TELEGRAPH STREET Holiday Street Fair 2009

Introducing.......

the newest member to our FreeBerkeley line of apparel.... "Streets: Berkeley Ed."
White ink on an Olive American Apparel tee..... only $20 
You can pick yours up at Fantasy T-Shirts... keep posted on the next Streets tee.... who knows...might even be your citaaaay!

More from the fair.....

 getting busy at the fair

 plenty of locals showcasing their musical talents......

money in the biz-ank

The results are in...

The streets were packed as people from all over the US came to enjoy some rather outgoing vendors selling anything from tie-dyed clothing, pottery and unique handcrafts to jewelry, sculptures and t-shirts. Local musicians came to welcome visitors of the fair by filling the streets with Reggae and Folk. It was ridiculous to say the least.....
And with Fantasy T-Shirts making its debut with the Telegraph Fair in Berkeley, expectations were not only met, but were completely exceeded as those of us working the booth on the 23rd and 24th of December saw with the overwhelming amount of support the community gave to us. Our shirts sold like hotcakes....! We even launched a *new design from FreeBerkeley (Streets: Berkeley ed.) which was received with a great response from shoppers walking the fair.
This definitely marks a new age for our company. We are going to apply more efforts to reach out to the community and to promote our products through these fairs.... Much props to Derrick, our photographer, for locking down the pictures and videos for the day. You will all get to see the footage and pics as they are updated in our COMMUNITY tab @ www.freeberkeley.org Special thanks to Dixon and Steph who worked the booth with little rest from previous nights of preparations. You guys rock! The hard work is starting to pay off.... it only gets better from here folks! And yet another special thanks to all of you who found the time to come out and visit us!

Up next?? who knows...... ya'll know of any festivals or spots we can post up to sell a shirt or two? comment this piece!!!





























*new design (Streets: Berkeley ed.)

What do you think????

We want to kick off the new year with another great event.... thoughts anyone??
We have a few ideas....

- Music festival
- Health Awareness Week
- Food Festival
- MC battle
- Norcal / Socal Breakdance competition
- Jazz event

Nothing is set in stone, but we definitely need that feedback....
What would you want to see next at the shop... comment your thoughts!

come through.....come through

**Limited Run**

                    Athletic Grey

                                                              Black

                  









                  Coffee

Indigo

New colors have just come in for our Braille tee!! A limited number of Black, Coffee, and Athletic Grey shirts along with our original Braille tee in Indigo will be sold at the Telegraph Fair. STILL 50% poly 25% cotton 25% nylon, STILL supersoft, and STILL the same great design printed using our specialty puff inks for a real Braille feel!      only $20

Find us at the fair on the corner of Bancroft and Telegraph!

Okay......so in case you haven't dropped this into your schedule.... Fantasy T-Shirts will be setting up a booth at the famous Telegraph Ave. Holiday Street Fair in Berkeley on Dec. 23rd and 24th. Come out and support us as we will be selling our tees rain or shine from 11am to 6pm. Take advantage of the discounts at the show...."Michael" and "Momento" tees are 20% off......get yours before we sell out!! 

    "Michael"                               only $15

   "Momento"                             only $15!

We will be located on the corner of Bancroft and Telegraph. You can't miss us ( We'll be the ones with the giant FANTASY T-SHIRTS banner)     See you out there!

Fantasy T-Shirts hits the streets!

     One week after we made a splash at the CCA (California College of Arts) Holiday Fair, we decide.... hey... why not continue the trend of pushing our products out at local fairs and festivals.... So on the 23rd. and 24th of December, come check us out at the TELEGRAPH AVE. Holiday Street Fair. We will be selling some all of our freeberkeley line including our famous Berkelium Classic and freeberkeley braille shirt. Come through... come through..... shirts will be on sale for  10% off!!!
Big ups to Stephanie, who took the time out to run the booth with Courtney at CCA. Courtney brought out her line of shirts as well, not to mention the hand made cards that she crafted.... check the link to Courtney's blog site:       Project: Side Hustle.
     Keep posted! we are almost done with the uploads for all the pics and videos from our event....!!

New t-shirt design for sale...

If you take a sh*t, please put it back.

This idea came from a sign that I had put up in our bathroom...With Derrick's inspiration, we decided to make it into a t-shirt.

Enjoy.

