MERMAID TEARS SEA GLASS FESTIVAL 2010
The organizing committee is pleased to announce the second annual Sea Glass Festival coming to the Wood Islands Lighthouse in beautiful eastern Prince Edward Island. We were overwhelmed by your support and talents at last year’s festival. Thank you for all your attendance and feedback on the 2009 event! We look forward to welcoming you all back to our Island this coming summer.
Our 2010 Festival will be held on July 16 and 17. Again, it will be an outdoor venue under the big tent overlooking the Northumberland Strait. Friday’s activities will include a catered light supper for vendors and guest only at Plough the Waves Visitors Centre followed by a free public lecture in the tent at the Lighthouse by featured guest speaker, Dr. Deacon Ritterbush. Dr. Ritterbush will also be selling and signing her book titled A Beachcombers’s Odyssey, vol.1: Treasures from a Collected Past. We know you will enjoy her presentation which will include her impressive collection of glass fishing buoys which she has collected from all over the world. You can learn more about her by Googling “author Deacon Ritterbush”.
Saturday, July 17 will begin with a light breakfast at 8am in the tent as we set up for the vendor and food fair which will run from 10am until 5pm. The theme this year will again be any art/creation using authentic sea glass (no tumbled glass please) and any depictions of mermaids using any medium you choose. We had a wonderful collection of jewelry for sale last year and we hope to see even more novel ways to use sea glass this coming year. We would also encourage those of you out there that find magic in the myths of mermaids to show us your stuff. Children were a big part of the attendance last year and we hope to see items geared to their interests next summer.
There will be another exciting ‘Shard Contest’ in 2010 with more prizes. Those of you who collect ‘pottery shards’ will have your own judging category to enter.
So start thinking about the Mermaid Tears Sea Glass Festival now. Registration is open from now until April 30, 2010. Table space is limited so don’t miss out!
REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS APRIL 30, 2010.
SPACE IS LIMITED!
Photographs used for our Site Header courtesy of Jane Milton, Sea Glass Collector and Jeweller, Nova Scotia.
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