Idea for a chalk festival

Key word: chalk. You write it wherever it will take, preferably a concrete wall downtown. Find new spaces, in black and white or colour. At this point, remind nervous merchants or developers that the chalk will wash off in the first rain. Should this rain want to occur as the chalk is first applied, writers/artists will be supplied with a 24-hour waterproof fixer to spray over their work. The more surfaces covered with chalk, the better. An all-ages event. Over in the beer garden, the chalk slam begins, poems scrawled on chalkboards the size of home plate. At the signal, all home plates are brandished for the audience to read and, with the usual hoot-and-holler of poetry fans, out-call. Of course, the local mall will have commissioned ten local artists to create large-format chalk pieces for installation in the mezzanine. Everywhere on the streets, volunteers hand out chalk.