Fundrasier bean dinner for CAMP at Black Bear, January 25

Says CAMP:

We will be having a delicious BEAN DINNER fundraiser at Black Bear Bakery on Wednesday, January 25th, from 6:30pm to 9pm. There will be baked beans, chilli beans, bean soup, bean bread, bean taffey, and bean compote, along with food not involving any beans.  Come on by to enjoy this feast of protein!  Vegetarian and vegan options will be available.

We will be giving short introductions to everything that CAMP is up to for the new year, including elections for folks who help run CAMP!

We will be screening several films in the upstairs library for your enjoyment:
Red Beans & Rice (Record Collecting Documentary)
David Icke's Ad-lib Occupy Wall Street Documentary
... others TBA

Black Bear is located at 2639 Cherokee St, just a few blocks East of CAMP.
Admission is $5-10 sliding scale, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds!
Contact us at coordinator@stlcamp.org for more info!

Capoeira Classes at CAMP

Monday and Wednesday, from 6:15pm to 8:15pm, feature Capoeira Classes at CAMP are open for the community. These classes are for everyone, regardless of age, sex or physical ability. Stop by CAMP yourself to try out a trial class!

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art form. A combination of music, movement and  history, born of the struggle for liberation by African peoples brought to the new world.

People's Joy Parade 2011

CAMP is We're bringing back the People's Joy Parade <http://kck.st/frKtBa> for this year's Cherokee Cinco de Mayo <http://cincodemayostl.com> festival, now for the 3rd year in a row! The Parade will launch at 1:11pm on Saturday May 7. Welcome are crepe paper float makers, home made costume fashionistas, b-boys/girls, midnight minstrels, Gigante puppeteers, low-riders, bike brigades, moving installation artists, Elvis impersonators, cardboard bricoleurs, and many more.

To help us cover the costs of organizers, artists, performers, and also street permits, we've started another Kickstarter Campaign<http://kck.st/frKtBa>to raise funds. We're hoping to raise at least $2500 by 5/4, and it's looking good since *we've raised $600 already*! Please chip in to help make the Parade an lasting Cherokee Street tradition.

Besides that, you can also come to any to these workshops at CAMP, located at 3026 Cherokee St., to participate:

- Customer and Gigantes Workshops, Saturdays 2 - 4pm, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23,  and 4/30
- Footbeat Choir Rehearsals, Sundays 1pm - 3pm, 4/10/, 4/17, 4/24, and 5/1

Bean Dinner Fundraiser for CAMP tonight @ Black Bear Bakery

CAMP will be having a delicious BEAN DINNER fundraiser at Black Bear Bakery on Wednesday, February 9th, from 7 to 9pm, at 2639 Cherokee St.  Drop by CAMP first at 3026 Cherokee for the Capoeira Angola classes at 6pm, and then head over to Black Bear for your bean-y reward.

On the menu so far:
Lentil Dal (veg)
Pea Dal (veg)
Chili with MEAT w/ rice
Curried black-eyed peas (veg)
Bean Soup
... and other dishes.

Come on by to enjoy this feast! We'll be showing a couple movies in the 2nd floor balcony, and the artist Craig Downs may be coming by to auction off an artwork!

Black Bear is located at 2639 Cherokee St, just a few blocks east of CAMP. Admission is $5-10 sliding scale, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds!

The Community Arts and Movement Project, http://stlcamp.org, 3022A Cherokee, St. Louis, MO. 314-827-4730.

CAMP Benefit - Variety Show Friday night

Time	Friday, August 6 (tomorrow) · 7:00pm - 11:30pm
Location	CAMP 3026 Cherokee Avenue
More Info	CAMP (Community Arts and Movement Project) is hosting a benefit show to keep the building open. All ages/sober space please Suggested donation is $10-20. ...Lineup: I Could Sleep In The Clouds http://www.myspace.com/thepapertransit Ghosts I Have Been Barely-free Partial Prisoners http://www.myspace.com/barelyfreepartialprisoners TBA

City-Wide Open Studios on Cherokee Street -- who's in?

Work by Dana Smith at the much-missed City Art Supply, Open Studios 2009

Are you participating in the Contemporary Art Museum's City-Wide Open Studios tour this summer -- and are you going to be in an open studio on Cherokee Street?  Let me know, so I can post about it here.


Last year I visited a few spots and saw terrific work, so if you are not in an open studio yourself, then by all means get out and see folks' work this year.  Studios south of I-44 (this includes Cherokee Street) will be open on Saturday, July 24, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.


