Schoodic Arts Festival 2008

Monday July 28 - Sunday Aug 10, 2008

A two week celebration of arts and culture, including 63 Workshops, 14 Evening Performances, free Brown Bag lunchtime performances, an Art Show, a Silent Auction, and much, much more.

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Performances

14 events, one every evening at 7 PM at Hammond Hall.

Diverse mix of music, puppets, dance and more. 2007 events included: Voss & Osborne performing ragtime, the Schoodic Summer Chorus, dry humor with The humble Farmer, the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium, Ashley Bryan, a magic show with The Steelgraves, Schoodic Arts Showchoir in A Disney Silly Sing Along, the Milkweed Puppet Theater performing The Adventures of Brer Rabbit, a performance by The Schoodic Arts Meetinghouse Theater Lab, classical piano with Mira Armij Gill, Scottish music with Maine St. Andrew's Pipes and Drums, steel pan music with Schoodic Steel, Pandemonium Downeast and La Pandilla, contra dance with the Sheep Island Rovers; and a Final Showcase, where all workshop participants show what they have learned!

2008 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Workshops

We offer about 60 courses in many areas of the arts at modest fees. Continuing Education credits are available to teachers for all workshops, please call for details. Past workshops have included:

HONORING THE NATIVE CULTURE OF MAINE: birch bark basket, bow and drill fire making, paddle making, dreamcatchers, loom beadwork, porcupine quill embroidery, beaded earrings with porcupine quills, passamaquoddy baskets, micmac potato basket

VISUAL ARTS: photography, clay sculpting, printmaking, brush painting, pastels, papermaking, drawing

DANCE: Irish dance, jazz hip hop, kid's dance, west coast swing, jitterbug swing, slow blues dancing

MUSIC: singing, steel drums, West African drumming, Afro-Cuban and Brazilian drumming

CRAFT: jewelry, mask-making, sock animals, bonsai, woodworking, tie-dying, origami, bag-making, "t-shirt surgery", hat-making, carving, doll-making, balloon-sculpting

FIBER ARTS: spinning, knitting, "painting with wool", rug hooking, silk painting with resist, weaving, dyeing

THEATER ARTS: acting, animation, fencing, clowning, juggling

2008 WORKSHOPS LISTING

Brown Bag Lunch Performances

Join us for free entertainment every day at the Prospect Harbor Women's Club, from noon - 1 pm, featuring singers, dancers, lecturers, storytellers, etc. Watch for posters about performances. Brown bag lunches will be for sale or bring your own.

Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium

This year the Schoodic Arts Festival will feature workshops and performances by nationally and known sculptors to complement the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium. Schoodic Arts for All is the artistic sponsor of the symposium. We hope you will be able to see some of these sculptors at work. The symposium is a new biennial cultural event that will bring together artists, visitors, and communities for a common goal-sculpture for the public. This gathering of sculptors is a fun and educational way to see how large sculpture is made from one of Maine's natural resources- granite. The Symposium will run 6-weeks with programs open to the public throughout the event. Seven artists from Maine, the United States, and other countries will be featured. Their sculptures will go to communities in Hancock and Washington counties in Down East Maine. More information about the Symposium can be found here.

Art Show

View works of fine art and fine crafts- including Sculpture, Painting, Hand-woven Fiber Art, Blown Glass, Handcrafted Jewelry Design, Photography and more! The Art Show will be held on Saturday, August 9 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at Hammond Hall in Winter Harbor .

ART SHOW

Silent Auction

Please join us for our annual silent art auction, Sunday, July 27, at Hammond Hall, Winter Harbor, from 3 pm - 6 pm. The hall will be filled with donated arts-related items for you to bid on. Come and have some fun, help us kick off the festival, buy some great items, and help support Schoodic Arts for All!

SILENT AUCTION

Volunteers

We seek volunteers. Please call 963-2569 for more information.

Donations

Your donation makes this festival possible and is tax deductible.

Scholarships

The Scholarship Committee hopes to enable all to participate in the arts by awarding these scholarships. Please submit a scholarship application form.

Thanks to the C. F. Adams Charitable Trust and the Stone Family Foundation for their assistance in making this festival possible. Also thanks to Bumblebee Foods LLC, and Bar Harbor Bank & Trust.

Transportation

During the Festival, a free bus will operate throughout the day between Winter Harbor and Prospect Harbor.

Click here for REGISTRATION FORM.

Click here for SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION.