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July 2018
Art & Design Thinking Camp Week 4: Fantasy Character Design
In Fantasy Character Design week we will explore process and visual development in both 2D and 3D media. Artists will be drawing from personal experience as we work with character silhouette studies, basic pattern design, orthogonal drawings, as well as inspiration/research strategies. The 3D portion will focus on exploration and elaboration of ideas through material and construction methods. Instructed by Alyssa Winans and Dennis Chan Register online at the camp website.
Find out more »Art & Design Thinking Camp Week 5: Engineering for Your Environment
Humans have settled in almost every environment on our planet, building and innovating to meet wildly different challenges. In this week campers will explore what it means to engineer solutions to these challenges. How does a building that is safe during an earthquake different from a home that floats wherever the ocean currents take it? How would you harness the power of the wind or save every drop of water in the desert? A variety of activities will encourage students…
Find out more »Art & Design Thinking Camp Week 6: Design Your World
Register online Campers will create models of architectural spaces, functional objects and invent new design solutions for living spaces. They will go through the design thinking process as they construct cardboard models of their bedrooms that include embedded circuitry. Campers will use Tinkercad (a 3D rendering tool) as well as traditional prototyping materials and circuitry in their design explorations. The projects will engage campers in calculating ratios and proportions to develop scale models. Instructed by Corinne Takara
Find out more »September 2018
Maker Booth at Sonido Clash Music Festival
Make your own Light Up Lantern! Come join the fun as our East San Jose Youth Leaders assist festival goers in creating their own wearable necklaces. This simple circuitry project introduces everyone to the fun you can have learning Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM). This is a great activity for all ages. Look for us in the vendor area.
Find out more »VivaCalleSJ – SoFA to the Streets
We are excited to be a part of the 4th annual VivaCalle San Jose event on Sunday, September 23rd. We will host 2 maker booths along the route: At the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds Hub Michele Guieu & Alba Cardenas will have Bike Charms – an activity where participants can make charms for their handlebars or other modes of transportation using beads and stenciled wood pieces. At Martial Cottle Park Kim Mesa will have Pinwheels & Masks for all ages.…
Find out more »October 2018
A Public Art Activation Project
4 Consecutive Friday Nights, 4 Themes… Come dive into the Ocean and participate in activities that bring light to a unique, essential, and fragile world, one that we barely know yet depend on for our survival. You will learn about this beautiful and rich world: what lives within it, the damage being done to it, what has been lost, and what we can do to protect it and help it thrive. Create your own beautiful ocean themed shadow puppets, costumes,…
Find out more »The Fascinating World of Microscopic Plankton
Come create your own beautiful self-illuminated and articulated plankton shadow puppets, shadow costumes, and other props. Use them in our small shadow theatres, perform on our large illuminated stage, or simply watch the beauty of plankton unfold before you. Learn about the beautiful and wonderful Zoo-plankton and Phyto-plankton, reflecting on the challenges plankton face and what they need from us to flourish. The microscopic world of plankton greatly affects us as humans. Plankton is the most significant life form on the…
Find out more »November 2018
A Tribute to Marine Life that has Disappeared
For “Day of the Dead,” learn about species that are extinct, celebrating their existence and contributions to the ocean life that exists today. Come create your own beautiful self-illuminated and articulated shadow puppets, shadow costumes, and other props reflecting on extinct species. Use them in our small shadow theatres, perform on our large illuminated stage, or simply watch the beauty of the ocean unfold before you. Learn about the beautiful and wonderful species we have lost, reflecting on the challenges current…
Find out more »Life on the Coral Reef
Come create your own beautiful self-illuminated and articulated coral reef shadow puppets, shadow costumes, and other props. Use them in our small shadow theatres, perform on our large illuminated stage, or simply watch the beauty of the Coral Reefs unfold before you. Learn about the beautiful and wonderful species living in Coral Reefs, reflecting on the challenges they face and what this ecosystem needs from us to flourish. Coral reefs, the “Rainforests of the Sea,” are some of the most biodiverse…
Find out more »An Ocean of Plastic
Come create your own beautiful self-illuminated and articulated shadow puppets, shadow costumes, and other props that share the plight of plastics in our oceans. Use them in our small shadow theatres, perform on our large illuminated stage, or simply watch the reality of plastics in the ocean unfold before you. Learn about how our plastic garbage is affecting the oceans, reflecting on what we can do to change things. Thousands of animals, from small sea birds to blue whales, die grisly…
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