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Second Saturday Family Arts Day

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Join the Humboldt Arts Council and the Morris Graves Museum of Art at Second Saturday Family Arts Day! Saturday, March 13, 2010, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Morris Graves Museum of Art.   This Saturday’s presenters include Storytelling and Drumming with Anita Punla and Big Lagoon Union Elementary School from 2:00-2:30 pm in the Performance Rotunda, Celtic Harp from Hearthfire from 3:00-3:30 pm in the Performance Rotunda, Art for Women’s Her-story Month with Janice Sharman-Hand in the Youth Classroomfrom 2-4pm, and Leprechaun Corn Husk dolls  in the Anderson Gallery.

Women’s Her-story Month

The theme for Women’s Her-story month in 2010 is Writing Women Back into History.  Women’s Her-story Month provides an excellent venue to recognize and celebrate women’s historic achievements as well as an opportunity to honor women within our families and communities. President Carter issued a Presidential Proclamation declaring the week of March 8, 1980 the first National Women’s Her-story Week and, in 1987, Congress expanded the week into a month so that March is now National Women’s Her-story Month.

Storytelling & Drumming with Anita Punla and the Big Lagoon Union Elementary School

The Women’s Her-Story Month program, Beyond the Sleeping Princess, celebrates the potent feminine. Storyteller Anita Punla utilizes poetry, folktale and story to define a few of the many positive qualities of the feminine, qualities like wisdom, courage, strength, mercy and fortitude.  Punla shares lessons from many cultures and from past to modern writers. The program includes the poem Wisdom by Makeda the Queen of Sheba, The Quality of Mercy, a folktale from Morocco, TheWife Who Became King, a folktale from China, and The Story of the Old Woman’s Dog, a Lakota story.  Punla will be joined in community drumming by the Blues Drumming Group, youth from Big Lagoon Union Elementary School.

Celtic Harp from Hearthfire

Harp duo Hearthfire will perform music from Ireland and Scotland on harp, guitar, octave mandolin, and vocals.  .  Multi-instrumentalists Lynne Reardon and Michael Koster have been performing together for 17 years, arranging and composing on acoustic and electric harps, octave mandolin, guitar, mandol, and electrolyre (a new instrument invented by Michael).  Their repertoire includes original vocal and instrumental tunes plus traditional pieces from Ireland, Scotland, England, and North Africa.  Michael and Lynne are owners of Redwood Coast Music, which provides mobile music recording services, sells custom-built instruments and pro audio gear, and offers harp instruction and harp rentals.  For more information about Hearthfire visit www.hearthfire.com.

Art for Women’s Her-story Month with Janice Sharman-Hand 

Join artist Janice Sharman-Hand from 2-4pm in the Youth Classroom! Janice holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art as well as a teaching credential in Art from Humboldt State University.  Currently Janice is offering after-school classes at the MGMA that focus on developing a life long appreciation of arts and culture by actively involving youth with exhibitions through hands-on art instruction.  For more information visit www.humboldtarts.org.

Thanks to Our Sponsors…

The Humboldt Arts Council would like to recognize our Second Saturday Family Arts Day Underwriters:  The California Arts Council, Living Education and Arts Foundation, McLean Foundation, Tomas Jewelry, KHUM, KSLUG and The Point, Robert M. Lochtie Memorial Fund, a fund of the Humboldt Area Foundation, and Humboldt Radiology.  Thank you for all of your support! 

Family Arts Day is every second Saturday of the month.  To be a presenter or for more information about Family Arts Day contact Rebecca Cacciari at 707.442.0278, ext. 201.  The Morris Graves Museum of Art is located at 636 F St., Eureka, Ca.

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