Performing Arts Schedule

Bands to play during Arts Festival

Happy Valley welcomes 100,000-plus people, drops the football and turns artistic. Welcome to the 38th Annual Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts (CPFA), or as we say, Arts Fest.

South Allen Street is alive and bubbly today with the eager entrepreneurs of tomorrow as the 38th Annual Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts commences with the Children and Youth Day Sidewalk sale.

He's ba-ack.

The 38th Annual Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts isn't all about the art, but Filmstock sure is.

Wordstock, a local celebration of language and the written word, started Monday and will run through this Friday in conjunction with the 38th Annual Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.

Ceramics by day, rock'n'roll by night.

One of the special events for Wordstock this year revolves around a topic that has been in the news lately -- the issue of gay marriage and acceptance of alternative lifestyles.

For one particular group of people, the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts isn't about the artists' exhibitions, the Italian street paintings, the dance performances or the folk music.

In America, they say the streets are paved with gold. In Oz, it's yellow bricks. And in State College, we seem to favor paint. Or more accurately, chalk.

Walk down the street at the 38th Annual Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, and you're likely to hear more than just somebody trying to sell you a painting.

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