Arts, Culture Celebration Scheduled This Weekend
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
It's been months in the making, and the first annual Celebration of Arts and Culture is sure to have something for everyone.
Friday, from 7 to 10 p.m., and Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Center for Arts and Culture will bring together musicians, theater troupes, choirs, artists and other performers in the former Eagles Building, 117 E. Center St., Warsaw.
Admission is free, with entertainment, demonstrations and activities geared for all ages.
The three-story Eagles building has an enormous first floor and lower level, home of an antiques mall just a couple of years ago. Since then a retail business selling mattresses occupied the space, which recently relocated.
Plans to secure the building as an arts and culture center began in November 1999 with a federal ArtsREACH grant. The grant facilitated a survey showing support for a county-based art centers. The survey led to The Center for Arts and Culture Inc., a nonprofit organization with planning offices at Lakeland Art Gallery.
This weekend's Celebration of Arts and Culture is the culture board's first event.
Organizing committee members are Sally Hogan, Linda Dilling, Eugenia Fulkerson and James Mannan.
In the Town Center Mall, next door to the Eagles building, art of the orthopedic industry will be on exhibit, with pieces contributed by DePuy, Zimmer, Biomet, Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Paragon Medical, CORE Tech, MedCast, Machining Concepts and Instrumental Technologies.
Activities include "Travel Spectrum Street," which begins at the front door and allows participants to "travel" through the land of art and culture with stops at color stations.
Contributed handprints will make a community U.S. flag, which will be displayed in downtown businesses.
The "Picture Me" booth will provide portraits of the sitter as a ballerina, painter, sculptor, musician, ballroom dancer or Shakespearean actor.
Enjoy the results of contests with an exhibit by students in grades one through 12; banners by middle or high school students; culinary arts by adults; and a special song contest about Kosciusko County.
On the lower level and first floor more than 30 Kosciusko County artists will display and demonstrate their art Friday evening and Saturday.
Joining artists from the Village at Winona will be DiAnne Smith, Rosella Hawkins, Suzie Lichtenwalter, Bev Garner, Sue Karczewski, Linda Dilling, Mike Forman, Tomas Moreno, Rene Moreno and Stacey Barth.
In addition to displays by Lakeland Art Association and the Indiana Wildlife Artists, there will be demonstrations on oil, acrylic and watercolor painting, china painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, computer art, decorative folk art, carving, pottery, puppets and more.
Local musicians will play chamber music and the piano.
Re-enactors are scheduled to tell about this country's heritage.
Community activities are planned for all ages.
On the second floor ball room, a Tri Kappa elementary art show will be on display along with seascapes by Tim Young.
On Friday, performances include the Home Extension Chorus from 7 to 8 p.m., and one-act plays by the Warsaw Performing Arts, Winona Lake Community Theatre and the Warsaw Community Theatre.
Waltz, rumba, foxtrot, cha-cha, tango, polka and swing demonstrations and dancing will be provided by the Warsaw Ballroom Dance Association from 9 to 10 p.m.
There will be tips and techniques of photography, performances in the large display windows, clowns, puppets, mimes and magicians.
Performances Saturday will include music and song by Warsaw Community Choir, Brass Winds and Lakeland Youth Choir from 10 to 11 a.m.
From 11 a.m. to noon the Dancing Grannies, Point of Grace and Hispanic Troupe will dance.
Theater presentations will be from noon to 1 p.m. by Warsaw Performing Arts, Winona Lake Community Theatre and Warsaw Community Theater.
The Home Extension Chorus will give a patriotic performance from 1 to 2 p.m., and songs by contest entrants will be presented.
A variety of dance numbers will be performed by the Warsaw Squares, Lee Ann Stewart's students and native Americans from 2 to 3 p.m.
The Grace College Players will perform from 3 to 3:35 p.m.
Contest awards will be presented from 3:40 to 4 p.m.
Live music will be provided by Rik Lovelady and his banjos, Caprice, the Freedom and Optimist choirs, area piano students, a cellist, dulcimer players and various dance organizations.
