Summer Arts Festival Tomorrow in Watertown's Public Square

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North Country Arts Council's annual Summer Arts Festival at Public Square is slated from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. tomorrow, Aug. 13, in Watertown.

Better Farm and betterArts will be at the event with literature about our upcoming events, artist residencies, internship program, and membership opportunities. We will also have a large canvas out for a collaborative, day-long art project with the public.

Here's the schedule for tomorrow's events:

Schedule Of Events

Dance Circle Center Square

Cartoon Friends Dance Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10:00
Rhonda’s Footeworks Dance Demos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12:00
Pre-School Dance Jam  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2:00
Gazebo
River Winds, Wind Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:00
Gary Waltz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30

Big Band Tent East Square

T’ai Chi Demos with Ann Halback . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10:00
Dan Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 11:30
Arrythmias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1:00
T’ai Chi Demos with Ann Halback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:15
Tas Cru Blues Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:00
Oceans Below . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:00

Footeworks Studio

Free Zumba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:00
Family Fun Dance Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:00
Free Hip Hop class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:30
Franklin Arcade
Author Reading and Storytelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10:15 - 12:45
Talking With…by Jane Martin 11 Monologues for Women . . . . 1:00
Author Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2:30 - 4:00
Arts On The Square
Historical Preservation Exhibit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . All Day
Oceans Below . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2:00 - 3:45
Plein Air Judging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2:30
Plein Air Art Work Auction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30 - 4:00
Jefferson County Historical Society
Art History Exhibit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10:00 - 4:00
Throughout Public Square
Stardust         2:00 - 3:00
All Day Fun includes Street Painting, Plein Air Artists at work,
Instrument Petting Zoo, Kid at HeART Tent, Better Farm
Community Mural, Live Demonstration


Here's a map of vendors who will be in attendance (click on graphic for larger viewing size):


This event is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, administered in Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence Counties by the St. Lawrence County Arts Council.
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Nicole Caldwell

Nicole Caldwell is a self-taught environmentalist, green-living savant and sustainability educator with more than a decade of professional writing experience. She is also the co-founder of Better Farm and president of betterArts. Nicole’s work has been featured in Mother Earth News, Reader’s Digest, Time Out New York, and many other publications. Her first book, Better: The Everyday Art of Sustainable Living, is due out this July through New Society Publishers.