ARTS Partners With RSVP To Provide Activities For Children During The Melodies & Musigs Fest 9/26

ARTS (Artists Responding To Students) is in partnership with RSVP, the City of Guntersville and the National Endowment for the Arts and to sponsor activities for children during the Melodies & Musings Festival at Civitan Park Saturday, September 26.

Children's activities will be held at the covered pavilion from 10 am to 5 pm. The Guntersville Public Library will present Appalachian children's stories and crafts. Members of the Cherokee Tribe of North Alabama will demonstrate various Indian crafts. There will be dulcimer music and demonstrations by Debbie Booth; a demonstration of timber construction by Lloyd Johnson of Southern Timberwrights; a herb and gardening exhibit and demonstration by Sharon Price. Charlie McClendon will be making walking sticks.

In the week previous to the festival ARTS will treat school children from various county schools to their annual Cultural Outreach program. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday students will be transported to Civitan Park for a day of cultural arts and activities. They will be introduced to projects such as weaving, beading, glass bead making, sand painting, dulcimer playing, choral music and a nature walks. In addition, they will be see exhibits in the Marshall County Meth Wagon, the Red Cross Disaster Preparedness vehicle and PALS (People Against a Littered State).

Attending Cultural Outreach are students from Douglas, Guntersville, Claysville, Union Grove, Grassy Schools and Marshall Christian Academy. High school students from the Guntersville Fine Arts Department, GHS Choir and Ladies Choral, Brindlee Mountain High School art classes and Brindlee Mountain Future Teachers will be participating as mentors to the younger students.

For more information on the festival contact RSVP at 571-7734.

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