Maine Food + Wine Ambassadors Wine Flight 5k

MENSK will be at the Maine Food and Wine Ambassadors Wine Flight 5k tomorrow morning between 9 and Noon.

From their Site:

A fun "non-competitive" 5k event that combines the celebration of fitness and health with spectacular shoreline views, good company, and the best food Portland has to offer.

The Wine Flight 5k is a tribute to France's Marathon du Medoc, combining the fun of a 5k run/walk with the joy of food and wine. At each "Aid Station" you can sample delicacies from local Portland purveyors: cheese, olives, fruits, veggies, and chocolates. Upon crossing the finish line, you can eat more and drink too: your award is your entry to a wine-tasting celebration. Indulge - you've earned it.

It's a great way to be active and social. There is no time clock for this event - it's is all about the experience and atmosphere. Walk as easy as you'd like between stations. Make your pit stops longer than your splits. Chat along the way. Meet fellow runners and toast to the good life. The Wine Flight is packed with festive atmosphere.

MENSK sponsors Maine Food and Wine Ambassadors and this event. Hope to see you there.

truckShow: Dressed Up

First Friday Art Truck Show I was Dressed UP! Friday September 4th we had an art truck. We had costumes. Some people put these on and were photographed. This is the proof. Check them out at MENSK's new FLickr Page.

Have the fun till next month!

Pointilli.sm

MENSK is proud to announce our partnership with Pointilli.sm a new marco/ micro community blog from our friend Max Cohen, currently chilling out in Iceland. Max teamed up with MENSK to register with the Country of San Marino to register the uper-cool .sm domain name. In order to accomplish such a feat, you have to be a registered company or organization. Max being neither, did the next best thing, and got MENSK to sponsor his project. That's about as much as our control or involvement extends, the rest is up to Max and his talented group of writers (mostly Mainers) to keep on keepin' on and make their project thrive. We wish them the best of luck.

Pointilli.sm

The Phoenix also Rises

MENSK got a nice spot in this week's edition of The Phoenix

Sometimes the biggest stumbling block for our fantastic ideas is a small, seemingly insignificant hurdle — a missing piece of paperwork, a logistical snafu, one degree of separation too many. These tiny troubles can "crush all the forward momentum you have," says Andrew Lyman, who was recently appointed executive director of MENSK, an art-activity umbrella organization in Portland. "The most important thing that I felt this organization could do . . . was to identify what those stopping points were and to do everything we could to fill those gaps."

read the Article

Thanks Dierdre Fulton

Gallery of Dark Arts Truck Show

08.07.09



See everyone's work, tag your work, and have the fun.

Dark Arts Truck Show

Thanks everyone who participated in the Dark Arts Truck for last night's First Friday. Drawing in the dark is no walk in the park, especially under a one minute time constraint, but our brave and trusting artists produced excitement again and again out of the void. Check back Monday for a gallery of all the pieces.

Until next month!

Eli's Road LES Travels

For those interested, MENSK's founder, Eli Cayer, will be having a personal introspective Art exhibit
the upcoming First Friday August 7th, 2009 5pm-midnite @ the Arm Factory &
Maine Mead Works. Both are located at 200 Anderson ST. in Portland's East
Bay Side.

The show, titled "The Road LES Travels" will be covering the last 20 years
of creation, collaboration, and collection.

This event will be bookended by our own Truck Show.