For more information, call 267-4040. [[In-content Ad]]
It's been months in the making, and the first annual Celebration of Arts and Culture is sure to have something for everyone.
Friday, from 7 to 10 p.m., and Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Center for Arts and Culture will bring together musicians, theater troupes, choirs, artists and other performers in the former Eagles Building, 117 E. Center St., Warsaw.
Admission is free, with entertainment, demonstrations and activities geared for all ages.
The three-story Eagles building has an enormous first floor and lower level, home of an antiques mall just a couple of years ago. Since then a retail business selling mattresses occupied the space, which recently relocated.
Plans to secure the building as an arts and culture center began in November 1999 with a federal ArtsREACH grant. The grant facilitated a survey showing support for a county-based art centers. The survey led to The Center for Arts and Culture Inc., a nonprofit organization with planning offices at Lakeland Art Gallery.
This weekend's Celebration of Arts and Culture is the culture board's first event.
Organizing committee members are Sally Hogan, Linda Dilling, Eugenia Fulkerson and James Mannan.
In the Town Center Mall, next door to the Eagles building, art of the orthopedic industry will be on exhibit, with pieces contributed by DePuy, Zimmer, Biomet, Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Paragon Medical, CORE Tech, MedCast, Machining Concepts and Instrumental Technologies.
Activities include "Travel Spectrum Street," which begins at the front door and allows participants to "travel" through the land of art and culture with stops at color stations.
Contributed handprints will make a community U.S. flag, which will be displayed in downtown businesses.
The "Picture Me" booth will provide portraits of the sitter as a ballerina, painter, sculptor, musician, ballroom dancer or Shakespearean actor.
Enjoy the results of contests with an exhibit by students in grades one through 12; banners by middle or high school students; culinary arts by adults; and a special song contest about Kosciusko County.
On the lower level and first floor more than 30 Kosciusko County artists will display and demonstrate their art Friday evening and Saturday.
Joining artists from the Village at Winona will be DiAnne Smith, Rosella Hawkins, Suzie Lichtenwalter, Bev Garner, Sue Karczewski, Linda Dilling, Mike Forman, Tomas Moreno, Rene Moreno and Stacey Barth.
In addition to displays by Lakeland Art Association and the Indiana Wildlife Artists, there will be demonstrations on oil, acrylic and watercolor painting, china painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, computer art, decorative folk art, carving, pottery, puppets and more.
Local musicians will play chamber music and the piano.
Re-enactors are scheduled to tell about this country's heritage.
Community activities are planned for all ages.
On the second floor ball room, a Tri Kappa elementary art show will be on display along with seascapes by Tim Young.
On Friday, performances include the Home Extension Chorus from 7 to 8 p.m., and one-act plays by the Warsaw Performing Arts, Winona Lake Community Theatre and the Warsaw Community Theatre.
Waltz, rumba, foxtrot, cha-cha, tango, polka and swing demonstrations and dancing will be provided by the Warsaw Ballroom Dance Association from 9 to 10 p.m.
There will be tips and techniques of photography, performances in the large display windows, clowns, puppets, mimes and magicians.
Performances Saturday will include music and song by Warsaw Community Choir, Brass Winds and Lakeland Youth Choir from 10 to 11 a.m.
From 11 a.m. to noon the Dancing Grannies, Point of Grace and Hispanic Troupe will dance.
Theater presentations will be from noon to 1 p.m. by Warsaw Performing Arts, Winona Lake Community Theatre and Warsaw Community Theater.
The Home Extension Chorus will give a patriotic performance from 1 to 2 p.m., and songs by contest entrants will be presented.
A variety of dance numbers will be performed by the Warsaw Squares, Lee Ann Stewart's students and native Americans from 2 to 3 p.m.
The Grace College Players will perform from 3 to 3:35 p.m.
Contest awards will be presented from 3:40 to 4 p.m.
Live music will be provided by Rik Lovelady and his banjos, Caprice, the Freedom and Optimist choirs, area piano students, a cellist, dulcimer players and various dance organizations.
For more information, call 267-4040. [[In-content Ad]]