Center of the World Festival Wins $10,000 Grant, Hosts Showcase

  • The Center of the World Festival (COWFest) has just won a $10,000 grant to explore storytelling with children. A special showcase matinee and lunch will be held on Sunday, April 3 from 1 to 4 p.m.

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    The Center of the World Festival (COWFest) has just won a $10,000 grant to explore storytelling with children. A special showcase matinee and lunch will be held on Sunday, April 3 from 1 to 4 p.m.

  • There will be COWFest Magic, a matinee of award-winning plays and an invitation to children of all ages to write a 10 minute original play for entry in a playwrights contest. Winners are awarded $500.

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    There will be COWFest Magic, a matinee of award-winning plays and an invitation to children of all ages to write a 10 minute original play for entry in a playwrights contest. Winners are awarded $500.

  • A young audience member watches, mesmerized, at last years Native American storytelling and magic.

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    A young audience member watches, mesmerized, at last years Native American storytelling and magic.

“The Center of the World Festival just got notification March 16 that we were awarded $10,000 from Kern Community Foundation for our youth storytelling workshops,” wrote Shelia Clark, co-founder of the event affectionately referred to as “COWFest.”

“COWFest Redux is our first outreach specifically to community youth,” Clark said. “This grant reflects our wish to get young people involved. If they have never seen the festival, COWFest Redux can help them get an idea of the eco-drama theme.”

You Are Invited
to a special
showcase matinee and lunch
on Sunday, April 3
1 to 4 p.m.
The event is open to the public, at the Pine Mountain Club Condor Room in the clubhouse.
Tickets for a delicious lunch and the show are $13 for adults and $6.50 for children.
Call 242-3788 today for
reservations.
 

At COWFest Redux you will enjoy a magic show, Native American storytelling and a sampler of popular plays performed at COWFests of the past two years.

This is an opportunity for people of all ages, youth, elders and all in-between, who are interested in writing plays and becoming involved in meaningful community theater, to learn more about creative opportunities.

The Sunday, April 3 festivities are a roll-in to the three-day COWFest event to be held August 19-21, 2011. Community members and people across the country, and abroad, are invited to participate in the playwriting contest. Prizes of $500 are awarded to the winning play.

Local actors and production talent work together to provide a delightful COWFest Readers Theater production of the plays chosen as finalists for the grand prize.

This is part of the March 25, 2011 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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