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Welcome to the Yadkin Arts Council
and Yadkin Cultural Arts Center
The Yadkin Arts Council owes its beginning to a small group of dedicated local people with a common desire to promote the visual and performing arts in their rural community, and eventually, to find a permanent home for the arts. The latter would take some time, 34 years. During those years YAC has been housed in a number of unusual buildings, including a freezer locker.
Responding to the changing needs and broadened scope of its community, the Council, after a four year capital campaign, transformed a historic landmark building in downtown Yadkinville into a 10,000 square foot state-of-the-art cultural center, the YCAC.
The mission of the Yadkin Cultural Arts Center is:
- To build community and exposure to the arts for all people
- Attract new residents
- Play a crucial role role in economic development
- Grow social capital and cultural tourism.
The Cultural Center is located in the palm of the wine country with roads leading in every direction to area wineries. Where tobacco once was king, vineyards thrive. The Center's presence anchors this locale as a destination for weekend travelers and international tourists en route to the award-winning wineries of the Yadkin Valley and the mountain regions of Boone and Blowing Rock.
In the fall of 2012 the much-anticipated Willingham Theater will open to the public! The theater will hosts performances in music, dance, drama and family movies.
Two weekends of events are planned for October 12, 13 and October 19 and 20 - performances by the Old-Timey Radio Show, the Kruger Brothers and the showing of an iconic movie. Call, email, or write to us with your suggestions about what movies you would like to see in the beautiful 193 seat state-of-the-art performance theater.