events- november 2024 (and beyond)
Clapping Hands is a CREATIVE VIBRANT community of AMAZING HUMANS! Here are some of the many cool things coming up that our campers, staff, or camp parents, or Clapping Hands Farm is doing in the community at large!
CLAPPING HANDS FARM events are in RED!
If you are doing something cool in Dec, Jan, Feb (or beyond) please fill out our “Cool Things People Are Doing in the Community” Google Form! And we will include it in next month’s edition of this events page and our google group newsletter!
MILBRE BURCH, Storyteller, MYTH AMERICA. Sunday, November 10th at 2 pm
Main Library, 137 W. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, NC. The post-show conversation will be led by Matt Hughes, President of the Northern Orange NAACP. Free parking is available on the street and in nearby lots in Hillsborough. (See message from Milbre below.)
Here is a message from Milbre about MYTH AMERICA:
What do an immigrant, an unhoused person, an essential worker during the pandemic, and a child in her unstudied wisdom have in common? Their humanity calls to our own inMyth America, my retrospective show for our times. And who am I? Chapel Hill’s own GRAMMY-nominated storyteller – Milbre Burch.
Kind Crone Productions will present three more free performances of Myth America – Intended for adults – in locations around Orange County in November. The shows are supported by an Artist Project grant from the Orange County Arts Commission.
Myth America is made up of my family history, personal stories and three original character monologues written across my forty-five-plus years as a storyteller and teaching and touring artist. Myth America was featured at the 2023 National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN where it received a standing ovation. One listener remarked afterward, “You should get the Pulitzer-Prize for storytelling.”
Whatever the outcome of the next election, we need to take care of ourselves and others, repairing the tattered fabric of American civility and community. Performance can help do that. When we hear a story about someone whose lived experience is different from our own, we are changed by our new knowledge.
To that end, my show Myth America is an exploration of voices rarely heard center stage, sparking conversation and sharing among listeners. Please come and be part of the conversation at one of these three events!
For more information, reach out to Milbre Burch via the contact page on her website: www.kindcrone.com.
Natural Healing Retreat with Angela Davis! Monday November 11, 2024, 10am-4:30pm. NOTE: Monday Nov. 11 is a holiday!
Ages: 18+ (teens with a special interest in this subject will be considered on a case by case basis) New & Returning Campers: If you have taken workshops with Angela before, we are planning new topics and activities, Come Again! If you are new, Welcome!
Fee: $70 Hands on learning; materials included.
Full and partial scholarships available!
REGISTER HERE
Our Natural Healing retreat day with Angela Davis is a gathering at Clapping Hands Farm to focus on self care! We will learn about all the things Angela herself gets excited about: herbs, home remedies, foraging, food for healing, and useful mental health supports. We will be boots on and hands on with our learning! We will make/learn about: tinctures and lotions; the benefits of fermented foods for health and probiotic beverages such as water kefir and kombucha (with scoby’s or water kefir grains for you to take home); begin a wellness journal; learn how to make and use castor oil compresses; plant id and foraging; a plant walk will be part of our day, weather permitting. If you’ve come to Angela’s workshops previously, we’re planning new activities and topics! Come again!
Angela’s approach is that of a self taught and dedicated life long learner. Her goal is to inspire your curiosity, and to invite you to pay attention to your body, do your own research, trust your common sense, develop your common knowledge, and feel empowered as a learner and a healer. Angela is passionate, warm, caring, and enthusiastic about these topics!
We hope joining a community of people who share these interests will provide a supportive and joyful context for deepening your relationship to your body and enhancing your personal wellness journey.
Angela Davis is a homeschooling mother to 5 children ages 10-24. She is a self taught enthusiast and life long learner in the realms of herbalism, home remedies, wild plants, gardening, and foods that support healing. She lives with her family on a homestead in Person County, NC. You can find more information about Angela and her interests on her Instagram: brown_country_girl
Handmade Holidays; a studio workshop for people who want to make their own gifts, toys, cards and wrapping paper! Dates: Sundays 1-5 pm. November 3, 10, 24, December 1, 8, 15 with Dec 22 reserved as a weather make up day
Ages: teens and adults (younger campers with a special zeal for making or parent-child pairs will be considered on a case by case basis)
COST: Class fee includes materials. NOTE: This does not include materials for continued production at home and there might be limits on quantity for a couple of projects
* ALL 6 classes: $200 (if you come to all 6 plus the make up day, we’ll just add on $30 for that last class at the end of the session)
*4 or more classes: $35/day
* 1-3 classes: $40/class.
Full and partial scholarship available for adults and teens!
