Traditional Arts Festival to be Held at Historic Scaroon Manor

Songs of the Iroquois: Turtle Island (Design credit: Patrick Siler)

For the last several weeks, Adirondack Shakespeare Company has been running a fundraiser through Adirondack Gives to support an Arts & Crafts Workshop paired with their original children’s play Songs of the Iroquois: Turtle Island. With just two weeks left in the campaign, the Company is working to raise the last $1,000 in order to sponsor a free Traditional Arts Festival on the grounds of the historic Scaroon Manor on the west shore of Schroon Lake.

The Festival Day is planned for Saturday, August 1 beginning with a performance of Turtle Island at 11:00 a.m. Following the show, Mohawk Storyteller Kay Olan will tell traditional stories. In addition to ADK Shakespeare’s Arts & Crafts, where our young audience members can create their own Turtle Island, Mohawk Artist Bill Loran will run a beading workshop making bracelets or leather medicine bags. There will be a limited supply for this beading workshop. To reserve a spot, please email Tara at info@adkshakes.org, or call (518) 803-4275.

As You Like It (Design credit: Patrick Siler.)

Lunch will also be served. The day will conclude with a performance of the fun-filled comedy As You Like It, a great introduction to Shakespeare for kids. Live music begins at 3:15 p.m. In case of rain, all activities will be held in the Pavilion at Scaroon Manor (near the Amphitheater).

Your donation to AdirondackGives.org helps to make Adirondack Shakespeare Company’s first-ever Traditional Arts Festival a free event for all. Admission is charged to the Scaroon Manor Campground and Day-Use Facility ($10 per vehicle), but all activities will be sponsored by the fundraising campaign.

Event Details

When: Saturday, August 1
Where: Scaroon Manor, 8728 Route 9, Pottersville, NY
Schedule:

Songs of the Iroquois: Turtle Island – 11:00 a.m.
Arts & Crafts with the cast of Turtle Island – 12:00 p.m.
Traditional Storytelling with Mohawk Storyteller, Kay Olan – 12:15 p.m.
Lunch – 1:00 p.m.
Traditional Beading Demonstration & Workshop with Mohawk Artist, Bill Loran – 1:30 p.m.
As You Like It – 3:30 p.m. (Live music begins at 3:15 p.m.)

Visit www.adkshakes.org for full schedule. Or call 518-803-HARK (4275).

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Founded in 2008, the Adirondack Shakespeare Company has grown from an intrepid group of 11 actors into a flourishing not-for-profit professional theatre company serving both New York City and the Adirondack Region of upstate New York. We at ADK Shakes are dedicated to producing world-class quality work that is unburdened by spectacle and technology, but rather focuses on what matters most: the play. Learn more at www.adkshakes.org.