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Monday April 18, 2011 | by Jason Gutierrez

Summer Festival: GlassFest returns to Corning, New York, with its first-ever Flame Off event
FILED UNDER: Events, News
To the uninitiated, an event called a “Flame Off” might sound like a heavy metal festival, a fire-safety class, or some sort of convention for fire-blowing circus professionals. But those in the glass world know the truth: A Flame Off is actually a competitive meeting of flameworkers testing their skill in challenge matches. A regular features of the pipe-making gatherings, a somewhat different sort of flame-off will be taking place at the 2011 “GlassFest,” a glass and fine arts festival taking place in Corning, New York during Memorial Day weekend.

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