Community Partnerships

Welcome “Millie” to the Wild Geese flock! Art by

“Millie” landed today at West Granville Volunteer Fire Company in Strodes Mills 🎉 🪿 👩‍🚒

Follow the Flock: https://www.cpartnerships.com/follow-the-flock

Wild Geese royalty has landed at Lewistown Burger King!

Hold audience with “King Goose Rules”- art by Karl Eric Leitzel

Thank you to the Mifflin County Housing Authority staff and to the United Way of Mifflin-Juniata. Great team this year, we really appreciate your hard work.

Lucky Friday is just around the corner and we’re excited to bring you Margarita’s Chilean cuisine with her signature corn and meat pie, and also mote con huesillos drink (dried peaches with wheat) *vegan/vegetarian option. To top it off, Greg DeVecchis will be setting the tone with his incredible music! 🌽 🪿🍑 🎵

Thank you to everyone who came to our Garden to Table event. We look forward to seeing you at our next event in the coming month. 🫙🥒🫒🥕🫛🫑

Thank you Edelia (and family) for sharing your traditional Salvadoran tamales, pupusas and horchata with the community tonight as part of our Blue Juniata Foodways project! Thanks also to guest music star Fredy Granillo, who delivered incredible inspiring tunes to match the delicious food! 💙 🍽️ 🎉 🇸🇻 🎶 🎸 🎙️

Sponsored by PA Humanities

Friday is here! 🥳 Treat yourself to delicious Salvadoran food and great music starting at 5 PM! 🫓 🇸🇻 🎶

Get ready for a culinary adventure! Our Garden to Table event is just around the corner on September 10th, where you’ll learn the art of pickling veggies! 🥕 🥒 🫙

This Friday!!

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Attention non-profit arts organizations and or non-profits offering arts programs. The Creative Sector Flex Fund grant is now open. Applications and supporting documents can be found at cpartnerships.com. Any questions regarding the grant can be sent to Kiernan Schalk at [email protected]. The deadline to apply is Aug. 30.

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Kick off September First Friday at the / First Friday event! Savor Edelia’s Salvadoran food and groove to some amazing tunes! 🇸🇻🫓🎶

We are delighted to welcome Fredy Granillo as part of our September First Friday Blue Juniata Foodways event!

Fredy is a Salvadoran musician, painter and ceramist. He graduated from El Salvador’s Autonomous National University in 2012 with a degree in ceramics. His thesis was a collaboration with Japanese archeologists to recreate pre-Colombian ceramic decoration methods.

After performing with the Andean style band Yarabi between 2003 and 2008, he has become a dedicated sinter-songwriter. He recorded his first album ‘Todo Esta Normal’ (Everything is Normal) in 2012. He has performed in El Salvador, California, New York, and the D.C. area.

Listen to ‘Today Esta Normal’ here: http://www.fredygranillo.com/todo-esta-normal (http://www.fredygranillo.com/todo-esta-normal)

Last night’s Garden to Table event highlighted the culinary versatility of tomatoes, with demonstrations on homemade ketchup, roasted tomatoes, and salsa-making! 🍅 🧄🧅🫑

Join us for an exciting Garden to Table event with Rose Massie and savor the flavors of fresh tomatoes! 🍅

What a wonderful night for our Blue Juniata Foodways (with music)!

Thanks everybody who made it out and especially to tradition bearers (Dominican food) with help from .ali and Rafael Scarfullery (Dominican music on classical guitar). 🙏 🇩🇴 🥟🎸🎶

PA Humanities

We are thrilled to match traditional music with traditional food tonight with our partners at the The Crooked Shelf Bookshop, LLC! This is made possible through the support of PA Humanities.

In addition to enjoying Ruth’s excellent traditional Dominican empanadas, you can also come to enjoy Rafael Scarfullery, a spectacular Dominican musician! 🎉 🥟🎶

Ruth’s empanadas will be available at 5 p.m. until sold out while Rafael’s musical performance will last from 5-6 p.m.

See you there!

More on Rafael:

Rafael Scarfullery, an award winning guitarist, composer, and conductor for over two decades, is regarded as one of the outstanding classical guitarists in the Dominican Republic. He has toured and played as a soloist internationally and was invited to perform in 2008 at the second Ibero-American Guitar Festival in honor of Alirio Diaz, an event that also featured Grammy award winner Sharon Isbin.

He taught at SU, the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, and the Conservatorio Vacional de Musica of Santa Domingo before accepting a position as an adjunct instructor of guitar at Sweet Briar College, a women’s school in Virginia, in 2007. He also serves as music director at the Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Charlottesville, Virginia. His areas of teaching in the Dominican Republic schools included music theory and music appreciation.

Scarfullery has organized six international guitar festivals in his native country and frequently performs there. He has the distinction of being the first Dominican guitarist to perform Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez.

He has performed recitals in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Haiti, Turkey, Venezuela, and Canada in leading concert halls, including Carnegie Hall and the National Theater in the Dominican Republic, and has been featured on Christian television and radio programs. He has played in numerous Seventh-day Adventist churches throughout the U.S and at several SDA conventions and conferences.

Beginning in 1997, Scarfullery began winning recognition for his musical achievements in the Dominican Republic. He was feted as the best classical instrumental player of the year in 1998, winning an El Cassandra, a Dominican version of the Grammy award, the first guitarist ever to have that distinction.

He was proclaimed Outstanding Citizen of San Pedro de Macoris by its city council in 2000. The following year he won the Supreme Court Hymn Competition of the Dominican Republic and in 2002 was honored for his organization of cultural projects in San Pedro de Macoris. That same year he was chosen to receive the president's National Youth's Award in the area of cultural development.

