Pre-Festival activities provide an opportunity to learn from visual and performing artists who will be involved in the Festival. Pre-Festival workshops include opportunities for both young people and adults in a variety of artistic disciplines.

2009 offerings include:

Festival Quest!

We’re opening a new page in Festival History – with a Pre-Festival Medallion Search! The treasure-hunt begins on June 1, 2009, when a hand-crafted medallion will be hidden on public property somewhere in Salina. Watch and listen to local media for daily clues leading to the hiding place.

The Festival Quest Weekend Package will be awarded to the first-eligible person to find the medallion and bring it to the Salina Arts and Humanities Commission office.

The prize package includes:


• $1,000 cash
• $1,500 in Festival gift certificates, to be used at the Fine Art Show, Four Rivers Craft Market, and Craft Demonstration Area
• Four Festival admission Buttons
• One on-the-grounds Festival parking pass (weather permitting)
• Invitation for four to the Festival’s Art Patron Breakfast on June 13
• Assorted Festival T-shirts, entertainer’s CDs, and other Festival memorabilia

Ready? Set? Go!!!

Who will be the one to find the Festival Medallion??

Workshops with
Teatro de la Rosa

An outreach project of the Smoky Hill River Festival

Teatro de la Rosa is a Spanish-speaking theatre troupe from Fort Worth, Texas, and the 2006 winner of the Kennedy Center’s “Coming Up Taller” award, an initiative of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Teatro de la Rosa actors will work throughout the day on June 10th and 11th to give acting workshops — talking about the magical art of storytelling and through a series of games and exercises, to teach confidence, expression, and to empower kids to use their imaginations.

Workshops will happen at locations throughout the community, especially in Hispanic neighborhoods; and in a variety of Salina neighborhoods and organizations.

This workshop is offered free of charge.

June 10 & 11, 2009

Times and Locations TBA

For information/registration call 785-309-5770 or send us an email

Festival Families First

A grassroots way for those who love the Smoky Hill River Festival to help make it even more accessible to families with needs, this program creates an avenue for button donations. The Festival works with several identified Salina service agencies to provide Festival admission buttons to their clients. Give a dollar, give what you can, to give the gift of the Festival to those who might otherwise never experience it!

Donations may be made by check (marked “Festival Families”) to: Smoky Hill River Festival, P.O. Box 2181, Salina, KS 67402-2181