One of NFOTA’s sponsors, Spirit of the Hills, is doing what they do best – helping their artists members to sell their work. Art lovers will have the opportunity to see local artists’ work all in one place and a chance to buy something unique. Plus the exhibition will continue right through the festival and…
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2019 Festival Highlights: Antony Di Nardo
As we confirm the program for NFOTA’s upcoming festival, to be announced very soon, we look back on previous festivals. Here is Antony Di Nardo’s poetry reading from Words on a Wire 2019. About Antony Antony Di Nardo is the author of five books of poetry, with a sixth, Forget-Sadness-Grass, to be released this April…
Why Poetry? by Kate Rogers
A lot of writers and artists make Northumberland County home! One important reason my husband and I chose to settle here after two decades abroad is the many poets and visual artists who practice their craft here. What is poetry? According to Margaret Atwood, “Poetry is condensed emotion.” Poets often focus on epiphanies—flashes of understanding…
2019 Festival Highlights: Marie-Lynn Hammond and San Murata
As we confirm the program for NFOTA’s upcoming festival, to be announced soon, we look back on previous festivals. Here is a song from singer song-writer Marie-Lynn Hammond and San Murata, artist and jazz violinist. Northumberland Festival of the Arts will take place across Northumberland County from September 16 – October 2, 2022. Northumberland Festival…
2019 Festival Highlights: Kim Doolittle
As we confirm the program for NFOTA’s upcoming festival, to be announced soon, we look back on previous festivals. Here is part of Kim Doolittle’s performance at the Festival of the Arts in 2019. About Kim: Kim Doolittle is a singer, songwriter, storyteller and musician. Her 9th studio album, “Into the Blue,” came out in…
The Dog As Muse by Susan Statham
This post first appeared on the NFOTA blog September 3, 2021. Born July 24, 2019, Artie, (AKA Arthur Conan Doyle) became my constant companion in early October. I’d met his dog mother, Bella, a year earlier during one of the ever-increasing vet visits for my fifteen-year-old French Bulldog, Janie (AKA Miss Jane Marple). “Ah you…
The Day After by Paul Nicholas Mason
Paul Nicholas Mason is a novelist, playwright, and, since he retired from teaching in 2015, a voice-, television- and film-actor. Paul’s latest novel, The Rogue Wave, was published in 2021. The day after we buried my dear father I took my little granddaughter, three and filled with life, Precious life, To the park near my…
Meet the Faces behind NFOTA: Katie Hoogendam
“Art to me is the ground of being–not a noun, but a verb; something primordial that defies and predates the bounds of language.”–Katie Hoogendam. Writer and artist Katie Hoogendam serves on NFOTA’s Program Committee. Who are you? Hi, I’m Katie Hoogendam (“Merkat”). I’m a local writer, poet, playwright and interdisciplinary artist. Why do you believe…