Womanspace Programs for July 2010

Womanspace Programs for July 2010

Contact: Gale Ketteler, Program Coordinator/Marketing Specialist, gale@womanspace-rockford.org, 815-877-0118

More information available at www.womanspace-rockford.org. You may also register there for programs and events via credit card or PayPal®, and sign up for Intertwinings e-news. Registration after deadline will be accepted on a space-available basis only. Call 815-877-0118 or email gale@womanspace-rockford.org, for more information. Unless otherwise noted, all programs take place at Womanspace, 3333 Maria Linden Drive in Rockford.

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Mandalas Art Exhibit Exhibit open through August 11, Monday-Thursday, 9a-5p, plus evenings and weekends when programs are scheduled, in Gallery 1 (Fountain View Room). Freewill Offering. Mandalas are used in several spiritual traditions as a point of focus and meditation. The circular form can be simple or complex. Both creating and viewing a mandala may be a “calming” experience. Artists featured are Dorothy Bock, Elaine Hirschenberger, Cindy Hughes, Pat Lai, Sue Mount, S. Janet Petersen, Marshia Shulz, Raymond Shulz, & Chrissy Stanfa. 40% of your purchase benefits Womanspace and its programs.

Evening Yoga Dates: July 7-August 25, Time: Wednesdays 5:30–6:45pm, Instructor: Tami Bogard, Location: Womanspace Library, Cost: $40/four classes or $12/class. De-stress and unwind after work with yoga. Tami utilizes Hatha Yoga to help you find a happy balance between physical intensity and deep relaxation. This class for adults is open to both men and women, at all levels of ability and experience. Dress comfortably and bring a sticky mat.

Yoga for Women Dates: July 1-August 26, Time: Thursdays, 9:30–10:45a, Instructor: Una Ryan, Location: Womanspace Library, Cost: $40/four classes or $12/class. Yoga is an easy-to-learn workout program that not only improves flexibility, strength, balance, and stamina, but also reduces anxiety and stress. This basic Hatha Yoga class for adults will also help improve mental clarity, so the time spent in practice is more than worth it. Dress comfortably and bring a sticky mat.

Daf Drum Lessons Dates: July 1-August 26, Times: Thursdays, Level 1 Noon-1:00p, Instructor: Pardis Haghdoost, Location: Gallery 3 in New Dimensions, Cost: $40/four classes or $12/class. Bring your Daf drum and learn how to play this mystical instrument from a native Persian. The Daf is a large hand-held drum with metal rings that jangle against the inside frame. Pardis will teach technique and also share the spiritual side of the drum as it is used in sharing the writings of Rumi, Hafiz & other mystics. In addition to the weekly class, you will need to practice regularly. Contact Womanspace for information on sources for purchasing a Daf.

Watercolor Camp: My Scape

Dates: July 5 & 6 Time: Monday & Tuesday, 9:00a–1:00p Instructor: Dorothy Bock, MFA Location: New Dimensions Studio Cost: $50 (includes 140 lb. paper) Register by July 1. Ages 14–Adult. This two day intensive art camp with watercolor will help beginners to advanced students paint larger than usual. New techniques will be demonstrated for landscapes, seascapes, skyscapes, and abstracts in full flourish. Bring paints and brushes.

 Drawing Camp: Tool Techniques Dates: July 5, 6, 7, 8 Time: Monday–Thursday, 6:30–8:30p Instructor: Dorothy Bock, MFA Location: New Dimensions Studio Cost: $70 (includes all materials) Register by July 1. Ages 14–Adult. Beginners and more experienced sketchers will be using pencils, conte crayons, ink, markers, and oil pastels in this intensive four evening camp. Demonstrations will assist participants to experiment more freely in creating drawings. All materials included in the fee.

Oil Painting Camp: Brush & Palette Knife Blitz Dates: July 7 & 8 Time: Wednesday & Thursday, 9:00a–1:00p Instructor: Dorothy Bock, MFA Location: New Dimensions Studio Cost: $50 (includes two canvases) Register by July 5. Ages 14–Adult. Abstract or realistic, participants in this two day intensive, will pick up both brush and palette knife to paint, overlay, and scramble oil paint in a variety of ways. Content or pure design is the choice of the painter, but passion and impasto (a way of applying a visible, thick, textured application of paint) are a must. Previous experience will be helpful, but not necessary. Bring brushes and two or three palette knives. Two canvases will be provided.

Beginning Crochet Dates: July 7, 14, 21, 28 Time: Wednesdays, 6:30–8:30p Instructor: Jean Muellenbach Location: Fountain View Room Cost: $50 (includes some materials) Register by July 5. Ages 9-Adult. Come learn how to crochet! This craft will serve you well over the years as you create beautiful and practical items for your home and for gifts. The first night you will need to bring a “J” crochet hook, one ball of Lily Sugar and Creme cotton yarn, and a pair of scissors. Jean will provide a pattern for your first piece. Adults are welcome to join our Junior Members for this class!

