Flagler College hosts annual handmade festival on Nov. 23

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (11/05/2013)(readMedia)-- Flagler College will host the fourth annual Flagler Creates! handmade festival on Nov. 23 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the College's West Lawn.

Flagler Creates! is a handmade festival which offers Flagler students, faculty, staff, alumni and Flagler families the opportunity to display and sell items they have created. Participant entry fees go to benefit the Flagler College Annual Fund.

There will be a great variety of handmade items offered for sale at Flagler Creates! including books/book-signings, artwork, jewelry, sewn items, clothing, accessories and photography.

"This is a huge opportunity for local business owners and specialty shop owners to come and discover new and unique handmade items to carry in their stores," said Marsha LeDuke, office manager of the College's Counseling Center and one of the event's founders. "We wanted to encourage and give the opportunity to Flagler students, staff, faculty and alumni to exhibit and sell their work and at the same time help the Flagler College Annual Fund with its growth."

The festival will be held on the Flagler College campus, 74 King St., St. Augustine, and is free and open to the public. Event parking will be available in the Markland House parking lot located on Markland Place.

For more information on Flagler Creates!, please contact Marsha LeDuke at FlaglerCreates@flagler.edu or visit us on Facebook facebook.com/FlaglerCreates.

Applications to sell handmade and created items are limited to the Flagler Community and are available on-line at www.flagler.edu/FlaglerCreates.

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Flagler College is an independent, four-year, comprehensive baccalaureate college located in St. Augustine, Fla. The college offers 29 majors, 34 minors and two pre-professional programs, the largest majors being business, education and communication. Small by intent, Flagler College has an enrollment of about 2,500 students, as well as a satellite campus at Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, Fla. U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review regularly feature Flagler as a college that offers quality education at a relatively low cost. A Flagler education is less than half the cost of similar private colleges, and competitive with many state universities. A relatively young institution (founded in 1968), Flagler College is also noted for its historic beauty. The centerpiece of the campus is the former Hotel Ponce de Leon, a grand resort built in 1888 by Henry M. Flagler, industrialist, railroad pioneer and co-founder of Standard Oil. The Ponce has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. For more on Flagler College, visit www.flagler.edu.