Is it really 2017? Already? With the New Year upon us, Ocracoke Alive is more committed than ever to enriching our community for both locals and visitors. Although the Skipjack Wilma Lee is quietly tied up at the Community Store docks, there is the scurry of performers feet at Ocracoke Alive's Deepwater Theater as students of the Ocracoke School Performing Arts hone their craft. Soon the spring Arts Partnership will be in full swing, and Arts Week is just around the corner, April 10-14. Both of these will culminate in The Tale of the Black Squall performance on Thursday, April 13th at 7 PM at the Ocracoke School Gym. Read more below! Next month we plan to share with you new ventures into community gardening, Latino festivities, and a possible community choir!
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| 2017 Ocrafolk Festival Artwork by Karen Rhodes |
Ocrafolk Festival Performers Announced, Artisan Applications Open Til March 15
While we anxiously await the 18th annual Ocrafolk Festival in June (2nd-4th) the planning, booking, and selection process is already well underway. Above is a sneak peak at this year’s artwork by Ocracoke Island resident Karen Rhodes. Thanks so much for her brilliant work! Can't wait to have it splashed across our T-shirts on festival weekend!
The festival performers have been selected. This year we welcome newcomers Bio Ritmo, Violet Bell, Mitch Barrett, Hank, Pattie & the Current, Ballet Folklorico de Guadalupano, and Amy Allen. We are also thrilled to have so many returning performers from previous years.
-Martin Garrish and Friends
-Donald Davis
-Molasses Creek
-Bio Ritmo (salsa)
-Violet Bell (Lizzy Ross & Omar Ruiz-Lopez)
-Beleza
-Mitch Barrett
-Lipbone Redding
-The Blue Eyed Bettys
-Hank, Pattie and the Current
-Ballet Folklorico
-Mahalo Jazz
-De Tierra Caliente
-Amy and Louis Allen
-Craicdown
-Bob Zentz
-Jef
-Paperhand Puppet Theater
There may be more additions in the next month, so keep posted!
Artisan Applications are now available online
If you are interested in having an artisan booth at this year’s festival, please visit www.ocracokealive.org/artisan-application.html and submit your application today! The deadline for Ocrafolk Festival Artisan applications is March 15.
Ocrafolk Festival PreOrders ~ A Perfect Valentine Gift for that Ocrafolk Fan! Avoid Waiting in Line in June!
February is also the month of early ticket sales and festival packages! These are now available for purchase online. Pre-order your tickets as a gift for yourself or as a great surprise for your Valentine!
Avoid the dreaded Ocrafolk Festival Moment . . . you rush to the merchandise booth to secure your T-shirt and mug with the fabulous new design, and wrestling your way to the front, you discover that the last has just been sold!
1. Pre-order online
2. We will contact you when we have finalized shirt and mug styles so that you may pick our your preference.
3. You will choose if you want to pick up your items at the festival or have them shipped.
That way you just pop off the ferry, don your shirt and button, and you are ready to strut the festival grounds!
While we anxiously await the 18th annual Ocrafolk Festival in June (2nd-4th) the planning, booking, and selection process is already well underway. Above is a sneak peak at this year’s artwork by Ocracoke Island resident Karen Rhodes. Thanks so much for her brilliant work! Can't wait to have it splashed across our T-shirts on festival weekend!
The festival performers have been selected. This year we welcome newcomers Bio Ritmo, Violet Bell, Mitch Barrett, Hank, Pattie & the Current, Ballet Folklorico de Guadalupano, and Amy Allen. We are also thrilled to have so many returning performers from previous years.
-Martin Garrish and Friends
-Donald Davis
-Molasses Creek
-Bio Ritmo (salsa)
-Violet Bell (Lizzy Ross & Omar Ruiz-Lopez)
-Beleza
-Mitch Barrett
-Lipbone Redding
-The Blue Eyed Bettys
-Hank, Pattie and the Current
-Ballet Folklorico
-Mahalo Jazz
-De Tierra Caliente
-Amy and Louis Allen
-Craicdown
-Bob Zentz
-Jef
-Paperhand Puppet Theater
There may be more additions in the next month, so keep posted!
Artisan Applications are now available online
If you are interested in having an artisan booth at this year’s festival, please visit www.ocracokealive.org/artisan-application.html and submit your application today! The deadline for Ocrafolk Festival Artisan applications is March 15.
Ocrafolk Festival PreOrders ~ A Perfect Valentine Gift for that Ocrafolk Fan! Avoid Waiting in Line in June!
February is also the month of early ticket sales and festival packages! These are now available for purchase online. Pre-order your tickets as a gift for yourself or as a great surprise for your Valentine!
Avoid the dreaded Ocrafolk Festival Moment . . . you rush to the merchandise booth to secure your T-shirt and mug with the fabulous new design, and wrestling your way to the front, you discover that the last has just been sold!
1. Pre-order online
2. We will contact you when we have finalized shirt and mug styles so that you may pick our your preference.
3. You will choose if you want to pick up your items at the festival or have them shipped.
That way you just pop off the ferry, don your shirt and button, and you are ready to strut the festival grounds!
2017 Arts Partnership & Arts Week: The Black Squall Production
This year’s Arts Week and Arts Partnership aims to integrate the arts and Ocracoke Island history. The activities and classes with these two programs will culminate in a student community performance of The Tale of the Black Squall at 7 PM on Thursday, April 13 at the school gym. Both the Arts Partnership and Arts Week will include elements of performing arts from juggling and steel drums, to singing and tumbling. Each group of students, will have opportunities to showcase what they have learned as part of a retelling of this fascinating Ocracoke story.
