The 2008 Shoreline Arts Festival opens this weekend featuring the timely theme “Green: Art and the Environment” at Shoreline Center.
The Shoreline Lake Forest Park Arts Council, which hosts the festival, incorporated this “green” theme into the Juried Art and Photography Show, and the Gallery at Shoreline Center will feature a juried “Green: Art and the Environment” exhibit during the festival.
According to festival organizers this year’s theme was designed to examine how can art influence how people view the environment and how the arts can help a community co-exist with nature and raise awareness of issues such as utilizing recycled materials to reduce carbon footprints.
Art projects in the popular Children’s Hands-on Art Arena will be made with recycled materials this year. On Saturday afternoon The Caveman will be giving eco tours on where to find art in nature. The Community Rhythm Jam and the Community Band Festival return on Sunday. Explore the intriguing booths in the Artists Marketplace and stay for the music, dance and offerings of the Food Court!
This year’s poster features the artwork of Richmond Beach artist Barbara Twaddell entitled “Guardians.” The whimsical painting emphasizes the artist’s statement that “the trees, earth and air are our guardians, and we are theirs.”
The Showmobile Stage will feature music dance bands like Easy Company and the Bouchards. Other acts include Geoffrey Castle and Friends, Deadwood Revival, Alma Villegas, Mercedes Nicole’s Nina Simone Tribute, Baby Gramps and more. The Baile Glas Irish Dancers, Melody Institute, Bobby’s Hawaiian Hula Troop, Steve Hamilton, the Pretty Good Magician, Rhys Thomas and Jugglemania, Total Experience Gospel Choir and Inochi Taiko Drummers will perform in the Shoreline Room.
The annual Art from the Attic Recycled Art Sale will take place during the festival, and the Northwest Collage Society is sponsoring an exhibit and collage making workshop using recycled materials. The winning poems from the SAC’s First Annual Poetry Month Contest will also be on display. The festival’s cultural rooms are expanding globally to include an Eritrean African Room and the 11th Annual Philippine Festival.
The popular Festival Breakfast will take place both days from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Shoreline Senior Center.
On Saturday the Shoreline Auditorium hosts the Missoula Children’s Theatre’s production of “Red Riding Hood,” which will feature a cast of local children who auditioned just last week and have spent the week rehearsing. Show times are 1 and 5 p.m. Tickets for the performances are $6 and can be purchased at the door or online at www.Shorelinearts.net.
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