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
