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Berea: A Small Town with a Big Heart
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February is here and love is in the air! As you get ready for Valentine's Day, visit Berea to craft gifts from the heart, stay in our cozy lodgings, and warm your heart (and stomach!) at our local restaurants.
February brings with it more exciting events, concerts, exhibits, demonstrations, and chances to enjoy the Kentucky town we love most. Come experience all this and more
with us, and make memories that will last a lifetime!
Hope to see you soon,
Berea Tourism
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Upcoming from Berea Tourism
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The Art Accelerator Program
Berea Tourism is requesting applications for fellows in the Berea Tourism Art Accelerator Program. The Art Accelerator Program provides emerging artists the opportunity to enhance their entrepreneurial skills as they contribute to the vibrant arts and crafts scene in Berea by: working as active artists in a dynamic studio, interfacing with the community, working in outreach, and stocking and managing a retail gallery. Applications must be received by
TUESDAY, MARCH 20.
For more information and application guidelines, please visit the Art Accelerator Program page on our website! |
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We had so many beautiful pictures taken in January, and we cannot wait to share them with you! Be sure to follow us on social media and post your photos of Berea!
Each month we will select photos of Berea posted by our wonderful visitors and citizens to be featured in our newsletter! In order to be selected, share your favorite Berea experience and use #VisitBerea, #BereaProud, #OurBerea, or #BereaKy.
We can't wait to see your photos!
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Below are this month's #BereaKy photo selections. We had many great submissions over the past month, and you too could be featured in next month's newsletter. (Click on the photo to see the original source.)
@bereacollegefoc opened to the public to share the natural beauty of Berea with everyone!
@theorangehairedwonder captured delicate snow on intricate branches.
@anniebug77 and her feathered friends enjoyed a welcome break from the cold weather.
Faye from @berea_farmers_market reflected on the serenity of freshly fallen snow.
@starzman got up early to see a beautiful sunrise in the forest.
@HomeGrownHideAways found the waterfall frozen solid at Anglin Falls!
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Disney's The Aristocats Kids
February 1-4
Spotlight Playhouse
214 N. Richmond Rd.
In the heart of Paris, a kind and eccentric millionaire wills her entire estate to Duchess, her high-society cat, and her three little kittens. Laughs and adventure ensue as the greedy, bumbling butler pulls off the ultimate catnap caper. Now it's up to the rough-and-tumble alley cat, Thomas O'Malley, and his band of
swingin
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jazz cats to save the day.
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Pins & Needles Retreat 2018
February 2-4
Boone Tavern
100 N. Main St.
Our annual getaway weekend features three full days of fun with knitting, crocheting, spinning and quilting. This year we've added two extra sessions PLUS bonus workshops in between!
Each night we gather in the upstairs parlor for pajama party, show and tell, stash swaps, and more. Either way, there will be time to explore the shops and history of Berea and the College and enjoy local restaurants.
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Pythonesque
February 8-11
Berea Arena Theater
1835 Big Hill Rd.
Ready for something completely different? Then come for a night of laughs as we perform the funniest sketches and memorable songs from the comic genius of the legendary comedy troupe, Monty Python. No prior knowledge of Monty Python required, just come ready to giggle, snicker, hoot, snort, cackle and other synonyms in the thesaurus for laugh. And spam. Tickets are $8 at the door.
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Jeff Parker Band Concert- Benefit for Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen
February 10
Madison Southern High School
279 Glades Rd.
Join us for a night of great live music with the Jeff Parker Band! Tickets are $20. Money will go to purchasing s
ewing machines and small lathes for classes at the Guild Academy.
For more information visit kyguild.org
or call
(859) 986-3192.
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Murder Mystery Dinner Show
February 10
Boone Tavern
100 N Main St.
"For the Love of Murder" by Jeff Roberts. It is Valentine's Day and the grand opening of the Luv Shack!Mary Matchmaker is expanding her online dating site TruLuv.com by opening a couples retreat. She has four couples lined up and she's hoping for at least two proposals. Stanley Lovingood, a British gentleman has traveled across the pond to meet his southern belle Sally Sue Jones and Pierre Amour has traveled from France to meet his American dream Fifi Smith. Love is definitely in the air tonight but so is mystery, intrigue and MURDER!!!
Doors open 6:45pm, Dinner and Show begins at 7pm. Cost is $47 per person. Special lodging package also available.
For more information or to reserve tickets, call (859) 985-3700.
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Documentary Dialogues
February 22
Berea College Forestry Outreach Center
2047 Big Hill Rd.
This month's documentary will be End of the Line, a film about a community group that altered plans for the use of the Bluegrass Pipeline, which runs through Madison County. Sellus Wilder, an activist with this effort, will lead a discussion after the film.
