Second Spring Arts Gears Up for 2014 Festival

Second Spring Arts is gearing up for its May festival. Their 2014 competition for artists ages 60 and above with showcase original works encompassing virtually all media including photography, quilts, sculpture, ceramics, stained glass and more. This year Second Spring Arts is adding a Literary Contest and Anthology as well. Second Spring Arts makes arts of all types accessible for seniors and highlights the connection between the arts and the health and wellbeing of older individuals. They also promote research along those lines. Founder and President Nancy Hall and Festival organizer and Second Wind Publishing founder Mike Simpson spoke with David Ford about it.

This year's Festival kicks off Friday night, May 30^th at the Milton Rhodes Arts Center and Hanesbrands Theatre in Winston-Salem with the North Carolina Black Repertory Theatre performing excerpts from the musical Crowns. Audience members are encouraged to sport their favorite hats to the event. They'll be judged and the best awarded prizes. It'll be an intergenerational festival too with Ann Gill from Dancing Classrooms presenting her students in live dance performance, and Nathan Ross Freeman will showcase his Authoring Action students and their work as well. Second Spring Arts Festival 2014 runs through May 31^st.