Save May 2 for Arts Alive! 2015 at Hylton Center

Arts Alive! 2015, a free, family-fun arts festival will be held on Saturday, May 2, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Hylton Center in Manassas.

This highly-anticipated annual community event is a co-production of the Prince William County Arts Council and the Hylton Performing Arts Center.

The festival celebrates the diversity and talent of visual and performing artists and ensembles from Prince William County and the City of Manassas and offers hands-on arts-related activities for children and adults.

Admission and parking to the event are free. Food and craft vendors with items for sale will be on site. Arts Alive! 2015 sponsors are United Bank and NOVEC.

This exciting afternoon will feature 32 indoor and outdoor performances on four stages: Merchant Hall, Gregory Family Theater and the Buchanan Partners Art Gallery inside the Hylton Center, and on the Showmobile outside of the building.

Local artists and ensembles performing include Old Bridge Chamber Orchestra, Magnificent Belly Dance, Dumfries Elementary School Chorus, New Dominion Choraliers, scholarship winners from the Woodbridge Music Club, the Church Street Singers, Fools! Improv and much more.

There will also be strolling performers from the Bull Run Unitarian Universalists Mime Troupe and Pied Piper Children’s Theatre.

Visual arts groups participating include the Manassas Warrenton Camera Club, Stone House Quilters and the Prince William Art Society.

Activities for children include watercolor painting with Edgemoor Art Studio, face painting and a children’s story corner.

Local artisans will sell their diverse wares, including jewelry, pottery, quilts and photography. Write by the Rails, the Prince William Chapter of the Virginia Writers Club, will sell books by local authors.

Arts Alive! 2015 will be held at the Hylton Performing Arts Center on the Prince William Campus of George Mason University at 10960 George Mason Circle, Manassas, Va. 20110. Park free in the lot next to the Hylton Center. For more information about Arts Alive! 2015 go to HyltonCenter.org or pwcartscouncil.org.