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You will literally find everything from
A to Z Saturday in downtown Wake Forest
for the third Autumn Arts Festival.
There will be artists from
across the region displaying and selling
their artwork: pottery, jewelry,
photography, acrylics, watercolors and
oils.
There will be music by Al
Williams and the Assembly, the Franklin
Academy Jazz Band and the Sandbox Band.
The Gypsy Oasis Middle
Eastern Dance Troupe will be on stage
for two performances.
Wake Forest’s The Road Less
Traveled Theatre group will be roaming
South White Street, staging short
performances.
Wake Forest VFW Post 8466
will sell hot dogs and hamburgers in the
chamber of commerce parking lot, and the
festival’s organizers, the Downtown
Revitalization Corporation and the Wake
Forest Cultural Arts Association, will
offer Carolina barbecue.
The staff of the Wake Forest
Boys and Girls Club will have activities
for children along East Owen Street.
As for Z, that is the “Zany
Zoo” offered by the Wake Forest Parks
and Recreation Department.
At 2 p.m., Atlanta puppeteer
Lee Bryan, aka That Puppet Guy, will
present animal antics, acrobatics and
artistry, all set to music. There will
be a frog on roller skates, a
weight-lifting bear, a juggling dog and
belly-dancing bunny. Parents should
bring cameras to take their children’s
pictures with a piano-playing bird, a
bumblebee ballerina or a trumpet-playing
beetle.
The array of activities will
take place along South White Street from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The street will be
blocked off, but parking is available on
side streets, in the Wake Forest Plaza
(former Winn-Dixie) parking lot, in the
town parking lot east of South White
between East Jones Avenue and Wait
Avenue (enter from Brooks and Jones) and
in the former shopping center parking
lot on North White Street behind the CVS
store under construction. |
