Cultural Tapestries Project

The festival opened at the Carbondale Civic Center’s Sister Cities art exhibit in early September. It came to a close with the October 24 Music Olympics, an event organized for young musicians throughout the region by Carbondale’s Morning Etude Club.

Participating counties included Alexander, Gallatin, Jackson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Saline, Union, and Williamson.

The festival is part of CCA’s Cultural Tapestry Project, inaugurated to highlight the richly diverse cultural influences throughout Southern Illinois and to reflect the important role that the arts play in the lives of the region’s communities and citizens. The project is made possible by a special grant from the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Cultural Tapestry co-chairs Lynne Chambers-Ketchens and Roxanne Conley are working weekly with committee members Flora Chacon, Gina Einig, Roopa Gulati, Robert Ketchens, Elizabeth Lewin, Beverly Love, Carolyn Snyder, Emil Spees, Colleen Springer-Lopez, Nancy Stemper, and Nicole Weigand.

 

Cultural Tapesteries Highlights:

 

Waterloo German Band
A public concert for the SI Mayors Summit on the Arts

 

 

Thomas Strings
SisterCities Young Artist Showcase

 

Nighty Night
Free Fall Classic

 

Mayor Cole and Southern Illinois Unity Choir
September Concert

 

Milt McDaniels
Southern Hoot'nany

 

Friendship dance
Southern Hoot'nany

 

Handbell Choir
Might River Worship Center