2010 Upcoming Events
The International Knife Throwers Hall of Fame, Based in Austin Texas, will host three great World Championship events in and around Austin Texas on October 1,2,3 of 2010.
October 1st will see us competing in the Bob Karp (Master of the Blade) Gold Cup World Championship here in Austin at 10203 Old Manchaca Road. The site is South Austin Karate, where there stands a wonderful professional outdoor range with lots of spectator room. There will be a $1,000 winner take all prize.
Saturday, October 2nd will see us with our traveling shoes on leaving from South Austin Karate in our new bus named "Alamo Ghostrider" and traveling south to San Antonio for our annual Alamo Frontiersman World Championship Throw. This is a Frontiersman throw with period dress from 1830 to 1880. Trophies will be awarded. There will also be a fastdraw event. The events are an effort to raise money for the preservation of the Alamo, which receives no state or federal monies and relies entirely on private donations to survive as a monument to the bravery of so few people who gave their lives for the ideals of freedom.
Sunday, October 3rd finds us traveling again to a much closer destination. The event will be the Che Che Whitecloud World Championships. This year it will be held at a new venue that will add a new dimension to the fun to be had. The site is called GhostTown and is located in Manor Texas which is just a 40 minute drive to the northeast of the IKTHoF. Trophies will be awarded for conventional knife and conventional tomahawk, long distance throw knife, long distance throw tomahawk, speed throw, and silhouette throw.
Hall of Fame inductions will be held on Sunday October 3rd after the awards ceremony immediately after competition ends at GhostTown in their rustic pavillion with meals available cooked to your order from their kitchen which will be open all day for your convenience.
The cost for the competition will be $200 and will cover all three days of competition. Meals for the induction ceremonies can be ordered and paid for on site from the GhostTown restaraunt. We will provide buses for competitors from South Austin Karate for both days of travel.
For more information or directions you may contact us at 512-280-0611 or sak@austin.rr.com
October 1st will see us competing in the Bob Karp (Master of the Blade) Gold Cup World Championship here in Austin at 10203 Old Manchaca Road. The site is South Austin Karate, where there stands a wonderful professional outdoor range with lots of spectator room. There will be a $1,000 winner take all prize.
Saturday, October 2nd will see us with our traveling shoes on leaving from South Austin Karate in our new bus named "Alamo Ghostrider" and traveling south to San Antonio for our annual Alamo Frontiersman World Championship Throw. This is a Frontiersman throw with period dress from 1830 to 1880. Trophies will be awarded. There will also be a fastdraw event. The events are an effort to raise money for the preservation of the Alamo, which receives no state or federal monies and relies entirely on private donations to survive as a monument to the bravery of so few people who gave their lives for the ideals of freedom.
Sunday, October 3rd finds us traveling again to a much closer destination. The event will be the Che Che Whitecloud World Championships. This year it will be held at a new venue that will add a new dimension to the fun to be had. The site is called GhostTown and is located in Manor Texas which is just a 40 minute drive to the northeast of the IKTHoF. Trophies will be awarded for conventional knife and conventional tomahawk, long distance throw knife, long distance throw tomahawk, speed throw, and silhouette throw.
Hall of Fame inductions will be held on Sunday October 3rd after the awards ceremony immediately after competition ends at GhostTown in their rustic pavillion with meals available cooked to your order from their kitchen which will be open all day for your convenience.
The cost for the competition will be $200 and will cover all three days of competition. Meals for the induction ceremonies can be ordered and paid for on site from the GhostTown restaraunt. We will provide buses for competitors from South Austin Karate for both days of travel.
For more information or directions you may contact us at 512-280-0611 or sak@austin.rr.com
More detailed information can be found in the links above.
NUSKTC
ANNIE OAKLEY WESTERN ARTS SHOWCASE 2010 IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER
GREENVILLE, OH – JULY 2010 - Ohio is home to all kinds of performing arts from
classical music to bluegrass and ballet to clogging. One highly specialized
group of performing artists, however, has gone relatively unnoticed for many
years – Wild West arena artists.
Wild West arena arts include age-old skills like lariat artistry, also known as
`trick and fancy roping,' precision knife and tomahawk throwing, western gun
spinning, fencing, archery and precision whip artistry. These talented
individuals lecture, perform and teach throughout the year at schools,
libraries, festivals and at historical events. Many also appear or provide
technical advice for stage, television and film productions.
