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The first part of the week, students will focus on intensive poetry workshops and craft classes, producing three new poems a day. The second part of the week, students will take their poems and choose between Sound Sculpture/ Music, Art, or Live Performance Lab as a way to "publish" or perform their written work in another art form. The week will be an exercise in poetic production, experimentation, and collaboration with words, art, music, dance, performance, other students, and professional artists and poets. The week will culminate in a performance by students of their new works on Friday afternoon, July 13. Instructors: Poetry: francine j. harris, Joseph Chapman, Sarah MesserMusic: Ryan Vanderhoof (formerly of the Akron/Family band)Art: Christina BurchLive Performance Lab: Christina Sears-Etter (of People Dancing) Tentative Schedule: Monday, July 9th: 9:30-noon: Sarah & Joe: "I'm an Alien" Defamiliarization Exercises, Dada H Phoenix Center, 220 South Main St. $225. 734-604-0090. info@onepausepoetry.org http://www.onepausepoetry.org/attend/individual/the_art_of_poetry_poetry_into_art_a_week_long_workshop_for_high_school_stud/ [map]
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Using the amazing power of video games, children ages 10-15 years old will learn better communication, team-building, and leadership skills. As well as playing award-winning video games that are conducive to learning these valuable abilities, they will also learn about video game history from arcade to console to pc, and why it’s important for their next objective, which is working as a team to build a basic video game they can hack and tinker with long after the class ends. The camp runs from Monday-Friday 12-5pm, July 9th- July 20th. Must register by July 1st.More info at www.allhandsactive.com All Hands Active/Digital Ops, 525 E. Liberty. $300 after June 10th, pre-reg: $275. heibaiwow@gmail.com www.allhandsactive.com [map]
Everyone is welcome to attend this series of three talks exploring both theory and personal experience, with time for questions. The series will meet on Tuesday evenings from 7 to 8:30. Suggested donation $10.July 10: Facing Death and Dying: Wake Up! You’re Dying with Dallas Ahrens, Peter Beyer, Carolyn Christopher, Matthew Lecki and Robert and Violet MartinJuly 17: Buddhist Practices and Preparation for Death and Dying with Peter Beyer, Laurie LaChance and Tisha Moore July 24: Death the Buddhist Way: From Grief to Gratitude with Dallas Ahrens, Peter Beyer, Laurie LaChance and Tisha Moore Zen Buddhist Temple, 1214 Packard Street. Donation. (734) 761-6520. AnnArbor@ZenBuddhistTemple.org www.zenbuddhisttemple.org [map]
Interested in developing your French language skills? Join us at the Ann Arbor Senior Center for our Intermediate French Class. The class is ideal for people who have had an introduction to the French language, but would like to develop their skills. For those interested in joining the class mid-session, pro-rated options are available. Ann Arbor Senior Center, 1320 Baldwin Ave. for entire 8 week session: $50 for members/$60 for non-members. (734) 794-6250. pssimmons@a2gov.org www.a2gov.org [map]
Learn skills for resilient, low-energy living. This day-long ReSkilling Festival will focus on hands-on skills, which may include sessions such as bread-making, low-emission wood burning, container gardening, creating a root cellar, natural dyeing and spinning, and raising chickens! Part of the Transition Towns movement, the concept of reskilling is about preparing for our low-energy future by acquiring new skills related to what we eat, wear, use, and live in. As Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins points out, “We no longer have many of the basic skills our grandparents took for granted.”Reskilling means providing for ourselves and our communities by growing, preserving, creating, building, and teaching.”Free admission. Materials fees apply for some sessions. Registration starts at 9:30am the day of the Festival at Rudolf Steiner. Rudolf Steiner High School, 2230 Pontiac Trail, 48105. Free. 734-669-9394. a2reskilling@gmail.com www.a2reskilling.com [map]
