2016 Annual Meeting is Almost Here!
Blossoming Arts and Culture All Around!
Tuesday, April 26, 2016, 6PM-7:30PM
Members (only!) will vote on the four new PACA board members. You can renew your $5 Annual Membership onsite!
If you’re not sure whether you’ve kept your membership up to date, no problem – we’ll look you up on our list when you get there.
Same venue as last year: Pickens Room, downstairs at the county administration building, 1266 E. Church Street. We’ll have signs and guides to show the way, or come in the side entrance at the bottom level.
Your PACA Board,
Ed Brackin – Cliff Brooks – Mike Davis – Becky Denney – Jaci Evans – Pat Jewell – Audrey Kristen-Lewis – Amelia McIntyre – Crystal Merrell – Heather Poole – Jamie Rosenthal
Meet the Artist: Get To The Pointe Dance
Join us in celebrating the 2016 Spring Quarter Featured Artist Get To The Pointe D
ance Center (GTTP) on April 24, 2016.
Owned by Carla Jarrett and Lauren Bail, this studio opened in 2009 in Jasper. In 2015, they built and opened a new location on Noah Drive, near Johnny’s Pizza. Currently, GTTP offers classes to over 230 students in Ballet, Pointe, Lyrical, Tap, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Creative Movement, Musical Theatre, and Kinderdance.
PACA will host a reception for GTTP on Sunday, April 24th, at 2PM-4PM. Refreshments will be served and tours of the new building offered. Visitors will have the chance to see a few dancers during the event too.
The location is 575 Noah Drive, Jasper, GA 30143.
Learn more about Get To The Pointe and their offerings by visiting www.gettothepointedance.com
Meet the Artist: Hans Rueffert
Join us Thursday, January 21st, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Woodbridge Inn to celebrate Pickens County chef, author, and TV personality Hans Rueffert. There will be a Q&A session with Hans to hear and learn about what led him to be the celebrity chef.
Light hors d’oeuvres will be served. Make plans to stay and treat yourself to dinner with Hans and the Woodbridge Inn rrestaurant afterward.
Read more about Hans at the Woodbridge Inn website or his personal website.
Noteworthy – Justin Davis
Persistence, determination, talent and an abundance of faith are words that come to mind when I think of Justin Davis. A big man with a big heart, Davis is one of Pickens’ great success stories.
Justin Davis is one of Picken’s great success stories.
Davis spent his early years in Tate, moving to Jasper while still in school.
He began piano lessons when he was in sixth grade. He recalls that Bay Cagle was his first teacher. He joined a youth choir and a band. During his high school days, he played strings, piano and percussion while developing a beautiful tenor singing voice. Continue reading
Snow Date! Annual Meeting Mar 5th
For the love of arts and cultureLet’s put our hearts into it
Image Credit: Love IS Returned Clip Art from Vector.me (by johnny_automatic)
PACA
Annual
Meeting
Join your neighbors at the Pickens Arts and Cultural Alliance Annual Meeting on February 26th to hear from many different voices in the community. Art, music, theater, literature, history, natural history, culinary, dance, fiber arts, photography, pottery, and more – PACA loves it all. Learn what local individuals and organizations did in 2014, and what is in the works for 2015.
Sassafras Location Change
The Sassafras Literary Exchange will will meet at 6PM on January 12 at Tater Patch Players theater. This is a temporary location change for the month of January only. SLE will meet at the normal location, Sharptop Arts Association, in February.
Drummer Boy … and Girl
Come join the Jasper Rhythm and Flute circle from 6:00 to 7:00 Tuesday, December 9th, at the Sharptop Arts Center. As usual, instruments will be provided, kids are welcome, and there is no charge!
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