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Clifton Forge's Spring Arts & Garden Festival is Back!
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Come Celebrate Spring, the Garden, and the Arts at this year's MayFaire!

Clifton Forge School of the Arts and the Historic Masonic Theatre and Amphitheatre are bringing a fun-filled day for the whole family on our adjoining grounds.

Join us Saturday, April 30 from 10:00 am-5:00 pm- Rain or Shine! (Yes, it's called MayFaire. Yes, it's in April this year!)

We'll have art, live music & dance performances, food & drink, artisan vendors, beautiful plants for your home & garden, activities for the kids, silent auction, raffle, and more!

Just $5 admission and 12 and under are free. Tickets are available in advance at historicmasonictheatre.com and the day of in the Masonic Theatre Underground and at the Garden entrance at the School of the Arts (cash admission). All attendees must have a wristband.
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1-Clifton Forge LOVEworks
2-Amphitheatre Stage
3-Masonic Underground- beer & wine
4-Mountain Momma's Kitchen
5-Clifton Forge Rescue Squad
6-Admissions
7-Cora Dance Workshop at 1:45 pm
8-Sidewalk Chalk Contest 10:00 am-1:00 pm
9-Admissions
10-CFSOTA Gallery
11-The Art Store
12-White Oak Farm
13-Roselawn Acres
14-Roselawn Bake Shoppe
15- Cowpasture River Preservation Association
16- On the River Farm
17- Cheyenne Marcus Painting Demo (all day)
18- Suzanne Williams Metalwork Demo (10:00am-1:00pm)
19- Cutes by Ann
20- Designs by Holly
21- Hamilton Roots
22- Pure Essence Spa
23- Lion's Club
24- Kanawha Café
25- Houses for Bluebirds by a Flicker
26- catherinemadeit
27- CFSOTA Silent Auction
28- CFSOTA Raffle
29- CFSOTA Instructor/Student booth
30- Occam's Mill
31- AHCSB
32- Blue Spring Run Farm
33- Four Moons/Mountain Field Market
34- A&A Kettle Corn
35- Peacock Soap
36- Valley View Animal Rescue
37- Bubble Fun
38- love.dee creations
39- Ceriwen's Box / The Clay Cauldron
40- Painfully Pretty
41- Cora Dance Information
42- Kids Art Tent
43- McButters Tie Dye
44- Everything chenille
45- Sock Mob Designs
46- Fire & Clay
47- Andrea Curry
48- Deb Broughman
49- Branches by Kathy
50- Grapevine Wreaths
51- Patchwork Palettes and Passions
52- William Jennings Painting Demonstration (all day)
53- Judith Lochbrunner Painting Demonstration (10:00 am)
54- George Ayars Garden Stepping Stone Demo (1:00pm)
55- Masons
56- Shriners Donuts
​HAPPENING ALL DAY 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Shopping

Location: Artisans and Plant Vendors outdoors behind the School of the Arts and inside The Mill; The Art Store inside CFSOTA main building
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Free Kids' Art Activities, Sponsored by Highlands Community Bank
Location: Large event tent behind Clifton Forge School of the Arts (CFSOTA)

Kids' Bubble Fun
Location: behind CFSOTA, next to art tent

Chalk Art (see contest version below)
Location: on Church Street (Sidewalks reserved for contest, street is for freeform fun!)

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Community Organizations
Meet your next best friend with Valley View Animal Rescue (we hear there will be a puppy kissing booth!), learn how to care for our waterways from the Cowpasture River Preservation Association, and find out about the new Clifton Forge LOVEworks sculpture that will be installed soon!
Location: throughout the event grounds


Painting Demonstration by Cheyenne Marcus
Location: Just inside the garage door of The Mill at CFSOTA

Painting Demonstration by William Jennings
Location: Along upper garden path

Silent Auction
Location: The Mill at CFSOTA

Raffle
Location: The Mill at CFSOTA

Food & Drink
Mountain Momma's Kitchen (food truck parked behind Masonic Theatre)

Kanawha Café- Coffee, Pastries & Baked Goods (inside The Mill at CFSOTA)
Lion's Club Homemade Ice Cream (inside The Mill at CFSOTA)
A&A Kettle Corn (behind the School of the Arts near kids' art tent)
Clifton Forge Rescue Squad Founders' Auxiliary (behind Masonic Theatre)

Concessions (Masonic Underground)
Shriner's Donuts (along bike trail above CFSOTA Garden)​
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EVENT SCHEDULE
10:00 am-12:30 pm Plein Air Painting Demonstration by Judith Lochbrunner, presented by Alleghany Highlands Arts & Crafts Center
Location: # 53 Clifton Forge School of the Arts Garden Path

10:00 am-1:00 pm Sidewalk Chalk Contest
Location: #8 Sidewalks on Amphitheatre side of Church Street

10:00 am-1:00 pm Metal Stamping and Copper Form Folding Demonstration by Suzanne Williams
Location: #18 Inside The Mill at CFSOTA

12:00 pm Madison Barnett & Chase Burley-Smith, Fiddle-Guitar Duo
Location: #2 Amphitheatre Stage

1:00 pm Garden Stepping Stone Demo by George Ayars
Location: #54 Outside of CFSOTA Glass Studio, next to bike trail

1:00 pm-5:00 pm Free Chair Massages by Katelynne Brogan of Pure Essence Spa
Location: # 22 Inside The Mill at CFSOTA, next to Cafe area

1:45 pm Dance Workshop with Cora Dance
Location: #7 Church Street
 
2:45 pm Cora Dance Performance
Location: #2 Amphitheatre Stage
 
3:00 pm Sidewalk Chalk Contest Winners Announced
Location: #2 Amphitheatre Stage

3:30 pm Alleghany Highland Blues Society
Location: Amphitheatre Stage

4:00 pm Silent Auction and Raffle close, winners announced
MayFaire is a fundraiser for Clifton Forge School of the Arts and the Historic Masonic Theatre and Amphitheatre, both 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organizations.


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