BETHEL – More than 2,000 people are expected to attend the 16th annual Bethel Art Fair throughout the day today, according to the executive director of the Bethel Chamber of Commerce, Robin Zinchuk.
The fair takes place on the Bethel Common and runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“We have a real nice lineup of things going on all day long,” Zinchuk said Friday afternoon.
Fifty-one booths on the Common will feature artists and their handmade works. The artworks will include watercolor paintings, hand-painted lamps and vases, jewelry, pottery, sculpture, hand-spun yarn, leather crafts and hand-woven baskets.
“It’s all handmade,” Zinchuk said. “There’s nothing there that’s commercial quality or what you would find in a flea market.”
From 11:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., there will be live entertainment at the gazebo on the Common, provided by the Mollyockett Chapter of the Sweet Adelines, a female barbershop quartet.
“People always love our music,” Zinchuk said, “and this is the first time the Mollyocketts are performing” at the fair.
Zinchuk said that a section of the Common will be devoted to kids and staffed by members of Crescent Park Elementary School’s Mahoosuc Kids Association. Children will have ample opportunities to get creative and put together their own artworks, she said.
Lunch offerings by local restaurants will be available on the Common from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Zinchuk said.
The art fair may end at 4p.m., but Zinchuk encourages people to stick around town for a while and “enjoy the serene atmosphere that we have in our village,” then stroll over to the back lawn of the Bethel Inn Resort and Country Club for fireworks at 9 p.m.
“People can make a day and an evening of it since it really doesn’t end until the fireworks,” Zinchuk said.
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