Expressions in Chalk 2011 is the street painting festival of London, Ontario, Canada. Participation will involve creating works of art in chalk pastels on asphalt. The artwork is to be started on Saturday, July 30th and completed by Sunday night. Monday, August 1st will be a day of viewing and awards. Cash prizes will be awarded in several categories which include (but are not limited to) :

Best In Show in Adult
Best In Show in Student and Youth
People’s Choice
Artist’s Choice
Best Use of Medium
Best Animation/Anime

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How to submit you application?
Andrew Gillet Studio, 2nd floor of the Covent Garden Market.
Bijan’s Art Studio, 673 Richmond St at Mill St.
Curiosites Gift Shop, 174 1/2 Wortley Road.

This years location is: St. James Westminster Anglican Church (parking lot), that's on 120 Bruce St. The street painting festival runs from July 30th to August 1st, 2011.View Larger Map

London Free Press: August 3, 2010
It looks like the Imadon Expressions in Chalk Festival settled in nicely to its new home in Wortley Village. A steady flow of visitors made their way on the weekend to the fifth annual street-painting festival — steady enough that festival co-founder Cheryl Smelser said the event will be back in the village next year.

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London Free Press: July 30, 2010
Chalk one up for Wortley Village in London’s festival turf war. The lively neighbourhood, just southwest of London’s core, will bring dozens of artists to their knees — and hands — this weekend for the city’s fifth annual street painting festival.

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London Free Press Video: July 29, 2009
Artists prepare a recreation of Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel in preparation for the annual chalk festival in London.

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London Free Press: August 5, 2007
London artist Andrew Gillet works on a chald drawing he calls A Cougar Sighting at the second annual Expressions in Chalk presented by the Imadon Street Painting Group in the parking lot of St. Peter's Basilica on Clarence Street yesterday.

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