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Watertown Comes Out to Celebrate the Town’s Creative Talents at First Arts Market

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Charlie BreitroseVisitors at the first Watertown Arts Market had a variety of tables to visit. People strolling around Arsenal Park on Saturday got a glimpse of the artistic creativity that Watertown has to offer during the first Watertown Arts Market. More than 70 artists and crafters and community groups set up tables along the oval path that rings the field at Arsenal Park. The event attracted painters, quilters, ceramic sculptors, authors, jewelry makers, and more. The east end of the park featured a series of bands, and grab a bite to eat.

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Hear Local Authors & Get Books Signed at the Watertown Arts Market

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Watertown writers Kathleen Spivack, Lawrence Kessinich, and DeWitt Henry will appear at the Watertown Arts Market as part of the Watertown Lit Squad’s contribution. The Watertown Lit Squad gathered some of the Town’s authors, who will give readings and sign books at the Watertown Arts Market. The Watertown Arts Market will take place on Saturday, Aug. 21 from noon to 5 p.m. at Arsenal Park. The Watertown Lit Squad provided the following announcment:

THE WATERTOWN LIT SQUAD PRESENTS READINGS, BOOK SALES, AND SIGNINGS BY WATERTOWN AUTHORS AT THE FIRST WATERTOWN ARTS MARKET AUGUST 21, ARSENAL PARK

Longtime Watertown resident, Kathleen Spivack has published in over 300 anthologies and magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and Harper’s.

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Lit Squad Invites Writers, Poets to Join Them at Watertown Arts Market

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The following announcement was provided by the Lit Squad:

Please join the Lit Squad as part of the Watertown Arts Market on August 21, 12:00-5:00 PM, at Arsenal Park. We are a newly gathered group of published and amateur writers, young and forever-young, who want to encourage and foster poetry and all literary arts here in this diverse community. Join us to market your work, perform your work, enjoy the work of others … and meet other writers during the course of the day. We will have a commission-free sales table for your books and related wares. We will have featured 10-minute readings by established Watertown poets, followed by 3-5-minute open-mike readings by all comers, with a PA system and chairs, at 1:00 and 3:00 PM.

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Volunteers Wanted for First Watertown Arts Market

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The Town of Watertown is happy to support this year’s inaugural Arts Market, hosted by a coalition of arts and business organizations in Town, taking place at Arsenal Park on August 21 from 12-5 PM (rain date August 28th). 

The Watertown Arts Market is an outdoor event that will follow a similar format to a farmers’ market: Watertown-based artists, authors, creatives, musicians and music teachers, arts and culture organizations, and beyond will each host a table at the event. Attendees can wander through the Market, learning about the artistic and cultural offerings in Watertown. Artists and cultural organizations can share information about their work and sell visual art, music, services, and more.The Arts Market will need volunteers to help out between 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM on the day of the event  to assist with set up at Arsenal Park in the morning, to help throughout the day with various tasks, and clean up in the evening. Volunteers may work one 4 hour shift or two consecutive four hour shifts with with a one hour break. 

Visit watertownartsmarket.com for more information and to sign up to volunteer.

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Watertown Lit Squad Seeking Writers, Poets & Others for Watertown Arts Market

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The following announcement was provided by the Lit Squad:

An invitation to Watertown writers and poets to participate in the first annual Watertown Arts Market (www.watertownartsmarket.com). Calling all writers! Help celebrate poetry and prose in your preferred language as part of the first annual Watertown Arts Market on Saturday 21 August 2021 in Arsenal Park, noon to 5 p.m.

Here’s a chance for writers who are Watertown residents to market their work or simply share it with others, by open mike or otherwise. Writers of any age are welcome to participate by making creative contributions of their own, celebrating the work of others, or just talking with like-minded people. Such people (our Lit Squad) are dedicating tents and a table at the Arts Market to serve as a free venue and showcase for Watertown’s writers known and (hitherto) unknown.

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Watertown’s First Arts Market Planned This Summer; Artists, Sponsors & Volunteers Wanted

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Anaïs MarkwoodThe first Watertown Arts Market will take place in August. Organizers hope it will be similar to the Watertown Farmers Market, shown above. Watertown’s first Arts Market will take place in August, and organizers are looking for artists, sponsors and volunteers. The Watertown Arts Market will take place at Arsenal Park on Saturday, Aug. 21 from noon to 5 p.m. The free event will bring together “the abundance of artists, arts and cultural organizations, and arts- and culture-related businesses based in and/or serving the Watertown area,” according to the announcement by the Watertown Arts Market Committee.