All the students were present at the 2nd English class on Saturday – September 24, 2013.
This week teacher taught:
1. How to count
2. How to use verbs
3. Vocabulary about occupations
The girls learned a lot and look forward to their next class. To learn more about our *Girls Only* class, click here
A few of our visiting artists from Haiti flew kites for their first time this weekend in the Berkeley Marina. It was especially windy and the wind carried everyone’s shrieks of laughter.
Today we flew sophisticated kites from REI.
In the metaphorical tomorrow we just might be able to create our own kites from trash and fly them in Port au Prince. In fact there is information about garbage bag kites here.
Innovation is the name of the game. If you have second hand upcycled kite ideas, please let us know about them. And you can always apply for our Visiting Artist Program.
Hi Everyone! It’s our first week at Recology.
As you may know, Racine, Claudel and I are actually in San Francisco for a mini-art tour and Art Residency at (Recology Sf).
Our first visit at Recology was Monday, August 19, it was very informative and helped us understand HOW MANY of waste that are in this little world and no one will help you instead you help your self.
waste that affected us was the tables and benches for schools in very good condition, but for one reason or another they have chosen to throw them in the garbage, when we saw things like that I realized that the underdeveloped country that s’ expect that a more powerful country comes and help build their schools, and infrastructure can wait centuries.
By the way we are in SF until September 24th, and we are here to make art and to turn all these waste into visual sculptures that can give them another type of value and utility.
See our work in progress Monday 19 to Friday 23
Saturday 17 August 2013, was the first day of English class for girls. Bengie was the teacher work with children on how to perform a simple greeting and showed them the English alphabet. So, everything went smoothly in the local HC (Haiti Communotaire) through a collaborative Art Project Hope.
See these photos so you can see how it was!!
A huge thank you goes out to Michaels for allowing Project HOPE Art to bring so much colorful yarn to Haiti last month. A generous gift card allowed this group of 15 orphan girls the chance to make make pom-poms with my favorite Sugar ‘n Cream yarn, scraps of cardboard and scissors. It only took one demonstration before they all jumped in (seriously, even the little 6 and 7 year olds!) and made pom-poms to wear in their hair, around their neck and for their friends. It was a wonderful afternoon and I suspect many of them are still being worn today.
