by Cara Murray
Ketchikan Area Arts & Humanities Council’s
37th Annual Blueberry Arts Festival
August 3-5, 2012
Always the first weekend in August!
Thousands of Ketchikan residents and visitors celebrate the blueberry in style with the annual Blueberry Arts Festival. The summer staple offers over 100 booths featuring local art and handcrafted treasures on Saturday, August 4th. The Festival makes a fast start with the Fun Run followed by cheering on your favorite slug during the Slug Races. Family fun continues with food and game booths, a blueberry pie-eating contest, the Battle of the Bands, trivia contest and the Great Blueberry Race. The Pet & Doll Parade kicks off the festivities on Friday, August 3rd, followed by the opening reception for the Blueberry Juried Art Show. Complete the evening with the 15th annual Gigglefeet Dance Festival! The Festival finishes Sunday, August 5th with the annual Richard Brautigan and Dick Whitaker Memorial Trout Fishing in America Poetry Slam.
2011 Blueberry Arts Festival Schedule
TSHIRTS! You are invited to submit your design for the 2012 T-shirt and festival logo contest! Click here for the Blueberry Arts Festival – 2012 T-Shirt Call.
Winning entry receives a prize of $500. T-shirts are available for sale at the Main Street Gallery beginning in mid-July.
ARTISTS! Blueberry Arts Festival Juried Art Show Entry Form available soon. All artists of any medium, any age, any experience are welcome to participate in this annual August show.
CULINARY ARTISTS! Is your art more along the edible kind? Test Ketchikan’s taste buds with an entry for the Best Blueberry Dish. Blueberry concoctions need to be brought to the Main Street Gallery at 330 Main by 3 pm on the Friday prior to the first Saturday of August. Dishes are shared with gallery visitors and the panel of judges! And of course… FABULOUS PRIZES! No pre-registration required.
MUSICIANS! 2012 Battle of the Bands Registration form available in June! Battle of the Bands runs 12-5pm on the first Saturday of August.
DANCERS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS! 2012 Gigglefeet Dance Registrations available in June. All ages and genres of dance are welcome to perform onstage on Friday and Sunday of Blueberry weekend (7:30pm, @ Kayhi Auditorium). Get moving, Ketchikan! Tickets available through First City Players.
VENDORS! All booth spaces have been filled. Selling food at a booth? Learn more about Food Permits here. Interested in subletting your regular booth space for just this year? $25 fee holds your spot for next year and KAAHC handles the subletting.
2012 Booth applications will be available the first week of May 2012.
Please join us in thanking our sponsors for the
2011 Blueberry Arts Festival:
2011 Battle of the Bands sponsor:
2011 Pet & Doll Parade Sponsor:
Community Connections Early Learning Program
Blueberry Arts Festival Events:
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