Name: Bethlehem Christmas Town Festival
Start: 2024-12-06T17:00:00-05:00

This year’s 43rd annual event will run from 5:00 pm to 9:30 pm on Friday, December 6, 2024, and from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm on Saturday, December 7, 2024/
An old fashion Christmas celebration surrounding the Town Green (Junction of Route 61 and Route 132). The festival is free to attend and highlights include over 70 craft vendors selling handcrafted items just in time for holiday shopping, photos with Santa, a hayride, a Free scavenger hunt, Free musical entertainment, and a 5K Road Race on Saturday morning sponsored by the First Mile Race Management Company, as well as a classic vehicle decorating contest. Plus, a multitude of delicious food choices to make everyone’s visit complete. More information can be found at <a href="https://christmastownfestival.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://christmastownfestival.com</a> or by calling 203-266-7510 ext, 400

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Bethlehem Christmas Town Festival

Friday December 6, 2024: This year’s 43rd annual event will run from 5:00 pm to 9:30 pm on Friday, December 6, 2024, and from 9:30 am to 4:00...

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KMR Arts

Promised Land/ Tierra Prometida is a photographic body of work I have been developing since 2020. This project was inspired by and in contrast to the visual culture and discourse circulating about immigration in mainstream media. The rhetoric about the wall catalyzed this inquiry, propelling me to travel along the U.S-Mexico border to document and volunteer with humanitarian aid organizations like the Kino Border Initiative and Casa de la Misericordia in Nogales, Sonora, MX, Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in McAllen, TX, and Aguilas del Desierto in Ajo, AZ. Promised Land interrogates the myth of the American Dream from the perspective of the borderland environs, the people seeking asylum in the United States, and the volunteers and groups who are engaged in helping migrants with vital needs such as food, shelter, health care, as well as facilitating search and rescue in the desert.

In my work as a documentarian, I am continually asking and exploring questions about how to convey a sense of both empathy and urgency in the photographs. My intent is to communicate the necessity for compassion. The large format 8x10 camera is entirely relevant: the time it takes to set up and make a photograph allows for conversation and collaboration with the person, or people, sitting in front of my camera. I hear stories and make personal connections with the people I am photographing. In a digital age, my analog images offer counter narratives to how the media depicts migration by humanizing through imagery. At the heart of it, migration is one chapter of a person's story; it is not their entire story.


Lisa Elmaleh has been awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship. This prestigious fellowship is awarded on the basis of prior career achievement and exceptional promise. This life-changing recognition is well-deserved, as Lisa Elmaleh has devoted her life to pursuing excellence in the field of photography. Lisa Elmaleh's work has been exhibited in the US and internationally. Her work has appeared in Harper's, Garden and Gun, National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, and the New York Times, and her book, Everglades, was published in 2016.

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KMR Arts is proud to announce the opening of Diana Weymar: Everything I Touched, from August 24 through October 19, 2024. Please join us for an opening reception with the artist, Saturday, August 24, from 3-5 pm. This exhibit is Weymar's first exhibit at KMR Arts.
Diana Weymar is a renowned textile artist and pioneer in the growing world of "craftivism," a movement that combines art and activism to address social and political issues. Weymar grew up in the rugged wilderness of Northern British Columbia, where she learned early on the value of resourcefulness: "Everything we had and did was a creative act of survival." She later studied creative writing at Princeton University. 
Everything I Touched is a collection of compelling quotations meticulously stitched on found fabrics such as vintage handkerchiefs and cocktail napkins. The quotations, explore themes of love, identity, and resilience. The act of transforming stitching into art creates an almost subversive result, more powerful than reading the text on its own.
In this work, Weymar seeks out connections, rather than differences. The viewer pauses and processes not only what they are seeing, but how they are seeing it. These are objects that would not have any value and would have been discarded unless someone stopped to appreciate them.
As a “domestic art”, embroidery has historically been associated with women’s work, along with pottery, candle-making, weaving, and knitting, The “domestic arts” have also traditionally transcended class, race, and nationality. Just as quilting bees in the American South served both social and practical purposes, Diana Weymar’s work has gathered momentum with its “call and response” process, drawing individuals from wide-ranging backgrounds and geographical locations together, as they unite and collaborate.
The tactile allure of the embroidery adds a physical dimension to the art, allowing viewers to feel the textures and appreciate the work that goes into each and every stitch: "What makes these pieces powerful is because the handwork is evident," Weymar says. "It's so personal." 
Weymar's groundbreaking textiles are inviting and jarring, playful and serious, dainty and powerful. Weymar splashes pastel backdrops and stiches intricate patterns to complement the quotations. Each piece invites viewers to engage with it on multiple levels, creating a dynamic interplay between text, texture, and meaning.
Gallery owner, Kathy McCarver says, “From the moment I saw Diana’s work, I wanted to learn more about it, own it, and exhibit it. This work is intimate and human, an antidote to our loud, impersonal, mass-marketed, mass-produced world. This modern world, with its advances and progress, has rendered humans disconnected. This compelling work is an attempt to connect us through words and thoughts.”
Weymar has fostered a sense of community surrounding her projects, encouraging others to send in their textiles or stitch their own pieces. Throughout her career, Weymar has collaborated with organizations such as Build Peace, the Arts Council of Princeton, and the Nantucket Atheneum. Her work has been showcased across the United States and Canada, receiving international acclaim for its innovative artistic approach. 
If you would like more information, please email <a href="mailto:kathy@kmrarts.com">kathy@kmrarts.com</a>.

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Join us on Sunday, August 25th for a unique dining experience, an amazing auction, and a fabulous raffle in support of your local area nature center &amp; land trust. This annual event raises essential funds to continue our mission to provide opportunities to appreciate nature’s wonders and preserve land, inspiring lifelong learning about our natural world. Support Flanders again this year by purchasing your ticket to Farm to Flanders. You choose your participant support level.
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