March Calendar 2012 for Mountain View
Loco Ropes Season Opens!
March 1, 2012
Loco Ropes Adventure Park at the Ozark Folk Center
Loco Ropes! is the newest adventure in Mountain View, Arkansas, proclaimed by National Geographic Adventure Magazine to be one of the 50 Great Adventure Towns! Loco Ropes is a state-of-the-art treetop adventure park experience. That’s right – a thrilling high wire adventure rope course with 3 different segments totaling 30+ challenges to test your nerve, endurance, agility, and strength.
Bring the whole family to enjoy our “Loco”motive treetop adventure park! Whether you’re an adrenaline junkie, outdoor enthusiast, or subscribe to the “just plain fun” philosophy, we have an awesome adventure of tree-top adventure rope course challenges in the beautiful Ozark Mountains waiting for you!
Cooking Class – Make Homemade Pizza from Scratch
March 3 -2012
Ozark Folk Center
Learn to make homemade mozzarella cheese, whole wheat pizza crust, white and tomato pizza sauces and how to use lots of toppings. You come away with recipes and a new-found appreciation for pizza. The class will be held from 10am to 2pm with a lunch of what you’ve made. Costs $30 per participant. Space is limited to 8 students.
Preregistration with payment is required by 2/25/2012.
Class fee $30 payable at the time of registration. This fee is non-refundable unless we cancel the class.
Registration deadline is 2-25-2012.
·Minimum students 3, maximum 8. If the class does not make, students will be notified the first business day after the registration deadline and offered the chance to switch to another class or receive a refund.
·Class starts at 10:00 a.m. Meet your instructor and pick up your packet in the Administration Building lobby. Class usually finishes about 2:00 with a break in the middle for lunch on your own. Bring a brown bag lunch to eat with the class.
Document: WorkshopRegistration1032Rev.pdf
Annual Spring Bluegrass Festival
March 8th, 9th & 10th – 2012
Ozark Folk Center
Visit the New Mountain View Bluegrass Festival Website!
Handpicked and Handmade Craft Show
March 8 – 10 -2012
Ozark Folk Center
The Handpicked and Handmade Craft Show is an annual show that is held in the Ozark Folk Center Craft Village in conjunction with the Mountain View Spring Bluegrass Festival. Crafts at the show will include wood carving, jewelry, weaving, baskets, shuckery, lampworked glass beads, old-fashioned printing, lye soap, hand-forged knives, leatherwork, brooms, pottery, flameworked copper, bee’s wax candles, modest clothing, handmade instruments and more.
Thursday hours Noon to 4 p.m.
Friday hours 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday hours 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission is free.
Due to construction in the Craft Village, we are not accepting outside vendors at this show.
Ozark Folk School
March 15 - 17 & 19 – 23 , 2012
Ozark Folk Center
Take up herbalism, culinary artistry, herb growing, harvesting and pruning, hypertufa, utilitarian and artistic handcrafts or mountain music in the beautiful, relaxed atmosphere of the Arkansas Ozarks. Alternatively, during our regular season, Design-Your-Own-Workshop to fit your individual or group’s schedule and interest. See class descriptions and registration at: http://ozarkfolkcenter.com/folk_schools/default.aspx
Our original Ozark Folk School, this session starts with orientation and meet & greet Monday morning and includes social time during the week, touring local craft studios and listening to music; watching videos of the original crafts people and more.It also includes some of our more intensive classes such as making your own black powder rifle or Knifemaking. You will leave most classes with a finished piece. The final day of the gunsmithing class you will sight your rifle in.Celtic in the Caverns
March 17 – 18, 2012
It’s Irish underground! Jigs, reels, ballads and more in an incredible setting…
2:30 and 4:30 shows ~ $20.00 a ticket and call Dee Hanrahan at the Chamber
870-269-8068 for additional information or reservations.
Blanchard Springs Caverns is the setting for these special events. Local musicians will perform traditional love and Celtic folk style music inthe cathedral-like atmosphere in honor of Valentines Day and St. Patrick’s Day. One visitor said it best, “I was underground but never felt closer to Heaven!”An elevator transports you to the seating area where you will enjoy the beauty of the caverns while listening to regional interpretations of love melodies and Celtic Classics. At one point you may join the singing or just savor the indescribable sound that occurs in this underground cathedral room. Matinee performances are available each Saturday and Sunday this year, with the matinee performances only, is an “Early Bird”special walking tour of Blanchard Springs Caverns. For those unfamiliar, on the tour you will see magnificent crystalline formations, sparkling flowstone and towering columns.
Tickets are non-refundable and on first come first serve basis. If event is sold out your money will be returned to you.
Paul Harris with the Cleverlys
March 17, 2012
Ozark Folk Center Auditorium
The Stone County Scholarship Foundation is pleased to host a fundraiser on March 17 at 6:00 p.m. at the Ozark Folk Center large auditorium featuring Paul Harris with The Cleverlys.
Ticket prices are $15 for adults and $5 for children under 12.
Tickets will be available soon.
Ozark Folk School, Session 1 & 2
March 15 – 17 & 19 – 23, 2012
Ozark Folk Center
The original Ozark Folk School, this session starts with a meet and greet on Monday morning and includes social time during the week, touring local craft studios; listening to music; watching videos of the Center’s original crafts people and more.
Class fees vary. Registration for this session of Folk School is open. There is a non-refundable registration fee due at the time you sign up; the remainder of your class fee is due to the instructor at the beginning of class. Instructors accept cash or check.
The non-refundable registration fee is $75.
All classes need a minimum number of students to make.
- Beginning Knife Making
- BLACKSMITHING
- Broom Making
- Candle Making – bee’s wax and more
- Corn Shuckery
- FOLK KIDS
- Glass lampwork – Flame of Mind
- Gunsmithing – Make your own black powder rifle or pistol
- Herbs for the Home 101 – Essential Oils
- Mandolin Making
- Pine needle basket weaving
- Soapmaking Old and New
- Stained Glass
- Tinsmithing
- Watercolor painting
- Weaving – beginning 4-harness
Document: ozarkfolkcenter.com_!userfiles_Folk Schools registration form 5-20-11.pdf
Master Gardener Annual Tree & Shrub Sale
March 17, 2012
Stone County Large Fair Building
Volunteer Days in the Craft Village
March 27 – 28, 2012
Ozark Folk Center
Spring here and it’s time to get out and see what everyone else has been doing this winter. Combine the energy of a barn-raising and the fun of a potluck!
That’s one of the fun things about Volunteer Days at the Ozark Folk Center – visiting, talking and sharing tales of what’s happened since last fall. March 27 and 28 from 10:00 to 4:00 join the fun at Folk Center and help us get ready for opening weekend. There’s no registration or admission charge, we’d just love to have your company. If you’re handy in the gardens, there will be flowers to plant. There are a few windows left to wash and signs to paint. The wood kiln has new shelves and there is brick that needs to be stacked and wood for sorting. If you just want to come out and cheer everyone on, or play a little music, that’s welcome too. We’ll be potlucking for lunch so bring your favorite food to share.
