Saturday, Aug 2, 2025 at 10:00am
Come to the SLAM summer festival and enjoy a celebration of Montana made art, music, theater, dance, food, beverages, and oh, so much more! This event is free to attend and family friendly.
Start the weekend off right with a FREE community spin class Saturday beginning at 9:00am! Sunday join us for a FREE community yoga class beginning at 9:30am and then grab a Mimosa at the SLAM beer garden! While dogs are allowed, we ask that you kindly leave your furry friends at home, as the festival can be a HOT an overwhelming experience for pets.
Schedule Of Events:
Main Stage
9:00 AM - Tenacious Cycle Spin class
11:00 AM - Songwriter Round: Jakob Alexander, Andrew Drinnan & Amber Scally
12:00 PM - Boomerang
1:00 PM - Stuart Weber
2:00 PM - Alex Robilotta Trio
3:00 PM - Sleepless Elite
4:00 PM - Hot Milk & the Flower Pallets
5:00 PM - Emma & the Ledge
6:00 PM - The Waiting
Demonstrations and Workshops
11:30am to 12:30PM - - Quill Bill - Porcupine Quillwork Embroidery
An Indigenous North American Artform. Bill will describe and demonstrate various techniques of porcupine quill embroidery. He will also survey the history and demonstrate basic techniques (wrapping and embroidery) of porcupine quillwork, including their various uses among northern plains tribes.
1:00PM - to 2:00PM - - Deenya - How to Shimmy (and Undulate)
Deenya, Belly dance extraordinaire, will discuss the shimmy and undulation, and how and where they are used in belly dance. She will teach the attendees how to do a ½-time shimmy and a ¾-shimmy to recorded music & then lead the audience in a short shimmy dance. (15-20 mins.) She will follow up with a ‘How to do an Undulation’ - same process as for shimmy but different movements. (15-20mins.)
2:30PM - to 3:30PM - - Damien Montgomery - Creating Beaded Layerwork
Montgomery will build, from scratch, a complex piece of beadwork and talk about how to mix/match this style of jewelry with your personal style.
4:00PM - to 5:00PM - - Art + Science
Artist Sara Mast and local bioEngineers have come together to create a set-up that shows how water remediation and sustainable building materials are possible with ELMs (engineered living materials). We will have ‘art+sci’ objects on display made with local clays and PEM glass (vitrified glass that is transformed trash, a byproduct of waste-to-energy plasma gasification technology).
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