Three-year-old Stella Neill of Kingsville gets her face painted by volunteer Maissaa Malas at the 30th annual Arts at the Marina event on Sunday, July 28.
SUN photo by Deanna Bertrand

30th annual Arts at the Marina embraces new date

Leamington’s waterfront made for the perfect backdrop once again for Arts at the Marina hosted July 27-28 by the Leamington Arts Centre. The 30th annual event serves as one of the major fundraisers for the not-for-profit centre.

“This is a good weekend, great weather and we are excited to be hosting this in Leamington by the marina,” said Chad Riley Director/Curator of Leamington Arts Centre.

“One of the changes we did this year is we changed the date,” he said at the event Sunday afternoon. “So usually it is on Canada Day weekend but this year we pushed it back a few weeks for several reasons and it has worked out well.”

Rick Atkin Park was filled with 85 vendors, tents, food trucks and more spread out on the grass in front of the children’s playground area and between the sidewalks.

“We have quite a few new vendors (this year),” he said, “a lot of different arts and crafts, jewellery, pottery and fine art paintings, etc.”

The change of date brought a change in seasonal produce and this year the centre sold cucumbers and peppers donated by Carl’s Produce instead of the strawberries sold in previous years.

The weather cooperated fully, bringing sunshine throughout the whole weekend.