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Clara Brierly Festival of the Arts

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www.downtownpeculiar.comThe Clara Brierly Festival of the Arts will be held Friday June 12, 2009 from 5 pm - 11 pm; Saturday June 13 from 10 am to 10 pm and Sunday June 14 from 12 pm - 4 pm. The "nothing else like it" event is a Chautauqua type annual celebration of all forms of art held in the heart of downtown Peculiar, Missouri - a worthwhile twenty minute drive from Kansas City, Missouri or Johnson County, Kansas.Financial assistance for this project has been provided by the Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies and the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency, with Challenge America funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, who believes that a great nation deserves great art.Open air location will be the on Broadway Street east of Main Street/C Hwy. We have an exciting mix of artists to feed your eyes and food/drink vendor booths to feed your tummy. There is a "jam session" tent where musicians will gather to jam and attendees will be invited to bring lawn chairs and sit in the soft night air, watch the lightning bugs and listen to the music. Friday is a free-for-all-campfire kind of night. Musicians are invited to join us around 7:00 to jam together and sing/play the songs they want to sing. Requests from the crowd are encouraged and singing along is one step short of mandatory (toe tapping is mandatory!). Saturday is Bluegrass - need I say more?There will be diverse stage performance art - everything from a classical viola presentation to cloggers. The performers will cross the age spectrum, will test the definition of eclectic and will be sure to make you smile, engage you and make you glad you came to the festival!"Get your art on" by participating in the art demonstrations and workshops held throughout the festival. Some that have already been confirmed are: a regionally known chainsaw artist from Iowa - www.carvingbykeenan.com - will be giving a chainsaw art demonstration by creating two pieces of art during most of the festival; a three day mosaic workshop which will create a lasting piece of public art; a Rangoli workshop; dance and improve acting workshops as well as hypertufa (faux stone) and artist trading card workshops are examples of planned demos/workshops. We are excited to involve - submerse even - those attending the festival in the art experience. You don't have to see yourself as an artist to come and have fun with us!The festival is named for Clara Brierly, a Peculiar artist whose form of expression was oil painting. While her subject matter was traditional, the surfaces upon which she painted put her in squarely in the outsider artist camp. Miss Clara, as everyone who knew her called her, lived and painted in Peculiar for the greater part of the 20th century. A book and DVD about Miss Clara will be available for purchase at the Welcome Tent during the festival.
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