1ST SATURDAY GUITAR LESSONS

Jim Cleveland's Summer Guitar Lessons were so well received that they too are back by popular demand!  He will be doing 1st Saturday Guitar Lessons every first Saturday of the month.  These will begin next Saturday, September 7 at 10am.  What a wonderful opportunity!

1ST THURDSAY QUILTING LESSON

Don't forget our 1st Thursday Quilting Lesson with Michele Chitsey, next Thursday, Sept. 5 from 5:45pm-8:45pm.  This month quilters will be continuing their Christmas projects from August.  Lots of fun!  Come check it out!

FCAA ACTING 101 WORKSHOP THIS SATURDAY

The final workshop in our Summer Youth Workshop Series is Acting 101, instructed by Christian Galloway, on Saturday, August 10^th (1pm-3pm).  

Christian has a Master of Science in Theatre from Texas A & M University-Commerce.  A few of her acting roles include:  Bella from Neil Simon’s Lost In Yonkers, Sally in Clark Gesner’s musical, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, and Mrs. Betterton in April De Angelis’sPlayhouse Creatures.  For her Master’s Thesis, she played the role of Eleanor in James Goodman’s The Lion In Winter.   According to Christian, “This workshop is going to center around acting basics.”  She looks forward to working with the youth in our community.

  

The workshop will be located at the Cultural Arts Center, 100 Rusk St., Mt. Vernon, one block west of the Courthouse.  Once again, these workshops are FREE to participants, paid for, in part by the St. Clair Endowment, through the Franklin County Historical Association.  For more information or to register, please contact Christian Galloway at:franklincountyarts@gmail.com or (903) 434-9130. 

FCAA & FRANKLIN COUNTY LIBRARY PRESENT TWICE UPON A TIME STORYTELLERS

Kids love hearing a good story!

And why should kids have all the fun?

Twice Upon a Time Storytellers, Gene and Peggy Helmick-Richardson, will be sharing tales twice at the Cultural Arts Center, 100 RUSK St. in Mt. Vernon, on Friday, August 9. Once for children and once for adults, both programs are free and open to the public.

Kids will be treated to “Different Ways to Tell a Story” from 2 to 3 p.m. that day. This storytelling program incorporates activities, such as origami, magic tricks, singing and using different voices, into the tales. This program is recommended for ages 5 through 12.

Adults and teens can come to the Cultural Arts Center at 6 p.m. for Twice Upon a Time’s “Fairy, Folk and Fantasy Tales for Adults.” The audience will hear such tales as the story of a woman outwitting a dragon by famed sci-fi and fantasy author Orson Scott Card and learning a little more about the inspiration behind the Star Wars series.

Sponsored by Friends of the Franklin County Library & Franklin County Arts Alliance, these programs have been made possible by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Traveling from preschools to prisons, Twice Upon a Time Storytellers have been sharing their tales together since 1999 and been on the Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Artists Roster for over 10 years. Gene and Peggy's presentations blend this ancient oral tradition with personal narrative, science, history, modern nuance, cultural diversity and sometimes a soupcon of silliness to show the world in many new and imaginative ways.

To learn more about Twice Upon a Time Storytellers, go to www.twicetellers.com.

For additional information, contact: twiceuponatime@sbcglobal.net library@mt-vernon.com or call Lisa Lawrence at 903-537-4916.

                                                                                     

FANTASTIC STORYBOOK WRITING WORKSHOP: AUG. 3, 2013

What a wonderful workshop! Everyone came up with such creative story ideas! Thank you Lisa Simmons for your wonderfully insightful teaching! Thank you to Maggie, Molly, Miriam, Mikialah, and Kristen for your participation! We, once again, send a big "THANK YOU" to Jack Cook for these phenomenal photos!

MORE ART 101 YOUTH WORKSHOP PHOTOS

Thank you Donna McFarland for taking these, and thank you Rhonda Cross for the use of your IPhone!

 

 

SECOND CLASS IN YOUTH WORKSHOP SERIES TOMORROW

Our next youth workshop is tomorrow:  Saturday, August 3^rd (1pm-3pm), on the art of Storybook Writing, as instructed by Lisa Simmons. "Lisa loves a good picture book as much as the next person and loves to explores the reasons some books just draw the reader in.  She has been published in several magazines and has two Ipad picture books with Flying Books.  She lives in NE Texas with her husband and daughters and writes EVERY day -- just for the fun of it."

Come and join us at :

Cultural Arts Center

100 Rusk St. 

Mt. Vernon, TX

(One block west of the Courthouse)

For more information or to sign-up, contact Christian Galloway, our Events Coordinator:

Phone:  903-434-9130

Email: franklincountyarts@gmail.com