From what I can tell from the map on the Contemporary's web site, these are some of the open studios on Cherokee this year.  But I'm not as smart as the map so I have a feeling I'm missing people.  Plus, I'd love to let everyone know about the work of individual artists/studios, so if you have an image and/or description of your work and/or a link to a web site or Facebook fan page or additions or deletions or corrections or whatnot, please note that in the comments section and I'll try to get it posted.

• JON COURNOYER, WONDER KOCH, 1820 Cherokee St., 63118
• PAUL W. COENEN 2712 Cherokee St., 63118
• JENN CARTER, SCOTT ERNST, JENNIFFER HAYES, CARLA M. STECK, BRYAN WALSH, VIVIAN B WATERS, ArtDimensions Art Gallery, 2720 Cherokee St., 63118
• JEN BRADFORD, AMY VAN DONSEL 2834 Cherokee St., 63118
• Full-screenTHE FIRECRACKER PRESS, 2838 Cherokee St., 63118
• DAVID WOLK, (Cranky Yellow), 2847 Cherokee St., 63118
• Community Arts & Movement Project, 3022 Cherokee St., 63118
• MICHAEL STASNEY, 3157 Cherokee St., 63118
• JANE LINDERS, (MADE Studios) 3159 Cherokee St., 63118
   
  
  
  

Dance party at CAMP

*!!!! BEEP BEEP BLING BLING!!!!

DANCE PARTY!!! *

Whats better than listening to the KDHX show Beep Beep Boop Boop?

DANCING TO IT AAANNNNDDDD SUPPORTING *C.A.M.P* (The Community Arts and Movment Project - a wonderful community center down on cherokee if y'a haven't heard of us before)

THIS *Wednesday May 26th* from *9- 11 PM at **3026 CHEROKEE STREET* will be hosting a fund-raiser dance-party to the tunes of kate's radio show Beep Beep Boop Boop

COME groove with your best pals and enjoy a mix of special tidbits of fun and hilarity every "commercial break!" *You haven't danced til you've shaken your Beep Beep to the Boop Boop with all the Bling Bling!*

$5-$15 or more donation taken at the door. Nobody turned away from the par-tay but don't be stingy!

Proceeds will go to keeping keep your favorite homegrown local community organization (CAMP) living large into 2010 and beyond.*
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www.stlcamp.org

People's Joy Parade, 5/8 1:11pm

Hear Ye! Oye!  Please join us for the 2nd Annual “People’s Joy Parade”: An Art Processional Celebrating the Diversity of  Zocalo Cherokee.  You are very invited to participate and /or watch this Wowzer of a feel-good street celebration.   On the heels of our exceedingly successful grassroots fund-raising campaign, we are energized to share the home made costumes, gigantes, and songs, grow out of our workshops! Don’t hold back from getting involved you can show up in costume the day of, help us carry Gigante puppets, be a facepainter, or volunteer.


Saturday May 8th 2010 starting at 1:11pm as a part of the Cherokee Street Cinco de Mayo Celebration.


Meet at the Black Forest Parking Lot at Noon to march. We will be walking on and around Cherokee Street.   Parade Route is online at http://cincodemayostl.com/parade.html  .


Including:

• Aeriality of the Bumbershoot School
• Augratin Press
• C.A.M.P. Costume Shop Kids
• Carver Motor Scooters
• The Carmen Mirandas
• Celestial Theater
• Cherokee Real Garden
• Cinco de Volvo
• Footbeat Choir led by Celia Shacklett
• Fort Gondo Float
• Grace Space Girls
• Gigantes of Wesley Fordyce
• Harris Stowe Drumline
• IRE Moped Crew
• Luchador Collab-O-Mask Artists
• March of Femicides led by Amanda Madoux
• Members of the Banana Bike Brigade
• Roosevelt Marching Band
• Show Me Rhythms
• St. Cecilia’s Dancers
• St. Louis Language Immersion School

And The Procession of Artists Featuring

• Lauren Adams
• Artica Founders Nita Turnage and Hap Phillips
• Melissa Breed
• Irene Compadre
• Digger Blaque
• Bob Hartzell
• Emily Hemeyer
• Bill Krantz
• Deanna Kiel
• Minerva Lopez
• Laura Mart
• Katie Mac
• Ariane Moore
• Mark Pagano
• Mike Pagano
• Sarah Paulsen
• Billy Paulsen
• Jake Petersen
• Rebecca Rivas
• Bill Russell
• Travis Russell
• Eric and Mina Repice
• Lyndsey Scott
• Jenny Shriner
• Mike Stasny
• Amy Van Donsel
• Ann-Maree and Jason Walker
• Ben West
• Peat and Kris Wollaeger
• Davide Wolk
• Willy Zep

Why:  Because… parades recognize the importance of the people who make up a community and it’s sort of like the Music Man come to life.

