Have you gotten your tickets to this year's VIP Experience yet!? We've got 3 days of all-inclusive culinary events overlooking the CocaCola Main Stage!

🐟Friday's VIP Experience is Baja Fish Tacos & Argentine BBQ! This is also the best place to watch @AtlantaSchoolofBurlesque's Midtown Cabaret.

💥Saturday's VIP Experience is Beauty & the Beasts--filled with locally raised beef and heritage pork alongside sustainable seafood dishes like ceviche and poke. Don’t miss a chance to vote on Buffalo Trace’s “Best of the Batched” bartender competition. Guests will enjoy craft beers and wine pairings from two of Spain’s most prestigious wine regions, Ribera del Duero and Rueda.

🍑 The weekend wraps up with Taste Network A Experiential Agency's signature event, Peachfest! This is an epic peach event for foodies appreciating local farmers and chefs who support community-based agriculture. Tickets include a menu of local plants and proteins paired with the state’s signature fruit: the Georgia peach.

🍽 Local participating chefs include: Brady Lowe (Pantry & Provisions Ltd), Casey Burch (@TheBurch), Hector Santiago (El Super Pan Latino Sandwiches & Bar), Andre Gomez (Porch Light Latin Kitchen), Drew Van Leuven (Ecco Midtown), Robert Butts (@TwistedSoulsCookhouse), Michael Staniewicz (Wrecking Bar Brewpub) and Chef Ophus (Ebi Chop Bar).

🥃The weekend’s featured Barkeeps include Scott Mayer (Blended Family Spirits), Hailee Edmonds (JBA, Macon), Chris Schotick (HI-LO, Athens), Natasha Samone (Juniper Café), Ryan Smith (Lazy Susan Tapas) and Jason Waters (Georgia Routes).

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#artistspotlight Edwin C Lester was born in Philadelphia, PA. He is a self-taught artist who brings a very sophisticated and technically advanced style of realism to his figurative and atmospheric paintings. His work centers on themes that are important and personal to him. The narrative approach allows the artist to convey an emotion, a moment in time as if reading without the turning of pages. For the artist, art and life are one, and life and his belief in the teachings of the Bible should leave no canvas unpainted, for the stories are many.

Edwin Lester is an award-winning artist at major art events, fairs, and shows. His work is currently collected and sought after worldwide.

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#artistspotlight Some artists like to focus on mastering a particular technique or being able to paint like the masters, and although he finds that impressive, Leif Erik Johansen has always taken the approach of focusing his energy on developing his own style, which leans towards more illustrative styles, surrealism, pop surrealism, lowbrow, and new contemporary art, which he discovered after picking up a copy of Juxtapoz and eventually, Hi-Fructose magazine.

Be sure to stop by booth #158 to check out his work.
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