Art and community

Masquers Theater
The Masquers Theater Summer Youth Program is very popular here in Soap Lake. Every year some ambitious and creative volunteers spend a week with over 30 kids, ages 8 to 15 years old, producing a musical. This year the musical was Adventures of a Comic Book Artist. At the end of the week, kids put on a performance, drawing the attendance of families, friends and theater lovers from throughout the local area. According to Masquers Theater, this production drew a record crowd, making for standing-room only in the theater!

​Theater education is not only fun, but offers many other benefits such as building self-confidence and trust, teaching cooperation and collaboration, memory development and problem solving skills. FLGC was pleased to sponsor the cost of participation in this program for 10 kids who otherwise would not have been able to take part. We believe strongly that programs like this are of great value to our community and we plan to maintain our support of this program in the years ahead. 

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Arts on the Avenues' Beauty of Bronze Program
FLGC is sponsoring the participation of 25 Soap Lake 5th grade students in the Beauty of Bronze program, an Art on the Avenues’ annual arts education program takes place in Wenatchee during the month of September. This program gives fifth graders the opportunity to work with a professional artist to create and exhibit their own small bronze sculptures.

​About 600 local fifth-graders participate in this program each fall which includes learning about sculpture from artist-in-residence, Kevin Pettelle, creating a wax sculpture which is then sent to a foundry and cast in bronze, and a public artists’ reception held in their honor.
 
Fall of 2019 is the first year Soap Lake students participated in this program! We will post the pictures of their final works of art soon.

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