Creativity Tent for Kids

Saturday 8.4 & Sunday 8.5, 2018 | 11am – 5:30pm

The Creativity Tent for Kids offers two full days of fun art workshops for youngsters, held during the Church Street Fair in a big white tent on the lawn of the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. Each year MusicalMe, Inc., opens our activities with a sweet Saturday morning Music Together circle time for your littlest ones. For the rest of the weekend, kids and their families enjoy drop-in hands-on workshops taught by professional local artists, inspired by a wide variety of mediums and traditions. All workshops are free for children and their families! Special thanks to Mariposa’s Art at Arts Council Santa Cruz for assistance in curating our artist workshops!

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2018 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

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SATURDAY AUGUST 4

MORNING WORKSHOP 11:00am-2:00pm

MICHAEL KANNER – Bamboo Flute Making
Make a real, playable transverse flute from bamboo at this hands-on workshop for all ages that includes all materials as well as a special presentation about different types of flutes from cultures from all around the world.

AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS 2:30-5:30pm

OLIVER WHITCROFT – Calligraphy Bookmarks
Start with a watercolor washed background, then apply calligraphy and lettering techniques to make an inspiring and functional bookmark to take home and enjoy!

LINDA COVER – Nature Oil Prints
Transfer images using orange oil and pictures of redwoods, beaches, and/or animals. Then decorate the border using chalk to create a high-contrast and colorful final result.

MONICA GALVAN – DIY Button Making
Make your very own button using a selection of recycled drawings, cyanotypes, rubbings, fabric, and/or photographs to create unique layered designs to wear with pride!

SUNDAY AUGUST 5

MORNING WORKSHOP 11:00am-1:00pm

MUSIC TOGETHER with MusicalMe, Inc.
A musical life begins even before birth; Music Together teaches you how to support your child’s growth and development through play, regardless of musical ability. Since 1996, MusicalMe, Inc. has shared the award-winning “Music Together” Early Childhood Music & Movement Program with more than 50,000 families throughout the region. Join them in the Tent today to sing, dance & play with your children, then visit musicalme.com to schedule your free class and experience first-hand the brilliance of this research-based program and the joys of making music with your little ones. Music Together is… Music time. Family time. Quality time.

AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS 2:30-5:30pm

MARIA CHOMENTOWSKI – White on Black Drawings
Explore positive and negative space, line and pattern, and create striking abstract works using white drawing instruments of various mediums on black paper.

FRED MINDLIN – 3D Landscapes
Create colorful models of houses, plants, animals or people using pipe cleaners, paper drinking straws, and ribbon, neatly stuck together with small bits of modeling clay.

EMMANUEL GARCIA – Peacock Feather Paintings
Learn how to blend, mix, and layer acrylic paints to paint a vibrantly colorful and eye-catching image of a peacock feather using movement and texture.

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