll have sidewalk sales and outside vendors, and it's just going to be a fun time, and Buskers, it's going to be a fun time to be outside on Fridays, first Fridays in Geneva.
Paul Szmal: And something that is happening just for this one is the FLX Home Show, we have a whole segment to preview that tomorrow.
Catherine Price: Correct, at the Rec Center downtown, so you know, you want to learn how to take care of your house, this is the place to go, learn tricks and trades, and yeah, I love those shows because it's always everything all in one place, you know, instead of running around to 11 different places to get information, you walk up and down the floor, you usually wind up with a goodie bag and a yardstick or something, and a couple other little tools and things, and you're all having fun. And the other thing is that the people there are really interested in helping you, so they can teach you how to do things that maybe you wouldn't necessarily learn how to do in one of the big box stores.
Paul Szmal: One of the other fun things about this Friday, so we're having a flower fundraiser this Friday, so for $45, all of our old baskets that used to hang around Geneva that do not have water reservoirs, so I'm letting everyone know you've got to water these a little more often than what we keep downtown, but we planted them the same way we do our hanging baskets downtown, so it'll be an 18-inch hanging basket, metal hanging basket that's reusable every year, planted with pink petunias that are going to just explode the way our downtown petunias do.
Catherine Price: Wow. Yeah. That's fantastic.
Paul Szmal: I'm looking at this, and here's another place I need to go that I haven't been to, and that's the, now I just lost it on the page, rooted by Amberg, because I just saw a thing yesterday, Barbra Streisand is coming out with a brand-new album, so they're doing a whole Barbra Streisand thing.
Catherine Price: That's good timing. Yes, and it's amazing. The fun events that they do sell out all the time, so you have to jump on those activities quickly if you'd like to participate. So how is that? I've been by that space a couple of times, so I have another place I haven't been in. I am supposed to be retired, but still, it doesn't mean I can't come to Geneva and enjoy the great stuff.
Paul Szmal: It's so nice to see you this morning.
Catherine Price: So rooted by Amberg, BW Keys, and their little space to the side where they're doing some retail and specialty classes, I love it, because when you go in, you get a choice of different wines. Everything is Finger Lakes, and you can sit on a couch and sample the different wines and have a snack to eat, and they're friendly and warm and welcoming. They are in the location that their original family members, way back when, it was the BW Keys Carriage Company. So back in the turn of the century, the same family was in that location. So you should go in there and ask them about it. It's really an interesting story.
Paul Szmal: All right. Plenty more. DowntownGeneva.com, right?
Catherine Price: GenevaDowntown.com.
Paul Szmal: GenevaDowntown.com. Yeah, it's backwards. I know. I inherited that, so sorry.
Catherine Price: No, that's all right. It's just my retired brain. I'm not back into my full radio brain yet.
Paul Szmal: Kathryn, thanks. I got to run, because we're almost up to break time, but have a great first Friday and lots more this summer.
Catherine Price: Absolutely. Thank you, Ted. All right. Love the visit.
