Like all organizations in Blaine, the Pacific Arts Association’s (PAA) 2020 year was significantly impacted by the pandemic. Our major event, the Blaine Harbor Music Festival and Camp, was canceled because of Covid-19.
We started the year in wonderful shape by enjoying the fruits of a successful fall-of-2019 recruiting campaign. On February 25, we celebrated “Fat Tuesday” with a well-attended concert and dance at the Senior Center that featured great music and a traditional pancake supper.
That was it for an active 2020! A couple of weeks after that positive beginning, activities began to shut down and soon it became obvious that we were not going to be able to have our festival. We refunded camper deposits and settled into a world of masks, social distancing, lockdowns and frequent handwashing.
And here we are in mid-December, still in the same world!
The intervening nine months, however, have not been wasted. With the support of our board and our incredible team of staff and faculty members, PAA has dedicated itself to the assumption that a vaccine for Covid-19 will have been made available to our festival family and that we will be opening our doors for camp on July 11–17, 2021.
To help make this hopeful dream a reality, we have created a completely new website that will be rolled out soon. This will become a cornerstone of our student recruiting campaign and will feature a series of instructional videos produced by members of our faculty. Happily, most of the members of our gifted team have already indicated that they will be back with us this coming summer.
So, here’s to 2021, and to the hope that we will see you in July for the Blaine Harbor Music Festival and Camp.
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