{"id":57176,"date":"2013-09-24T20:38:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T02:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/its-here-balloon-and-arts-festival-week\/"},"modified":"2013-09-25T02:38:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T02:38:44","slug":"its-here-balloon-and-arts-festival-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/its-here-balloon-and-arts-festival-week\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s here: Balloon and Arts Festival week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Mancos Valley Arts Council sponsors the annual \u201cArtFest\u201d on Saturday, Sept. 28. Artists and craftsmen have been sending in the applications to participate.  If you would like to be vendor at the \u201cArtFest,\u201d you can call the Visitor Center at 907-533-7434 to reserve a spot and get an application. You can also send an email to <a href=\"mailto:chamber@mancosvalley.com\">chamber@mancosvalley.com<\/a>. We look forward to seeing everyone enjoy this very colorful event.<\/p>\n<p>Remember there are lots of other special activities associated with the Mancos Valley\/Mesa Verde Country Balloon and Arts Festival. On the evening of Friday, Sept. 27, there is \u201cGrand Summer Nights\u201d with gallery walk, carriage rides, and lives music. Join your friends downtown and browse the galleries. On Saturday, Sept. 28, the \u201cArtFest\u201d happens on Grand Avenue from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The \u201cFlags and Flights\u201d dinner is set to begin at 6 p.m., enjoy good food with music, dancing and a silent auction. Tickets are $20 per person, and you can pick them up at the Visitor Center. Don\u2019t forget that if you are a landowner and would like to have a balloon land on your property, you can register to win a free balloon ride in the Landowners Lottery. You can stop by the Visitor Center at 101 E. Bauer Ave. to sign up for your chance to win a balloon ride. The drawing will be held at the \u201cFlights and Flags\u201d dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday evening is the balloon glow in Boyle Park at 7:15 p.m. Before the glow you can grab dinner at Chavolo\u2019s Mexican Restaurant where they will be serving up a fajita buffet starting at 4 p.m. Tickets are $10 per person, and you pick them up at the Visitor Center (970-533-7434) or at the Bauer House (970-560-0203). We look forward to seeing everyone downtown this weekend. Come join the fun and festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Marianne Griffin is the executive director of the Mancos Valley Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center, 101 E. Bauer Ave. Visit www.mancosvalley.com or contact her at 533-7434. You can also visit <a href=\"mailto:chamber@mancosvalley.com\">chamber@mancosvalley.com<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mancos Valley Arts Council sponsors the annual \u201cArtFest\u201d on Saturday, Sept. 28. Artists and craftsmen have been sending in the applications to participate. If you would like to be vendor at the \u201cArtFest,\u201d you can call the Visitor Center at 907-533-7434 to reserve a spot and get an application. You can also send an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-57176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57176"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=57176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}