Experience Robert Shetterly’s
Americans Who Tell the Truth Exhibit
September 19 — November 7
YMI cultural Center
39 S. Market Street, Asheville
More information about Americans Who Tell the Truth can be found at www.americanswhotellthetruh.org.
Rainbow Community School sponsored two portraits to help bring Americans Who Tell the Truth to Asheville: Samantha Smith and Helen Keller.
Mark your calendars for the next Fireside Asheville event on May 1, 2015. The theme for this upcoming event will be “Tales from the Treehouse: Stories of Transformation.” Cost is $5 donation per person and funds will go to Children First Communities in Schools. Gather your friends and come for a night of real stories from real people, music and community!
Hobey Ford in one of his performances called, “Animalia“.
Fantastical characters and sound effects. Incredible stories, puppets and sound effects. All this and more if you come see Hobey Ford!
It’s Saturday, February 28 at 3:30 pm. We’ll start with a sing-a-long with Sue Ford. Doors open at 3.
There will be a kids’ sing-a-long, a raffle, and fun times, too!
Tickets cost $12 for adults and $7 for children at the door. $25 maximum per family.
Hobey Ford makes his hand-made “Foamies” puppets come alive. He takes children into another world, using his voice, sound effects and song to tell a story.
He engages his audiences and mesmerizes children with delightful, interactive performances. During a show, Hobey is unmasked, but plays many different roles.
Sometimes he’ll be the MC, the storyteller, the puppeteer, and the magician. Artistic scenery and backdrops add to the fun for the whole family.
We are so blessed to have Hobey come to Rainbow. His list of performances is incredible!
Animalia
Migration
The Rainbow Bridge and Other Tales
World Tales
Turtle Island Tales
Tales of Light
The Ant and the Grasshopper
In addition to these signature performances, Hobey also helps educators. He can do teacher residences, workshops with the puppets. He also does student workshops, teaching students how to work with puppets.
You should definitely come to this event!
Just look at one of his testimonials:
“Animalia was visually and aurally engrossing; it was a gentle show.
In these days when our children are bombarded with thousands of images per minute, frequently deafening sound and high-tech effects, the show was in startling counterpoint – it progressed at a non-hurried pace children seemed to respond to every nuance, delighting in the playfulness of the animals and in you, too, as you made the animals swoop over them or land on their heads.
The realism of the animals’ movements was truly amazing . . . It was a pleasure to work with you. . . . the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
I know one teacher who used the materials and puppets before the end of the week!
—Christine Brown, Director, Center for the Arts, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
This event is open to the public.
Food. Wine. Jazzy music. Great conversation. Fabulous art.
The First Annual RCS Art Show was a hit!
Lots of local and regional artists’ work were in the show and the school created an art page for the artwork. The page will remain active on Rainbow’s website for two more weeks, so if you were thinking about buying a great work of art, you still have a chance!
If you were able to attend the event, and tried the food, it was incredible! Tina Crain catered the food and if you need a caterer that uses the finest quality food for delicious taste, check out her website, Chestnut Flats.
Here’s a sampling of the amazing food:
Sweet figs – so creamy and delicious
There was gluten-free pumpkin bread, and other delectable finger foods:
Bite-sized pumpkin bread
The beauty and quality of all the art was simply exquisite. People were able to have conversations around many of the art pieces.
Conversation around the arts
Delicate and vibrant, the artwork truly was the highlight of the event.
Acro Bag by John Littleton and Kate Vogel
Darrah, a Rainbow parent, facilitated the event and worked hard to put it all together.
From the website, to the food, to the setup, she stepped up to the plate and created an event that everyone enjoyed. A special thank you goes out to her for all the hard work she did.
RCS also wants to extend its gratitude to Wicked Weed, and Jeffie Cilano for the white wine.
Fine wine, grapes and fall themed beer were the order of the day
50% of all the art sales support the RCS Combined Campaign. The other 50% goes directly to the artists.
Many RCS parents and families came to the event, as did folks from the greater Asheville community. Thank you to everyone who supported the event!
Thank you for supporting RCS and the arts!
Our new kiln has arrived!
We would like to give a big shout out to two RCS parents who have been instrumental in helping to grow our ceramics program. Doug Smith, an amazing potter and father to Clay in Omega, who has been firing student work at his studio for the past 4 years.
He has donated many pounds of clay to our school, and has been advising our art teacher, Tracy, on the purchase of the new kiln.
Steve Schwarz, dad to Graham in second grade, purchased the kiln for Rainbow through his business, Mountain Glass Arts.
The funds for this purchase were raised through two school fundraisers over the past two years.
We teamed up with Zoe’s Kitchen here in Asheville and Art By Me out of Charlotte.
Many thanks to all of you who participated, we could not have done it without the support of our wonderful Rainbow community!
Art By Me FundraiserGreat News! We are gearing up for another Art by Me fundraiser.
This school year our goal is to have artwork arrive in time for the winter holidays.
Please be on the lookout out for information and updates.
Come by for a tour today!
