1st Session: Monday, June 13th thru Friday, June 17th *Closed*

2nd Session: Monday, July 18th thru Friday, July 22nd *Only a few spots left!*

Each 5-day fun and educational camp will give your budding artist the chance to be immersed in all of the Fine Arts by participating in daily workshops encompassing Music, Art, Crafts, Writing, Storytelling, Theater, and Acting. Healthy Snack(s) provided each day.

Hours: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm

Ages: 6-12

Location: 303 South Main Street, Culpeper, VA

Cost: $150 per session per child non WFA member

         $125 per session per child WFA member

Sibling discount and scholarships available

Questions? Email us at: youthfinearts@windmorefoundation.org

Registration and More Information: Windmorefoundation.org

On Sunday, June 12, Windmore Foundation for the Arts participated in a ribbon cutting for a new mural at 254 E. Davis Street, commemorating the contributions of several prominent African-American Culpeper citizens.

"Trailblazers" by Layton Scarbrough honors Henry Lightfoot, Culpeper's first African-American town councilman, Dr. Elijah Barber, Culpeper's first African-American physician, Ruby Beck, owner of the Boxwood House Restaurant, Roscoe Ford, Culpeper's first African-American police officer, John Preston "Pete" Hill, Hall of Fame baseball player, Ella Drumgoole, Culpeper Police Department's first female police officer, and the 120 African-Americans who fought for the Union Army in the Civil War.

Seen here are Jessica Jenkins from Culpeper Renaissance, Inc., Fran Cecere from Windmore, building owner Brian Lam, and artist Layton Scarbrough, as well as members of the families of the people honored on the mural. 

Significant funding for the mural came from Aaron Greso, whose monthly donations for the project helped make this mural possible. Thank you, Mr. Greso for your generosity! 

Read more about the mural here 

Culpeper Remembers

The Piedmont Community Band has enjoyed a busy spring season!

We played at American Legion Post 330 on Memorial Day, providing quiet and reflective music to accompany readings from Pen-to-Paper authors which were read by members of StageWorks. We were excited to revive this annual event after its two-year hiatus and are proud to have had the opportunity to honor those who lost their lives in service to our country.

On June 12 we presented our Movie Magic concert to an enthusiastic and appreciative audience. Movie-themed raffle baskets were a hit, and everyone enjoyed hearing familiar themes as well as hearing some new ones. Maybe someone was inspired to check out a new movie after hearing the great music!

We’re looking forward to our appearance at Culpeper Festival Committee’s Freedom Car & Bike Show presented by CARS on the 4^th of July. We will be playing at the Depot at 10:05AM and look forward to seeing many of you as we present some patriotic favorites.

We’ll take a well-deserved summer vacation after our 4^th of July appearance and we already have some great ideas in mind for our fall season!

Summer at StageWorks is Sizzlin'!

AUDITIONS!! 

We will be hosting auditions for our summer youth musical Elephant and Piggie's We Are in a Play! By Mo Willems on July 9th and 10th. 

This is for kids going into grades 5-12. Rehearsals will be on Saturdays and at least one day during the week and performance dates on September 17 and 18. 

Registration is now open! if you know of someone who would like to audition for the show, they can sign up for an audition time here.  

Stage Combat

Students of all ages learned the basics of stage combat, thanks to some wonderful instruction from Noble Blades at the Stage Combat class held on June 18th. This is the second time that StageWorks has held a Stage Combat class this year, thanks to a generous Meade Palmer grant from Northern Piedmont Community Foundation. 

StageWorks and Windmore Foundation for the Arts are grateful to Northern Piedmont Community Foundation for its support of the StageWorks acting class program.

The Windmore Publishing Discussion Group met on Tuesday, May 10 at the Culpeper County Library at 10:15. They discussed the first monthly Culpeper Times article that will feature local authors who have the published books in the Local Authors section of the Library. A list of people was generated for future articles and the group discussed how to get more people interviewed for this column. 

The group also talked about scheduling guest speakers for the upcoming months. They hope to find guests to talk about the various aspects of publishing including publishing trends, the process of having a publishing company publish books as opposed to self-publishing, how local authors found their way through the publishing process, etc. 

The Windmore Publishing Discussion Group met again on Tuesday, June 14. Two guest speakers were invited to speak.

Nancy Delaney, Technical Services and Collection Development Coordinator for the Culpeper County Library, spoke to the group about how the library staff chooses the books for circulation, information about the Local Author Collection, popular genres of books at this time, and answered numerous questions from the group.

Bruce Van Ness spoke to the group about the process of publishing his books through a publishing company.

One of the members will be writing a monthly article about local authors for the Culpeper Times.

The Publishing Discussion Group meets on second Tuesdays at 10:15 at the Culpeper County Library.