It was a good night.....

John Corpuz getting in there...

The t-shirts we made for Trifonic!

Shirts & Giggles

Indeed, there were many shirts....and many laughs which highlighted yet another outstanding event at Fantasy. Plastered all over the walls were artwork created by some of Berkeley's best artists. Kelly Porter and Arthur Klein were just some of the names of the artists who took the show to the next level with their creative pieces.
The place looked crackin'. Packed to the brim with folks from all over the bay, Shirts & Giggles was truly a successful night. Much props to Johnny Boy on the one's and two's laying down the beats. He kept the mood rolling from start to finish. We would like to thank Emmanuel Baja, Colleen Watson, Enrique Ochoa, and Duat Mai for entertaining the crowd with the comedy portion of the evening. And also, a very special thanks for TRIFONIC for making it out as our musical performance and giving us two amazing sets.
Definitely keep posted with us. We will be updating our site to include this event's pictures and videos. Check us out @ www.freeberkeley.org.

We appreciate everyone taking their friday off and spending it with us. Thank you for all your support.

Acquisition anyone?

We are happy to announce that Fantasy T-Shirts will be receiving a few new upgrades starting the beginning of 2010. That's right folks... We have solidified some new investors who will be acquiring the company by the start of next year! A brand new office with new machinery upgrades are jus some of the perks that we will be looking into as our budget gets finalized.

This is a huge step for us as we continue to bring the FreeBerkeley movement into a larger picture for our community. Its been a dream of mine to have a completely self-sustained business which would allow us to tap into our community and draw in the network of people who come to our events. I can not wait to see whats in store for the new year....

Keep posted for schedule updates for SHIRTS & GIGGLES..... its gonna be a good one....   outs

WE ARE LIVE!

After many many hours of tedious work, we are are ready to launch our newly designed website; complete with pictures from past events as well as our product line and guestlist.... We are very pleased with the turn out... not to mention extremely tired ( im finishing up this posting literally moments after our site went up, its 7:33am)

Big ups to Derrick and Dixon for putting the site together... a special thanks to Derrick again for putting in a tremendous amount of overtime on this project....it came out amazing...

There will still be a couple of things that will be updated. Information on our community tab will be implemented soon. Products can not be purchased yet. But not to worry....... we are up... and are here to stay.. things will only get better from here....

Launching the site.....

We are in the midst of finalizing our new website. Many weeks of design and coding, not to mention almost three straight days of none stop work, have gone into creating the site. Lots of media including pictures and videos from past events will displayed. We are excited and will keep you all posted when we go live!

T'was a success.....

Our meet and greet with our investors was a good one to say the least. Two consecutive trips to sunny southern cali pays off as we solidified a proposal to have our company acquired. Long hours were put in to developing this business plan. Special thanks to Dixon for helping to make this presentation happen. Looks like we are moving up!!!!
Website session at our spot, Derrick??

another round?

This past weekend was quite successful as I met up with a few friends to plan for our upcoming show. We are getting the ball rolling, so much so that I have decided to shoot over to socal yet again this coming weekend. We will be pitching a much anticipated presentation to one of our investors. Hopefully, with a newfound business plan in place we can finally start creating a true to life company identity for our shop. Cross your fingers....this is for all the marbles!

Happy 'LA'ween....

I will be heading off to Los Angeles this weekend to meet up with Johnny Boy and the rest of our crew to discuss and help coordinate some of the ideas we have planned for SHIRTS & GIGGLES.  Keep posted with us as we will soon reveal some of the artists and djs, including the scheduling for the comedians who will be performing throughout the night. And if you haven't checked them out yet, take a gander at TRIFONIC. Masterfully blended sounds with ambient melodies mixed with live instrumentation and heavy rythyms and percussion, Trifonic's performance will definitely be one of our highlights for the evening!
www.trifonic.com

Be safe....enjoy yours..... definitely some much needed rest for myself 

IDEAS FOR DESIGNS??

We're planning to add 2 new designs to our FreeBerkeley line in time for our next show on December 4th... If you have an awesome idea in mind, shoot us a comment!

Streets of Berkeley

On the streets of Berkeley capturing shots for the website.

Constructing the website....

Currently at Derrick's laboratory cranking out the final touches to the front page of our website..... More to come as the completion of the site is nearing.