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20 THE CHARBONNEAU VILLAGER
November 2019
Charbonneau
Arts Association
By ERIC HOEM
Art festival offers
full weekend of
activities, fun
A
s winter approaches, the
36th annual Charbon-
neau Arts Festival will
give you plenty to
brighten your weekend. Being
held Friday, Nov. 1, through Sun-
day, Nov. 3, each day will offer
something different. Not only will
attending be fun for you, all pro-
ceeds go to a very good cause. Pro-
ceeds are donated to the art educa-
tion programs at Wilsonville and
Canby high schools.
Friday evening, Nov. 1
The weekend starts Friday eve-
ning with a Gala Champagne Re-
ception that fills the entire Coun-
try Club. As you enter, the lobby
will be transformed into an exhib-
it area for our featured artist,
Elaine Luneke, Charbonneau’s
watercolor teacher. Elaine plans
to present her watercolors promi-
nently in a “very clean fashion”
for this critical first impression at
the Arts Festival. Examples of her
jewelry will be displayed as well.
Elaine likes to use recycled mate-
rials in her jewelry creations and
she gets stunning results.
The lounge area becomes a gal-
lery of student art from the two
high schools. Typically 40 or more
students exhibit their work, which
varies from paintings to giant pa-
pier-mache masks. Student volun-
teers serve as docents here. One
or two will be working on their art
projects and will be happy to an-
swer questions about their work.
Every year, this part of our Arts
Festival is a favorite.
Your next stop will be check-in
for the Silent Auction being held
in the Card Room. At the time of
PMG FILE PHOTO
In 2018 student artists demonstrated their talent during the festival.”
my writing, over $7,500 worth of
items have been donated and I ex-
pect the total value to raise to
$10,000 or more by the time all the
donations come in and organizer
Elaine Swyt puts it all together.
On her list so far, I have seen
wine tasting packages, a dozen
pieces of fine art, a MacPro laptop
computer, golfing packages, pre-
mium wine, restaurant gift cards
and much more.
Moving into the dining room
Friday evening, you will be served
a glass of champagne and enjoy
catered hors d’oeuvres. While
mingling, Charbonneau pianist
Marilyn Anderson will be playing
the Country Club’s baby grand for
background entertainment.
Marilyn’s repertoire includes
jazzy tunes like “Summertime,”
show tunes such as “Over the
Rainbow,” popular pieces like
“Memory” from Barry Manilow,
and American classics such as
“Shenandoah.” All her choices are
performed with elegant softness,
so that sometimes your conversa-
tion will pause as you listen to
Marilyn’s playing.
In the fireplace room, a profes-
sional gallery has been set up for
the weekend. On exhibit and for
sale will be 100 works or more by
both local and regional artists in a
variety of mediums: oil painting,
watercolor, collage and mixed me-
dia, stone sculpture, and fine galls
art, to name just a few. The artists
are too numerous to name here,
but visit our website at www.
charbonneauarts.org for informa-
tion about all of them.
As you peruse the art, you will
be able to vote for three People’s
Choice awards that will be an-
nounced at the end of the Gala.
Tickets for this opening night
Gala Champagne Reception are on
sale on our website and at the
Windermere office next to our
Country Club office. They are $10
in advance. Tickets are $15 at the
door Friday evening.
Friday evening will come to a
close when the Silent Auction
closes and you pick up an item or
two you purchased for a great
price. Again, all proceeds go to
support art education programs at
Canby and Wilsonville high
schools.
Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 2-3
The enjoyment, however, is not
over. You will want to return Sat-
urday, Sunday or both. The stu-
dent art exhibit and demonstra-
tions continue as will the Fire-
place Art Gallery. Overnight and
in the early morning, volunteers
have transformed the Dining and
Card Rooms into an artisan show
with 30 booths of handmade items.
Here you can get a head start on
holiday shopping, either your own
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