Contact  ***TO PARTICIPATE: If you want to march in the parade, please contact coordinator Sarah Paulsen at pintorasp(at)hotmail(dot)com or visit http://stlcamp.org/peoples_joy_parade_2010

C.A.M.P. = The Community Arts and Movement Project 3026 Cherokee Street

GraceSpace -- a safe place for girls to create

via Cherokee Street News:

Beginning March 17, GRACESPACE will meet weekly at C.A.M.P. to gather a small group of neighborhood teenage and pre-teen neighborhood girls together with two co-teachers (Lyndsey Scott and Cayree Dobsch) and visiting mentors to celebrate feminine leadership, self-worth, creative expression, and healthy bodies.  Exploring a toolkit that includes dance, acroyoga, journaling, self portraits, and women’s history,  GRACESPACE connects young women to resources that  promote self-nurture and kindle intuition.  The culminating project will be a performance during the People’s Joy Parade!
Wednesdays, 4:30-6:30pm, from March 17-June 2
For 11-15 year old Girls
$25 for 12 weeks/ No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds – Barter Negotiable

Class applications are due March 8, and are available at Foam, The Cherokee Rec Center, The Marquette Rec Center, and Carpenter Branch Library.
For more information, to volunteer , or to make a donation, call Lyndsey Scott: 217.898.3777

Houses for Haiti benefit this Friday @ CAMP

This Friday, kindergarten and first grade students of the St. Louis Language Immersion School, in an effort to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, will sell over 300 handpainted house magnets and pins they have created to benefit victims of the earthquake in Haiti. All profits will go to Partners In Health.

The CAMP (Community Arts and Media Project) ...  has art, exercise, gardening, and bike programs for kids in the community.

When: 5-10 pm, this Friday, Feb 19th.
Where: CAMP, 3220A Cherokee Street
Why: to benefit both earthquake victims and to encourage some kids who are trying to make a difference

More info:
http://stlcamp. org

Bookmaking Workshop SUNDAY on Cherokee Street

**The Finders Hive**

(in collaboration with UpCycle Exchange and The Community Arts and Media Project)

Is Hosting A Series of 2 Sunday Workshop/Playshops:

>>>TURNING TRASH INTO BOOKS<<<

the discarded and the forgotten
the bits and pieces
tucked in attics and basements
picked from alleyways and dumpsters
will be re-discovered, re-purposed and re-created
into journals and sketchbooks, notebooks and storybooks
uniquely handbound
to hold our stories and dreams, visons and schemes

On::: Sunday Feb. 21 (all ages, everyone welcome)
AND!
Sunday March 7 (just for the kids, ages ~ 5-15)

From::: 2:00pm -- 4:00pm

At:::: ->>The Finders Hive
c/o The Community Arts and Media Project
3022 CHEROKEE STREET
at the corner of Cherokee and Minnesota
on the south side of St. Louis City...

You Will Find::: A book making Extravaganza including:
Demonstrations of simple book binding techniques.
Piles of lovingly reclaimed trash treasures to work and play with to create a book of your own.
An attentive teacher to guide you through the process

What to bring::: Just your creative self!
and if you want...
Any unwanted junk you have laying around that could be recycled into book making materials
and/or
Drawings, stories, poems, comics, etc.- any paper creation wanting a binding

We're requesting a sliding scale donation of $2-$10 to benefit CAMP and the Finders Hive. No one turned away for lack of funds.

RSVP helpful but not required.

To RSVP or for more info contact:
Laura Anderson
314-773-1391

CAMP's Funky Holiday Fiesta This Sunday

Sunday, December 13, 2009
5:00-9:00 p.m. @ 3026 Cherokee Street (at Minnesota)

Come enjoy singing festive songs at the top of your lungs, watching a local holiday film made possible by CAMP’s support, and sh-sh-shaking your groove thang to “some the best of raw funk, soul, jazz, and world beats that even people with lead shoes will be dancing to….”

