30th Annual Festival of arts gears up in Saxonburg
SAXONBURG — The 30th annual Saxonburg Festival of the Arts takes place Saturday and Sunday.
The weekend will feature fine arts, photography, a quilt show, music, crafts and food.
Activities from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5:30 p.m. Sunday include:
• Craft and food booths, in Roebling Park and Cooper Hall and along Main Street
• Fine art, photography and ikebana exhibits, Saxonburg Memorial Presbyterian Church hall's lower level, Main and Rebecca streets. Tom Sheehan and Mark Anderson will demonstrate their fine art techniques.
• Antique tractors and gas engines, across North Rebecca Street from Roebling Park
• Quilt Show, St. Luke's Lutheran Church's Centennial Hall, State Street
• 78th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Company F, Civil War Re-Enactment Group, across North Rebecca Street from Roebling Park
Rodfathers of Butler will have a car cruise Saturday in the First Commonwealth Bank and Saxonburg Memorial Presbyterian Church parking lots.
A used book sale hosted by Friends of the Library will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday in a tent on the library grounds.
Following is a list of other activities:
Saturday• 5K Run & Community Walk, 8 a.m., Roebling Park• Knit the Library: Learn the art of “yarn bombing,” take a hand-knitted or crocheted piece for community display, 10 a.m., front porch of the library• Friends of the Library make & take craft, 11 a.m. library grounds tent• Knoch Jazz Band, 11 a.m. to noon, Roebling Park gazebo• Friends of the Library jewelry making with Angie, noon, inside library•Gibbons Big Band, 12:30 to 2 p.m., Roebling Park gazebo•Fill Saxonburg with Bubbles, 1 p.m., library grounds•Friends of the Library make & take craft, 2 p.m., library grounds tent•East Winds Symphonic Band, 2:30 to 4 p.m., Roebling Park gazebo•Saxonburg's Biggest Jenga Game, 3 p.m., library grounds•Saxonburg Community Twister, 4 p.m., library grounds•Mansfield 5 Band, 4 to 6 p.m., near First Commonwealth Bank, Main Street•Barbary Wine Band, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Roebling Park gazebo
Sunday• Fill Saxonburg with Bubbles, noon, library grounds• Miss Freddye's Blues Band, noon to 1:30 p.m., Roebling Park gazebo•Saxonburg's Biggest Jenga Game, 1 p.m., library grounds•Saxonburg Community Twister, 2 p.m., library grounds•Wendy and the Lost Boys, 2 to 3:30 p.m., Roebling Park gazebo•The Taddybears, 4 to 5:30 p.m., Roebling Park gazebo.
