City of Calhoun Georgia – Gordon County GA

Calhoun’s Got Talent 2012

  • July 20, 2012
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Stage ShowCome out to the Harris Arts Center in Calhoun, Georgia for the 3rd annual Calhoun’s Got Talent starting on July 21, 2012 at 7 PM. See some interesting and talented performers and get your chance to vote for your favorite. This talent show will span over 3 weeks with the first show on Saturday, July 21, the second on July 28, and the finale on August 4. Your votes will determine who goes on to the next round. The prizes for winners are $1,000 for 1st place, $500 for 2nd place, and $250 for 3rd place and will be presented at the show finale on August 4.

Tickets are $15 for each show. For more information, contact the Harris Arts Center at 706-629-2599.

Harris Arts Center
212 South Wall St.
Calhoun, GA

Legends for Youth Baseball Clinic

  • June 22, 2012
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Baseball Glove and BallA FREE baseball clinic and youth tournament will be held in the Sonoraville Sports Complex in Calhoun, Georgia on July 27, 2012 from 10 AM to 1 PM. Former major league baseball players will be showing the kids the fundamentals of baseball. The age range for participation is 6 to 16. You can register online at Baseball Alumni.com. Online registration will be limited to the first 200 registrants so get signed up today!

Legends for Youth is a charitable program whose mission is to promote the game of baseball to America’s youth and teaching life skills with positive sports images and personalities.

Sonoraville Sports Complex
7494 Fairmount Highway
Calhoun, GA

April Wehunt in Concert

  • June 22, 2012
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Coca Cola’s Summer Music Series presents April Wehunt in concert on June 23, 2012 from 2 PM to 4 PM. She will be providing entertainment at the Calhoun Premium Outlets in Calhoun, Georgia. You will find her in the courtyard between Carters and Tommy Hilfiger.

April Wehunt has been performing since 2008, joining the Georgia Country Gospel and Music Association where she won Most Promising Entertainer and Vocalist of the Year in Traditional Country at the 2008 Georgia Country and Gospel Music Awards. In 2009, she began working with Sweet Southern Entertainment playing traditional country music at venues like Hard Rock Cafe and Wildhorse Saloon. In 2010 she became a worship leader with the youth group she grew up in and realized Gospel and Inspirational Country music is what she is supposed to do. She has gone on to win other awards and continues to inspire others with her positive lyrics.

Calhoun Premium Outlets
455 Belwood Road
Calhoun, GA

Summer Camps at the Harris Arts Center

  • May 30, 2012
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The Harris Arts Center in Calhoun, Georgia is hosting 3 different summer camps in the month of June, 2012.

Wheel Throwing Pottery Camp
June 4 – 8, 2012 – 1 PM – 2:30 PM
This camp is for students ages 13 and up. There will be hands on instructions as they learn basic pottery wheel throwing techniques. Students will glaze their pieces and they will be fired so they can be keep their works of art. The cost of this camp is $125 per student ($100 for Harris Arts Center members). All supplies are included.

Missoula Children’s Theater Camp
June 11 – 16, 2012 – 10 AM – 2:30 PM
This camp is open to all students grades 1 – 12. Parts will be cast and rehearsed throughout the week learning lines, songs, and choreography to put on a full length production of the play “Beauty Lou and the Country Beast”. The cost is $90 per person ($75 for HAC members).

Children’s Art Camp
June 18 – 22, 2012 – 9 AM to 11:30 AM OR 1 PM to 3:30 PM
This camp is for children ages 7 – 13. Art instructors Penny Dobson and Mary Nell Podgorny will use a variety of media focusing on the fundamentals of color, composition, and design. All of the children will participate in an art show and reception at the end of the camp and will be able to take all of their completed artwork home. The cost is $90 per student ($75 for HAC members)

For more information on these classes and to register, call 706-629-2599.

Harris Arts Center
212 South Wall St.
Calhoun, GA

Radio Gals

  • March 5, 2012
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Radio Gals is an entertaining musical being performed at the Harris Arts Center in Calhoun, Georgia on March 22 – 25, 2012. This musical is set in the 1920′s and is about a woman, Hazel Hunt, who receives a radio transmitter after retiring as the town music teacher and decides to start her own radio station, WGAL. There is lots of singing and playing by The Hazelnuts, an all girl’s orchestra and the lovesick flapper, Gladys Fritts as well as the small town diary, calendar, and a stream of consciousness over the local airwaves and come to find out, not so local. A federal radio inspector comes to rescue the airwaves and finds himself falling for the town and the women at the radio station.

Showtimes are 7 PM on March 22 – 24, and matinees on March 24 at 2 PM and March 25 at 3 PM. Tickets are $15. For more information, call 706-629-2599.

Harris Arts Center
212 South Wall St.
Calhoun, GA

2012 Coulter Hampton Day

  • March 5, 2012
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Mark your calendars for the 2012 Coulter Hampton Day on March 10, 2012. This is a special event that happens every year as a way to remember a young boy, Coulter Hampton, who lost his life way too early due to aplastic anemia/dyskerasosis congenita and to raise money to help families in need.

This family fun day will take place at Fairmount Elementary School in Fairmount, Georgia from 10 AM to 2 PM. There will be games, rides, inflatables, a mechanical bull, and more. Food and drinks will be available. You can get an all day play bracelet for $15 and that includes the mechanical bull, turbo tubs, and all inflatables. Other games and rides range from $.50 to $1.00.

The Coulter Hampton Foundation is a non-profit organization that raises money to help raise awareness of this disease and to help other families and organizations.

Fairmount Elementary School
130 Peachtree St.
Fairmount, GA

Laura Cortese’s Acoustic Project

  • January 9, 2012
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Laura Cortese’s Acoustic Project will perform at the Harris Arts Center in Calhoun, Georgia on January 15, 2012 at 3 PM. This talented group of female musicians consists of  2 fiddlers and a cellist. They will be holding a Fiddler/Cello workshop that emphasizes on learning tunes by ear at a moderate to fast pace after the concert from 5:30 PM to 7 PM. There will be some local favorites, Cameron Federal and Russell Cook of Little Country Giants, performing as well.

Tickets are $10 for the concert and $35 for the workshop. Those who are interested in the workshop can register at the concert or call the Harris Arts Center at 706-629-2599 to pre-register.

Harris Arts Center
212 South Wall St.
Calhoun, GA
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