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February 16-18
Jekyl Building
Berea College
Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom both celebrates a musical legend and also calls attention to the racist conditions in which she flourished.
For more information, call (859) 985-3300 or visit
berea.edu/thr
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Stress Relief Workshop with Therapy Balls
February 17
Body, Mind, & Sol Studio
105 Jackson St.
Join Renee for a special workshop to relieve pain and tension from stress. You'll use therapy balls and learn self massage techniques to help you erase pain and improve your daily life. Class is $35 if you want to take a set of therapy balls home with you and $20 by itself.
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Stepping out for Art Dinner and Art Auction
February 24
Churchill's
100 Churchill Ct.
The Berea Arts Council annual fundraising event, Stepping Out for Art, will be GROOVY in 2018 with a 60s Flashback theme! This is the council's only fundraising event and accounts for 1/5 of the operating budget, so it is an event you do not want to miss.
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Visual Arts Academy- Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen
Artists from all levels are invited to attend the Visual Arts Academy from the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen.
From painting to bead work, everyone is sure to find something they will enjoy.
These events are updated monthly, and can be found by visiting
kyguild.org. For more information call (859) 986-3192.
Come on out with family and friends for your next art adventure!
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#HOWBerea
February 10-11
The HOW program gives visitors a chance to learn even more from master craftspeople and artists such as glass blowing, jewelry making, fiber arts, and many more.
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Individual Artist Workshops
Work with the artists to create your own beautiful
pieces!
Events from Fiber Frenzy:
-Spinning Day, February 24
For more details, call (859) 986-3832 or go to
Fiber Frenzy
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Events from Old Town Fabrics:
-Beginner's Pillowcase Classes, February 1, 15
-Youth Sewing Classes, February 9, 19, 21
-Beginner's Quilt Top Classes, February 6, 20
-Beginner's Reversible Apron Classes, February 8, 22
-Charm Pack Quilt Classes, February 13, 27
For more details, call (859) 985-2538.
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Art Exhibits and Demonstrations
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Berea Arts Council Exhibits
10am-5pm Monday-Saturday
139 N. Broadway
Stepping Out for Art Preview Exhibit
Through February 22
An exhibit of the works available at the Stepping Out for Art Dinner and Art Auction event on February 24th.
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Kentucky Artisan Center Exhibits and Demonstrations
9am-6pm Daily
200 Artisan Way
Get Ready, Get Set: Multiples in Clay
(Through February 24, 2018)
The Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea has a new exhibit featuring 29 Kentucky ceramic artists. The exhibit, "Get Ready, Get Set: Multiples in Clay" showcases the creativity expressed when creating in a series. Both functional and sculptural works are included and the exhibit introduces 10 new ceramic artists to the Center.
Clay has no form of its own, but it can be shaped in minimalist, whimsical, representational or abstract ways. The idea of multiple works in clay is a natural one, whether using the potter's wheel, hand building, or using sculptural techniques. This progressive process fuels new ideas.
The exhibit features matching sets, as well as works that relate to each other based on form, construction and detail. Functional works include dinnerware sets in a variety of designs by Amelia Stamps, Amy Elswick, Jonathan Dazo, Suzy Hatcher and Paul Muth. Many styles and ideas can be seen in the colorful cups, jugs, vases, human and animal forms and realistic replicas that are central to this exhibit.
Numerous works have colorful surfaces, some with intricate designs such as the slip cast "High Heel Shoes" by David Bogus and Melisa Zimmerman's "Sunflower Bottles." More subtle surfaces can be found on Bill Whitt's wood-fired jugs, and on Wayne Ferguson's "Frog Ocarina Quartet."
The versatility of clay is most obvious in the show's sculptural works, such as Page Candler's abstract "Birds," Wyman Rice's organic sculptural forms, Bob Brigl's whimsical face jugs, Lynn Duke's "Pretty Women" sculptures, and the minimalist sculptures by Amy Chase.
Reveal: The Art of David Stratton and Trent Altman
(Through April 30, 2018)
The Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea announces its third exhibit introducing two new artists in, "Reveal: David Stratton and Trent Altman." Both artists work in large two-dimensional formats.
David Stratton is professor of art and graphic design at Brescia University in Owensboro, Kentucky. He specializes in large format drawings in pen and ink. Stratton has presented over 30 solo exhibitions of his artwork. He is a 2007 Kentucky Arts Council "Al Smith Fellowship" recipient. The five drawings in this exhibit depict natural wooded scenes.
"My landscape imagery is based upon photos I take while hiking and birdwatching," Stratton states. "These quiet compositions try to focus on the moment, and the textural beauty of both the image and the moment. My technique using ink lines on paper includes an overlapping cross hatch style and a wandering gestural line to create the final images. Each work typically has 1.5 miles of line length."
