The Coconut Grove Peacock Tour is coming
The Coconut Grove Peacock Tour is coming this spring.25 or more fiberglass painted peacocks will be on display throughout the Grove at various businesses who will arrange to "adopt" them with a favorite charity of theirs as a partner.
There will be a parade and map of the locations which will promote the peacocks for a minimum of six months including on NBC6 tv and website. NBC6 is one of the sponsors.
There are two styles of peacocks, one will have the tail feathers down and the other will have them up and displayed. The cost for each peacock is $3700 for the down tail style and $4400 for the other style.
Chicago and New York did this with cows, Cincinnati did it with pigs (the Big Pig Gig). The Catskills did it with cats and it's brought in lots of tourists and money. The residual effects of the Chicago cows is more then $100 million. This has been spent by tourists coming to the city and spending money on everything from hotels to cow-related souvenirs.
Tied in with the peacocks could be t-shirts, jewelry, books, feathers, and more. All for sale at local establishments.
Neo Pop Artist Ed King is on board. He feels that art inspires people, and that public art shows that a city or town is invested. He said that art is a universal point of connectivity and it engages people. Art improves quality of life in a community. Local artist Eileen Seitz is also endorsing the project. Both she and Ed attended last weekend's press conference. Shown here is Ron Magill from Miami Metrozoo, who also was at the press conference, with an actual peacock.
For more info on the project please contact Heather Bettner at 305-775-0113 or heather@princemediadevelopment.com . Heather can explain it in more detail, she'll explain how you can sponsor a peacock and get together with an artist of your choice and a charity of your choice.
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posted by Tom Falco at 12:01 PM
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10 Comments:
This will be wonderful for the Grove, but I'd rather have the real birds back...
$3700- $4400 is a lot of money for merchants who are struggling to stay open, to go spend on fake peacocks to "attract tourists." Just exactly how much of this money would end up going to the charity, anyway? Things like this usually tend to benefit the organizers. Merchants would be better off to just keep their charity donations private and pool that money for some decent ads-- since we can't seem to get any from the BID.
The cost of the sponsorship goes to cover the cost of producing the large fiberglass peacocks, the transportation, storage, moving, advertising and marketing, permits, map of where the peacocks are placed, the website production and fees paid to the artists to paint the birds and administration. The charity benefits from the auction of the peacock which could fetch anywhere from $10,000 to sometimes $50 - $60,000. So your comment to pool the monies would only provide a drop in the bucket to what the auction would bring. In some Cities auctions have reaped $800,000.00 to over a million dollars to benefit the charities.
So for the sponsorship fee our struggeling merchants receive a great 6 month marketing campaign and our local artist get local and national publicity and our charities that have been going through hard times receive a great benefit!!
I suggest Anonymous (if the are a merchant)call me at 305-775-0113. I have charities interested in partnering with merchants.
By the way I thought we were not allowed to sign Anonymous anymore:)
Hey, I think Magill's got one of those bird-napped Micanopy peacocks!
How Ironic! First we kill off the Tequesta Indians and then we honor them with a statue on the Miami River Bridge next to the ancient and archeologically significant Miami Circle. Recently residence in North Grove hired trappers from the Redlands to capture and cart off those 40 or so Peacocks that have been graciously strolling our community for many years. And now we are going to have an art installation of 25 or more colorfully painted fiberglass birds. I think we all would have been better off respecting and preserving the originals.
New Hampshire (Live Free or Die state) has the friendly Moose for sale.
Great joy! I saw 4 peacocks yesterday in the Grove - not gonna mention exactly where :)
Maggie J
Odd to not see this mentioned in the original blog post or comments:
- Coral Gables did this with Flamingos.
- Little Havana did this with Roosters.
Cows, pigs, flamingos, roosters, snakes, butterflies----just about all animans, represent something positive. But, since the good Grove folks allowed the real live ones to be plucked right under our noses, seems slightly hypocritical. Bad idea. BUT, really, think about it. Biscayne Bay. First, it's coming back. I'm catching grouper, snapper and lobster where 5 years ago, nothing at all, and the water was bad. All of those sailboats, just beautiful. The sun comes up over it every morning. You can see the bottom; the fan corals, the sea horses, the ledges, the grass and there's a small shrimp industry. Mangroves all around. Sun sets in the West. Clean energy from a power plant. Peacocks, No. Biscayne Bay, Yes. The peacocks were beautiful, but Biscayne Bay can be our gem. Shake a leg.
I think it is a beautiful idea, and an honorable memorial to the loss of our beautiful birds (who if I know anything about nature, I am sure will make a comeback!)
Atena :)
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