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Arts Group Kicks Off Internet Funding Campaign

The Butler County Alliance for the Visual and Performing Arts in Education kicked off their new internet funding campaign on Monday, September 22, 2014.  The Alliance is seeking to raise $18,000.00 in order to stage its student art exhibition and new arts festival.

     The festival is scheduled for March 19-21, 2015. The centerpiece of the festival will be the River Arts juried art exhibition.  The first River Arts exhibition, in December of 2013, displayed student art works from 25 schools throughout our region.  River Arts II 2015 will expand on that original show in several ways.  This year’s show will be open to all public schools K-12 in a16 county region surrounding Butler County.    Schools from Owensboro to Hopkinsville to Glasgow will have the opportunity to participate.  The show will be one of the largest in western Kentucky and has the potential to showcase the works of well over 100 public school art programs.

     In addition to the juried student show, the Alliance will introduce a second art exhibition to the festival this year.  This show will feature the art of local Butler County artists.  It will be open to adult artists, both amateur and professional, as well as local private and home schooled students.  Both shows will be juried exhibitions with awards will be given for the best works in each show.

    Complementing the two visual art shows of the festival, will be three days of performing arts events, to be staged in a variety of local venues.  There will live theatre performances, dance recitals, band concerts, choral performances and chamber music recitals throughout the festival.

     During the festival, local students will spend their days participating in a variety of hands-on arts workshops and master classes. These arts experiences are designed to help students understand the creative process and appreciate the importance and relevance of the arts to everyday life.

    In an attempt to provide these arts experiences to the students of Butler County, at no costs to them, their teachers or our local school system, the Alliance has chosen to fund the events of the festival through kickstarter.com, an internet crowd-funding website.  The kickstarter.com website allows members of the public to invest in projects they find to be note-worthy.  Parties interested in receiving further details concerning the River Arts Festival may refer to the Alliance’s funding proposal at http://kickstarter.com/projects/323100036/river-arts-ii-a-student-exhibi... The project will be accepting backers via the kickstarter website through October 22, 2014.

CLICK HERE https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/323100036/river-arts-ii-a-student-e...

       Sam Hunt, chair of the Alliance, had this to say in reference to the project and its funding. “For centuries, the rivers of western Kentucky were the roads bringing art and culture to the citizens of our region.  Join us now as we set sail along those same rivers in the hope of sharing the dreams, the aspirations and the artistic creations of our youth with the citizens of Kentucky and the world beyond.  Join us now. Help support River Arts II and set sail with us on a river of dreams.”

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