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Show Bicentennial Celebration Project Slated by Guild A Bicentennial Celebration Cele-bration project entitled "Life Arts: Historic and Modern" is being planned plan-ned by the Southeastern Utah Fine Arts Guild, and people who still practice "pioneer" skills are being be-ing asked to participate. The Guild plans, during 1976, to present demonstrations demon-strations on historical arts and crafts, and is studying the possibility of doing a book or a film that would help preserve this legacy for our increasingly in-creasingly "modern" descendants, de-scendants, a legacywhich the Guil d feels might otherwise be lost forever. People who do things in the course of their daily lives that are really of interesting historical significance, such as spinning yarn from fleece, quilting, shoeing horses, making leather from fruits and vegetables, vegetab-les, making soap, whittling, whittl-ing, tatting, making adobe bricks, and any skills prevalent during pioneer times, are asked to contact con-tact the Guild and participate partic-ipate in this project. Dave May, Guild chairman, chair-man, or Mrs. Don Swa-sey, Swa-sey, Guild vice chairman will take names and skills from anyone calling to participate. The Guild asks that if you know anyone who has interesting interest-ing historical skills to call and submit those names also. The Life Arts project was decided upon by the Guild board because it fits well with both Guild goals and activities and with the themes of the Bicentennial. The Heritage Heri-tage theme is embodied in the demonstration and revival re-vival of pioneer skills; the Festival theme will be carried out in the actual ac-tual day of presenting the demonstrations; and the Horizons theme approached ap-proached through a stimulation stim-ulation of interestin learning lear-ning old skills, and by the possibility of producing pro-ducing either a film or book. It is felt that through this project the overall Bicentennial Theme "Improving the Quality of Life," will be carried out. |