Pop Ferguson has been playing the blues since he was a kid and this week he is sharing his passion with Rainbow fifth and sixth graders. LEAF in Schools and Streets partners with LEAF performers to bring some of their talents to schools all over the Asheville area. Children working directly with artist leads to inspiration and change in a child’s life. It can spark a passion that will last a lifetime.
This same reason is also why every year Rainbow Mountain also brings both performing and visual artist into the school to work with all the children. The month of May has the arts in full swing here and on this Friday, May 18th, we will hold an all day celebration of the arts with our Imagine! event. On this day the classes and parents will tour the visual art galleries set up around campus and then walk down to Calvary Baptist Church to watch the performances.
Not only has the fifth and sixth grade class been learning to play the blues but they have also taken the bus downtown to photograph the city while working with photographer, Mehera Kleiner. Other classes are also having having fun. The third grade class is up to their elbows in newspaper strips as they make bird mask with ornithology enthusiast, Alan Ward. In fact they’re up to their elbows in all things bird. They’ve needle felted little birds, they’ve sculpted birds, and of course they’ve studied birds.
Kindergarten is learning Brazilian samba dance. First grade studied photography and are now in the middle of African dance, Second, Fourth and the Omega program are all rehearsing for their plays. Walking by the classrooms I overheard some strange dialog until I remembered it’s play practice. Whew! I’m hoping to get away from the front desk Friday to see all the acts. It promises to be entertaining.
Join us this Saturday, 29 October on the school grounds from 12 to 3:30 for our annual Halloween Harvest Hoe Down.
There will be live music, a magic show, bouncy houses, cake walk, a haunted house, activities, a kid’s raffle food and more. Tickets for food and activities will be on sale for a dollar each or 12 for $10.
Rainbow Mountain is proud to be a sponsor for Sunday night’s Asheville’s Artist for a Global Village at the Orange Peel
Come join “Everything Counts” and Asheville Artists as we rock and funk out, and raise money to send Rainbow’s own Andi Morrell and her daughter to Bali where they will live and work to grow at the internationally renowned Green School whose unique earth-based educational program draws families, scholars and media from around the world. Support the growth of a revolutionary and absolutely necessary new kind of education. We are a Global Village; we must connect children all over the world and educate them about preserving the environment in a way that makes sense. Andi will connect the children from schools in Asheville to the International pool of children at Green School Bali. Whether or not you know Andi or her daughter, come and join the party!
Come and party with Gift of Gab and some of Asheville’s most talented artists! Zansa, Josh Phillips, Josh Blake’s Jukebox, Caitlin Krisko and Lotion, Juan Holladay from Secret B-Sides, Agent 23, Ben Hovey, and members of Yo Mamas Big Fat Booty Band. There will be a silent auction to the right of the stage, and an art show to the left of the stage. All in the middle, there will be some booty shakin’!
$20 (advance ticket/ $22 at the door) includes 2 drink tickets per customer, for complimentary beer or non-alcoholic beverage. Show starts at 8 pm
Everything Counts is “an organization who provides information and encouragement to children, families and educators in order to broaden their understanding of the direct and indirect role children can have in the conservation of their environment.”
Yesterday, Kinobe, came to Rainbow. He spent time with first, sixth and fourth/fifth grades. Saturday he will play with his band at Rainbow’s Halloween Harvest Hoedown. Show starts at noon.
Three schools come together with three service-learning projects and one idea: to learn to change the world.
By doing a good turn, known as “tikkun olam “ in Judaism, change in our corner of the world can lead to change around the world. Hands of Hope consists of a several month service-learning project in partnership between a school and local non-profit and concluding with a community-wide benefit concert.
The Hands of Hope family concert will feature Billy Jonas at The Orange Peel on Sunday, March 21st 2010. Tickets for the concert are available in our office, at our partner schools; Odyssey Community School and Maccabi Academy or at the door.
Each school will share their community work at the event so come early to visit tables and see what they’ve accomplished. Local businesses sponsoring Hands of Hope will be present as well.
We hope you will join us in this community-wide event to be a part of changing the world!
