{"id":10157,"date":"2023-08-30T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/?p=10157"},"modified":"2024-07-07T22:04:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:04:13","slug":"its-festival-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/its-festival-time\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Festival Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background:radial-gradient(rgb(0,61,153) 0%,rgb(196,138,247) 100%)\"><strong>St Monans Community Arts Festival<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">On Saturday and Sunday, 2nd and 3rd September<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#003d99\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Caf\u00e9, crafts and workshops in the Church Hall<\/mark><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#003d99\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Art &amp; Photography exhibitions and workshops in the Town Hall<\/mark><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#003d99\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Open Houses, music and other events around the village<\/mark><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">And from Friday to Sunday<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#003d99\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The Windmill hosts a very special exhibition<\/mark><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\"><strong>Not long now &#8230; before our feature packed Community Arts Festival gets underway, with a programme that includes workshops, exhibitions, music, open houses and fun events for the whole family.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-zoooom\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artsfest-2023-map-no-J-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C627&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Festival Map\" class=\"wp-image-10147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artsfest-2023-map-no-J-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artsfest-2023-map-no-J-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artsfest-2023-map-no-J-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C535&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artsfest-2023-map-no-J-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C401&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Open Houses and Festival venues, from the Auld Kirk to the Windmill &#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The ever popular&nbsp;Festival Caf\u00e9 will be accompanied by craft stalls and workshops in the Church Hall. Meanwhile around the corner in&nbsp;the Town Hall there are&nbsp;Art and Photography exhibitions, and further workshops; plus elsewhere there will be&nbsp;live music, open studios&nbsp;and&nbsp;fun events&nbsp;including the very popular&nbsp;giant bubbles.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IATW-SQ-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IATW-SQ-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IATW-SQ-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IATW-SQ-scaled.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IATW-SQ-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IATW-SQ-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IATW-SQ-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IATW-SQ-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Open Houses feature 26 artists in 16 venues, while&nbsp;the Town Hall exhibition features a further twenty local artists.&nbsp;Music includes&nbsp;CHIL, playing classic rock &amp; pop and local vocalist Elaine Boyd.&nbsp;Workshops include art demonstrations by well-known watercolourist Jem Bowden, and&nbsp;in pastels by Hayley Mills. Craft workshops include&nbsp;Shell painting.&nbsp;Jewellery making,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Flower arranging. There is also&nbsp;a&nbsp;Pottery Demonstration, a History Walk,&nbsp;a self care session, pianola demonstrations, storytelling, a poetry evening, and the village&#8217;s 3,000+ cameras in the photography museum and its heritage centre will be open both days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The village&#8217;s iconic windmill, overlooking the outdoor pool, is also to be open as the venue for artist&nbsp;Joanna van den Berg\u2019s IMMERSE project on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the Festival. The installation will have three large panels celebrating&nbsp;the growing numbers of \u2018feisty 50+ers, women in particular\u2019, who are immersing themselves in Scotland\u2019s seas, lochs, rivers and reservoirs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/arts-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/arts-festival\/<\/a>&nbsp;for full details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Monans Community Arts Festival On Saturday and Sunday, 2nd and 3rd September And from Friday to Sunday Not long now &#8230; before our feature packed Community Arts Festival gets underway, with a programme that includes workshops, exhibitions, music, open <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/its-festival-time\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-10157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-st-monans-arts-festival-community","tag-st-monans-arts-festival"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artsfest-2023-web-banner-2.jpg?fit=1661%2C500&ssl=1","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artsfest-2023-web-banner-2.jpg?fit=1661%2C500&ssl=1",1661,500,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artsfest-2023-web-banner-2.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artsfest-2023-web-banner-2.jpg?fit=300%2C90&ssl=1",300,90,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artsfest-2023-web-banner-2.jpg?fit=768%2C231&ssl=1",768,231,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artsfest-2023-web-banner-2.jpg?fit=1024%2C308&ssl=1",1024,308,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artsfest-2023-web-banner-2.jpg?fit=1536%2C462&ssl=1",1536,462,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artsfest-2023-web-banner-2.jpg?fit=1661%2C500&ssl=1",1661,500,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Dave","author_link":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/author\/dave\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"St Monans Community Arts Festival On Saturday and Sunday, 2nd and 3rd September And from Friday to Sunday Not long now &#8230; before our feature packed Community Arts Festival gets underway, with a programme that includes workshops, exhibitions, music, open &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3rNeI-2DP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10157"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10465,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions\/10465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}