March 8, 2006The 2nd Annual Arts & Music Festival Scheduled

For anyone who enjoyed last year’s event, with arts, crafts, live music and good food, mark your calendar now for this year’s event. It will be held Saturday September 30, 2006. 10AM-4PM at the same location as last year, between the Historic Town hall and Dickran Diran Square and the library at the corners of Routes 18 and 105.

There will also be a Friday evening performance, September 29th. Last year, the event was held in the Assawompset Middle School gym. It was an entertaining and inspiring night of music, poetry, and theater. This year’s event promises to be just as spectacular.

We are now looking for additional volunteers from the community to bring their ideas and enthusiasm to the planning table. The next organizing committee meeting is March 16 at 7PM in the Town Offices on Bedford Street.

Proceeds from the Arts and Music Festival will help to fund year-round support for arts and cultural events through the Lakeville Arts Council, for Lakeville and surrounding communities. Some of the projects funded by the Lakeville Arts Council include: Artapalooza, Open Studio, The Herring Run Arts Festival, a pass for the Museum of Science, Jazz In The Park, and a Writer’s Group for the Council on Aging.

The Lakeville Arts Council is part of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Statewide, local cultural councils like Lakeville will have distributed more than $1.9 million in 2005. Grants support an enormous range of grass-roots activities: concerts, exhibitions, radio and video productions, field trips for schoolchildren, after-school youth programs, writing workshops, historical preservation efforts, lectures, First Night celebrations, nature and science education programs for families and town festivals. Information and forms are available on-line at www.massculturalcouncil.org, and are due Oct. 15, 2006.