{"id":45348,"date":"2013-04-28T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=45348"},"modified":"2013-04-25T13:51:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:51:07","slug":"12th-annual-spring-migration-art-festival-coming-may-4-and-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=45348","title":{"rendered":"12th Annual Spring Migration Art Festival Coming May 4 and 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Barn<\/a>(Town of Lenox, NY- April 2013) Come celebrate the return of spring at the Great Swamp Conservancy\u2019s 12 annual Spring Migration Art Festival on May 4 and 5. This major fundraiser for the 15-year-old nonprofit nature center in Madison County offers something for everyone, art and craft lovers, nature enthusiasts, art and environmental educators, conservationists and kids of all ages.<\/p>\n

Featured artist this year is Claudia Loomis Chandler, a fine artist, silver jeweler, spinner, weaver and designer of knits and felt works.\u00a0 Her basketry, gossamer wools, rugs, paintings and jewelry reflect her love of nature.\u00a0 In addition there are more than 40 other wildlife artist and crafters exhibiting and offering artwork for sale.<\/p>\n

Entertainment includes Talons with their birds of prey demonstrating trained falcons both days. Animal Adventure Park of Harpursville will bring wild babies to show up close to pet and photograph on Saturday, May 4. Sunday the Utica Zoomobile will bring more wildlife so bring your cameras. Also Dan the Snake Man will present his \u201cBest Pets\u201d on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

Each day a guided Bird Walk will start at 8 a.m. The Swamp Snappers Camera Club will have a display and sale of more than 300 photographs.\u00a0 There will be displays by Trout Unlimited, Reynold\u2019s Game Bird Farm, Wanderers\u2019 Rest and more. There will be a quail release each day (1,000 were raised this year over the winter). There will be much more to see and do including games, food, music and animals.<\/p>\n

The event barn opens at 10 a.m. through 4 p.m. each day. Fee is $3 adults, $1 per child. The GSC is located at the corner of North Main Street and Pine Ridge Road, Canastota, about 4 miles from the NYS Thruway exit 34.<\/p>\n

Lineup of Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday May 4:<\/p>\n

8:00am Guided Bird Walk<\/p>\n

10:00am Festival opens with wildlife artists and crafters<\/p>\n

10:00am-4:00pm TALONS- Birds of Prey<\/p>\n

10:00am-4:00pm Animal Adventure Park<\/p>\n

11:00am-12:00noon Iryna Jurvich Suzuki Violin Studio<\/p>\n

12:00-3:00pm music by Dove Creek<\/p>\n

3:00pm Quail Release<\/p>\n

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Sunday May 5<\/p>\n

8:00am Guided Bird Walk<\/p>\n

10:00am Festival opens with wildlife artists and crafters<\/p>\n

10:00am-4:00pm TALONS- Birds of Prey<\/p>\n

11:00am-3:00pm Dan the Snake Man -theme Best Pets<\/p>\n

11:00am-3:00pm Utica Zoomobile<\/p>\n

10:00am-noon Music by Ann Weider<\/p>\n

12:00-3:00pm Off the Wall -blue grass music<\/p>\n

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All Day Both Days<\/p>\n

Naturalist Susan Jones-Ornithology lab on Bird flight, feather, and migration<\/p>\n

Reynold’s Game Farm Live Pheasant display<\/p>\n

Trout Unlimited<\/p>\n

Children’s Nature Hut Area<\/p>\n

Boy Scout Troop 43<\/p>\n

Madison County Dept. of Health<\/p>\n

CAP- Community Action Program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Town of Lenox, NY- April 2013) Come celebrate the return of spring at the Great Swamp Conservancy\u2019s 12 annual Spring Migration Art Festival on May 4 and 5. This major fundraiser for the 15-year-old nonprofit nature center in Madison County offers something for everyone, art and craft lovers, nature enthusiasts, art and environmental educators, conservationists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23679,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agfarming","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}