Family Arts Festival
Saturday, September 25, 2010 10am - 4pm
New this year, Five Rivers Arts Alliance will collaborate with Maine Running Company and Maine Street Events to present the "Maine Street Mile" a 1500 meter family fun run, beginning at 9am! Details soon.b
At 10am, the Family Arts Festival begins! Everyone is invited to participate in hands on art making activities, and to enjoy great music and dance. Join us under tents on the Brunswick Town Mall, just off Maine St. (Rain Site: Brunswick Jr. High Gym)
Image: Getting an early start with art at the Family Arts Festival!
The following listings are from 2009. Check back soon for 2010 Family Arts Festival details!
The festival is made possible by Festival Sponsor Centerline Constuction, Grantors Maine Arts Commission, Alfred Senter Fund, Nathaniel Davis Fund, Poster Sponsor Thornton Oaks Retirement Community and Supporters Cornelia Viek, CPA, Riley Insurance, Maine Pines Racquet & Fitness, and Bath Savings Institution.
Festival Information Tent
Festival details, great T-Shirts, 2 raffles, Face Painting and more at the Festival Info Tent.
Festival
Raffle items:
Children's Workshop Tent
10-4 Face Painting for young and old with our enthusiastic and artistic volunteers
10-4 All-Creature Puppetmaking Workshop Spindleworks and Arts Are Elementary will be creating puppets on a stick using a variety of fabric and embellishments. Join us to create your own puppet and become a part of the community wide All Species Day Parade to be held next May. Some of the large street puppets that are being built by Spindleworkers and community members will also be on display for inspiration.
10-2 Brilliant Buttons from Art Mind and Soul Studio. Create your badge of honor with a format all can partipate in, with Beth Carr and Heather Gelwick.
10-12 Muck Monsters with Kate Maringer. Get your hands mucky in clay. Shape, shift, mold it into a magnificent muck monster masterpiece.
10-12 Create your own "Wild Wig" with ArtVan!. If your thoughts, ideas and imagination could fly out of your head through your hair to create any hair-doo...would you have long crazy colored hair, crinkly, or straight or curly? and what would it say about you!?!
10-12 Twig Stars with Chris Cole. Fashion a star from the sky branches of trees.
12-4 Wood Assemblage Join Sculptor Blake Hendrickson to create your own wood collage statement from a literal wood block buffet!
12-4 Extreme Hats with Linda Blanton. Create your personal festival statement with this workshop of remarkable toppers! Also, sponsored by The American Red Cross: make a card to send to service men and women.
12-2 Light Catchers with Bridget Spaeth. Create luminescent art of light and color with paper and ink. (For ages 7 and up, younger artists with adult assistance)
10-4 Meet the Sheep. Spinning and dying with Kelly Corbett of Romney Ridge Farm. Watch how the fibers are spun into yarn. Look for our tent!
10-4 Storytime with Cornerstones of Science. Rest in the shade and listen to stories, sing songs and make simple crafts with Jocelyn Hubbell. Attend “scientific” ice cream sessions and eat the results! Cornerstones of Science. Look for our tent!
On the Lawn
Experienced Hands Tent- Art making workshops and demos
10-4 Weaving Demonstration with Michael Patterson. Michael offers informative demonstrations of techniques and patterns.
10-12 Wood Carving Demonstration with Wayne Robbins. Wayne will show how he sculpts
whales, dolphins, seals & seabirds in hardwoods.
12-4 Impressions of the Coast: Oil Pastels for Adults with Lee Cheever. Create your own Maine coastal scene and learn pastel techniques. (Recommended for adults and young adults)
10-2 Book of Secrets with Rebecca McNulty. A bookmaking workshop for adults and youth with the creator of Dragon’s Eye Detectives. Pockets full of secrets, cryptic ciphers and pages of mystery abound.
10-4 Learn more about local cultural nonprofits at info table, including The Theater Project, Dance of Two Cultures, Bowdoin College Craft Center, Maine Fiberarts, and more.
Gazebo Stage
10 am The Apple Scruffs Maine’s Beatles cover band with songs you know by heart.
11am Bath Municipal Concert Band entertains the festival with a performance celebrating American music, Broadway favorites and a touch of Salsa!
12 noon Folk and Blues with Kat Logan and Jim Loney.
1pm Earthjams: Matt Loosigian. Matt's music weaves messages of environmental stewardship, peace and compassion with humor and silliness.
2pm
Campesinos Cuban folk music on Tres Cubano, vocals and percussion. Come and enjoy the Campesinos' lively mix of Son & Trova.
3pm Alison Lee Freeman Join in on the chorus for a journey back in time and enjoy history the old fashioned way through entertaining songs and stories.
Narrative Tent: Celebrating our Sense of Place: 11am-3pm
With a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, Five Rivers will offer you the opportunity to record local stories about our families, work, art, and sense of place in the Narrative Tent. All stories will be recorded as part of this project for archiving and as part of the StoryBank Maine project. (Check back for a complete schedule; the Narrative Tent schedule is subject to change.)
11am-12noon Place-based work
- 11am Andrew Jawitz interviews Ernest DeRaps, former lighthouse keeper at Monhegan Island, Fort Point at Stockton Springs and Brown's Head on Vinalhaven.
- 11:30. Share your stories of place and work
12-1pm Growing Up
- 12 noon. Denis Ledoux interviews Alvina Menard about growing up in the Franco-American Community in Brunswick & Topsham.
- 12:30 Share your stories about growing up: your childhood, your neighborhood, your family.
1-2pm Art & Community
2-3pm Community
- 2pm: Andrew Jawitz interviews Brunswick resident Christine DeTroy. Christine moved to Brunswick from Germany in 1947. How have our communities changed in the last 50 years? What will be different in the future?
- 2:30 Share your stories about community.
Images: Family Arts Festival 2008 under the tents on the Brunswick Town Mall (photo: Amanda Similien), Face painters (photo: Lucy Cooney), Clay artists (photo: Liz McGhee); Matt Loosigian (photo courtesy of Matt Loosigian), Watercolorist in 2007 (photo: Liz McGhee), Gemini Dancers perform (photo Roger Fenn), T-shirts at 2008 Festival (photo: Keith Spiro), Young muralists (photo: Liz McGhee)
Thanks to Family Arts Festival 2009 Supporters:
Festival Sponsor: Centerline Construction,
Grantors: Maine Arts Commission, Alfred Senter Fund, Nathaniel Davis Fund,
Poster Sponsor: Thornton Oaks Retirement Community,
Supporters: Corneilia Viek, CPA,
Riley Insurance, Maine Pines Racquet & Fitness, Bath Savings Institution, our members and donors.
In Kind support:
Wild Oats Bakery & Cafe, Carrot Signs, Tontine Mall, Ed Mendes and Maine Waterfront Homes, WalMart, Target, Shaws Supermarkets.
Thank you to Cafe Creme, Bath Gelato Fiasco and Little Dog Coffee Shop, Brunswick for donations of coffee card incentives! Sign up for Five Rivers Arts Alliance membership and receive a complimentary "coffee card" from one of these local shops.
