{"id":24126,"date":"2014-10-02T07:45:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T12:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=24126"},"modified":"2014-10-02T07:45:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T12:45:24","slug":"swan-valley-fine-arts-festival-continues-into-80th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2014\/10\/02\/swan-valley-fine-arts-festival-continues-into-80th-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan Valley Fine Arts Festival Continues into 80th Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"photo 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-3-147x110.jpg 147w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-3-228x171.jpg 228w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Submitted by:<br \/>\nApril Maxwell<\/p>\n<p>The Swan Valley Fine Arts Festival Association held a special meeting at Fabriculous on September 30, 2014 to determine whether to fold completely as there were not enough members to successfully continue.  <\/br><\/br><em>Click any picture for a larger version.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our plea to the public was successful. with 5 new people attending and offering their services, enthusiasm and suggestions.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-2-228x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"photo 2\" width=\"228\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-2-228x171.jpg 228w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-2-147x110.jpg 147w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-1-228x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"photo 1\" width=\"228\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-1-228x171.jpg 228w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-1-147x110.jpg 147w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/photo-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are excited to be able now to offer most of our usual festivals:  Carol Festival, Band Festival, Dance Festival, Fiddlin&#8217; Festival, and Music &#038; Speech Arts Festival.  At this time, we are uncertain if there will be a Visual Arts Festival as it is very costly and labour-intensive for us.  Unfortunately there will not be a Spelling Bee this year.  <\/p>\n<p>This will be our 80th year of providing a public platform whereby artists get assistance in their development through an adjudication process. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by: April Maxwell The Swan Valley Fine Arts Festival Association held a special meeting at Fabriculous on September 30, 2014 to determine whether to fold completely as there were not enough members to successfully continue. Click any picture for a larger version. Our plea to the public was successful. with 5 new people attending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,13,16],"class_list":["post-24126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-arts-entertainment","tag-coverage","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}