Upcoming Events
January 1-March 15 ~ Ocrafolk Festival Artisan Application open.
February 1-April 7 ~ Arts Partnership
April 10-14 ~ Arts Week
April 13, 7 PM (Thursday) ~ The Tale of the Black Squall at Ocracoke School.
Thanks for your support! Ocracoke Alive 2017 Board of Directors
Desiree Ricker ~ President, Assistant Director
Tom Pahl ~ Vice President
Gary Davis ~ Treasurer
Sharon Brodisch ~ Secretary
Allison O'Neal
Freddy Contreras
Jeanie Owens
David Tweedie ~ Executive Director
This year’s Arts Week and Arts Partnership aims to integrate the arts and Ocracoke Island history. The activities and classes with these two programs will culminate in a student community performance of The Tale of the Black Squall at 7 PM on Thursday, April 13 at the school gym. Both the Arts Partnership and Arts Week will include elements of performing arts from juggling and steel drums, to singing and tumbling. Each group of students, will have opportunities to showcase what they have learned as part of a retelling of this fascinating Ocracoke story.
Show Your Support!
These two projects cost roughly $15,000. The majority of the funds come from sponsors just like you. Artists travel from the across country to serve as instructors during this exciting time. Please take a moment and consider donating to this year's Black Squall Project.
The Tale of the Black Squall
When the Black Squall wrecked off of Ocracoke Island in April of 1861, the storm washed ashore the remenents of a circus troupe, including giant tents, silk ribbons, dancing ponies, and a menagerie of animals. Walter Howard wrote an account of this wreck in the 1950s, as he learned it from Old Kade Williams, who was 17 in 1861. Nixon’s Circus, sometimes called Nixon’s Royal Circus and Menagerie of Living Animals, was en route from a performance in Havana, Cuba to Philadelphia, when it encountered a terrible storm. According to Old Kade in Walter's story:
“Well the beach was strowed with animals from Lord knows where. Tigers, lions, bears, and there was one there whose neck was longer than his body.”
“That was all kinds of things that washed up on the beach. Even to bales of hay and fodder. They had that for the animals, I guess.
“Silks and satins, and costumes by the hundreds. The purtiest you ever seed.
“Tents, I’ll bet there was a thousand of ‘em. The men folks made sails for their boats out of them and one big tent I remember they put that up out on the beach hills and held a camp meeting in it."
To read more on the account and Walter Howard's story, visit Philip Howard's 2007 blog on the story at www.villagecraftsmen.com/news072507.htm
Student Activities and Opportunities for Involvement
The Tale of the Black Squall will offer a variety of opportunities for the students of Ocracoke. Visiting instructors will be working with different classes on show elements. Skills will include Ocracoke activities like Squaredancing and Fig Cake Baking, as well as group movement and dance, circus poster design, circus arts (tumbling, clowning, and juggling), and music on steel drums and percussion.
Middle School and High School students will also have opportunities to learn about set construction and design, lighting and sound, stage managing, and will be able to to participate as members of production teams that will be working towards the final week. Although 11th & 12th graders will be traveling during Arts Week, they will still be able to participate in the Arts Partnership programs leading up through April.
When the Black Squall wrecked off of Ocracoke Island in April of 1861, the storm washed ashore the remenents of a circus troupe, including giant tents, silk ribbons, dancing ponies, and a menagerie of animals. Walter Howard wrote an account of this wreck in the 1950s, as he learned it from Old Kade Williams, who was 17 in 1861. Nixon’s Circus, sometimes called Nixon’s Royal Circus and Menagerie of Living Animals, was en route from a performance in Havana, Cuba to Philadelphia, when it encountered a terrible storm. According to Old Kade in Walter's story:
“Well the beach was strowed with animals from Lord knows where. Tigers, lions, bears, and there was one there whose neck was longer than his body.”
“That was all kinds of things that washed up on the beach. Even to bales of hay and fodder. They had that for the animals, I guess.
“Silks and satins, and costumes by the hundreds. The purtiest you ever seed.
“Tents, I’ll bet there was a thousand of ‘em. The men folks made sails for their boats out of them and one big tent I remember they put that up out on the beach hills and held a camp meeting in it."
To read more on the account and Walter Howard's story, visit Philip Howard's 2007 blog on the story at www.villagecraftsmen.com/news072507.htm
Student Activities and Opportunities for Involvement
The Tale of the Black Squall will offer a variety of opportunities for the students of Ocracoke. Visiting instructors will be working with different classes on show elements. Skills will include Ocracoke activities like Squaredancing and Fig Cake Baking, as well as group movement and dance, circus poster design, circus arts (tumbling, clowning, and juggling), and music on steel drums and percussion.
Middle School and High School students will also have opportunities to learn about set construction and design, lighting and sound, stage managing, and will be able to to participate as members of production teams that will be working towards the final week. Although 11th & 12th graders will be traveling during Arts Week, they will still be able to participate in the Arts Partnership programs leading up through April.
Upcoming Events
January 1-March 15 ~ Ocrafolk Festival Artisan Application open.
February 1-April 7 ~ Arts Partnership
April 10-14 ~ Arts Week
April 13, 7 PM (Thursday) ~ The Tale of the Black Squall at Ocracoke School.
Thanks for your support! Ocracoke Alive 2017 Board of Directors
Desiree Ricker ~ President, Assistant Director
Tom Pahl ~ Vice President
Gary Davis ~ Treasurer
Sharon Brodisch ~ Secretary
Allison O'Neal
Freddy Contreras
Jeanie Owens
David Tweedie ~ Executive Director
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