Trent Altman is a Louisville, Kentucky painter that specializes in colorful abstracts. Diagnosed with autism, Altman has been painting for 15 years and is a juried Kentucky Arts Council artist with many international awards. One of his paintings was selected as the design for the United Nations stamp in 2012. Two of his large format canvases are included in this exhibit.
Altman states, "I observe and absorb the setting, then take my emotions and convey them as images onto the canvas."
Altman's works convey color and texture through his use of acrylic paint and mixed media on canvas. This combination creates tones and surfaces that transmit motion and feeling in his landscape and abstract compositions.
Saturday Tours and Demonstrations
February 3rd
- Shawnna Southerland, of Berea, will demonstrate her stitched fiber bowls, place mats and coasters from 10:30am to 3:30pm at the Kentucky Artisan Center.
Southerland comes from several generations of seamstresses who created both functional and decorative works. She is reminded of this family tradition, some of which predates the sewing machine, every time she sews on her 1950s machine.
February 10th-
Sue Reeves, of Richmond, will cut, stitch together, add a lining and then gather colorful fabrics into beautiful and functional jewelry keepers for travelling from 10:30am to 3:30pm at the Kentucky Artisan Center.
Reeves began making her jewelry keepers when she realized the need for a safe and handy travel compartment for her jewelry.
February 17-
Three members of the Berea Welcome Center Carvers will demonstrate a variety of woodcarving styles and techniques from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Kentucky Artisan Center.
February 24-
Tonya Vance, of Lexington, will felt colorful wool into bowls, vessels and ornaments from 10:30am to 3:30pm at the Kentucky Artisan Center.
Vance dyes her wool into bright colors and uses thread along with the wool when wet forming her vessels.
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Berea College Doris Ulmann Galleries Exhibits
Mon - Thur: 8am-6pm
Fri: 8am-5pm
Sun: 1pm-5pm
Rogers-Traylor Art Building
Corner of Ellipse St. & Chestnut St.
Berea College
Private Sanctuaries by Lisa Kriner
(Through February 9, 2018)
An exhibition of new work by Lisa L. Kriner, Berea College Professor of fibers and printmaking.
The Department of Human Capital by Sarah Irvin
(Through February 23, 2018)
"My practice is enabled by and exists within the context of motherhood as both a lived experience and social construct. By responding to the biological act of bearing an infant and the discipline of care-taking that is the commitment to "mother" a child, I seek to open up a dialog about what it means to take on these responsibilities and how these actions shape the individual performing them. The pieces are derived from the everyday, but the interface of materials and processes of art making with the everyday provides an entry point into broader topics of gender, production, reproduction, care, biological processes, and cultural systems." -Sarah Irvin, Artist Statement
(Through February 23, 2018)
A solitary artist is not a stereotype for a printmaker. Printmaking is a medium with a long history of collaboration. Great printmakers often were the heads of workshops where apprentices would learn the skills of the trade in exchange for their contribution to the art. In contemporary art, collaboration is a significant means of networking that create partnerships in the arts allowing for artists to work together for an equal opportunity in the distribution of artwork, future connections, and patronage. Dadaist believed that the value of art was not in the work produced, but in the act of making and collaborating with others to create new visions of the world. A collaboration is not something for a day, but a long and committed process. Working together, artists can experiment, take chances, and learn from one another.
This exhibition is courtesy of the generous donors Gerry and Shelly Elliott.
Composed Construct
(February 19, 2018 - March 30, 2018)
"The most recent concerns in my work deal with making what is organic synthetic. In today's world, most everything is manufactured of artificial materials. This extends to what was once all natural. Genetically altered foods, cloned animals and the hybridization of everything. Clay and ceramic materials for the most part are all derived from nature, elements that are naturally mined from the earth. This has lead me to want to use additional materials that are a result of an industrial process such as foam, plexi-glass and rubber. My use of excess has evolved to issues similar to those in urban sprawl - the sense of being surrounded by a manufactured and engineered environment.
My current work displays a shift to ideas about installation, covering an expanse of space. Installation allows me to reassemble shapes, attributes, qualities and quantities on a much larger scale suggesting an essential connection to our physical space. My interest is fueled by elements of layering, fragmentation, multiplication, juxtaposition and complication. Intense brilliant color reveals an obviously artificial man-made reality. Color is swirled together in rhythmic sequences mirroring the activities of a microscopic sample or aerial topography. The encrustation's are abstracted from real plant life, allowing the viewer to proceed into the interior pattern of a stylized manufactured plastic plant life. So as a viewer we are challenged by our own perceptions of what is authentic and what is not." -Susan Beiner, Artist Statement
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Jammin' on the Porch
Thursdays 7pm-9pm
Winter Location: Russel Acton Folk Center
212 Jefferson Street
A family friendly jam session held by father-daughter duo Donna and Lewis Lamb. It's a truly unique Berea event!