Build a Fairy House

Dates: July 10 Time: Saturday, 9:00a–Noon Instructor: Norm Knott Location: New Dimensions Studio & Pine Forest Cost: $20 (includes some materials) Register by July 8. Ages 9-Adult. Under 9 with parent. Help us build a fairy community in our pine forest! First we’ll watch a delightful movie called “Kristin’s Fairy House”. Then we’ll go outside and play in our gardens and woods, seeking thing to create Fairy Houses on our campus. Sometimes imaginary fairies or real fairies (butterflies, moths and other insects…even frogs) take up residence inside the structures we build for them. Bring all-natural items to add to the Fairy Exchange Table, feathers, exotic tree and shrub branches (the curlier the better!), exotic leaves, shells, interesting rocks and stones, pet hair, nut shells (including acorns), seed pods, milkweed, pine cones, fern fronds, etc. Cameras are welcome and encouraged to document the construction and experience. Bring gloves, hiking shoes, long sleeves and pants for protection in the forest. Come back on July 24 for the Summer Fairy Festival to show your Fairy House to family and friends!

Bookwoman: Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin Date: July 14  Time: Wednesday, 9:30–11:00a Location: Womanspace Library Cost: Freewill Offering-Suggested Donation $5. Registrations preferred by July 12. Set in an international apartment complex in Rwanda, Parkin's debut throws together university professors, U.N. employees and CIA agents in a panoply of traditions and cultures. Heroine Angel Tungararza has moved from Tanzania with her husband, Pius, who's taken a job at the local university. She develops a reputation as a masterful baker and a sagacious friend. Though haunted by the deaths of her grown daughter and son, Angel plunges back into motherhood, caring for her five grandchildren, tending to Pius, baking cakes and dispensing advice. Meanwhile, the sour undercurrents of AIDS and genocide play quiet but instrumental parts as extraordinary connections are made among the men and women who have tasted Angel’s beautiful cakes. All women are invited to this book club to share observations, enthusiasm, insights and the pure enjoyment of reading.

 Beginning Wheel-Thrown Pottery Dates: July 14, 21, 28, August 4, 11, 18 Time: Wednesdays, 6:30–8:30p Instructor: Cathy Hodges Location: New Dimensions Studio Cost: $95 (includes all materials) Register by July 12. Ages 16–Adult. For true beginners as well as those who have had one or two previous classes. Each will have a wheel to work on and ample opportunity to practice centering the clay and pulling up bowls, mugs, and plates. Material costs are included in fee.

Student Art Show Opening reception Friday, July 16, 5:30–8:00p. Exhibit runs through August 25 in Gallery 3. Regular gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00a–5:00p, plus evenings and weekends when programs are scheduled. 40% of your art purchases benefits Womanspace and its programs. This exhibit showcases work created by students of all ages who have taken art classes at Womanspace during this past year. Come see a wide variety of art, in every media imaginable!

Claying Around Camp: Cool Containers Dates: July 19 & 20 Time: Monday & Tuesday, 9:00a–3:30p Instructor: Dorothy Bock, MFA & Elaine Hirschenberger Location: New Dimensions Studio Cost: $90 (includes up to 25 lbs. of clay, glazes and firing) Register by July 15. Ages 14–Adult. Beginners and more experienced clay aficionados are welcome to this two day intensive that will renew your relationship with clay. The theme is "containers" of any kind, with variable functions. Larger works are encouraged to stretch participants in the engineering functions of clay with its "sticking" and drying processes. Bring a lunch. Beverages will be available.

Oil & Acrylic Painting Camp: Fantastic Points of View Dates: July 21 & 22 Time: Wednesday & Thursday, 9:00a–3:30p Instructor: Dorothy Bock, MFA Location: New Dimensions Studio Cost: $90 (includes two canvases) Register by July 19. Ages 14–Adult. Whether painting a person, place, object or abstraction, painters will be coached on working with an original point of view, perspective, or set of relationships that awaken interest and surprise. Dreams, special photography and illusionist works can help feed this creative process of two intensive days. Two canvases will be provided. Bring paint, brushes and palette knife. Bring a lunch. Beverages will be available.

