Arts4Kids Bread Making and Baking Workshop

Prepare It, Smell It, Sample It at Historic Exchange Place on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 1 PM.

For the November Arts4Kids workshop, the Arts Council of Greater Kingsport is partnering with historic Exchange Place, Kingsport. On Saturday, November 10 at 1 PM in the kitchen cabin at Exchange Place, the children participating will get to sample an aspect of Exchange Place's ""hands-on"" living history program of the nineteenth century through preparing, baking, and sampling bread that they'll make from scratch. Each child will have a chance to mix up a giant batch of yeasted whole wheat bread dough, that they will learn to knead themselves. The workshop instructor, Megan Cadwallader, will also lead them through shaping pre-prepared dough, allowing it to rise, and baking it in a wood-fired brick oven using a baker's peel. Toward the beginning of the class they can take part in preparing the brick oven for baking, and will have a chance to talk a little about its history and how the oven works. Then of course, they will get to sample some freshly made desem sourdough!

Interested participants should call the Arts Council at 392-8420 to pre-register (just leave a message) by Thursday, Nov. 8 for this workshop. Space is limited to 20 participants, so be sure to make your reservation early.

Megan Cadwallader, a native to the Kingsport area, will lead this Arts4Kids workshop at historic Exchange Place. With her mother as the caretaker, she has always been interested in the arts and crafts that are demonstrated there. Two years ago a traditional brick oven was built at the Exchange Place; as part of that project she researched how to ""capture"" wild yeast to make sourdough, and has been baking ever since. Megan and her husband Erek, who were just recently married, plan to start raising animals in the spring at their newly built home in Blountville.

Arts4Kids, is an introductory arts club for children ages 6-12 presented by the Arts Council of Greater Kingsport. The program is designed to introduce children to a variety of arts and encourage their life-long pursuit of creative endeavors. For more information or to join, contact the Arts Council of Greater Kingsport at 423.392.8420 or visit our website at www.kingsportARTS.org.

The Arts4Kids program is funded under agreement with the Tennessee Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts, as well as, through generous support from the Kingsport Community Foundation (a fund of the East Tennessee Foundation), Eastman Chemical Co., AFG Industries, and the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Kingsport.