Other achievements for Scarfullery have included being the top winner in the Bach-Handel Competition in Virginia in 2001 and winner of a hymn competition at the First Parish Church in Arlington, Massachusetts, in 2007. He was one of Jaycee's 72 Outstanding Youth of the Year in 2005.

Scarfullery has released several albums: Herta's Garden (Guitar Music for Quiet Moments) and Sweet Hour of Prayer, both in 2006; Preludes 1-24 By Rafael Scarfullery, in 2012; and Five Suites by Rafael Scarfullery for Guitar, in 2013. Although primarily a classical guitarist, he is adept at playing in other genres and styles, including popular, folk, Irish and Celtic, Spanish, Brazilian, and American jazz.

Project YES campers visited Love Two Eat farm. Water Buffalos, Highland Cow, Goats and a Zonkey, oh my. Campers learned about agriculture and how important farming is. Thank you to Daniel Love, TIU and the United Way of Mifflin-Juniata.

Join us at The Crooked Shelf Bookshop, LLC on First Friday in August for a taste of Ruth's mouthwatering Dominican Chicken Empanadas! 🇩🇴😋

The Project YES students just had a great Young Scientists Week! 🌲 🔎 🐾🦋

Highlights include:

- Students learning nature-based outdoor skills and the Leave No Trace principle

- Safely enjoying the observation of wildlife

- Two field trip hikes (braving the heat) and a personal outdoor kit

Bonus: Ridiculous disguises 🥸

Thanks to instructor and environmental educator Kristie Smith, coordination from our partners TIU Community Education and Workforce Services staff, Curt Eversole, Shelby Liebegott and the United Way of Mifflin-Juniata for funding this program

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Last night’s Garden to Table herb session at Body & Soul Community Center went really well. Thanks to our instructor Rosie Massie, all attendees and United Way of Mifflin-Juniata for sponsoring!

Highlights from the relaxing herb-filled evening:

- Participants learned all about turning herbs into oils

- A lot of rosemary oil was made (including a large rosemary plant from the Project YES plot at the Lewistown Community Garden)

- Attendee Jill Becker shared her interesting method of drying and preserving herbs with salt

📸s by Rosie

Attention non-profit arts organizations and or non-profits offering arts programs. The Creative Sector Flex Fund grant is now open. Applications and supporting documents can be found at cpartnerships.com. The deadline to apply is Aug. 30.

Visit with Wild Geese royalty when you stop in at the Lewistown Burger King! Art by Karl Eric Leitzel

This regal addition to the Wild Geese flock is set to land outside in the coming months!

Pictured: Tom Maysonet, Operations Supervisor and
Lisa Schaeffer, General Manager Lewistown Burger King

Another great Garden to Table event happening! 🌿 Remember to email or call to reserve your spot!

The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) introduced a new grant program, the Creative Sector Flex Fund (CSFF), in 2023-2024, and is offering the program again for the 2024-2025 grant cycle. The CSFF is designed to address the changing needs of dynamic PA arts organizations with average annual revenue between $10,000 - $200,000.

This grant program incorporates the current needs of the field by offering grantees the flexibility to use $5,000 grants in ways that ensure the most significant impact for their organizations and communities.
Eligible uses of funds are flexible, including the support of applicants’ administrative, programmatic, and project-related expenses.

Visit cpartnerships.com for an application and supporting documents. Application window is July 1 to August 30. Questions can be directed to Program Manager Kiernan Schalk at [email protected].

Community Partnerships (RC&D) Mission: Strengthening community through creative partnerships About Us Community Partnerships (RC&D), Inc. is a locally led non-profit dedicated to improving quality of life in rural Pennsylvania *ARTS FUNDING*Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator ProgramFolk and Traditional Arts ApprenticeshipCreat....

Valerie Moyer was a recent recipient of the Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Grant. Valerie works in the fine arts and plans to use the funding to upgrade equipment at her studio in Beaver Springs. This grant was made possible through the PA Council on the Arts.

Come on over to the Crooked Shelf Bookshop and spoil your dinner.

Another great Garden to Table Event. Thank you to everyone who came and our instructor Rose Massie! 🫙🍓

Update:

Due to health concerns with a member of our tradition-bearer’s family, some details of our Blue Juniata Foodways event on Friday have changed by necessity.

Spanakopita, cheese pitas and rice pilaf will no longer be available but …

*Mary Anna will still be making Greek desserts and they will be available free of charge at her insistence! We ask that you limit one type per person in your group. Starts at 5 p.m.

The event will feature renowned Greek musician Spyros Koliavasilis Spyros Koliavasilis Music performing traditional Greek music from 5 to 6 p.m.!

Thanks for your understanding and come on out Friday to celebrate Greek culture and load up on books, puzzles and games at our partner and building-mates The Crooked Shelf Bookshop, LLC!

Surprise landing- “Archibald Hunter” joins the Wild Geese flock! 🦊🎉🪿

This goose is unique in that the sponsor FOXPRO Inc. sponsored, designed, painted and landed “in-house.” You can find the new flockmate outside FOXPRO Inc. at 14 Fox Hollow Drive, Lewistown.

FOXPRO art director Chad Swigart painted “Archibald” who is clad in the Pennsylvania tuxedo, traditional garb of our hunters past and present.

Thanks also to Collision Repair instructor Jon Aumiller and his students at Mifflin County Academy of Science & Technology for sealing yet another goose!