OctoberFest

Oct 2nd from 3-8pm

at: Garden Hut

1004 Old Honeycutt Road
Fuquay Varina, NC 27526

Music

Pig on Grill

Beer

NC Barbeque

Fuquay-Varina Arts Council Board Meeting
(All are Welcome)
Monday Sept 13th, at 7:30pm, we will be having our regular Board Meeting.  All interested in getting involved are welcome.  We will be meeting in the Board Room at the Fuquay-Varina Chamber of Commerce Office at 121 North Main St. Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526.

We need volunteers to get involved as we plan for ways to expand the arts in our community.

Topics include:
  * Finalizing our plans for our Summer Music Series and its promotion
  * Our Fireworks Stand to be at the top of Main St Downtown, to raise funds. (Volunteers Needed)
  * Discussing the Consultant paid for by the United Arts, as well as his suggestions for our next meeting with him
  * The Hope Project, I have been involved and our Arts Council will be involved and will benefit from. 
      If Thomas Ray cannot attend, I will present this significant and worthy project to the Board.

All are welcome to our open Board meetings, we need active members.

David Morris, President
Fuquay-Varina Arts Council

United Arts Provides Seed Funding for Fuquay-Varina Arts Council

The United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County has recently awarded seed funding in the amount of a $2,000 grant to the Fuquay-Varina Arts Council.  The funding will help the relatively new nonprofit arts agency support its plans for a Festival of Dance in early 2010, as well as plans for “Spring into Arts,” an outdoor music and art exhibition festival in spring 2010.

The Fuquay-Varina Arts Council is “an effort to give a platform for both the expression of the talents that are a part of our citizenry and a venue for enriching our citizenry by coordinating performances and exhibits from groups and individuals from across wake County, North Carolina and the world.”   We have worked toward fulfilling our purpose of assuring an enhanced quality of life for the citizens of Fuquay-Varina,” says David Morris, president of the Fuquay-Varina Arts Council.

Seed funding from United Arts is intended to support emerging arts organizations that have begun to produce arts programming.  The purpose of the funding is to help organizations develop their capacity for producing or presenting arts programs. 

The United Arts Council’s mission is to build better communities through support and advocacy of the arts.  This year alone United Arts will support more than 700 public music, dance and theatre performances and art exhibitions and more than 6000 classes/workshops in arts for youth outside of school settings in Wake County, NC, as well as 140,000 hours of arts programming in 130+ Wake schools. For more information, go to www.unitedarts.org.