 2nd Annual Fairy Festival Dates: July 24 (Rain Date July 25) Time: Saturday, 5:00–8:00p (4:30 BYO picnic) Location: Womanspace Campus Cost: $10 advanced/$15 at the gate for Adults;  $5 advanced/$8 at the gate for children 12 & under

For all ages, men, women and children. Rockford Dance Company and Womanspace invite you to an evening of fairies, magic, dance and fun! Families and guests of all ages will stroll the grounds and art galleries at Womanspace, while fairies lead a scavenger hunt through the beautiful gardens, the magical pine forest, and out onto the Labyrinth on the prairie. Enjoy entertainment by Rockford Dance Company and make a fairy crown and wand to take home. There will be light refreshments, fairy items for sale by Wonderland Books and Toys, plus guests may arrive early and bring their own picnic to savor on the lawn. Sponsored by State Farm Agent Lisa Mawyer, Sandra J. Slaga, Attorney-at-Law, Rockford Woman, and B103.

Queen of Heaven Group Date: July 25 Time: Sunday, 7:00–9:00p Instructor: Debby Gaines & Gale Ketteler Location: Fountain View Room Cost: Freewill Offering-Suggested Donation $5. Registration referred by July 22. Walk-ins welcome! Come early to dance around the Maypole with us at 6:30pm. Then join us as we continue our exploration of the divine feminine. This month we share the spectacular experience of Jennifer Berezan’s theatrical production, Praises for the World, a combination of music, dance, spoken word and art. The video stars Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem, Eve Ensler, Rhiannon, Drew Dillinger, aerial dancers and many more. Previous attendance is not necessary and walk-ins are welcome. Please bring food or drink to share, meet some like-minded women, and share good conversation.

Acrylic Painting: The Flexible Medium Dates: July 27, August 3, 10, 17 Time: Tuesdays, 6:30–9:00p Instructor: Karen Gines Location: New Dimensions Studio Cost: $70. Register by July 22. Ages 16–Adult. Learn to expand your existing horizons or for the first time, start to paint without thinking about outcome. Revisit the fun you had as a "kid", when you let your brush take over and carry you through the painting. Bring acrylic paint and brushes, two canvases at least 24"x30", palette, drop cloth, and water jar. No images to copy please, you have treasures stored in your right brain just waiting to be set free.

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Gallery2Go has over 200 square feet of art and gift shopping heaven! Works by Womanspace artists and artisans are available in a wide variety of media, ranging from tiny baskets and stoneware, to large wall canvases. You'll find jewelry, cards, books by local authors, painted hide rattles and drums, framed art, and other unique delights, including exclusive hand-sewn Dewi Design earrings and necklaces seen on several Hollywood television shows and only available outside of Los Angeles at Womanspace! A percentage of your purchase benefits Womanspace and its programs.

Green Fundraiser EarthMatters is both our environmental group and a beautiful and functional and reusable shopping bag! Come to Womanspace and get your environmentally-sound reusable totes for just $10 each. They’re made by a woman-owned and operated company here in the U.S. from 100% post-consumer recycled water bottles, and they make a great statement!

Walk the Labyrinth The Womanspace labyrinth and other gardens are free and open to the public daily during daylight hours. Labyrinths have been used by many spiritual traditions for over 4000 years. Our 11-circuit design is modeled after the Chartres Cathedral labyrinth in France. It opens you to a meditative and transformative experience - the ancient practice of circling to the center, incorporating the imagery of the spiral into a meandering, but purposeful path. Its many turns reflect the journey of life, which involves change and transition, rites of passage and cycles of nature. Starting at the circle drive, follow the prayer ribbon hoops through the woods, turn right at the bench and onto the prairie to discover the labyrinth. Allow yourself at least an hour to fully experience the journey to the center and back out again.

Holistic Health Room Womanspace has a wonderful space for providing massage therapy, Reiki, and other bodywork. Appointments are made directly with the service provider, who will inform you of fees and other details. To contact a provider or learn more about our rental contract, contact us at info@womanspace-rockford.org or 815-877-0118.

Ceremonies, Gatherings and Celebrations at Womanspace Consider Womanspace for your wedding, memorial service, renewal of wedding vows or other celebrations. Over the past decades, many people have enjoyed ceremonies on our grounds and in our facilities. Contact Womanspace for rental fees and information on how we can provide a one-of-a-kind experience in our gardens, pine forest, Labyrinth and other meeting areas.

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About Womanspace: Womanspace seeks to inspire individuals to discover new talents, interests and friendships, and is dedicated to helping people live their best lives through programs that enhance mind, body and spirit. Situated on a seven-acre campus with art studios and galleries, Gallery2Go gift shop, beautiful gardens and a labyrinth, Womanspace has touched the lives of more than 20,000 men, women and children since its founding in Rockford, Illinois in 1975. Womanspace operates as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.

Directions: From Mulford or Alpine/Spring Creek, take Spring Brook Road to Applewood Lane. Travel one block north on Applewood and then turn left on Maria Linden Drive. At the top of the hill, veer to the right in front of the lot for Provena Cor Mariae.