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Offering
arts and cultural education
to the residents of Wyoming Valley
and the surrounding area.
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Mark
your calendars for the First Annual Harvest Festival!
Sunday, September
18, 2011 from 2 to 6 P.M.
Come visit the Wyoming Valley School for this free event with something
for everyone.
Featuring food from local chefs and farmers, art from local artists,
and live music.
Click image to enlarge. Please print and distribute!
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Wyoming Valley School 2011 Schedule of Events
To view or download the schedule in pdf format, click HERE.
HARVEST FESTIVAL-FIRST ANNUAL FUNDRAISER
Sunday, September 18th, 2-6pm...FREE!
FINE FOOD: 8 area chefs/restaurants
are donating talents as well as food
for a grazing experience.
FINE ART: Several area artists are exhibiting
their works for your eyes to feast upon.
MUSIC: Area musicians will give
an abundance of sound for your pleasure.
Some of the Participants are:
Boyce, Brumley, Dolan/Stroncek, Dresser, Ferguson, Giffey, Henderson, Kelen,
Kiebesadel, Kohls, McQuade, Moe, Morten, Opgenorth, Pifer, and Richel.
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT
Friday, Saturday & Sunday...October 14, 15, & 16
10AM-6PM....FREE!
FEATURING six area photographers,
Eric Ferguson, Dick Ainsworth, Patti McKinney-Lins,
Al Lada, Ellis Pifer and Lance Bell...
exhibiting their work.
SANTA'S WORKSHOP!
Part of Spring Green's Country Christmas
Saturday, December 3rd, 10AM-Noon...FREE!
CHILDREN, ages 5 and up, are welcome to come
and join in the trimming of the Christmas tree for the birds!
Make and take home treasures and treats.
Brought to you by Inez Learn, Pat Schofield and Marianne Moss.
Other adult "Elf" helper's will be on hand.
April 23, 2011 Grand Opening of the 2011
WVS summer season
10am –
2pm
An event not to be missed – this event will kick off the
exciting
and colorful season of the Wyoming Valley School with an
Easter
Egg hunt, Earth Day activities and a ribbon cutting
ceremony,
celebrating the new beautiful venue of our local community
to
celebrate the arts, educate and gather.
Free admission.
May 1, 2011 Lasagna Garden Installation
workshop with Roger Reynolds
1pm – 3pm
Come for a hands–on morning-workshop to learn about the
concept of
the “Lasagna Garden” through a in-depth presentation and
implement
the newly acquired skills in the installation of a
community garden right
on site. The session will end with a potluck picnic,
inviting all
participants to chat and
meet.
Call Mary Lloyd-Jones: (608) 588 9000 to register or
e-mail:
wyomingvalleyschool@gmail.com
Workshop Fee: $15 and a dish to
pass.
May 21 , 2011 A Day Away
9am to 2pm
Bring your portable hobby to share your skills/techniques
while enjoying
a few hours with friends. Bring a bag lunch. Coffee
provided. Limited
enrollment.
Call Mary
Lloyd-Jones: (608) 588 9000 to register or e-mail:
wyomingvalleyschool@gmail.com
Free
admission – Registration necessary.
May 25, 2011 Celebrate Local authors
6pm – 9:30pm
15 local published authors present their methods and
ideologies in a
speakers forum. Book-sales & interaction with
authors. Display of portraits
of these authors by River Valley School art students.
Refreshments.
Call Mary
Lloyd-Jones: (608) 588 9000 to register or e-mail:
wyomingvalleyschool@gmail.com.
Sponsored by: THE
VOICE and SPRING VALLEY INN
Free admission. Donation
welcome.
May 28 , 2011 Lasagna Garden Planting Workshop
Plant the local community lasagna garden and learn this
special garden
technique from local gardener Roger Reynolds. The morning
session
will end with a potluck picnic, inviting all
participants to chat and meet.
Call Mary Lloyd-Jones: (608) 588 9000
to register or e-mail:
wyomingvalleyschool@gmail.com
Workshop Fee: $15
and a dish to pass.
June
2, 2011 Honeybee workshop with Jeanne
Hanson
6pm
Learn all about bees, honey, beeswax, pollen and
pollination,
history of beekeeping, and recent threats to
honeybees. Taste
real honey and pollen. See and handle lots of
props. No previous
skills necessary.
