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Thank you to everyone who helped make the 26th season a huge success

[ Thank you to everyone who helped make the 26th season a huge success ]: An Appalachian Summer Festival would like to thank all the businesses and organizations who helped make the 26th season a huge success! We are so grateful for your support and are looking forward to next July!

Turchin Center Announces Winners of the 24th Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition

[ Turchin Center Announces Winners of the 24th Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition ]: The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts and An Appalachian Summer Festival are pleased to announce the winners of the 24th Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition. Their works will be installed on the Appalachian State University campus April 16 and 17, and the public is invited to participate in related celebration events.

[ 2010 Appalachian Summer Festival Schedule Announced ]

An Appalachian Summer Festival announces its 2010 schedule.

Plus dynamic visual arts exhibitions, lectures, educational events, arts workshops for children and adults and more!

Halpert Biennial '09 Winners Announced

[ Halpert Biennial '09 Winners Announced ]: On behalf of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, An Appalachian Summer Festival and Halpert Biennial '09 juror Jeffrey Gove, we congratulate Craig Fisher from Toledo, OH; Jeremiah Ariaz from Baton Rouge, LA; and Ivan Fortushniak from Indiana, PA.

Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition partners with the Downtown Boone Development Association (DBDA) Public Art Program

[ Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition partners with the Downtown Boone Development Association (DBDA) Public Art Program ]: Partnership to offer two additional sculptors a chance to participant in the Rosen program with the Community Choice Award.

[ "What the festival means to me..." ]: "The energy and excitement builds from the moment the festival starts to be promoted and I can't wait to see what is being offered."

"An open letter to my fellow supporters..."

[ "An open letter to my fellow supporters..." ]: Ron Redmon, an Appalachian Summer Festival supporter, writes about the arts and their importance in trying economic times.

"Our finances will recover in due course, for that is the nature of all things cyclical. The light and joy that only music, dance, and drama can provide is needed now, more than ever... and they depend on us."

[ An Appalachian Summer Festival 2009 Season Schedule ]: 2009 season highlights include Kenny Loggins; Mike Cross; Melissa Manchester; Buckwheat Zydeco; Joan Baez; Leahy; Paula Poundstone; Pilobolus Dance; Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Pops; Sophie B. Hawkins; The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble; Paul Taylor Dance Company; Triad Stage; Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra and more.

[ An Appalachian Summer Festival Announces New Model of Artistic Leadership ]: An Appalachian Summer Festival has adopted a new model for artistic direction, designed to fulfill its mission, vision, and long-range goals.

[ Appalachian Summer Festival Tribute Gifts: A Meaningful Way to Honor or Remember a Family Member or Friend ]: Tribute gifts to An Appalachian Summer Festival, including memorial gifts and honoraria, are meaningful ways to recognize someone on a special occasion, express sympathy to friends or loved ones who have experienced the loss of a family member, or to memorialize someone for whom the arts were highly valued.

[ Top Ten Reasons to Give to An Appalachian Summer Festival ]: We're "counting down" just a few reasons why giving to the arts is so important. We know you have your own reasons, and we invite you to share them with us!

[ An Appalachian Summer Festival: Keys to Success ]: The success of events such as An Appalachian Summer Festival involves meeting and exceeding goals on several important fronts: artistic, marketing, and financial, and thanks to the efforts of so many groups who came together to make the festival possible, it achieved success on each of those fronts.

[ An Appalachian Summer Festival Wins Economic Development Award ]: In early August 2004, An Appalachian Summer Festival was presented with the Alfred Adams Award for Economic Development by the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce, an annual award bestowed on organizations who make a substantial contribution to the economic growth and development of our region.

2010 major corporate sponsorship provided by:

Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation

SkyBest Communications, Inc.

2010 Schedule

May 27: Silent Auction opens

Jun 27: Providence Gap

Jul 1: Janis Ian and Karla Bonoff

Jul 2: TCVA Summer Exhibition Celebration

Jul 3: Workshop: Basic Batik

Jul 3: Faculty Showcase Recital

Jul 5-7: Workshop: Breathtaking and Bold

Jul 5-9: Workshop: Figure Drawing

Jul 5: Film: Me and Orson Welles

Jul 7: Lunch & Learn: The Sounds of Summer

Jul 7: Broyhill Chamber Ensemble

Jul 8: Lecture: Anne Whisnant

Jul 9: Amy Sedaris

Jul 10: TCVA Family Day

Jul 10: Golden Dragon Acrobats

Jul 11: Eastern Festival Orchestra

Jul 12-16: Workshop: From Trash to Puppets

Jul 12: Film: Vanya on 42nd Street

Jul 14: Lunch & Learn: Travel and the Creative Mind

Jul 14: Broyhill Chamber Ensemble

Jul 16: Lar Lubovitch Dance Company

Jul 17: Patti LuPone

Jul 18: Eastern Festival Orchestra

Jul 19-30: Workshop: Painting Techniques of the Old Masters

Jul 19-23: Workshop: Viva Mexico!

Jul 19: Film: Every Little Step

Jul 21: Lunch & Learn: Viva Mexico!

Jul 22: Workshop: Technology for Art Teachers

Jul 22: Silent Auction ends

Jul 22: Workshop: National Board Certification

Jul 22: John Pizzarelli

Jul 23: Film: Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival

Jul 24: 24th Annual Rosen Sculpture Walk

Jul 24: Blood, Sweat & Tears

Jul 25: Broyhill Chamber Ensemble

Jul 26-30: Workshop: Be a Super Hero... or a Super Shero!

Jul 26: Film: Under the Same Moon

Jul 28: Lunch & Learn: Italian Holocaust Survivors Remember

Jul 29: Jazz Beneath the Stars: Todd Wright Jazz Orchestra

Jul 30: Ralph Stanley & Cherryholmes

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