REGISTER HERE
If you dream of creating handmade things for gifting and celebrating and want to craft for hours with the inspiration of other makers in a studio full of ideas and supplies . . . this workshop is for you! If you’ve always wanted to help your children make handmade gifts, and want more support around that. . . this workshop is for you! You’ll go home with lots of ideas! If you always want to make lots of handmade gifts, cards, ornaments etc. and never start early enough! . . . this workshop is for you! If you want to create for birthdays, Kwanzaa, Valentines day, Galentine’s day, Solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, Thanksgiving, Friendsgiving, an anniversary, or really ANY cultural holiday or personal expression of appreciation for someone or something. . . This workshop is for you!
Louise Omoto Kessel, the leader for this workshop, LOVES making stuff. She has spent decades making handmade gifts, cards, wrapping paper, and leading a toy making camp every summer. She is someone who loves learning a new thing, and has been following those whims for so long that she has now dabbled somewhat luxuriantly in . . . book making, crochet, sock toys, puppet making, printmaking, felting, game building, toy making, bead sewing, collage, sashiko embroidery, origami, and lots more! Whether you want to take weeks to make a very special gift for one special person or come up with a project that you can make lots of to spread the joy far and wide–- Louise has ideas for you! She will select projects and skills to teach and share from a big menu of options guided by your input. Each week Louise will set up the studio to teach some projects you have requested or she thinks you will enjoy. Our format will include introductions to a few projects each week and support to work on projects of your choosing as well. If you have a project you want to create, Louise is happy to help you refine your ideas and help you manifest your ideas. Our all afternoon studio sessions will allow time for both learning and production work.
Possible projects Louise is excited about are:
- Game Building: 9 men’s morris; Guess Who, bottle cap checkers, etc.
- Infinity Tiles: a magical hand-drawn “puzzle” that can be put together and “works” in ANY configuration
- Fabric Decoration: glue batik, spray paint and stencils, bleach pens, fancy patches, block printing, sashiko embroidery, doodle embroidery—- to adorn clothing, handkerchiefs, napkins, hand towels etc.
- Simple Sewing projects: eye pillows scented with herbs, felt monsters, scrunchies, sock toys, sock puppets.
- Yarn, Wool and Threads projects: crocheted rugs, hats, and toys. Loom knitting, pot scrubbers, knitted washcloths, kumihimo (japanese braiding technique), Felted projects.
- Toy Making: sock toys, sock puppets, hobby horses, stomp rockets, hula hoops, amigurumi (crocheted animals), felted toys.
- Winter Season Projects: hand dipped candles, candle lanterns, decorated candles, ornaments, wrapping paper, zawadi, kinaras, bird feeders, popcorn and cranberry garlands, window decorations, mittens, hats, slippers. . .
Wearable Art: a studio workshop for people who would love to wear the art they make! Sundays, 1-5 p.m. January 12, 19, 26, February 2, 9, 16, 2025 with February 23 reserved as a weather make up day
AGES: Teens and adults; younger campers accepted on a case by case basis (ask!)
COST: Class fee includes materials. NOTE: This does not include materials for continued production at home and there might be limits on quantity for a couple of projects
* ALL 6 classes: $200
*4 or more classes: $35/day
* 1-3 classes: $40/class.
Full and partial scholarship available for adults and teens!
REGISTER HERE
Louise and Elle ran a Fun Fashion workshop for our Homeschool Art Camp in Sept and Oct and did not want to stop when that was over! Too Much Fun! So, we are doing it again for Teens and Adults! So MANY POSSIBILITIES!
- Kumihimo is Louise’s new favorite thing! It is a Japanese braiding tradition that makes cords or flat braids that can be used for bracelets, belts, necklaces, straps, shoelaces, key chains, and more!
- Friendship Bracelets- hemp, beaded, knotted. . . simple to extra fancy!
- Threads and Stitching- Sashiko Embroidery (a japanese tradition involving simple stitches and intricate patterns), artful mending, patching, fancy patchwork patches, embroidery, simple sewing projects like schrunchies,
- Upcycled clothes- t shirt bags, t-shirt fashion! Denim creations. Etc.
- Knitted and Crocheted things! Louise loves to crochet. Hats! Rugs! Scarves! And other stuff. Loom knitting. Knitting mushrooms. Finger knitting.
- Fabric Decoration- fabric markers, bleach pens, glue batik, block printing (homemade blocks or nature printing)
- Felted wearables and needle felting for mending.
We will take a poll to see what participants are most keen to learn and focus on those projects! Our all afternoon studio time allows for learning and production. Maybe we’ll have a fashion show at the end!
