The Photo booth photos are here!

Thanks to Steve Walter and Cameron Hoefflinger the photo booth pics are finally edited from the FTS Gallery 1 year anniversary art show.  FTS holds no legal responsibility over any actions that may ensue after viewing said photographs.  All pics were snapped with the best intentions, some came out stellar- some creepy- some downright incriminating.  Take a look for yourself by clicking on the link below.

Epic Photo Booth Pics!

Poet Buddy Wakefield to perform @ FTS Gallery

Sunday February 26th @ 6pm-- a special FTS Gallery matinee featuring the prose of Buddy Wakefield.  Admission will be $10 at the door.  Free refreshments!  Please arrive early in order to insure your seat for the show.  Reservations may be made ahead of time by coming to the gallery and purchasing your ticket ahead of time.  If you have any questions please call 203-908-3555 or email ftsgallery@gmail.com.

BUDDY WAKEFIELD is the two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion featured on NPR, the BBC, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and most recently signed to Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records. In 2004 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Finals thanks to the support of anthropologist and producer Norman Lear then successfully defended that title at the International Poetry Festival in Rotterdam, against the national champions of seven European countries with works translated into Dutch.

In 2005 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship again and has gone on to share the stage with nearly every notable performance poet in the world in hundreds of venues internationally from The Great Lawn in Central Park and Scotland’s Oran Mor to San Quentin State Penitentiary, House of Blues New Orleans and First Avenue.

In the spring of 2001 Buddy left his position as the executive assistant at a biomedical firm in Gig Harbor, WA, sold or gave away everything he owned, moved to the small town of Honda Civic and set out to live for a living, touring North American poetry venues through 2003. He still tours full time and considers annual Revival tours with Derrick Brown and Anis Mojgani, as well as separate tours with Ani DiFranco, to be the highlight of his career thus far.

Born in Shreveport, LA, mostly raised in Baytown, TX, now claiming Seattle, WA as home, Buddy has been a busker in Amsterdam, a lumberjack in Norway, a street vendor in Spain, a team leader in Singapore, a re-delivery boy, a candy maker, a street sweeper, a bartender, a maid, a construction worker, a bull rider, a triathlete and a sucker for anything unfolding. And for peanut butter. And hygiene. Wakefield is a writer, the elated son of a guitar repair woman, wingman of Giant Saint Everything, and remembers Kirkwood, NY. Sanborn too.

Buddy, a Board of Directors member with Youth Speaks Seattle, is honored to be published internationally in dozens of books with work used to win multiple national collegiate debate and forensics competitions. An author of Write Bloody Publishing, Wakefield is known for delivering raw, rounded, high vibration performances of humor and heart.

(bio taken from buddywakefield.com)

Give the gift of FTS

Can't figure out what to get the kiddies this year?  Don't spoil them with another mind numbing video game. Give the gift they really want: an FTS GIFT CERTIFICATE!!!  Just think how super stoked the little cherubs will be as they tumble down the steps to find this gorgeous, many of a kind, one size fits all, no assembly required, Forest To Shore paper currency!  We assure you they will shit their pants.  

In order to obtain gift certificates please stop by the gallery during normal business hours which are noon-8pm Mon-Sat