Annual Harbor for the Arts Festival Begins Friday

Arts Festival includes a plain air painting competition.

Arts Festival includes a plain air competition.

By ANGELLE BARBAZON

July 28, 2014

Beginning Friday, August 1, artists from around the world will get a dose of small town America. And small town America (in the form of Cape Charles) will get a dose of global art. The Harbor for the Arts Festival will not only host dancers, musicians, actors, puppeteers and visual artists from around the world, but create an environment for those artists and the community to truly engage with art and each other. The event runs August 1-17, offering free, live art and performances scheduled throughout.

August 8-10, and August 15-17 will be especially art-soaked weekends, filled with concerts, exhibitions, performances for children, and even yoga in the park.

The festival’s line-up includes artists from London, Canada, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Ghana, Italy, and Sweden, among other places. The five workshops will feature Experimental Film Virginia, Gaga Movement Language, Interactive Sonic Arts, Techniques in Charcoal and Improv/Sketch Comedy.

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Tuition from the workshops enables the festival to provide free, public entertainment as part of a new trend for sustainability in the arts, with the arts woven into the ecosystem of business, tourism, economy and community identity. Likewise, artists will find Cape Charles to be an incubator and playground for their artistic exploration, according to organizers.

The first Harbor for the Arts Festival was held in August 2013. The festival is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Virginia Tourism Corporation.

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