LOCAL ARTISTS DEBUT ON HGTVS GOING YARD Optimistic Vibe Cape Cod is set to make its national debut on HGTVs Going Yard with host Chris Lambton. OV Driftwood, OV SailWear and OV Marine Consignment will be a featured on the episode airing May 4th at 9:30AM. Here is what Chris had to say about Optimistic Vibe Cape Cod; OV Marine Consignment, OV Sail Wear and OV Driftwood are a local treasure with their unique green products. The goal of Optimistic Vibe Cape Cod is to enhance the arts across Cape Cod by promoting the state designated cultural districts. The companys first project is to help bolster the newly designated Hyannis cultural district into an arts destination. Cape Cod artist, founder and CEO Robert John Cook is excited about moving the projectfive years in the makinginto reality. Our purpose is to bring together all members of the creative community on Cape Cod, and brand ourselves through our collective Optimistic Vibe® to everyone coming over the bridge each weekend, he says. What Santa Fe is to Los Angeles, Hyannis will be to Boston and New York. With a crowd funding campaign ready to launch, Cook has been working with Dr. Clifford Robbins of UMass Amherst since January 2011. Dr. Robbins, a senior business advisor with the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network, and Cook have been meeting on an almost weekly basis. Dr. Robbins lauds the economic boost the organization will provide to the areas creative community, Cape Cod is a center for creative people and Optimistic Vibe Cape Cod is going to pull them together as a powerful business, he says. Through Cape Cods Optimistic Vibe®, the artist gets the business help they need to get their art to the market. Optimistic Vibe, Inc. plans to eventually connect and collaborate with other cultural districts on the Cape. Renowned artist Sam Barber, a student of Henry Hensche at the original Cape School of Art has declared himself, I am 100% behind the project.

The organizations purpose is to strengthen the local creative economy while providing opportunities for visitors to participate in artists lives and creations, with Hyannis as the center of the community, enabling artists of all genres and skill levels to access a broad spectrum of sustained employment opportunities. If you would like more information, please contact Robert John Cook at (508) 367-5571, or e-mail OptimisticVibe@gmail.com. Visit: (www.OptimisticVibe.com) or (www.facebook.com/OptimisticVibe).