20th Annual Shoreline Arts Festival June 26 and 27, Creating Our Future: Choose the Arts!

The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council celebrates its 20th annual festival with the theme “Creating our Future: Choose the Arts!” to be held Saturday, June 26 from 10 am to 7 pm and Sunday, June 27 from 10 am to 5 pm.

Please join us as we explore how the arts will impact our future as they help shape our community at the 2010 Shoreline Arts Festival. The arts inform us and bring us together, while creativity and technology go hand in hand in this digital age. There is something for everyone at this two-day community event.

This year’s Festival poster will feature Pinwheel Farm, an acrylic painting by artist Candace Taylor Lange. The Shoreline Arts Festival Guide's cover, featuring the painting, will be available in the Journal Newspaper’s June edition. Be sure to pick up this year’s copy!

Our cultural rooms will feature Pacific Islander and Chinese exhibits as well as the 13th Annual Philippine Festival.

A culturally diverse line-up of acts will perform on the Shoreline Room Stage this year. Here are some of the featured artists: Juliana and PAVA - Russian folk songs, the Shoreline Senior Singers, Baile Glas Irish Dancers, Filipiniana Dancers, Melody Institute Chinese Dance, Hokulani’s Hula Studio & the Kupunas, Eclectic Cloggers – Appalachian Folkdance, Total Experience Gospel Choir, Inochi Taiko - Japanese drums, Rhythms of India - Bollywood Dance and more.

Festival attendees will be able to explore the Juried Art Shows and the intriguing booths in the Artists Marketplace. Adjacent to the delicious offerings of the Food Court, the Showmobile Stage features popular bands and danceable music with acts like the Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra, Adrian Xavier - reggae, the Katy Bourne Jazz Trio, Hotbox Rox - top 40, Tiger Zane - singer/songwriter, Deseo Carmin - Latin flamenco, gypsy and funk, the Gothard Sisters - Celtic violin and dance and the Mood Swings - jazz.

On Saturday, the Shoreline Auditorium will feature local children performing Missoula Children’s Theatre’s production of "King Arthur's Quest." Auditions will take place June 21 so please check out website for more information.

Art projects in the popular Children’s Hands-on Art Arena will be rooted in our Festival theme in unique ways, including puzzlebots, paper stars and space ships. We are excited to welcome back the Northwest Collage Society as they sponsor an exhibit and collage making workshop using recycled materials. The winning poems from our Third Annual Poetry Month Contest will be posted in Poetry Hall. The Festival Breakfast will be held at the Shoreline Senior Center both days from 8:30-noon.

The Festival runs 10-7 on Saturday and 10-5 on Sunday. The Shoreline Center is located at 18560 1st Ave NE. The Festival is free. For more information please contact the Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council at 206-417-4645 or visit us online.

The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to nurture all of the arts in the community through programs and events, arts education, advocacy, and support for artists and arts organizations.