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Arts and Entertainment
Belmont Center
extends classes in
glass blowing
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through the month of July.
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Belmont Arts and Cultural Center
extended the glass blowing workshops
through July. Each class, taught by New
Orleans glass artist Ben Sharp, will offer
an introduction to glass blowing
techniques.
Beginning July 2, the workshops will
run each Saturday in July, from 3 to 6
p.m. at the Belmont Arts and Cultural
Center, 401 North Reus St., located
inside the window factory in downtown
Pensacola. The cost is $150 per threehour
workshop and all materials are
included. Pre-registration is required.
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“I am so glad that Pensacola finally
has a working art center that offers
exciting and unique opportunities like
this (glass blowing),” Lynn Chirinsky,
glass blowing student, said. “Anyone
can do this! I am having a great time
and have even surprised myself with
making something pretty out of molten
glass.”
The course will provide full hands on
experience with glass and glass blowing
and provide students with a firm
foundation in the basic movements of
glassblowing. Students will be given the
opportunity to create flowers, glasses,
paperweights and more.
 | | The crowd enjoys free live music on
Pensacola Beach at “Blues on the Beach”
each Tuesday.
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For more information or to register
for this course, contact 429-1222, or
visit Belmont’s new Web site,
www.belmontartscenter.com.
‘Exile’ subject of New
exhibit at Artel
Artel Gallery’s latest exhibit,
“Exile”, runs June 28 through August 5
with an opening reception on Gallery
Night July 8 from 5-9 p.m. The themed
show explores the state of political,
social, geographical, social or
emotional exile and features work in a
variety of media.
Winners are Best of Show, Diane
Brim; First Place, Amani Grow; Second
Place, McKenzie Oerting; Third Place,
Joel Glass; Honorable Mention, Autry
Dye, W. T. Moore and Carol Parrish.
Juror was Konstantyn Sylin, who
was educated at the Moscow
Architectural Art College, has works
exhibited in the Odessa State Art
Museum and in collections all over the
world.
Artel is a not-for-profit educational
gallery located at 505 South Adams
Street near Seville Square and is open
Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. For more information call the
gallery at 850 432-3080.
Japanese Tanabata
festival July 7-11
A Tanabata Festival will be held July
7 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the
University of West Florida Japan
House, Bldg. 71.
A traditional Japanese celebration,
Tanabata, or the Star Festival, traces its
origins to a legend that the Cowherd
Star (Altair) and Weaver Star (Vega),
lovers separated by the Milky Way, are
allowed to meet just once a year on the
seventh day of the seventh month.
The festival is free and open to the
public. Attendees are encouraged to
wear yukatas, or Japanese summer
cotton kimonos, and bring a covered
dish. Yukatas may be loaned from the
Japan Center for $3 per adult and $2 per
child.
Although the modern celebration of
Tanabata varies widely, a very common
feature of this festival is that people, and
particularly children, place long
bamboo sticks in their gardens or
in their rooms.
On the bamboo branches they
hang decorations cut out of
colored papers, and also long
strips of white paper on which
they write poems or wish for
fulfillment of romantic
aspirations and other wishes. It
is believed that by tying these colored
papers to branches, they offer prayers
which are thought to advance learning
and skills in calligraphy.
“At the end of the Tanabata
festivities, the bamboo branches are
thrown into a river to be carried away,
thereby dispelling misfortune,” said
Shigeko Honda, director of the UWF
Japan Center. “Or, the branches are
placed in rice paddies as a means of
repelling insects or as a thanksgiving
offering for what is hoped will be a
bounteous harvest.”
To make reservations for the event
and yukatas, contact the UWF Japan
Center at (850) 474-3363 or e-mail
japan@uwf.edu.
H3O performs beach
concert on July 5
Pensacola Beach, Fla.— At the next
Blues on the Beach concert, H3O will
play from 7–9 p.m. on Tue., July 5 at
the Gulfside Pavilion.
When H3O plays, there loads of
humor and energy on the stage. Next to
their originals, they also play cover
songs that other bands won’t touch. So
come enjoy their special mixture of
blues, rock, and reggae, ranging from
Stevie Ray Vaughn to the Police and
Pink Floyd.
Blues on the Beach concerts continue
with the Young Codgers playing on July
12,
Dr. Breeze on July 19, the Young
Codgers again on July 26 and T-Bird &
the Fat Cats on August 2.
You can enjoy Blues on the Beach
concerts for free with a variety of bands
playing every Tuesday from 7–9 p.m.,
May through August at the Gulfside
Pavilion on Pensacola Beach.
Spectators are encouraged to bring
lawn chairs or blankets to the pavilion
area. No pets are allowed and glass is
prohibited. Concerts are provided by
the Santa Rosa Island Authority. For
more information about the free
entertainment, call the Pensacola Beach
Visitor Information Center at 932-1500
or go to www.visitpensacolabeach.com.
Religious art exhibit
July 3
Reflections of God’s Faithfulness ,
the 2005 Visual Arts Exhibit, will be
open again this Sunday, July 3 from 8 to
12:30 in the Chapel of the Gulf Breeze
United Methodist Church. This display
includes items by artists who praise
God’s faithfulness with expressions
through media including paintings,
drawings, photography, fiber, collage,
and mixed assemblages.
Gulf Breeze United Methodist
Church is located at 75 Fairpoint Drive
in Gulf Breeze. Phone number is 9323594.
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