By MEGAN HANSENmhansen@whidbeynewsgroup.com

The Coupeville Arts and Crafts Festival will flood the streets this weekend with artist vendors, music and food.

The festival runs 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday in downtown Coupeville.

A wine reception and jur-ied art gallery will kick off the weekend 7 p.m. Friday at the Coupeville Rec Hall.

The price of tickets is $20 for advance sale and $25 at the door.

With more than 180 ven-dors scheduled to attend, event organizers have cre-ated a new way for visitors to find their very favorite vendors.

Go to www.coupevillefesti-val.com and find an interac-tive event map which shows where each vendor will be located.

Click on a specific vendor and learn more about them, including what wares they have to offer.

Festival President Mike Dessert said vendors are carefully vetted prior to acceptance.

“We really stress quality,

hand-made items,” Dessert said. “Items have to be hand-crafted by the person selling them.”

“It’s a heavily juried pro-cess.”

Historically, the arts and crafts festival is held the

second week in August, but was moved up a week due to a conflict with the Anacortes Arts and Crafts Festival.

Dessert said he isn’t sure how much moving the date will effect the festival.

Coupeville and Anacortes share 65 vendors that nor-mally attend both festivals.

However, Dessert said there are vendors who attend other events that may or may not conflict with the change.

“Well see different ven-dors this year,” he said. “It’s kind of a wash.”

There’s a full lineup of entertainment planned over both days.

Bayview Sound Quartet, Whidbey Island’s premier

Bluegrass/roots band will get things started 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday fol-lowed by Brian Butler Blues, a blues guitarist performing 1-2:20 p.m., and Mike Faast and the Fabulous Archtops Rhythm and Jazz will end Saturday, performing from 3-4:30 p.m.

Saturday’s ending act will also kick things off Sunday, performing 11-12:30 p.m. followed by The Roy Kay Trio from 1-2:30 p.m. and Scott Lindenmuth Group closing the weekend down from 3-4:30 p.m.

All entertainment will be located in the municipal parking lot off Alexander Street, behind the library.

Also located near the entertainment stage will be the food court, which will run 9:30 a.m. each day to close of the festival.

Food vendors will include Whidbey Island locals Coupe’s Last Stand, Front Street Grill, Julie’s Lumpia Hut and much more.

Also, the Coupeville Chamber of Commerce will be running the beer and wine garden, located next to the Island County Historical Museum.

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Create Your Unique Story, 2-4 p.m., July 29, at the Oak Harbor Library Meeting Room. For teens. There is a unique story inside you. Is it a tragic romance? Are there drag-ons? Historical figures that are actually interplanetary scouts bent on dominat-ing Earth? Learn writing prompts to quickly write your story. 360-675-5115

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Explore Summer: Family Storytime, 9:30-10:15 a.m., Thursday, July 30, at the Oak Harbor Library Meeting Room. Free. Funny stories and action songs make you laugh and prepare your kids for reading. Playtime or crafts may follow. Ages 18 months and older with a caregiver.

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