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2011 Norway Summer Arts Festival Schedule:
All events are free and happen on or near Norway's historic Main Street

Thursday July 7th:
  • 6-6:45pm    Art Moves Around OHCHS Auditorium
  • 7-7:30pm    Storytelling Dance with Karen Montanaro in honor of the
                      2011 focus figure Tony Montanaro, OHCHS Forum.
  • 7:30-8:30pm    Film Tony Montanaro “Theater and Inspiration”
                           OHCHS Forum
  • 8:30-9pm    Art Moves Around OHCHS Auditorium

Friday July 8th:
  • 4-7pm    Friends of the Library used book sale, Norway Grange
                  Whitman Street
  • 5-9pm    Rotary and Kiwanis Annual Auction OHCHS
  • 7-10pm   Street Dance with “Criss Cross Orchestra” behind Fare Share
                  Co-op, with special guest, Dawson Hill and friends and Visual
                  DJ, VJ FOO.




  • Criss Cross is worldwide, polyrhythmic music that combines traditional native African, American, Caribbean, Cuban, Latin American and European musical styles, and includes the tonality, improvisations, and other musical dynamics found in Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, and Hip Hop.

Saturday July 9th:
(Several blocks of Main Street will be open to pedestrian traffic only from 9 to 4)
  • 43rd ANNUAL SIDEWALK ART SHOW - 9am-4pm (SEE MAP)
  • 8:30am       Norway Triathlon, Pennesseewassee Lake Beach
  • 9 am-4pm    Non-profit Mall,
  • Live Music, Dance, and Performance Art
  • 9-11am      Dancers on the Green Next to the Norway Memorial
                      Library
  • 11 am         Edible T.V. Stand-up comedy on the Norway Memorial                   Library porch
  • 10am-5pm   Creative Media’s Musicians 329 Main St., Norway
  • 9-9:45 am    Kale and Ezrah Churchill Town square
  • 10-10:45am  Act V Town Square
  • 11-11:45am  Shawn Mercer Town Square
  • 12-1pm        Music on the Porch with Mary Christine aka Ukelady
                       and friends Norway Library Porch
  • 1-3pm          Poets on the Porch VIII Norway Library
  • 12-12:45pm  Katey Branch and Ruby Daybranch Town Square
  • 1-1:45         “Olas” Flamenco Music and Dance Town Square
  • 2-2:30         Celebration Barn Presents, Town Square
  • 3:15-4 pm    Poland Players Shakespeare in the Park,
                       Town Square
  • Children’s Activities~ Face Painting~ Chalk Art
  • 9 am-4 pm    Boxberry School Children’s activities and workshops,
                       Witheril Park
  • 9 am-4 pm    Daydreamer Face and Body Art, Witheril Park
  • 3:15 pm       “Trash into Art” puppet show Witheril Park followed
                       by puppet parade!

    OTHER EVENTS:
  • 8 am-4pm    Art Moves Yard Sale
  • Noon            Artist Award Announcement Town Square
  • 2:30 pm       Merchants’ Free Art Award Must be present to win
                       at Town Square
  • Finnish American Heritage Society Yard Sale at Dow’s Law Office
  • Friends of the Library Book Sale at Norway Grange
  • Second Congregational Church Lobster Luncheon
  • Annual Chicken Pie Luncheon at Universalist Unitarian Church
  • Masonic Lodge Chicken B-BQ at Norway Masonic Lodge Temple Street
  • 9 am- 4 pm    Rotary/Kiwanis Annual Auction at OHC High School