Barre Learning for Life Festival

Come for FREE Fun for ALL AGES!!!
Saturday, November 13th at
 10 am to 1 pm at the Aldrich Library
1:30 to 3:00 at the Elk's Club

Are you looking for something free, fun, and exciting that the whole family can attend?

How about a unique way to learn about Barre's rich and varied cultural heritage?

Then the 3rd Annual Greater Barre Community Learning for Life Festival is the place to come on Saturday, November 13, 2004.

The festival will be held at the Aldrich Public Library from 10 am to 1 pm
and from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm at the Barre Elks Lodge in downtown Barre.

Explore the fun of learning through storytelling, presentations, hands-on activities, musical performances, and gift books. 

All activities are free and handicap accessible.
Discover the power of oral histories with Greg Sharrow from the Vermont Folklife Center at 10:30.  
Enjoy the cultural heritage of Barre's newer Russian-speaking neighbors of Armenian ancestry in a presentation at 11:30, including the folktale "Snegourchka"  (The Snow Maiden), dancing, and samples of traditional food.
Comics! Graphic Novels!   will attract teens as Rachael Rice leads hands-on exploration of Japanese anime and manga techniques and other Asian arts, while Mark Patterson of Comics Outpost gets into the books.
Children will enjoy storytelling by VIP readers: police chief  Trevor Whipple,  BCEMS principal Jim Taffel, and Kerrick Johnson of CVPS.
Costumed book characters will be guides to creative fun such as making bookmarks, Mother Goose math, a macaroni table, and letter frames.
Try drawing and etching with Anita Lucero and Tom Belville from the Stone Arts School of the Vermont Granite Museum. 
Click the Morse code with the Vermont Historical Society.
Check out the many activities and displays offered by local orgaizations.

A special addition this year is the afternoon:

 "Cultural Potpourri of Music & Dance"
 at the Elks Lodge that will bring the Festival to a rousing finale.

Bagpiper David Reid will draw the crowd from the library to the Elks Lodge.

At 1:30 local Bosnian dancers - the "Superstars" - will take to the floor under the direction of Danijela Hadzisakovic.

Piero Bonamico will lead an Italian songfest, and a button accordion played by Irene Brown will give a musical tour of Italy.

Young local Scottish Highland dancers will take their turn displaying energetic footwork.

West African, French, and Irish music will fill the air until 3:00 pm.

Please spread the word and come!

Books Available at the Aldrich for further reading.

The festival is a free event sponsored by the Barre Learning for Life Committee, a community collaboration since 1997 that celebrates and promotes reading, writing, and lifelong learning in the greater Barre area. The event is funded as a Vermont Humanities Council Creating Communities of Readers project and from the Barre Danforth Committee, the Central Vermont Regional Marketing Organization and the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing.

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