Scenes from the Community Arts Festival

The Cultural Connection and Creative Arts held the first Community Arts Festival on Oct 2nd to unite Reading's cultural and artistic organizations.

The event was open to the public. Activities included demonstrations, music instrument petting zoo, performances, activities and information booths.

 Percussion instructor, Joshua Jade, mans the instrument petting zoo. Here, he encourages his daughter to explore a violin.

While public numbers were low (despite a ton of advertising), participating arts organizations had a blast networking!

 We had wonderful music and theatrical performances!

 Family trio from Reading Civic Concert Band

Student from Alpha Omega on the acoustic guitar. He was great!

Guitar & vocal instructor, Mark D. Troiano, provided music for those milling in the info booth hall.

Fiddle instructor, Esther Friedman, fiddled away on the main stage!

Quannapowitt Players performance: Velma and company performer All That Jazz

Billy Flynn: All I Care About is Love!

And let's not forget about the art show:

And this is just a selection. Great show...thanks to Creative Arts instructors, students and volunteers. Many thanks to our performers, sponsors and booth contributors!