Call (800)
598-5263 for more information.
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Festival of African-American Spirituals
February 24
Union Church
200 Prospect St.
A wonderful festival of African-American spirituals performed in many styles by many different artists, incluing Liza & A.J., the Black Music Ensemble of Berea College, the Folk-Roots Ensemble, and many more.
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Contra Dance
3rd Friday
February 16th 8pm-11pm
Open mic, open band. $3.00 for everyone.
128 N. Broadway (above the Fudge Shoppe)
4th Saturday
February 24th 7:30pm-11pm
Caller: Doug Singleton, Band: Berea Castoffs
$8 regular price, $5 students & seniors (65+)
212 Jefferson St. (Russel Acton Folk Center)
The 3rd Friday dance has a party atmosphere, with open calling and open band. Bring your
instruments and play with the band, or just bring yourself (and a friend!) and dance all night, all for the low low price of $3. Saturday's dance starts with a beginners session, from 7:30pm-8pm that will teach you everything you need to know, then dance the night away to foot-stomping live music, and a rotating cast of experienced callers. Cost is $5 for students and seniors (65+), $8 for the rest of us. Bring a snack for the break if you're so inclined - your fellow dancers will appreciate it!
The 4th Saturday is full of fun dancing for the whole family! No partner or experience is needed. All dances are taught first and then prompted. We change partners after every dance and are
especially welcoming to new dancers! Wear loose, comfortable clothing and flat smooth-soled shoes that won't mar the fine wood floor, then get ready for a good workout!
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Berea Family Dance
3rd Thursday
February 15
Happiness Hills Farm & Retreat Center
8682 Battlefield Memorial Highway
A brand new dance series in Berea! Berea Family Dances are a place for kids and their parents to learn the basics of folk dancing in a fun and welcoming environment. No experience necessary! Cost is $5 per family.
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Valentine Ball- An Evening at Downton
February 17
Russel Acton Folk Center
212 Jefferson St.
A themed Valentine Ball hosted by the Berea Festival Dancers! Dances at the Ball will be walked through and prompted, but will not be taught. Teaching & Coaching Session from 2-4pm. Attendance at the teaching session is highly encouraged! (no additional charge). Thematic and/or period dress is "admired but not required." Tickets on sale at the door: $7 students; $15 adults
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Berea Farmers Market
Saturdays 10am-1pm
Winter location:
101 Fee Street
Want some delicious local foods during your visit to Berea? Don't miss Berea's local farmers market.
Providing winter favorites like fresh salad greens, kale, root vegetables, baked goods and locally harvested canned goods.
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Kentucky Trail Town
Even though the weather is getting colder, there are still lots of opportunities to enjoy the outdoors! With shimmering morning frost and frozen waterfalls, Berea in winter is beautiful! So come visit Berea and experience our outdoor attractions!
Maps to hike or bike some of Berea's awesome trails are located in the Welcome Center at 3 Artist Circle off of N. Broadway and on our website at www.visitberea.com/recreation-nature.
Enjoy scenic views at the Pinnacles and Anglin Falls, take a nice stroll or bike ride along one of our lovely shared use paths through town, or launch your kayak at Owsley Fork Reservoir. Your experience is waiting for you!
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Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None
March 8-11
The Spotlight Playhouse
214 N Richmond Rd.
Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the bloodbath begins and one by one they are brutally murdered in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme.
One of Christie's darkest tales and a masterpiece of dramatic construction, its growing sense of dread and unfaltering tension will keep you guessing to the very end.
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Nie Er in Life and Death: Sonic Nationalism and China's Revolutionary Music
March 14
Musser Theatre, Jelkyl Drama Center
Berea College
University of Mississippi historian and musician Joshua Howard will present his research on the life and work of the Chinese composer Nie Er (1912-1935), whose "March of the Volunteers" is the national anthem of the People's Republic of China. Sponsored by the Asian Studies and History Departments. Free and open to the public.
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Stephenson Memorial Concert: Brian Owens
Phelps-Stokes Auditorium
Berea College Campus
Soul of Ferguson. Soul singer Brian Owens enthralls his audiences with soulful, jazzy numbers while conjuring up the spirits of such Motown legends as Marvin Gaye and the Temptations. Owens' songs encapsulate his shared love of soul music and humanity. In his music he seeks to engage in conversation with his listeners and to build community, sharing a powerful message about his hometown Ferguson, Missouri. Stephenson Memorial Concert. Open to the public, and free of charge.
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Berea Parks and Recreation Newsletter
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As always, thank you for following us! We look forward to seeing you here in Berea!
You can find even more information on our website at www.visitberea.com.
If you have any comments or suggestions, be sure to send them to [email protected].
Aja Croteau
800-598-5263
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