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Art at the Dump

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

First day of English class for the girls

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.

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Thank You to Micheals!

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.

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2013 Ladies Arm Wrestling Tournament

VOTED BEST OF THE BAY 2012 BY SAN FRANCISCO MAGAZINE!

Check it out here!

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The 2013 Bay Area Arm Wrestling Ladies (BAAWL) Tournament, a raucous performance-based women’s arm wrestling competition, was held in San Francisco at 9pm on Saturday, July 20th at Public Works. Funds raised from the tournament will directly benefit 12 young girls living in Haiti and enable them to enroll in English Classes at The Project HOPE Art Center.

Each 2-hour weekly class costs just $40. If you would like to donate to keep the classes going, please click here.

The tournament is intended to empower women while raising funds and awareness for Project HOPE Art’s ongoing art healing and education workshops for young girls in Haiti.

BAAWL arm wrestlers are strong, rowdy women who toe the line between theatrical antics and hardcore athleticism. Each wrestler has an outrageous costumed persona, which she can work to her advantage by winning the adoration and dolla billz of the crowd. Wrestlers compete tournament-style in matches of sudden death elimination.

Rules are determined and managed by the referees, whose judgment can be swayed by “BAAWL Bucks” collected from crowd hecklers and wrestlers’ entourages. BAAWL Bucks will be sold for cold hard cash by our official BAAWL bookies, and can be used to grease the palms of the judges, get a favorite wrestler out of the “penalty box,” or participate in a grudge match against the wrestler of your choice, including our current champions, “The Iron Fist” and “Black Dahlia Parton.”

WANNA WRASSLE?

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All female-identified persons age 21 and up are welcome to participate. To compete in the tournament, please fill out the form below. All proceeds from the event go directly to Project HOPE Art’s ongoing education and art healing programs in Haiti.

All wrestlers are highly encouraged to be as outrageous, creative, and bad-ass as you know you can be.

Bring your theatrics. Your flair for the dramatic.
Bring your game face and your lipstick too, and
GET IN THE RING!

Click here to Register for the next Tournament
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Can Race

1:Pou reyalize yon timachin avèk meteryèl resikle, men ki tip de materiel nou itilize nan atis Rezistans.

Materyèl sa yo nou itilize pou nou kapab fe ti machine yo gen anpil ladan yo ke nou jwenn nan la rue, e genyen ladan yo tou se achte nou achte yo.  Mamit nou itilize yo se penti pou douko ki te genyen ladan yo, apre yo fin pran penti ki nan mamit yo, yo jete yo nan la rue epi nou pran yo pou nou kapab fe ti machine yo.

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Premye travay nou fe nan mamit lan, nou retire papye ki kouvwi mamit la pou nou kapab jwenn plis fasilite pou nou fe tout sa nou genyen pou nou fe nan nan mamit la.

mamit lan. apre sa nap ouvwe mamit lan, nap bap li ak yon mato pou li kapab vin plat tankou yon fèy tol.

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Pati sa se lè mou fin byen plati matit la, kounye a nou pwal trase model machin nou vle fè a, e le ou vin trase model machin nan wap pran yon sizo pou kapab koupe li. 

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Nan pati foto sa yo nou pwal moutre ou kijan pou fe do machin nan! Le ou fin trase de bo machin nan, kounye a wap pran yon lot fey tol pou kapab trase do machine, ou dwe trase vit devan machin  nan ak vit deye machine nan. Le ou fin trase li wap koupe pati ou trase yo  pou kapab resoti  pati vit la.

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le ou fin retire pati vit yo, ou dwe bay tol la fom model machin ke ou te  trase a.

                                                                                                       

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apre ou fin trase de bo machin nan, avek do machin nan. Ou pral kole yo ansanm pou kapab kadre machine nan.

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le ou fin kadre machine nan, kounye a ou gen pou travay anba machine nan, le mwen di anba machine nan mwen vle pale de reso ak kawotyou machine nan. 

Pou kapab fe reso machine nou itilize yon ti fe plat, ti fe plat sa se avek li yo konn klanmse bwat pèpè yo.

1: wap koupe fe a ak yon mezi ki pa dwe depase machine nan

2: apre wap kloure li nan moso blanch lan

3: nou dwe itilize fe sèso ou byen fil alegati ki di pou kapab pase nan reso a pou ka genbe kawotyou yo.

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Pou nou fe kawotyou machine  nan, nou itilize yon ti boutèy plastik.

Prmyeman nou koupe li, nou pran de bouda a, nou kole 2 bouda yo  ansanm pou li kapab vin pi dyanm.12 12a 12b 12c

Can Race

 

Apre tout demach sa yo, men rezilta can race la.

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