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| Go Fish Fridays!
Mark
your calendar for the first Friday of each month from
July through November. Take the bait and Go Fishing
with
us. Board the Trolley at 1:00 pm at the Arts Center
and have the O-fish-al Fishing Guide tour you around
town to enjoy
all of the artistic fish. Your Guide will have fish
tales about the construction, creation and installation
of the
fish as well as interesting fish facts to share. It’s
a "fin-tastic" opportunity to enjoy our fish and
get "Hooked on the Arts". The $5 fee includes a
light snack and a 30% off coupon towards fish merchandise.
Call 224-8811 for reservations.
July 2nd, August 6th, September 3rd, October 1st, November
5th
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| Fish Fry at The Farmers Market
Whether
you catch and release in hot grease or grill and bake,
there is more than one way to cook a fish,
as this event proves it. Watch chefs from some of
our city’s
best restaurants put their culinary creations to
the test; then sample the dishes and vote for your
favorite. Cook-off
tasting tickets are $5 with proceeds benefiting the
Warehouse Project.
Thursday, September 2nd at 6 pm.
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| Reel Art Activities
You
don’t need a fishin’ pole to catch these
art activities, but a paint brush may help. Sign up to
be a Reel Artist and join us for various workshops designed
to celebrate the "Fish out of Water, Hooked on the
Arts" public art project. Pre-registration is required,
please call the Arts Center to sign up!
-Fish Prints
Saturday,
July 17th from 1:00-3:00 pm. The cost is $15 for
non-members and $12 for members. Ages 5-12. Join fish artist
Julie Banker at the Arts Center for fabulous fish printmaking
projects. We will use real dead fish and some rubber ones
too. Students will make monoprints of the fish on paper suitable
for framing as well as print their own T-shirts too!
-Reel Photo Focus
Saturday,
August 21st from 10:00 am until 12:00 noon. The cost is $15
for non-members and $12
for members. Ages
5-12. Fish artist, Julie Banker’s fish is called
Focus For Reel. It is a great concept involving the
viewer looking through a camera lens at a fishing scene.
Join
Julie as we visit several fish-sites downtown and take
digital photos of you and your favorite fish. We will
return to the Arts Center to develop our photos using
the computer and decorate frames in fish themes.
-Famous Fish Artists
Saturday September
11th from 10:00 am until 12:00 noon. The cost is $15 for
non-members
and $12 for members. Ages
5-12. You may have noticed several of our fish out
of water reference famous artists’ works. There’s
Monet, Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, and Mark Twain, to name
a few. Join us for a workshop that will explore these
artistic styles, then transfer them on to a clay tile
that will be glazed and fired.
It ’s a keeper!
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| Fish
Tale Schedule at the Library
Everybody
loves a fish tale, full of adventure, excitement and
lots of water! Splash your way to the Anderson
County Library on Fridays during August and September
for Preschool
Story Time at 10:00 am. Children, ages 0-5, will
hear fabulous, famous fish stories. It’s a Fishy
Story, the painted sculpture by local fish artist
Ruth Hopkins, is located at
the Library and features seven different fish stories.
Can you find each of the different stories in the design?
Friday, August 6, 2004
"Figety
Fish"
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Friday, August 13, 2004
"Swimmy" |
Friday, August 20, 2004
"Today, I’m
Going Fishing with Dad" |
Friday, August 27, 2004
"Rainbow
Fish" |
Friday, September 3, 2004
"A
Fish out of Water"
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