5:00 p.m.: Celia’s Yuletide Express – a participatory singalong of your favorite Christmas tunes (or ones you hated on the radio, but love when you have jingliebells in your paw)
6:00 p.m.: ATNAS AKINAH: The Adventures of Santa’s Daughter / An experimental video narrative — last ‘09 showing in STL!
7:00 p.m.: Hang out! Dance to the magic soul-moving tunes brought to you by DJ Funky Leroy (aka Spencer Musselman), make art, make friends, make….. IT happen!

Snip some snowflakes or make some ornaments with Finder’s Hive treasures, then warm your bones at the CAMPfire out back and share rememberings of this year’s growth with neighbors and old friends.... Tis the season to be grateful, dreamy, cosy! We hope to see you, and make Us LIGHT!

A suggested donation of $3-$10 will be split 50/50 to support youth art programs at CAMP and the making of the ATNAS movie. Thanks in advance!!


Information from Cherokee Street News

DIY Prints at the Finder's Hive at CAMP

From Cherokee Street News:

Calling all crafters, kids, and kids-at-heart: Stop by the Community Arts and Media Project during the Cherokee Street Print League Open House to preview the soon-coming “Finder’s Hive”!

The “Finder’s Hive” is an all-new treasure trove that will host UPCYCLE – a crafters’ post-consumer goods redistribution interface – as well hopes to host “Make Space” art programs including a Kids Street Art collective, knitting circle, and drawing nights. Come find out more, and how you can fit!

10:00 am - 4:00 pm December 5 — @ CAMP, 3022 Cherokee Street
Stroll into phase one of the "junk shop co-op" to peruse the stockpiled goodies and participate in FREE interactive printmaking activities. Experiment with DIY, low-fi printmaking techniques topped off with collage to custom create your own holiday gift cards and wrapping paper — perfect for packaging up your Print League goodies for under the tree! Tie a ribbon ’round it.

If you’re interested in volunteering to lead art activities or finding out more about the Hive, contact Lyndsey @ 217.898.3777!

VISIT —– upXChange.com —- for more info on the nuts & bolts of the redistribution process.

superfun art/play workshop this Sunday

From your friends at the Chatillon-DeMenil House and the wonder-artist Lyndsey Scott:

Our October "Arts Then and Now" events are on the road, exploring how our neighbors on Cherokee Street are inspired to mingle art and architecture. First, we'll meet inside CAMP to draw and brainstorm together. Taking cues from old photographs and advertisements together with current photos, fliers, and news clippings -- we'll let our imaginations explore what the street has been and can be. Then we'll make copies of our sketches and stroll around the neighborhood affixing these images and messages with magnets where people can interact with them. No worries if you're not an 'artist' -- if you've got attentive eyes, willing hands, and a sense of humor you're well equipped to play this game!

Sunday, October 18
1pm
Community Arts and Media Project
3022 Cherokee Street

questions? 229-0793

This free workshop is made possible with support from the Regional Arts Commission.

CheroFlea Market at CAMP

From CAMP's Outreach Coordinator, Lyndsey Scott:

CheroFLEA MARKET @ CAMP

Saturday October 3, 8am-3pm

3026 Cherokee Street


A la dream interpretation website:

*Basement* The house generally represents your psychological and emotional self. Each part of the house may deal with a different part of you. The basement is built first. It is often below ground (or at least some parts of it), and is essentially the foundation of the house. Dreaming about a basement and understanding the dream, may provide you with valuable information which may lead to greater self-awareness. A recurring dream about basements (i.e. being in a basement, a basement, furnishing a basement, etc.) should not be ignored. These dreams may be symbolic of your unconscious, instincts and intuition, and degree of awareness of a current situation or a problem.

I recently had some really stellar basement dreams, straight up dancing with brooms in subterranean clouds, spacious, mysterious. More recently than that, I’ve spent many love-labor hours alongside other collective members giving the underbelly of CAMP, the Community Arts and Media Project, a great scouring – in keeping with the current effort to regenerate the project’s vision and efficacy in engaging creative, socially-responsible strategies for community building on Cherokee Street. For sanity, I engaged with this work of schlepping, sorting, and disposing the ruins as play -- a treasure hunt performance piece remix of Whachoogondowithallthatjunk, while envisioning what it is we hope to make space for.

