Fall For The Arts Is Saturday

A new arts group hopes that the inaugural Falls for the Arts Festival will start out strong and continue to grow.

Fall for the Arts will take place 9am – 2pm Saturday, October 6 at the Easley Farmers Market, located in front of City Hall.

Festival organizers have joined with the Easley Farmers Market for the day, according to organizer Suzanne Goodman.

The festival will feature a wide variety of artists showing off their skills, she said.

“We have living artists doing painting, woodworking and storytelling,”  Goodman said. “We’ll have performers throughout the day.

“The Southern Wesleyan Jazz Band will be performing, and we have another band coming as well,” Goodman said. 

The Fine Arts Center of Easley will be performing as well and Easley Dance Conservatory students will be performing pieces from their upcoming production of “The Nutcracker.” 

“Art from all of the students who entered the art contest will be on display at The Starving Artist Café all day Saturday,”  Goodman said.

The festival will also feature food vendors.

Goodman encourages everyone to come out Friday night to watch the Easley’s Rising Stars Talent Competition, which starts at 6pm at the Foothills Playhouse.

“It’s free for the public to come and watch,” she said.

The winners of Easley’s Rising Stars will also perform during the festival Saturday, Goodman said.

Fall for the Arts is sponsored by Advanced Family Dentistry, SC Telco, Fine Arts Center of Easley, Foothills Playhouse, Libertyspeaks.net and The Starving Artist Café.

Fall for the Arts is hosted by the new “Arts Council of Pickens County,” a group Goodman describes as made up of “artists, community members and even high school students who are passionate about the arts and want to see the arts flourish in this area.” 

"We know this year will be a small festival," Goodman said. "We hope to see it grow and blossom into something big." 

For more information, contact Goodman at suzanne@easleydance.com