For Immediate Realease
Contact:  Leah Tweel, 373-2925

Hemphill Library in partnership with Green Hill Center for NC Art / ArtQuest present
the Second Annual Cultural Arts Festival, October 8, 2-5 pm, at Hemphill Library

Where can you go get your face painted, watch Native American dancers, try foods from around the world? And where can you go to listen to terrific world music and participate in a unique modern totem-pole project, all for free? Only at Hemphill Library’s 2^nd Annual Cultural Arts Festival!

Join us for an afternoon of multi-cultural family fun on Sunday, October 8 at the Hemphill Library on the corner of Holden and Vandalia Road. The Hemphill service area is rich in cultural diversity, and we hope you will celebrate with your neighbors through music, dance, food, stories, prizes and art from around the world and right next door.

You won’t want to miss this special day which is also a birthday celebration for Mr. Bill Hemphill, a Library supporter and advocate, complete with a cake, barbecue and world-music entertainment by DJ Have a Nice Day! Other featured events will include a performance by the Triad Tapestry Children’s Chorus, Chinese Calligraphy, Make a Hat /Learn a Word art project, and a Grand Quilt Unveiling from an intensive art and literacy project that took place over the summer at Hemphill.

This free event is brought to you in partnership with the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art and ArtQuest through a National Institute of Museum and Library Services grant. The Hemphill/Green Hill partnership is committed to promoting literacy and learning through the arts, and to bringing long time residents and new neighbors together through innovative programs and services. Please call 373-2926 for more information.

More about the partnership: Green Hill Center for NC Art received a prestigious IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) award for its partnership with Greensboro Public Library to develop integrated art programming in a library setting. Goals for this partnership include art exhibitions, programming that supports and encourages early literacy, art education, teacher training, artist forums and community festivals.

Hemphill Branch Library is located on the corner of Holden and Vandalia at 2301 W. Vandalia Road, Greensboro, NC, 27407.