In lieu of Festival of the Hills, Conway to hold fundraising ‘un-tag’ sale to support scholarships
Herb Thurber tosses an iron skillet during the skillet toss at Conway’s Festival of the Hills in 2016. The 2021 event is canceled, although there will be an “un-tag” sale on May 22 to raise money for the Festival of the Hills Scholarship Fund. Staff File Photo/Matt Burkhartt
Published: 5/13/2021 4:14:14 PM
CONWAY In light of the uncertainty around COVID-19 restrictions in the upcoming months and a lack of leadership for committee work, the Festival Board has decided once again to cancel the annual Festival of the Hills.
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PONCHATOULA - Folks in Ponchatoula are not letting COVID-19 stop all their fun this weekend even though the big Strawberry Festival has been canceled for the second year in a row. The community is pulling together to do something, Madi Massel said.
Massel is the manager of the Country Market. She says in place of the festivals, her market is having Strawberry Farmer Days this weekend, allowing local farmers to sell their berries, arts and crafts. The strawberry farmers have been hit really hard the last 2 years, with their sales and COVID, Massel said.
Will entertainment go ahead this summer? (here s what councillors have said) CULTURAL events in Brighton and Hove will signal a return to normality when the pandemic ends, councillors heard. The comments came as members of Brighton and Hove City Council’s Tourism, Equalities, Communities and Culture Committee discussed the council’s post Covid-19 cultural recovery plan. Tourism and culture boss Donna Chisholm said that some events had struggled over the winter period, such as the Christmas Artists Open Houses. People had not expected them to take place as there was currently a lack of confidence about going to events. She said: “As we move into the next year and confidence returns and people are hungry for some kind of community activity and to feel there will be a return to some form of normality when the time comes.
At the meeting ICAIC President Ramón Samada announced the good news : the Festival would be resumed in 2021, but subject to certain conditions.
First of all, it would be a reduced Festival, without massive get-togethers, parties or a daily bulletin, due to the lack of money to finance it and the restrictions entailed by the pandemic in Havana.
Second, the festival s organizing committee would be reduced to four people, in addition to employees from the ICAIC itself, all under the oversight of the Institute s Office of Artistic Creation.
The latter would imply the de facto disappearance of the Festival Board of Directors, made up since the last decade by a handful of young filmmakers, democratically elected by the filmmakers, with whom relations had been thorny for officials since the censorship of Yimit Ramírez s
Published December 28, 2020, 1:00 AM
Now that the outcome of the 46
th annual Metro Manila Film Festival is finally out of the bag, with last night’s staging of the virtual Gabi ng Parangal, showbiz insiders eagerly await the consequent reactions from various groups involved in this year’s competition. For years, the MMFF awards night, has always been a rich source of intrigues, scandals and even lawsuits, which actually make the yearly tradition not just truly colorful but also something to really look forward to.
The post-recognition night issues and conflicts that usually arise, take on some consistent patterns, which we will now look back to in this article. One incident is something that is to me, quite funny, so I’d rather start with it right away.