Family Arts Festival
Saturday, September 22, 10 – 4
What a great day at the Family Arts Festival!
We are grateful for all the hard work, creative energy and smiling faces. Thank you to event sponsors and volunteers! Here are a few photos of the festival, beginning with an artist in Kat Logan's "Our Town" workshop.
Sponsored by Five Rivers Arts Alliance, the festival is free and invites everyone to participate in hands on art making activities, and to enjoy great music and dance.
The festival is supported by grants, sponsors and Five Rivers Arts Alliance members. Join Five Rivers Arts Alliance today and know you are supporting great arts, culture and heritage events and programs in your community.
Find out more about membership on our membership page. 
Festival support is also provided by Festival Sponsor Centerline Construction, Co-Sponsors:
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Eveningstar Cinema, Nathaniel Davis Fund and the Alfred Senter Fund.
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for donated goodies to feed artists and volunteers.
The festival is free; donations are welcome and encouraged.The Family Arts Festival is sponsored by Five Rivers Arts Alliance. It is made possible by generous donations from members, businesses, and grantors.
Two raffles took place to support the Festival:
An iPod nano (donated, in part, by Wal-Mart) and Basket of Art Supplies, donated by Maine Street Art. Winners: Rick Wilson won Basket of Art supplies. Tracy Reimer won the iPod nano. Thank you to everyone who purchased tickets and to donors.
Workshops Children’s Tent
10 - 2 Natural Bird Nests, with Arts Are Elementary. Using natural grasses and materials create abird nest, decorate with feathers and eggs-made of self-hardening clay.
10 - 4 Creative Creature Sculptures, with the Art Van. Using newsprint and tape you will be able to wrap and shape any creature ofyour imagination!" ArtVan sculpture workshop. Go 3-D.
10 - 12 T-shirt Printing with Catherine Worthington. Print a design on your own t-shirt or create a flag!
12 - 2 Stained Glass Windows with Bridget Spaeth. Using contact paper and tissue collage, everyone can create a "stained glass" window. Help decorate wall for temporary exhibit
12 - 2 Muck Monsters with Kate Maringer. Come join in and get your hands mucky in clay. Shape, shift and mold it into a magnificent muck monster masterpiece using self-hardening clay.
12 - 4 Festival Mural with Middy Thomas. Help create a mural of the festival tents, people and activities.
1 - 4 Lightning Portraits with Charlotte Agell. Sign up for a quick and clever portrait.
2 - 4 Wet & Wild Watercolor workshop with Linda Murray. Learn new "wet on wet" experimental watercolor techniques.
2 -4 Playing with Clay with Nancy Laitala.
All Day Face Painting with Brunswick High School student volunteers
Adult tent - Art making workshops and demos
This year the festival offers a series of intergenerational workshops on the theme of “Our Town.” These workshops are appriopriate for teens - adults and for younger children accompanied by an adult.
10-1 Plein air Watercolor, with Kat Logan. Artists are invited to bring their faviorite media and "paint the town." Kat Logan will offer sketching and watercolor instruction at 10 am and at 11 am.
10:30 - 1:00 Altered Photographs, with Jane Page-Conway. Using poloraid cameras and film, participants can take portraits and alter by hand tinting with paint and markers. 
1:00 - 4:00 "Create your own page for the 'Brunswick Neighborhood Book' with Mildred Johnson and Patricia Boissevain. Share your message about our town. Write a note, a poem or story - or paint a picture using the art supplies provided.
Our Town workshops are made possible by the Nathaniel Davis Fund.
Demonstration tent
10-12 Woodworking Techniques with Lynette Breton. Furniture maker Breton will demonstrate hand tools and woodcarving techniques.
12 - 2 Wood carving with Wayne Robbins. Robbins willshow the techniques he uses to reate whales, seals and seabirds in exotic woods.
Schedule of events-Lawn performances
10am Shotakan Karate demonstrations on the lawn
11am Gemini Dancers will perform Latin and hip hop
Noon - 4pm Drumming Circle with Spindleworks. Join in the drumming circle. On the lawn, under the trees.
1 - 4 pm Juggling Demonstration and workshop, led by Trevor Bostic.
The Gazebo Stage
10am Bath Municipal Dixie Combo
kicks off the festival w/ traditional Dixieland jazz.
11am Meddiebempsters, Bowdoin College's oldest and famous a cappella group.
12 noon Matt Loosigian-Earthjams. Teaching peace, compassion and environmental justicethrough silliness and song. 
1pm Jim Loney, Acoustic Blues. Blues from 20s and 30s, including slide guitar.
2pm Justin Boss-singer song writer. 
3pm Primo Cubano Trio!
Images: a young artist, Lynette Bretton demonstrates wood carving, Gemini Dancers, young drummers, creating with clay, boy with face painted, Kat Logan and young artist, Wayne Robbins carving whale and Trevor Bostic teaches a first-time juggler, Trevor judggling, Justin Boss at Gazebo Stage..
