FESTIVAL EVENTS

Closing Weekend: Saturday, March 26 – Sunday, March 27, 2019

Sat, Mar 26, 9am – 5pm

Candlewood Arts Festival self-guided tours

Start your day at Christmas Circle to find a map of all the works created for the 3rd Annual Candlewood Arts Festival, including sculpture, performance, and a gallery exhibition located throughout the desert community of Borrego Springs.

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Sat, Mar 26, 1:30 – 3pm

Drop-in Clay Workshop – Future Catfish

Let your imagination run free in this drop-in, hands-on clay workshop. Guided by teaching artists from the Borrego Art Institute and Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, you will bring your vision of what a catfish might look like in the future to life using air-dry clay.

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Sat, Mar 26, 10am – 12pm / 1pm – 4pm

Drop-in Clay Workshop – Future Catfish

Let your imagination run free in this drop-in, hands-on clay workshop. Guided by teaching artists from the Borrego Art Institute and Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, you will bring your vision of what a catfish might look like in the future to life using air-dry clay.

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Sat, Mar 26, 1:30 – 3pm

Artists’ Talk

Join us at the Borrego Springs High School Community Room for a lively conversation about art, community, and the environment with the artists of this year’s Candlewood Arts Festival.

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Sat, Mar 26, 4:30-6:30pm

Closing Reception

Join us as we celebrate the artists of the 2022 Candlewood Arts Festival. The reception will take place at the Candlewood Arts Festival Gallery at The Mall, which features Desert Rats, an exhibition of newly created work by artists from Borrego Springs High School, produced with the guidance of artist and educator Jake Freilich this winter. 

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Sat, Mar 26, 6:30-7:30pm

Catfish Dreamin’ Poetry Reading and Screening

Join us for an outdoor screening of a special video program inspired by Alison Saar’s Catfish Dreamin.’  Saar selected works by Carolina Caycedo, Carmina Escobar with Wesam Nassar, and Kate Lain to join her own recent video that helps us imagine traversing the waterways with a catfish as our guide. We will be viewing the works at dusk in the amphitheater in the County Park just behind the Borrego Springs Public Library. 

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Sun, Mar 27, 10am – 12pm

Meet the Artists at their Artworks

Start your morning at Christmas Circle and pick up a map. Then spend the morning exploring Borrego Springs and talking to the artists of the 2022 Candlewood Arts Festival at their works.

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Sun, Mar 27, 10am – 12pm

Drop-in Clay Workshop – Future Catfish

Let your imagination run free in this drop-in, hands-on clay workshop. Guided by teaching artists from the Borrego Art Institute and Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, you will bring your vision of what a catfish might look like in the future to life using air-dry clay.

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Opening Weekend: Saturday, March 5 – Sunday, March 6

SATURDAY
MARCH. 05, 2022
09:00 AM–05:00 PM

Candlewood Arts Festival self-guided tours

Start your day at Christmas Circle to find a map of all the works created for the 3rd Annual Candlewood Arts Festival, including sculpture, performance, and a gallery exhibition located throughout the desert community of Borrego Springs.

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SATURDAY
MARCH. 05, 2022
01:30 PM–03:00 PM

Artists’ Talk

Join us at the library for a lively conversation about art, community, and the environment with the artists of this year’s Candlewood Arts Festival.

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SATURDAY
MARCH. 05, 2022
04:00 PM–05:00 PM

Performance by Amitis Motevalli

Artist Amitis Motevalli responds to Sherin Guiguis’ installation and the cultural and environmental history of Borrego Springs with a performance in the orchards of Seley Ranches.

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SATURDAY
MARCH. 05, 2022
05:00 PM–07:00 PM

Opening Reception

Join us as we celebrate the artists of the 2022 Candlewood Arts Festival. The reception will take place at the Candlewood Arts Festival Gallery at The Mall, which features an exhibition of newly created work by artists from Borrego Springs High School, produced with the guidance of artist and educator Jake Freilich this winter. 

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SUNDAY
MARCH. 06, 2022
10:00 AM–12:00 PM

Meet the Artists at their Artworks

Start your morning at Christmas Circle and pick up a map. Then spend the morning exploring Borrego Springs and talking to the artists of the 2022 Candlewood Arts Festival at their works.

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