First Friday Art Walk Oceanside will be returning to its classic multi-venue downtown Oceanside format on Friday, April 6th from 5:00pm – 9:00pm. “We continue to add new venues and artists to our monthly Art Walk events as we enter our second year under new management by the Oceanside Friends of the Arts. Masters Kitchen and Cocktail will showcase Art Walk Artists in its new gallery space adjacent to the restaurant, and new venues debuting will include Sunshine Brooks Theatre and School of Hard Locks in Artist Alley,” says Susan Brown, president of the Oceanside Friends of the Arts. The Main Street Oceanside venue located on Mission Ave. will also be showcasing a “Youth Gallery” with a participative project for youth attending the Art Walk and the Breakfast Club will be serving some of their food specialties in the Pavilion at Artist Alley. Note cards featuring collaborative paintings from previous Art Walks will be available on sale for $2.95 each or 10 for $20.00 at various locations within the Art Walk. Art Walk will also be featuring a new and different entertainment option at the April Art Walk with Mathew Singer who will perform his NEURO-MAGIC talents. Mathew Singer is a professional, world class Magic Castle Trained Magician, but is also a UCLA neuroscientist. His “Mind Bending Miracles” combine exceptional magic, mentalism and brain science. In conjunction with Art Walk, the Oceanside Museum of Art(OMA) will be featuring its Post Apocalypse Shoe Fetish project as part of the Big Read partnership with the Oceanside Public Library. The Big Read was inspired by the 2014 National Book Award Finalist and New York Times Bestseller Station Eleven, an audacious, darkly glittering story of a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of civilization, risking everything for art and humanity in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse. To commemorate this, Art Walk visitors can bring their own shoes and used beads, baubles, bows and a bit of the unexpected to transform their footwear into museum artifacts. Media Contact: Susan Brown, Email – [email protected], Phone – 760-831-6387, www.oceansideartwalk.org