The Fine Arts Fiesta

Join us for Fiesta 2009, May 14, 15, 16, and 17!

The Fine Arts Fiesta, a celebration of diversity in the performing and visual arts, is the oldest festival of its kind in Pennsylvania. Founded in 1956 by Annette Evans and Alfred Groh as an annual celebration of the arts in the Wyoming Valley area, the first fiesta lasted three days and presented music, dance, drama, sketches and displays.

Today the Fine Arts Fiesta spans four days and includes juried arts shows for students and adults, live performances by area school groups and professional acts, strolling performers, an artist market, and a selection of ethnic foods to please everyone's palate.

FIESTA 2009

Let me speak
As strangers do
Who stay in our town
For a day or two

I like it here, I don’t know why
Maybe it’s all that open sky
That floats on the mounatin three miles high

Maybe it something in my mind
I’m simply looking to find

A place for a woman and a man
To dream and settle down and plan
And gives them freedom so they can

It may be factories, churches, schools, trees –
But I’m inclined to think it’s more than these

Wilkes-Barre is proof
That cities can and do revive
And keep arts downtown
Alive

~ Alfred Groh