Free Arts Splash Concerts this Summer!

JUNE 9

Rod McCoy and Company (Jazz/R&B)

AUGUST 4

Carolina Soul Band (MoTown/Soul)

The High Point Arts Council is pleased to announce our 2023 summer outdoor concert series — Arts Splash. This season’s line up includes artists highlighting various genres of music: Motown, Soul, Folk, Blues, Latin, and Jazz. This year we are changing the date of our free Arts Splash concerts to be held on Fridays from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Concert-goers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, blankets, and picnic dinners. Alcohol will be available for purchase at concerts; however, no outside alcohol will be allowed in. If there is a threat of rain, call 336.889.2787 (ARTS), or visit our social media pages after 4 p.m. Friday to get the latest update on the event. If we are able, our rain location site will be inside the High Point Arts Council at 121 S. Centennial St., High Point, NC 27260. For more exciting updates, like the High Point Arts Council’s social media pages.

The Arts Splash concerts are splashed all over town in di erent locations ensuring that the arts are accessible to everyone in our community. This year we are proud to expand into Jamestown to support the greater High Point area.

Washington Terrace Park 101 Gordon Street, High Point

JUNE 23

Spindle 45 (Pop/Rock)

Wrenn Miller Park

101 Guilford Rd, Jamestown, NC

JULY 7

Sahara Reggae Band (Reggae)

Oak Hollow Festival Park

1841 Eastchester Drive, High Point

JULY 21

Zinc Kings (Piedmont Blues)

High Point Museum & Historical Park

1859 E. Lexington Avenue, High Point

High Point City Lake Park 602 W. Main Street, Jamestown

AUGUST 18

West End Mambo (Latin/Salsa)

Mendenhall Transportation Terminal 220 E. Commerce Avenue, High Point

Arts Splash is presented by the High Point Arts Council in partnership with High Point Parks & Recreation and its many sponsors:City of High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina Arts Council, ArtsGreensboro, KMH Illustrative Design, Kitty and Earl Congdon, Becky Wray, Martha Yarborough, Ann & Jim Morgan. !

WEEKLY ARTS ROUNDUP] ARTISTS IN RESIDENCY WITH FORSYTH COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES

The Sportscenter Athletic Club is a private membership club dedicated to providing the ultimate athletic and recreational facilities for our members of all ages. Conveniently located in High Point, we provide a wide variety of activities for our members. We’re designed to incorporate the total fitness concept for maximum benefits and total enjoyment. We cordially invite all of you to be a part of our athletic facility, while enjoying the membership savings we offer our established corporate accounts.

BY TAJA SEAFUS AND YOSIMAR ALVAREZ

Since beginning our journey in March, we have discovered the lovely communities that each library serves within Forsyth County. There is a big want from each library and that is ART! Every community desires to create in any capacity to expand thinking and crafts skills. Through this program, Taja Seafus and Yosimar Alvarez will be developing their own final projects to be displayed in the Central Library and will provide programming at select library locations to spearhead some new creative programs and activities to be developed and ongoing after the residency.

Taja Seafus will be leading a collaborative painting experience at most of the branches. Each of these paintings will be on 4’ x 8’ canvases that each library will get to keep as their own personal community mural. Her final project will include a series of bookend model universes that reflect on the city of Arts and Innovation in a unique and artistic way. She hopes as people are viewing through the shelves of the library that they take the time to admire the little things between the cracks of the books. Being one of the first-ever Artists In Residence at the Forsyth County Public Library has been a dream come true! Yosimar had a great time visiting each and every library branch in Forsyth County, and is amazed at all the hidden treasure troves of resources that local libraries o er to their communities. He has even stumbled upon some great resources that he can use for my own artistic career.

He’s so excited to share his final project, Blueprint: The City of Arts & Innovation, with the world later this summer. It’s been a labor of love bringing his vision to life but he can’t wait to see everyone’s reactions. He commended the FCPL for allowing Taja Seafus and him to fully express themselves on this project and maintain creative control over our projects.

He is beyond grateful to have this incredible opportunity. The support and encouragement that I’ve received in the last few months mean the world to me, and he is beyond grateful to be part of this artistic adventure!

We hope that through our art and hearing each community that we’re able to touch the hearts of everyone creatively. Each library is equipped with enough resources for both of us to become successful in our residency. We thank the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County for supporting us. You can catch Taja and Yosimar actively working on their projects at the Central Library in the makerspace.

You can stay up to date on where they will be hosting programming on their instagrams: @thingsby_yosi @doseartistcollective , all of these programs are free and open to the public! For exact dates and more information visit www. forsyth.cc/library/

Explore the natural side of Bethabara by participating in a guided nature walk, taking a hike on the new Kids in Parks Track Trail, making a sun print, and learning about various plants and animals from local organizations.