Imagine it is Aug. 8th and 9 a.m. The Kingston Art Gallery’s SLUG inFESTation is on and slithering. Armed with one hunting license per slug, which can be purchased now for $1 at the gallery or Chamber of Commerce, and a slug hunting map, available at the gallery or Kingston Farmers Market on the day of the hunt, slug hunters are off and searching for 101 awesome slugsome ceramic slugs hidden around Kingston. Finders keepers. Thirty brilliant and slug-loving business sponsors have chosen a slug to hide on their premises and may have specials available to those with a hunting license. While tracking the slug slime go easy on the environment. Leave not a trace of your pursuit.

Deadline: Poetry Contest (Kindergarten through eighth grade) entries must be to the Gallery by Aug. 3 for judging by the Crab Creek Review Literary Journal editors. Entry forms are at the gallery. Winners will read their poems at 6 p.m. during the slug festivities which take place all day at the Gallery, just two blocks up the hill from the ferry dock on Highway 104. These include:

9 a.m. and on — Get your map, and license if you don’t have one already, then go slug hunting;

9:30 a.m. and on —

Check in with your newly found, very-own-to-keep slug and pick up your certificate of authenticity, have your picture taken with your slug, buy your T-shirt, cap, magnet and postcards.

10 a.m. and on — Silent Slug Auction (yes, slugs are silent). Bid and keep an eye on your bid for the handcrafted out of the box slugs of your choice.

6 p.m. — Poetry winners read their poems and receive prizes.

7 p.m. — Silent auction ends and winners can collect their slugs.

5-8 p.m. — Second Saturday Gallery Night featuring Joanne Schoener Scott’s paintings in her show “Who I am” with refreshments and music.

8:01 p.m. — What? Not a slug or slime to be found in the Gallery. All have a new home.

Slug fact No. 1 — Scientist have never been able to duplicate slug slime.

Slug fact No. 2 — Every part of a slug’s skin is a nerve ending. Aha! New respect for slugs.

Need more information? Email Harv at Kollns@juno.comn or call the Gallery at 297-5133.