Alfred Summer Arts Festival continues into weekend

Alfred University’s Summer Arts Festival, Making Meaning in an Uncertain World, continues today and into the weekend. Activities Thursday evening (July 14) include “A Letter from the Treetops,” a 7 p.m. performance at the Cohen Center for the Arts, on Alfred’s Main Street, featuring musical artist Jessie Chandler performing music from his recent album of the same name. A DJ’ed party will follow.
 
Registration is required; for more information on Jessie Chandler and this evening's events, visit A Letter from the Treetops.

Also at the Cohen Center, a closing performance, Making Meaning in an Uncertain World, will conclude the Summer Arts Festival at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 16. The audience will witness how the star points of the Cignus constellation become mapped on the ground and connect with the earth and sky, guided by Bill Gilbert and collaborators.

Choreographer Melanie Aceto and her dancers will join in to transform ordinary objects into animated choreographic potential. They will partner with artists Jonathan Golove, Bill Sack, and Matias Homar to find musical harmony in the unlikeliest of sources.

Making Meaning in an Uncertain World also requires advance registration. Register for this unique event.

Other events scheduled over the next three days, up to Saturday's closing festivities, include:

          · Friday, July 15. "Becoming Birds Parade.” Those who made lanterns with George Ferrandi will gather at the Cohen Center at 8 p.m. to participate in a parade down Main Street in Alfred at 8:30 p.m. The evening will culminate in a dance show inside the village hall. For more information, including how to register for this event, click here.

          · Saturday, July 16, all-day. “Family and Friends” activities:

                    · Yoga, 9-10 a.m., Miller Center for Performing Arts.

                    · Tai Chi, 10-10:30 a.m., Village Bandstand

                    · Face painting, natural dye presentations, making music and dancing, 10:30 a.m.-noon Village Bandstand. (Bring your instruments if you have one)

          · Saturday, July 16, 7 p.m., Cohen Center for the Arts. “Making Meaning in an Uncertain World.” This culminating evening will be an opportunity to see what the artists have been working on all week in their masterclasses. There will be drinks, snacks, and performances and installations designed by the artists. Snacks and drinks provided; Cash bar available.

This is the first year of the Alfred Summer Arts Festival, designed as a creative incubator for participants to interact with other artists in a masterclass setting. The intention has been to create opportunities to encounter the methodologies of other art practitioners and discover how these methods might inform one’s own work.