Whereby, You are duly invited to come browse the oddities unearthed and celebrate this milestone of shapeshifting with us. Together with neighbors’ stuff, a hodgepodge including books, bikes, furniture, costumes, mirrors, shelves, toys, et al awaits you, and we look forward to raising funds for the bike shop, youth art, and other programs.

If you’re falling in love with Cherokee but have not yet been to CAMP, make your way thru. I think you’ll find we are developing into a site that can nurture a uniquely expressive and honest dialogue with the neighborhood. It’s piqued my creativity for months….

CheroFLEA MARKET @ CAMP
Saturday October 3, 8am-3pm
3026 Cherokee Street

For more on CAMP click here.

For more on the CheroFLEA MARKET visit Cherokee Street News

To volunteer in setup/cleanup or with CAMP in general, call (314) 827-4730.



Love from

Lyndsey Scott

CAMP Outreach Coordinator

WHAT CHEER?! BRIGADE @ CAMP

From Lyndsey Scott on August 3:

Hey neighborhood! Ready for more play?

Yesterday the 3200 Nebraska block was such pretty public space ... big ups to Carrie for getting horse rides and hip hop on the same page with plentiful cheese curls for all!

This weekend offers another joyful opportunity to get down -- The Community Arts and Media Project will host an exceptionally funky 20+piece marching band from the east coast.

Early, family-friendly show starts at 6:00 p.m. followed up by very danceable Javelin. Your $5-$15 donation will support the bike shop's continuing evolution! (Neighborhood friends and those in need welcome to donate $1 and/or volunteer time -- barter welcome.)

www.stlcamp.org
FRIDAY AUG 7 @ 6pm
3026 Cherokee Street
WHAT CHEER!? BRIGADE

Cherokee St Chautauqua Art Lab (CQAL) series at Fort Gondo 5/3-5/8

Cherokee Street Chautauqua Art Lab (CQAL)

Map the multi-verse with controversial artists/speakers, pots and pans music makers, and film bricoleurs constellating for the temporary art and technology project co-organized by artists Emily Hemeyer, Sarah Paulsen, and Eric Repice. The series of nightly collaborative educational gatherings is inspired by the historical Chautauqua adult education movement in the US and features participatory panels, music soundscapes, and video screenings.

May 3-7 each night, 6:30 PM -10:00 PM

Fort Gondo, 3151 Cherokee Street, St. Louis, MO, USA

Learn, Include, Collaborate, Constellate. “Chautauqua is the most American thing about America”-- Theodore Roosevelt


Calendar of Events

Sunday, May 3: “Sound Improvisation and the Collective Consciousness.” Guests include: Dr. Keith Sawyer author of Group Genius, Diminished Capacity (Anna Lum and Rich O’Donnell), Ghosts I Have Been w/ recordings by Ghost Ice, and MMMelt (Daniel Shown). Followed by a recorded improvisational collaboration. Bring electronics, toys, gadgets, found objects, organic instruments and make noise!


Monday, May 4: “Local Go-getters and How They Began.” Public Forum Q & A
with presentations by Matt Strauss (White Flag), BJ Vogt (MAPS), Nita Turnage and Hap Phillips (Artica), David Wolk (Cranky Yellow & Crammed Organisms), Eric Woods (Firecracker Press), Open Lot, Luminary Center, All Along Press, and APOP Records. Music by Nate Henricks and friends.


Tuesday, May 5: “Expanding Personal and Collective Practices that Investigate Notions of Space, History, and Public Goods.” A discussion highlighting mapping, tagging, blogging, virtual studios, and YouTube as art spaces featuring Eric and Michelle DeLair Repice (Wash U), Michael Allen (Ecology of Absence), Ben West (WASABINET), Jordan Hicks (Open Lot), and live animation by Sarah Paulsen.

Wednesday, May 6: “Artist Viewpoints: Innovations and Boundaries in Community Art Practice.” Works and commentary by Cindy Tower, Lyndsey Scott, Keith Bucholdz (Fluxus), Peat Wollager, Maya Escobar and Anna Fullproof (Miss Rockaway Armada). Music by Bangerang.

Thursday, May 7: ”Exploratory Film Night: Time based art/video shorts exploring the use of found/appropriated images, collage and archives.” Including films by Jodie Mack (Chicago), Emily Foster (San Francisco), Tom Bussmann/Ken Brown, Jeremy Kannapell, Mike Pagano, Emily Hemeyer and more. Music by Kevin Butterfield and -Flowers. All proceeds benefit CAMP-Community Arts and Media Project.

Calendar