FARMINGTON – The Foothills Arts Center has received a $5,000 grant from the Western Mountains Fund of the Maine Community Foundation to help support creation of a Songs and Stories from the Foothills community project.
Like previous FAC projects, this one will be a collaboration between area residents and professional writers and musicians.
“The project will celebrate the Foothills Arts Center’s 15th anniversary and serve as a kick-off to a new era for the center,” said Anne Geller, FAC executive director.
Plans call for a series of late summer workshops in Jay, Strong, Rumford and Farmington. Adults and youth will work with playwrights and poets to fashion local folk tales and themes into songs and stories.
Dan Woodward of Farmington, musician and conductor, will transcribe and arrange the songs for Foothills’ Continental Harmony Chorus to sing, Geller said. In September the chorus will begin rehearsals.
At the same time, a series of theater improvisation and storytelling workshops will be held. The songs, stories, poems and theatrical scenes that come out of this process will become, Songs and Stories from Foothills. Performances will be held in mid-November.
For more information about the project, contact Geller at 778-0448.
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