By Suzanne Stone
The Aiken Center for the Arts plans to close its summer camp session for the year with a party Saturday, and everyone is invited.
The Center will hold the seventh annual Aiken Arts Alive celebration from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Center, located at 122 Laurens St. S.W.
The event will feature live entertainment with a cappella group the BluJayz at 11 a.m., the Columbia Marionette Theatre at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., the Southern Thunder Cloggers at noon, Gavin Winship at 12:30 p.m., and the Sly Lewis Band at 1:30 p.m. Student artwork by the Center’s summer campers will be on display on the first floor, and the campers’ group projects – 15 Palmetto trees decorated by the campers – will be up for auction at the event.
“The kids can take home any of their art they’ve left as they leave Arts Alive,” said program manager Cathy Rumble. “The entertainment and the campers’ art will all be on the first floor. Upstairs on the second floor we’ll have artist demonstrations of what we’ll be teaching in the fall, a big room with crafts for kids and face painting. For the last couple of years we’ve given a room to the Aiken SPCA where they bring adoptable animals; New York Life will have fingerprinting for children; the Aiken County Public Library will be here; Ace the Pacer Pony will be here; and the Aiken Department of Public Safety will be here with the fire truck.”
The Center’s summer camps opened on June 18, and attracted several hundred students, according to Rumble.
“We had a pretty full camp session. The last couple of years we’ve had a lot of older kids, middle school age, sign up for the camps, which has meant we’ve been able to branch out and do some really fun things with them,” she said.
Aiken Arts Alive is free and open to the public. For more information about the event, call Kristin Brown or Cathy Rumble at 641-9094.
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The Aiken Center for the Arts plans to close its summer camp session for the year with a party Saturday, and everyone is invited.
The Center will hold the seventh annual Aiken Arts Alive celebration from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Center, located at 122 Laurens St. S.W.
The event will feature live entertainment with a cappella group the BluJayz at 11 a.m., the Columbia Marionette Theatre at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., the Southern Thunder Cloggers at noon, Gavin Winship at 12:30 p.m., and the Sly Lewis Band at 1:30 p.m. Student artwork by the Center’s summer campers will be on display on the first floor, and the campers’ group projects – 15 Palmetto trees decorated by the campers – will be up for auction at the event.
“The kids can take home any of their art they’ve left as they leave Arts Alive,” said program manager Cathy Rumble. “The entertainment and the campers’ art will all be on the first floor. Upstairs on the second floor we’ll have artist demonstrations of what we’ll be teaching in the fall, a big room with crafts for kids and face painting. For the last couple of years we’ve given a room to the Aiken SPCA where they bring adoptable animals; New York Life will have fingerprinting for children; the Aiken County Public Library will be here; Ace the Pacer Pony will be here; and the Aiken Department of Public Safety will be here with the fire truck.”
The Center’s summer camps opened on June 18, and attracted several hundred students, according to Rumble.
“We had a pretty full camp session. The last couple of years we’ve had a lot of older kids, middle school age, sign up for the camps, which has meant we’ve been able to branch out and do some really fun things with them,” she said.
Aiken Arts Alive is free and open to the public. For more information about the event, call Kristin Brown or Cathy Rumble at 641-9094.