The Kings River Quilt Festival will run from Saturday, Sept. 22 to Sunday, Sept. 23 in a new location at Immanuel High School in Reedley, Calif. This year’s festival, featuring artists Bonnie Pius and Barbara Reynolds, will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. A vendor mall and food will be available. Admission price is $5, and the public is welcome to come.

Reedley is home of the 1903 Opera House, the Historic Downtown Reedley Quilt Walk and the Mennonite Quilt Center. Pat Robertson of the Kings River Quilt Guild can be reached at 559-638-8624 to answer questions about the festival.

Here’s a map to the festival: The Kings River Quilt Festival.

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The public is invited to a reception Friday June 15 from 4-6:30 p.m. honoring the art of Jane Ziegler, winner of the Best of Show prize at the 2005 Reedley Fiesta. The art exhibit at the Reedley Opera House Gallery is a combination of her own paintings and the work of her students at the Sierra School in Badger.

Jane’s paintings and pastels are an eclectic collection of landscapes, children and things not immediately recognized as painting subjects such as the cell towers on American and Cove roads.

The student work are puppets representing the characters in Mozart’s Magic Flute. For the past year the students, under the direction of Jane, have become very well versed in not only the characters but the whole opera and next December will perform their adaptation complete with sets, lighting and arias.

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