Help Wanted

Contact Sheila or Kathy to volunteer your services or attend the BOFA planning meeting at 6:00pm June 27, 2011.
Members/ Volunteers are needed to assist at the BOFA table during the Belfast Heritage Festival.
The Belfast Organization for Artists (B.O.F.A.) will be co-sponsoring a limerick contest at the Belfast Heritage Festival July 22nd and 23rd. The limerick topics will be Irish Heritage and Boxing. Entries can be submitted to Scott Burt at http://www.bareknuckleboxinghalloffame.com/id10.html
Entry Deadline is 1pm July 23rd.
Winners will be announced at the Bare Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame in Belfast at 4pm on July 23rd.


Members and Non-members are invited to enter the Belfast Community Art Show. Volunteers will be needed to assist in hanging the show.
BOFA's Second Annual Belfast Community Art show will be on display at the Belfast Library during the month of August. Entries will be accepted July 27th. Work will be hung July 28th. For more information and an entry form contact Sheila at sheilalynnk@yahoo.com. Entry forms will be availabe in July 2011.
Member Volunteers are needed to prepare refreshments and provide support at the BOFA table during the Belfast Library Lawn Concerts in August and at the Taste of Belfast fundraiser.
BOFA will be providing refreshments at the Belfast library lawn concerts August 1st and 8th.

BOFA will have a dessert table at the Taste of Belfast on August 15th to raise funds to support the arts in the Belfast community.

Quilt Block Design Workshop

Saturday April 16th 2011
1pm to 4pm
at the Belfast Town Hall
Contact Kathy Garrison to register.

BOFA in Action

At the Quilt Show and at the Belfast Central School Open House.
Thanks Kathy and Marie for increasing community awareness of the BOFA mission.

BOFA contributes to The Empowering Alliance

The Empowering Alliance is hosting an auction to benefit women fighting breast cancer.
March 5, 2011
at 7pm
at the Hinsdale Legion. (Click on  BOFA post January 6, 2011, in the Blog Archive in the right margin, to read more information about this event.)
Local artists have cast and painted busts to auction at this event.
BOFA founder and events coordinator, Sheila Kalkbrenner, has submitted
Mothers Nature as a donation to this event.
Donated in memory of her mother, Janet Marie Kalkbrenner. Janet died of breast cancer in 1994.
She was 42. "A successful day as a mother (parent) is one in which what is good for you and what is good for your child are not mutually exclusive."~ Janet 1991

CALL FOR ARTISTS

Belfast Central School has invited BOFA members and community artists to display artwork at the BCS open house  March 17,2011.
Registration Deadline is February 20, 2011.
There is no fee for entry. Donations are welcome.
Entrants will be expected to assist with hanging work that day between 3:30 and 6:30pm

Quilt Block Design Workshop

In February


MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7th at the Belfast ACCORD building on Main Street

BOFA is offering a quilt block design workshop from 6:30-8pm. Suggested donation is $3.

New members and non-members are welcome to attend.

(Members are also invited to attend the BOFA planning meeting from 6pm-6:30.)

registration deadline February 3rd.
 
Contact Sheila if you are interested in an ecore presentation of this workshop.
 

Friday January 28,2011...First Open Mic Night is a success!

Many thanks to 3 Bums Pizza, our performers, members, and community for supporting this event!!

Lindsay McCumisky and Kirsten Weursig
perform vocals and acoustic guitar.

Cherith Meeks performs vocals and classical ukulele.

Reenie and Amy McCumisky