Poets, artists and musicians will celebrate the splendor of fall in collaboration with the beauty of fine arts on Saturday and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Oakhurst Gardens of Minnetrista, the center's Web site said.
The 16th annual Humpack Barn Festival will offer poetry readings, a display of paintings in the Oakhurst mansion, as well as Irish folk music for anyone to enjoy. "It's a great chance to make friends as well as expand your horizons by learning, hearing and sharing poetry and art," Co-Director Sherita Saffer Campell said.
The first Humpback Barn Festival was held at poet Mildred Trivers' barn, who founded this tradition. The location of the festival was recently moved to Minnetrista, but the atmosphere of Trivers' barn is maintained with bales of hay and soul food such as ham and beans. Trivers also still comes to the festival every year to recite her poetry.
Plenty of preparation goes into the barn festival before the big weekend arrives. The poets fill out an application and face a jury in order to be selected to recite their poetry at the festival. The jury is selective because they want to choose only the best poets available. The poets meet every week in the spring to read and critique their work. Later, artists are chosen to select a poem from the ones to be read at the festival and create a painting that represents their interpretation of the poem. The artists and poets don't actually meet until the festival when both the poem and then the painting are presented.
Many Ball State faculty, students and alumni will participate in the Humpback Barn Festival. "It's a neat opportunity for the Ball State community to come out and see the talent that some of their peers and professors possess," Campbell said.
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