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EARTH DAY FASHION SHOW Swanky-fundraiser: Are you a Northern MIchigan Fashion Designer Wannabee in need a Trendy Spring venue?

February 25, 2008 at 8:04 pm · Filed under 1, Calendar, journal, photos ·Tagged , , , , , ,

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….Calling all interested folks to participate in this years

Grand Traverse Earth Day Parade Fundraiser….

A PUPPET FASHION and GARBAGE ART SHOW,

Saturday, March 15, 2008, 6-9 PM:

We plan to have a wonderful evening of family-friendly fun at our 2008 Earth Day Fundraiser and kick-off event, to begin our annual parade building workshops at the Artcenter of TC!

Would you like to get involved with the planning and designing of this crazy-fun and worthy earth-loving community project? There are many creative ways for you to jump on this puppet fashion bandwagon, some ideas are: recycled or reused objects turned into a new look using an existing Earth Day animal/ plant hat, or ,use our 2008 Earth Day parade theme which is: Ecological Footprint and Zero-Waste…..Create hair & makeup (if any) to go with the look….Find your model(s) all body types allowed….This is not a competition, but we would like to auction off some of your puppet fashion trends after the show takes place, with plans for them “reappearing” at the Earth Day Parade (April 26th). So please consider donating your finished Puppet or Garbage Art creation.
If you are inspired to create and ready, join us for these workshops:

March 1 and 8th, 3-5 PM, Puppet Fashion and Garbage Art Workshops—Get inspired by checking out some of our puppets and masks created from past Earth Day events and go at it, designing a trendy new costume that will be brought to life in our Puppet-Run-Away, accompanied by live music.

Same day, March 1 and 8th, 4:30-5:30 PM, Fashion Show Planning meeting—To organize the various details and line-up of the fundraiser.

And, fyi—AND, despite the fact that Little Artshram does not have the budget to pay a $250.00 membership to the Fashion Trendsetter website..we were able to lift off some tips and inspiration for you to consider…
They say: “10 Trends for 2008 explores trends that we believe have real weight and momentum—shifts that are likely to be with us for a long time. What’s in store in the near future? Buy our 2008 forecast and see for yourself.

In this trendletter:

  • Rethinking Instant Gratification
  • Radical Transparency
  • Outwitting Disease
  • Blue is the New Green
  • The World is Local
  • The Personal CPM
  • Demography’s Dead
  • Queen Trumps King
  • Cooperative Consumption
  • Stretching the Bubble: Reality Checks for Two Giants
  • Whatever Happened To…?


Thanks for considering….any questions..or need more details?
Give Dede, the Milkpod Maiden a call at 231-276-2328
or Penny, the Tipping Point Pig at 231-510-3491
www.littleartshram.org
penny@littleartshram.org

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Registration open for 2008 Summer Art-Farm Camps!

February 25, 2008 at 1:49 pm · Filed under 1, Calendar, journal, program ·Tagged , , , ,

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Little Artshram is making plans for it’s fourth summer of Beehive Art-Farm Camps under a maple tree near the old garage building at the Community Gardens and the Historic Cathedral Barns in Traverse City, Michigan.

We are making a sincere effort to re-vitalize community gardening, experiencing the joy and sensibility of learning to grow your own food, and practicing creative ways of being ecologically sensitive artists.

We will work as an artist community with a sense of place–encompassing the human history and stewardship of the gardens and Barns property, the great natural beauty of the land, on which this program is situated, and enjoy the experience of the wild places on the nearby Munson Trails. Our creative Art-Farm work and play will raise our consciousness of the interdependence
of all life, inspiring us to envision and strive for a better world.

Our Art-Farm camps celebrate creativity and encourage fun through hands-on exploration and practicing the fine-art of observation and pattern language. We focus skill-building in three main areas with a
variety of two and three dimensional art-projects throughout the week. Music-making, songwriting, spoken word and poetry are also a part of the Art-Farm Camp experience. The focus areas of our curriculum revolve around the themes of food, water, shelter and community through experieinces in Art and music; Community gardening and Permaculture for kids; and Wandering in the Woods–our Nature Awareness Program.

Each week we explore the possibilities with our campers about eliminating the use of packaging and reducing lunch waste. ZERO-Trash means: we will have no trash-can available. We are excited about this
continued “experiment”as it is part of our garden composting and Permaculture curriculum and we did a great job last year!

We meet each day from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Monday through Friday at our Art-Farm Workshop and the Community Gardens near the Barns on the Old State Hospital grounds, in the Building #50 neighborhood. We are beginning to call this area the “Central Park” of Traverse City, but
it is a little further southwest than central!

Art-Farm Educators:
Penny Krebiehl, Director, Dede Alderman, Sarah Willis,
and a slew of guest gardeners, farmers, artists, musicians and earth loving folks.

2008 Summer Art-Farm Camp Dates

Apprentice(13 years and older) and Teacher Training:
June 16-20th, 2008

Beehive Camps (1st-6th grade)
June 23-27
July 7-11
July 21-25
August 4-8
August 11-15

Girls OUTLOUD! Art-Farm Camp
August 18-22
NEW! Boys OUTLOUD! Art-Farm Camp
July 30-Aug 3

Cost:
All Week long(5-days) Kids Camps,: $135.00
Apprentice & Teacher Training (5-days): $150.00 to 100.00, sliding scale
We accept 100% BayBucks, local currency, and work-trade/volunteers

Contact:
Little Artshram
P.O. Box 844
Traverse City, MI 49685
231-510-3491

penny@littleartshram.org
www.littleartshram.org

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