With apologies for how details for these rich additions to Saturday's Downtown
Creativity Day have fallen into place so close to the event -
The Downtown Ithaca Alliance invites you, your colleagues, clients, friends &
family to three special opportunities this coming Saturday afternoon, October
4th, part of the DIA's "Art of Sustainable Community" series:
1) THE ART OF BECOMING (1-2:30 pm, DIA (off Center Ithaca Atrium, up the
stairs behind the luscious Indian food kiosk).
Jaydn McCune, director of BOCES' Lighthouse program and leader in arts-based
explorations for personal and community transformation, for "CRYSALIS: the Art
of Becoming." Jaydn writes, "This 90-minute experiential workshop will explore
the fertile Art of Becoming through poetry, story, movement, writing and even a
little bit of music! Come in comfy clothes and be ready to look inside and out
at the many ways we transform out lives every day."
2) POETRY-WRITING (1-2:30, Owl Cafe, above Autumn Leaves Bookstore)
Explore your inner gardens with inaugural Tompkins County Poet Laureate
Katharyn Howd Machan (Owl Cafe, upstairs over Autumn Leaves Bookstore)
3) BUTTERFLY EFFECTS: SKILLS FOR 21ST CENTURY LIVING (3-4:30 pm, Center Ithaca
Atrium)
Wally Woods - co-pres of CES, former transformative management consultant with
Fortune 500 companies, and current facilitator for Lifelong programs on
sustainable living and active citizenship - will invite a collective
exploration of how all our individual efforts, no matter how local and
seemingly-small, have a profound and systemically wide-spread effect. Along
with this "butterfly effect", Wally be be looking at how our "learning" is a
synergistic brain/mind process that shapes and reshapes reality, weaving
together information, knowledge and wisdoms - which he defines as "leaps of
logic toward wholeness, universal truths, connection, irony, reflection, sense
of knowing (noetic), the "A-ha" of mind and the "Ahhh: of heart.". In this
perspective, the key skills we need to engage the challenging future are
courage, imagination and humor - and we can only do this together.
These workshops are part of the DIA's "Arts of Sustainable Community" Series,
which calls on Art in the Heart of the City 2008 outdoor sculpture as
inspiration for community activities linking the arts with themes and issues in
the sustainability movement.
This Saturday we will be honoring Kathy Bruce's "The Graces", the morning
glory-entwined strucutres at the east end of the Commons, and Ithaca artist
Kathleen Griffin's "Butterflies of Memory", which hover above the walkway
between the Commons and Green Street, under the new parking garage.
The overall 1:00 - 5:00 pm schedule for the EVERYTHING-FREE afternoon ion the
Commons (rain location: Center Ithaca & Owl Cafe) includes:
On-Going
- face painting, chalk drawing (create your own masterpiece!), 1000 Cranes for
Peace, and information from CSMA, the Ithaca Children's Garden, New Roots
School, and the Cornell Dept of Horticulture's new Cooperative Extension
program on "Garden-Based Learning" and the emerging LIVING SCULPTURE movement
1:00 p.m.
- Film and Q&A with local artist MARIANN LOVELAND about the making of her 90'
mural with figures from Ithaca's rich history, located behind the History
Center (Aurora St Pavilion)
- Magic Show with Mike Stanley & the Cayuga Wizards (Amphitheatre)
- Workshop: CRYSALIS, the Art of Becoming (DIA, off Center Ithaca Atrium)
- Workshop: Poetry-Writing with inaugural Tompkins County Poet Katharyn Howd
Machan (Owl Cafe, above Autumn Leaves Bookstore)
2:00 p.m.
- DANCE with "The Graces", creating together with CSMA's Kate Jones (Aurora St.
Pavilion)
- ICIRCUS performance and on-going workshop: ttry your hand (and body) with
some circus arts! (Amphitheatre)
3:00 p.m.
- Film: Ithaca Art Trail (Aurora St Pavilion)
- Butterfly Dancing, with local choreographer Maren Waldman (Butterfly Alley)
- Workshop: Butterfly Effects: Skills for 21st Century Living (Center Ithaca
Atrium)
* Open reading: the Garden Poetry of Lois O'Connor, with Katharyn Howd Machan
(Owl Cafe)
4:00 p.m.
- Film: THE STORY OF STUFF (Aurora St. Pavilion)
LEVEL GREEN - fostering sustainable community through collaborative initiatives
in hospitality, education and the arts, in the 150 year-old democratic spirit
of the Danish Folk School. 1519 Slaterville Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607)
339-9472
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