In an effort to perpetuate and promote the Wild West arts in the Midwest, GLD
Enterprises & Productions presents the 8th Annual Annie Oakley Western Arts
Showcase. Entertainer and writer Gery L. Deer is the founder and director of the
event, which is a convention of sorts for practitioners of the western arts.
"We started this in 2002 as a whip arts workshop on my family farm in Jamestown,
Ohio," Deer said. "To now be in our eighth season, still performing on the
grounds of an event honoring one of our most celebrated western artists,
continues to be an honor."
The Annie Oakley Western Arts Showcase is held on the grounds of the Annie
Oakley Days festival at the Darke County Fairgrounds in Ohio on the third
weekend in July. The Showcase provides authentic Wild West arts entertainment
and competitions throughout the weekend with honors given out to the top
performers.
Originally started as the Ohio Regional convention of the Wild West Arts Club,
an organization which has since been discontinued, the event remains a national
attraction for knife throwers, lariat artists, gun spinners, western musicians,
and whip artists from around the world. Participants attend workshops and
contests and participate in public performances throughout the weekend. They
also donate their time and talents to local charity events that are going on
during the Annie Oakley Days Festival, including the graveside services
remembering Annie Oakley and her husband Frank Butler.
"These professional performers are an invaluable cultural and entertainment
resource and should be utilized more by performing arts groups and event
promoters," said Deer. The event is open to the public and participants need not
belong to any kind of club or group to be attend.
In addition to Deer, who is a well-known whip artist, several other specialists
of the various western arts help to manage each area of the event. Doug Smith,
of Medway, Ohio, is a world-champion lariat artist, performer, and instructor.
Kirk Bass, of Xenia, is a champion thrown weapons competitor and certified
instructor with the International Knife Throwers Hall of Fame. The knife
tournement will be held on Saturday The 24that aprox. 9am range will open at 8.
THe range will be open on thursday and Friday for fun, practice and games. As
well as after the tournement on saturday. The range will close on sunday about
12 noon. If you have any questions, please contact me and I will try my best to
answer them. kirkmel@...
This year's awards dinner is also open to the public and will be hosted by The
Brothers & Co. Entertainers music and variety show. Well known for full-length,
Vaudeville-styled music and comedy, The Brothers & Co. have been doing a great
deal of traveling and performing this past year and will be releasing a new CD
this fall titled, "Time Capsule."
The showcase events are highlighted with trivia challenges and costume contests
for both participants and the audience. Besides the fun and educational value of
the convention, participants also get the opportunity to work with some of the
best Wild West artists in the business including "the Whip Guy" Chris Camp and
whip artist Robert Dante, author of the new how-to whip book, "Let's Get
Cracking." Both Dante and Camp hold world records for whip cracking.
The 2010 Annie Oakley Western Arts Showcase will be Friday through Sunday, July
23 through July 25 at the Darke County Fairgrounds with a free performance for
the public at 7:00 p.m. on Friday in the Fairground Coliseum. Pre-registration
starts May 5 and runs through July 21, 2010. Weekend tickets are $75 per person
for pre-registration, $100 on site. Awards Dinner Show reservations are
available to the public for $20 per person.
Lead sponsors for this event include GLD Enterprises & Productions Media Group
and The Whip Artistry Studio of Jamestown, Ohio. Associate sponsorship packages
are now available for advertisers. Detailed information, a tentative schedule of
events and links to partner organizations are available at the website. For
video clips, photos and more information contact GLD Enterprises & Productions
Media Group at (937) 902-4857 or go online to www.ohiowesternarts.org.
The NEUSKTC will be on June 19th-20th,
that being a Sat-Sun. As usual you're welcome to come early & stay late even if I do have to get some work done once in a while :-)
If anyone thinks that they will be here I'd appreciate a note or a call to help me get it all in order. The costs are the same
$100 for throwers, $35 for diners.
Saturday will be the main knife & hawk events and Sunday will be
mountain man type games and maybe a few fast draw/distance type games. (I just wanna see Rebel throw a hawk 87 feet. LoL! Nobody should be that strong!!)
For more info contact Ed Imperatore:
