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General InformatioN
What:
ARTsFEsT, now in its 27th year, is an annual festival celebrating the arts and arts education through performances,
exhibiting and demonstrating artists, and hands-on activities and games. ARTsFEsT features the Annual Battle of the Bands, Artists’ Market, Art Stops, a traveling foundry, and the Samato Dance Group. The festival brings hundreds of artists and over 6,000 visitors to Georgia Southern University’s campus each year. ARTsFEsT is free to the public and a service of GSU to Statesboro and the surrounding communities.
When:
Saturday, April 4, 2009 from 11 AM until 5 PM
Where:
Sweetheart Circle at Georgia Southern University
General Information:
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All events and activities are FREE to the public
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Festival draws up to 6,000 visitors to campus
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Demonstrating artists include painters, sculptors, wood turners, blacksmiths, ceramicists, collage/assemblage artists, folk artists, portrait artists, and many more!
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Performers include ballet, Native American, traditional West African and modern dancers, stilt walkers, classical and folk musicians, puppeteers, and many more!
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Arts-related activities include face painting, papermaking and book arts, ceramics, poetry readings, foreign language lessons, drawing marathons, wandering musicians, and more!
Featured at ArtsFest’09: SamaTo African Drum and Dance Ensemble
SamaTo, which means "You Have to See It" in the Susu tribal language of Guinea, West Africa, describes the exuberant performance by dancers and musicians from Guinea, West Africa who are devoted to sharing their musical culture and traditions of West Africa with the ArtsFest09 audience. The performance includes rhythmic dances, indigenous songs and cadenced drumming traditional of West Africa. Audience involvement in drumming, singing and dancing will have everyone on their feet! The SamaTo African Drum and Dance Ensemble will take the stage at 2 pm during ArtsFest ‘09.
Featured at ArtsFest’09: Stop and Create! Sculpture Trails Traveling Foundry
Want to cast moulton metal into an artistic sculpture? Visiting artists from Sculpture Trails, a traveling foundry, will guide ArtsFest ’09 visitors in an unforgettable artistic experience. Participants receive a carving block and design a mould for the metal cast. As they carve, the furnace warms up to the temperature it needs to melt aluminum—at 1400 degrees, aluminum is liquefied enough to pour. Pouring takes a few minutes and about 20 minutes for it to cool enough to handle with gloves. Participants will travel home from Sweetheart Circle with their own unique aluminum cast sculpture—a work of art from ArtsFest ’09. What a unique opportunity for ALL at Georgia Southern’s ArtsFest ’09! Sponsored in part by the Campus Life Enrichment Committee, participation is limited to the first 100 participants. Additional carving blocks with pour may be purchased for $15 for those with unlimited creativity!
Featured at ArtsFest'09: BeadForLife Returns to the Artist’s Market
Back by popular demand, ARTsFEsT ‘09 will host a bead party to benefit BeadforLife, a non-profit organization that supports community development projects in health, education, employment, and housing to the impoverished in Africa. Vibrantly colored necklaces, bracelets and earrings are handcrafted by Ugandan women from recycled paper into beautiful beaded jewelry. Not only works of art, this jewelry is a source of income, food, medicine and hope for the artists and their families. The beaders are women living with HIV/AIDS as well as refugees displaced by a devastating civil war in northern Uganda. The BeadforLife organization works to “eradicate poverty one bead at a time.”
High school student Olivia Carter (CCAT) sponsors this Artist’s Market highlight again this year. Carter brought BeadforLife to ArtsFest in 2008 after learning of the organization’s positive impact in helping these Ugandan women make a living by selling their art. “I’m inspired by the creativity these women have when they transform recycled paper into these beautiful beads, and I’m amazed by the idea that these tiny beads have huge power to change the lives of so many. I gain great satisfaction knowing that when people work together, little by little, great change can happen.”
Featured at ArtsFest'09: BATTLE of the BANDS
ARTsFEsT ‘09 is looking for the BEST BANDS IN THE REGION to showcase their talent and ‘drum it-strum it-or sing it out’ on stage. Returning to ARTsFEsT for its second year, Battle of the Bands is a competition between three local bands of all types. Applications are now being accepted for bands to compete for a $300 grand prize and notoriety. Band finalists will play between the hours of 12pm-2pm on the ArtsFest Main Stage, Saturday, April 4th. Each band will have a 30-minute time slot on stage. A panel of judges will evaluate each performance and will include Audience Voting in their final decision. If you think your favorite local band has what it takes, come out and support their music. If you aren’t sure what bands are the ones to watch, come out and listen to some of the best.
Show your talent in the Artist Market !
Sponsor ARTsFEsT!
Get your hands dirty ! Host an Art Stop!
Want to Perform?
Not sure what to do? Volunteer!
For More Information Contact:
Georgia Southern University
PO Box 8032
Statesboro, GA 30460
Phone: (912) GSU-ARTS
Fax: (912) 478-5104
E-Mail: artsfest@georgiasouthern.edu
| CENTER FOR ART & THEATRE | ARTS BUILDING |
| 233 Pittman Drive | 224 Pittman Drive |
| Statesboro, GA 30460 | Statesboro, GA 30460 |
Travel to Sweetheart Circle then make a right onto Forest Drive.
You may turn into
available parking lots before or after you arrive at Hendricks Hall.
You may enter the building from either the East Entrance or West Entrance.
For assistance please contact the Center for Art & Theatre (912) GSU-ARTS.