The Thompson Festival of the Arts will once again be holding vocal, choral, speech, piano/strings and visual arts performance sessions from March through April.
Registration closes Feb. 11. Speech and vocal performances will be held March 21-23 at the Juniper Centre multipurpose room, St. John's United Church and R.D. Parker Collegiate's Letkemann Theatre.
Dance performances will be held April 8-9 at the Letkemann Theatre and St. John's United Church.
Piano recitals will be held April 13-14 at the Letkemann Theatre and visual displays will be from May 27-28 at the Recreation Centre.
Anyone interested in registering can call Peggy Martin at 677-6174 for more information and entry forms.
Professional jurors assess the various works and annual Hi-Lites Concerts take place at the end of May.
The Thompson Festival of the Arts is one of 28 local community arts festival organizations across the province making up the Winnipeg-based Associated Manitoba Arts Festivals (AMAF), a non-profit organization that represents amateur community arts festivals across the province, which typically involve more than 60,000 people as participants, volunteers and audience members.
The eight regions include Norman, which Thompson is part of, South Central, Parkland, Prairie Crocus, Prairie Heartland, Interlake-Agassiz, West Central and Capital.Besides the Thompson Festival of the Arts, other member festivals include Birdtail River Fine Arts Festival; Boissevain Festival of the Arts; Brandon Festival of the Arts; Carberry Music & Arts Festival; Deloraine Border Festival; Evergreen Festival of the Arts; Gladstone Music & Arts Festival; Meridian Arts Festival; Morden Festival of the Arts; Mountain Music Festival; Mountain Poetry & Drama Festival; Neepawa & District Fine Arts Festival; North Western Marquette Festival; Pembina Valley Music Festival; Red River Valley Festival of the Arts; Rock Lake Festival of the Arts; Rockwood Festival of the Arts; Rolling River Festival of the Arts; Selkirk & District Piano Festival; Southeastern Manitoba Festival; Swan Valley Fine Arts Festival; Tempo Festival of the Arts; The Pas Music & Fine Arts Festival; Tiger Hills Festival of the Arts; Virden Music & Arts Festival; Winkler Festival of the Arts and the Winnipeg Music Festival.
