MERA Arts Festival

Jun 10, 2015

McDonalds Corners/Elphin Recreation and Arts (MERA) will host its first multi-disciplinary arts festival on Sat. June 13, 10am-dusk at the MERA Schoolhouse. Except for a build-your-own-ukulele workshop that requires a fee & registration, the festival is completely free. The activities will include a number of workshops and demonstrations by various arts groups, including the MERA Heritage Weavers, the MERA Pottery group, the fine arts “Arts Circle”
and many others. plus activities for children. There will be a puppet-making workshop given by Montreal’s Flying Box Theatre. They make a variety of styles of puppets, tailoring their workshops to each audience, and are looking forward to teaching puppetmaking to young and old alike. They will also present a free performance of “Hans Dudeldee and Other Forgotten Fairy Tales” at the evening gala concert. Flying Box Theatre will also be giving two other performances at other locations: on Sunday, June 14, at 10am in the band shell at Sharbot Lake beach, and 1:30pm at Perth and District Public Library (admission by donation).
An evening gala concert will include Eve Goldberg, accordianist Chantale Urbain performing French gypsy tunes, and Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter David Ross MacDonald. www.meraschoolhouse.org