Post #217643 by Lake Surfer on Mon, Feb 27, 2006 10:05 AM

On 2006-02-26 23:57, caerthe wrote:
Another question to consider.

What's one thing that would get you to attend a Tiki Event held in a fairly non-tiki city inland? Say MidWest.

The Midwest is not non-tiki.

Chicago currently has the most tiki in the Midwest. It is the center point of tiki in the Midwest and there is plenty of tiki scattered around the neighboring states and cities.

As for an event, Chicago has hosted plenty of tiki events both large and small from Tabu Tiki Nights at Trader Vics to the blowout that was Exotica last year.

Tiki lives on through the artists in the Midwest, from commercial carvers to carvers that do work for their own paradises, from tiki painters to mixed media artists. Last year DVA Gallery in Chicago featured more Midwestern tiki artists than artists from the other parts of the country.

It gets old hearing people bag on the Midwest, hell, I don't like it all the time either but it's where I live and make the best of it.

Tiki doesn't only exist in California and Florida, it's everywhere you want it to be, the main reason for the Polypop Movement.

[ Edited by: Lake Surfer 2006-02-27 10:08 ]