The 5th Yale Valley Arts Festival
The Fifth Yale Valley Arts Festival celebrates the beauty of the area through the arts during the last week of July, 2007.
Everyone is welcome at two free events, Family Arts Day and the Oral History Evening. Family Arts Day is at Yale School, Saturday July 28th beginning at 1 pm with piano performances by area children. The award winning Reach for the Stars Dancers will perform, including Josie Buck. Two stories will come alive as the Lelooska Foundation shares masked dances. Saturday, from 2 to 4 pm, children can create art with experienced artists: Bonnie Allen - painting from the landscape and summer harvest, Mary Ellen Hartman - printmaking, and Mariah Ts’igilhilaqw - miniature button blankets. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
New this year, YVAF Family Arts Day includes a special exhibition of quilts by people living in the Yale, Cougar, and Dubois Road area. The Quilt Show will be in the Yale School Gym from 2 pm to 5 pm on July 28th. The art form flourishes here. If you live upriver and you would like to exhibit a quilt, call Cheryl Rietman at 231-4146 by Saturday July 21 to let her know the size of your piece. You may show something small or full size. Quilts must be delivered between 9 and 10 am on Saturday, July 28th and must be picked up between 5:30 and 6:30 pm that evening after the exhibition. Please include a typed or printed paragraph with the name of quilt, the maker and the history, if relevant. Every effort will be made to respect the integrity of the quilts. Racks will be constructed ahead of time and people will always be present to watch the quilts. However, each artist accepts the risk of any soiling or damage.
Oral History of the Yale School will be discussed at Yale School on Friday evening, July 27th from 7 to 9 pm. John and Kathy Huffman, who taught during the last three decades, will be present as well as others who have been involved with the school. Everyone is welcome. Come share the memories. Free.
Explore the beauty of the Yale Valley forest, light and lakes through watercolor with Stephan Soihl. The watercolor workshop will occur Tuesday and Wednesday, July 24th and 25th from 10 to 3 pm. Cost is $50. per day. Bring your lunch or take out food locally.
Third Angle, one of the best contemporary classical ensembles in the Northwest will perform an All Svoboda Concert on Sunday July 29th. Tomas Svoboda will perform two piano compositions. The exquisite experience begins at 4:30 pm with a late afternoon dinner overlooking the Yale Valley at Anderson Lodge Hilltop House. $38. Only 100 Tickets. The stunning local dancer Josie Buck will perform before the concert.
New paintings from Carola Penn’s Yale Valley Forest Series will be exhibited as well as work by Stephan Soihl, who teaches the Watercolor Workshop. Advance tickets required.
Website: www.yalevalleyartsfestival.org Leave messages at (360) 263-4707 for tickets, workshop registration, or questions. Contact: Julia Stoll (360) 231-4256
Yale Valley Arts Festival
PO Box 7
Cougar, WA 98616
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