"I would like to say thank you for the wonderful pictures and to let you know that my son was overjoyed with his "visit" with Santa! He has been jabbering to everyone that will listen and he is as proud as a peacock of his pictures with Santa! I really hope that there are plans to do this again next year and if there are you can sure count on us to be there!!! Thank you again for the wonderful addition to our Christmas collection it will be cherished for many years to come!!!! Please feel free to send me info on the concert series and other programs and I will positively spread the word! "

Fuquay-Varina Arts Council Invites you to a Meeting

Get involved in the Arts
Date: Monday Jan 11

Time:  7:00pm
Location:    Fuquay-Varina Chamber Board Room,
121 North Main St.
Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526  

Our Fuquay-Varina Arts Council is building a Board and needs people who have an interest in helping to shape the growth of Art in our area.
If you have an interest in; a position on our Board of Directors, to participate in an event planning committee or just learn more about what we are planning, please attend this meeting.

At this meeting, we hope to assign a committee to get our fundraiser “Photos with Santa” planned and going.  We scrambled to start this last year and with little exposure and less marketing, we still raised around $1,000.  It can be much better and more organized this year.

Additionally, we plan to set a monthly music series with 6 events from January to June.  We contemplate 3 indoors and 3 outside.  There is much work required to pull this off and then keep the momentum to build a strong and active organization. 

All facets of building this into an important organization in our town are wide open and we need your involvement.

United Arts Provides Seed Funding for Fuquay-Varina Arts Council

The United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County has recently awarded seed funding in the amount of a $2,000 grant to the Fuquay-Varina Arts Council.  The funding will help the relatively new nonprofit arts agency support its plans for a Festival of Dance in early 2010, as well as plans for “Spring into Arts,” an outdoor music and art exhibition festival in spring 2010.

The Fuquay-Varina Arts Council is “an effort to give a platform for both the expression of the talents that are a part of our citizenry and a venue for enriching our citizenry by coordinating performances and exhibits from groups and individuals from across wake County, North Carolina and the world.”   We have worked toward fulfilling our purpose of assuring an enhanced quality of life for the citizens of Fuquay-Varina,” says David Morris, president of the Fuquay-Varina Arts Council.

Seed funding from United Arts is intended to support emerging arts organizations that have begun to produce arts programming.  The purpose of the funding is to help organizations develop their capacity for producing or presenting arts programs. 

The United Arts Council’s mission is to build better communities through support and advocacy of the arts.  This year alone United Arts will support more than 700 public music, dance and theatre performances and art exhibitions and more than 6000 classes/workshops in arts for youth outside of school settings in Wake County, NC, as well as 140,000 hours of arts programming in 130+ Wake schools. For more information, go to www.unitedarts.org.