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Arts-in-Nature Festival
High brow meets the woods!

The Upcoming 2008 Arts-in-Nature Festival is scheduled for August 23rd - 24th, 2008

The 2007 Arts-in-Nature Festival was a great success!


From fire performers and string quartets to dance troupes and an outdoor museum of sound, the 2007 Arts~in~Nature Festival had something for everyone. This funky and eclectic festival showcased an impressive number of locally renowned performing artists, sound artists and ensembles including: The Cabiri, Phffft! Dance Theatre Company, d9 Dance Collective, LastLeg Into Flight Time, Early Music Guild, West Seattle Chamber Players, Dean Moore, Seattle Phonographers Union, Amy Denio, Stuart & Loren Dempster and many others.

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Festival Parade
 
This annual multidisciplinary event is produced by the Nature Consortium and is nestled in the forested arms of Camp Long (5200 35th Ave. SW at SW Dawson St.). The 2007 Festival took place on Sat. August 25h (from 11am-9pm) and Sun. Aug. 26th (from 11am-6pm). A silent auction was held during the festival to raise funds for the Nature Consortium.

 Performances took place in 5 different venues throughout the park:  the Lodge, the forested grove by the Pond, the climbing Glacier, the Meadow and the Fire Circle.  There was a wide array of eclectic and traditional music offerings ranging from experimental & improvised to classical, jazz and folk.  Dance troupes performed in various locations throughout the park, and wandering musicians playfully roamed the forested landscape between the cabins
    
Camp Long’s rustic cabins housed the "museum of sound" where artists took up residency for the weekend creating multidisciplinary installations that blended sound, auditory arts, music and visual arts. Most of the cabins had an interactive, hands-on component, allowing attendees to enter and interact with the artists' work. This year’s Museum of Sound artists included Kristen Tollefson, Perri Lynch, Mark Griswold, Martyn Stewart, Dave Knott, John Browne, Jr. and Matthew Snyder

There were lots of interactive and hands-on activities such as EcoArt and EcoRhythm Instrument Building workshops in the Interactive Arts/Family-Kids area. In addition, there was healthy, delicious food & drink by Vashon-based Tahini Genie.  With a serious commitment to conservation, all festival marketing materials were printed on tree-free paper made from the kenaf plant. Admission was by donation ~ $5.00 per person.

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Getting There
Festival Parade

Getting There: Attendees are encouraged to use less environmentally harmful transportation choices to arrive at the event such as transit, carpools, vanpools, bicycling and walking.

Metro Transit: For Camp Long: Metro bus #21. Click here for a map of Camp Long and vicinity.

Directions to Camp Long: take the West Seattle Bridge from 99 (or I-5), stay in the left lanes for the Fauntleroy Way SW exit. At the first stoplight (35th Ave. SW), take a left. Go 6/10's of a mile up the hill and Camp Long will be on the left hand side at SW Dawson St. Very small parking lot, but unlimited parking along 35th Ave. SW.
 

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