Gallery 842, located at 842 4th Ave. in downtown Huntington, will host the 2010 West Virginia Waterc

The Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Downtown Live Committee will host its 3rd Annual Children’s Art Festival Extravaganza (CAFÉ)

When: Saturday, June 12 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Ninth Street Plaza between Third & Fourth Avenues
The 3rd annual CAFÉ event will have activities for children 12 years old and younger. Some of the arts featured are the following: book making, stamp art, tie-dye art, sculptures, a children’s community mural and others.
The event is free for everyone.
Other activities will include performances by the Cabell County Public Library Puppets, Jeslyn Performing Arts Center …

A small group of people are bringing their passion and their vision to life in the form of a multicultural center in Huntington – A facility that will host classes and events that will encompass the many amazing people and cultures that make up our community.

The City of Huntington needs your help to convince Google to come to our fair town to install some of the worlds fastest internet connections to all of our homes at an affordable price! This is an amazing opportunity for both economic and technological development for the region and we won’t see another opportunity like it – please help!

Even when the weather is cold and miserable Huntington finds a way to be beautiful.

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If you’ve walked downtown town at all over the past two weeks you may have noticed various works of art on display in many of the storefronts – particularly on 3rd and 4th ave and 9th street. All of this art has been setup as part of the ArtGawk – a great initiative to beautify our downtown and to showcase some of the great artists in the area. The work was coordinated by the same folks who put together gallery 842 – a free art gallery at 842 4th ave.

Kiva is a micro-lending web site. Micro-lending, to those who aren’t familiar with the concept, is a way to provide financing to people who can’t get financing through traditional financial systems.

On June 27^th, the Cabell County Art and Music Project, a Create Huntington project team, is hosting a community exhibition of the arts to be held at The Galleria (the old Huntington Arcade) on 4th Avenue. This event will begin at 6 PM and last until 11PM. Ceal’s Sandwich Shop will be cooking up good food at a reasonable price for this event, thanks to its proprietor, Greg Carico. Wayne and Chris hope to work in conjunction with other art gallery projects coming out of Create Huntington.

The Drifters, songsmiths of such classics as “Under the Boardwalk” and “Save the Last Dance For Me” are in concert tonight, June 2, 2009, in front of the Keith-Albee theater starting at 6pm. They will be doing two sets during the night ending at 10pm. The concert is free so bring a chair and get comfortable along fourth ave and come join in the Celebrate Huntington Concert Series!

“There is a wonderful quote from Dr. Vannevar Bush (the first to build such a machine at M.I.T.), ‘Experience is necessary, of course, in order to use the device effectively. This is actually one of the most attractive aspects of the machine; one acquires an entirely new appreciation of the innate nature of a differential equation as that experience is gained,’ ” Lawrence said