Innovative arts, crafts fair highlights festival’s first weekend
Published 1:30 am Friday, May 4, 2018
SEQUIM — With the theme of reusability, repurpose and recycling, the Sequim Irrigation Festival Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair comes to the Sequim Civic Center Plaza on Saturday and Sunday, with a patron preview set during the Sequim First Friday Art Walk tonight.
The arts fair emphasizing reusability, repurposing, recycling is set from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. today, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the plaza at 152 W. Cedar St.
In addition to some 45 arts and crafts vendors, the event features food vendors, entertainment on a main stage, demonstrations of sustainable arts and crafts and an opportunity to participate in a hands-on community art project.
Event organizers invite community members to enter creative works or vote for awards during the Innovative Reuse Showcase and Contest.
Participants are encouraged to bring do-it-yourself reuse, recycle, repurpose creations to win prizes. Creations are due today or Saturday morning.
People’s Choice awards will be given in four categories: Wearable, Functional, Decorative and Kids 15 and younger.
Co-directors of the Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair are Jean Wyatt and Renne Emiko Brock. Sponsors include Castell Insurance, Kitsap Bank, Home Instead, Evergreen Home Loans, Coastal Farm & Ranch, and Shawnna Rigg & Marcus Oden, RE/MAX Prime.
For more information about the fair, see www.IrrigationFestival.com, contact Kelly at 360-461-3950 or JustAskKelly@olypen.com or see www.facebook.com/Innovative.Arts.and.Crafts.Fair.
The fair schedule includes:
Demonstrations
Saturday
• 10 a.m. to noon — C.J. Kapetan, “Wood Burning Art.”
• 12:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. — Genaveve Starr, “Recycling product packaging into containers for art.”
• 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. — Driftwood sculpting by the Olympic Driftwood Sculptors.
Sunday
• 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.— Frances Rice, “Sock Pet Friends.”
• 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. — Brad Griffith of Sequim Community Makerspace, “The Toy Makers Teacher.”
Community Creativity Activity
• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday — Color small pieces of the 2018 Irrigation Festival logo to make a giant logo mural that will be on display at Coastal Farm & Ranch.
Entertainment
Saturday
• 9:30 a.m. — Kids Parade Awards.
• 9:45 a.m. to 10 a.m. — Operetta performance – “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”
• 10 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. — Olympic Peninsula Men’s Chorus.
• 11 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. — Olympic Mountain Cloggers.
• Noon to 1:50 p.m. — Jim Basnight.
• 2 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. — Caribe Steel Band.
• 4 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. — Locos Only.
Sunday
• 10 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. — Jim Basnight Solo.
• 1 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. — Tyme Pieces.
• 3 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. — Sequim High School Jazz Ensemble.
