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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Contact: Kay Kjelland, Cultural Program Specialist - (573) 874-6387

Children's activities at the Columbia Festival of the Arts 

COLUMBIA, MO (September 13, 2005) -- The fourteenth annual Columbia Festival of the Arts will feature a special Children's Art Area and Stage, as well as other participatory art activities for the enjoyment of children of all ages. All performances and art activities are free.

The Children's Stage will feature storytelling, interactive theater, puppetry and music. New this year will be juggling performances by Reneé Crosby. Crosby's Saturday and Sunday afternoon performances will be followed by free juggling classes in the Children's Art Area. 

Also new to the Festival will be two giant art mazes. The interactive mazes will feature musical instruments and visual art. On Saturday at 2 p.m., Festival-goers can take part in a "doodling workshop" with Deborah Zemke, local author of D Is for Doodle and 2 Is for Toucan. Artwork by Columbia Public Schools students will be on display in the lobby of the County Government Center as well. 

This year's Festival will again provide a creative outlet for budding writers at the magnetic Poetry Wall. Based on the retail success of the smaller magnetic poetry kits made for use on refrigerators, the wall has more than 1,700 magnetic word tiles. As with the retail hit, the magnetic format allows participants to arrange and rearrange words on metal surfaces to express thoughts.

The Festival is free and open to the public. It will be held at the Boone County Courthouse Square and surrounding streets in downtown Columbia on Sept. 24-25. Festival hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days.

For specific performance times and stage locations, consult the special Festival insert in the Columbia Daily Tribune's Sept. 22 issue, contact the Office of Cultural Affairs at (573) 874-6386, e-mail Festival at GoColumbiaMo.com or log on to www.GoColumbiaMo.com (GoWord: GoArtsFestival).

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