FAME Festival to take place on Saturday

Student performances (piano, vocal, and dance) and student art displays, along with workshops featuring guest musicians and visual artists, will all be a part of the Wabash FAME Festival on Saturday, March 18 from 9:00 to 4:00 at the Honeywell Center. This is the fifteenth year for a festival of this kind in Wabash.

Admission to the festival and participation in the activities is free-ofcharge.

This year’s festival will spotlight the cultures of the Balkan Countries –Serbia, Bosnia/Herzegovin a, Kosovo, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania, and Slovenia. Some of the art activities, and two dances in the Spotlight Concert at 3:00 will feature art and music of some of these countries.

FAME programming is customarily planned around a specific culture each year to teach students about other parts of the world.

Guest visual artists will teach workshops throughout the day.

Local artist Jeanie Cooper will help students make a good luck charm, attached to red and white yarn symbolizing a Martisor from Romania.

Martisor is a symbol for the beginning of spring. It is believed that people who wear the red and white corded necklace will have good luck for the year. Jeanie’s sessions will begin at 9:30, 10:30, 11:30, 1:30 and 2:15 for 30 minute workshops in the Crystal Room.

Susan Stewart, also from Wabash, will teach four 40minute workshops in which participants will paint colorful premade papier mache’ bowls in Bosnian style. The colorful designs will be pleasing to the eye and will add a splash of color when displayed in the home.

Starting times for the painting sessions will begin at 9:00, 10:15, 12:15 and 1:45 in the Nixon Room.

Roann resident Darcy Dyson will instruct festivalgoers making Greek design mini clay flower pots. The pots will feature a Greek key design around the top of the pot and can have a variety of other designs on the rest of the pot. These will be painted with magic markers. Sessions will be limited to 25 participants who should be in the

Haist Room by the starting times of 9:15, 10:00, 11:00, 12:45 and 1:45 for the 30-minute workshops.

Several students from area schools designed poster entries for the advertising posters that were used for publicity for the festival. All included designs that were appropriate for the Balkan countries, showing something about the cultures, activities or specific events in history. Winning posters were submitted by Audrey Parker from Home School Art, Tristan Haupert from Metro North, Addison Bretzman from Sharp Creek, Ruth Cressel from Northfield Jr. High grade 7, Keeshia Dacuba from Northfield Jr. High grade 8, and Sinclair Burnau from Southwood

Evans ...cont. from Page staff, and the community will be greatly missed, and we wish him all the best as he moves to the warmer climate of Alabama.”

Elementary. These students will be recognized during the 3:00 closing concert.

The main lobby at Honeywell Center will be filled with art boards on which student art displays will showcase the talents of area students. Some schools send art projects made by every child in the school so there are many things to see in the displays. Area schools represented and the art teachers who assisted students with their projects are Home School Art, Jeanie Cooper, Charly Dye, Susan Stewart, and Judy Ward; Metro North, Katy Gray; Saint Bernard, Susan Stewart; Sharp Creek, Katy Gray; Southwood, Erica Tyson, L. H. Carpenter Center, Lori Render; Wabash Middle Cont. on Pg. 7.

Evans said he and his wife, Jane, have made friendships at Josiah White’s that will last an eternity.

“We have grown to love the ministry that happens at Josiah White’s as we offer hope and transformation through Christ to

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