Call Mary Lloyd-Jones: (608) 588 9000
to register or e-mail:
wyomingvalleyschool@gmail.com
Fee: $10
June 6, 7, 9,
10 Kids Knitting class – 4 week
course for ages 10 – 13 years
10:00 am – 11:30am
June 13, 14,
16, 17 Kids Knitting class – 4
week course for all ages above13 years
10:00 am – 11:30am
Students learn the life long skill set including creativity,
design, hand/eye
coordination, concentration, problem solving, math &
fine motor skills
*Instructor: Fredericka Schilling, 4
decade knitter with15 years
experience teaching and working with children *Materials
provided
*Daily snack provided *Mentors in class
to help *Limited enrollment
Call Mary Lloyd-Jones: (608) 588 9000
to register or e-mail:
wyomingvalleyschool@gmail.com
Sponsored by THE
ANNUAL SPRING GREEN ARTS & CRAFT FAIR
Workshop fee for
each 4 week session: $20.
June 7, 14,
21, 28, July
5, 12
Six-week astronomy and star
gazing course with John Heasley
8pm – 9pm class- followed
by stargazing on clear nights
NASA has proclaimed 2010-2012 to be the “Year of the Solar
System”
Participants will learn about the many worlds of our Solar
System and
the many discoveries being made the spacecraft we are
sending to them. On clear nights, we will use
telescopes and binoculars
to learn more about the night sky. Enjoy the dark
skies of the Wyoming
Valley as we explore other worlds.
Call Mary Lloyd-Jones: (608)
588 9000 to register or e-mail:
wyomingvalleyschool@gmail.com
Workshop Fee: $60
June
15 Pioneer
Day
10am –
2pm
Fun hands-on day in the country and learning how our
settlers lived and
played. Hand dipped candles, weaving project, rag
doll making. Once
upon a time games, marbles to take home.
Instructor: Nicole Feiner,
years of interest in the Pioneer life style has
given life to Nicole’s
programs. Adult helpers on hand. Limited
enrollment. No walk-ins.
Materials & a snack provided; bring a bag
lunch. $10 admission fee
Children under 9 need to be accompanied by an
adult
Call Mary Lloyd-Jones:
(608) 588 9000 to register or e-mail:
wyomingvalleyschool@gmail.com
Sponsored by THE SPRING GREEN ARTS AND CRAFT FAIR
June 13 -
17 Elementary Children’s choir with
Jennifer Snow
2pm – 4pm
For one week, 3 hours per day (9a.m. – 12 p.m.), 16+
elementary school
children will participate in a children’s choir.
The rehearsal will
incorporate vocal and physical warm-ups, singing a varied
repertoire of
3-5 songs, some movement/choreography, and playing
instruments (as
accompaniment to the music and as rehearsal learning
tools). The camp
will culminate in a presentation/concert for parents and
community
members on the final day of camp.
Call Mary Lloyd-Jones:
(608) 588 9000 to register or e-mail:
wyomingvalleyschool@gmail.com
Workshop
Fee: $50
July 16, 2011
Saving memories:
preserving old papers and photographs
9am – 2pm
Learn what to keep in your personal “archives” and
how to save
old paper and photos. Bring
photos/certificates/letters for hands
on preservation. Learn to date your old
photos.
*Instructor: Shan Thomas retired Head Archivist
from Luther
College, Decorah, Iowa.*Archival gloves
included.*Bring a bag
lunch. *Coffee provided. *Limited
enrollment. *No walk-ins
Call Mary
Lloyd-Jones: (608) 588 9000 to register or e-mail:
wyomingvalleyschool@gmail.com
July 17 ,
2011 Wormfarm workshop with Roger
Reynolds
1pm – 3pm
The morning session will end with a potluck picnic, inviting
all
participants to chat and
meet.
Call Mary
Lloyd-Jones: (608) 588 9000 to register or
e-mail:
wyomingvalleyschool@gmail.com
Workshop Fee: $15
and a dish to pass.
July
25/27/29 Kids Art classes with Pat
Scofield
9:30am – 11:30 am
Session one: Paper marbling with children ages 7 – 13
Session two: Make a butterfly book ages 7 – 13
Session three: Make a storyteller doll with clay ages 7 – 13
Call Mary
Lloyd-Jones: (608) 588 9000 to register or
e-mail:
wyomingvalleyschool@gmail.com
Workshop Fee: $30
for all three sessions
August 12,13,14 & August 19,20,21
Watercolor workshop with Helen Klebesadel
E-mail: klebesadel@tds.net
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