Sisters hosts Western Festival over Labor Day

Sisters will send visitors on a little time-travelling expedition into the 19th Century on Labor Day Weekend, as it welcomes the Sisters Western & Native American Arts Festival, Saturday and Sunday, August 30-31, at Creekside City Park.

The event features a wide variety of fine arts and crafts, paintings, photography, pottery, wood crafts, jewelry and more. Visitors will get a glimpse inside a teepee and learn how wagon wheels were made.

Tony Fuller, KTVZ personality will be performing Native American dancing. Flutist Charles Littleleaf will perform.

The Anvil Blasters offer their Western folk music on Saturday.

2008 poster artist Barbara Berry will offer her posters for sale at $7 each, available at the event and at the Sisters Chamber office at 291 E. Main Ave. A chainsaw artist will demonstrate his talent along with a flintknapper designing his artistry.

In the "Village of Learning," cultural re-enactors will share their heritage with others. Through demonstrating, reenacting, storytelling, dancing and interpreting, they teach the ways of their ancestors. Kids can bead their own bracelets, have their picture taken in authentic mountain man or Native American regalia, and watch the wheel maker, leather maker and wood whittler.

Admission is free. Creekside City Park is located at the junction of Jefferson Avenue and Highway 20 in Sisters.