meet up sunday // art in nature festival

Here are details for Sunday's Art In Nature Festival happening at Oakland's Redwood Regional Park.  You may have met Laura Inserra at the CELLspace Expo for Independent Arts.  She has put together an awesome festival with 100 musicians and artists participating in this interactive day!



It  will also be home to the next Crafters  Local 415 make 'n' take gathering!  Laura's invited me to set up some  crafty supplies, share some techniques, and just enjoy making stuff with  you all.  Look for other artists from the CELLspace expo as well!



There  will be no food vending or sales that day.  It is a purely free and  interactive event.  What project are you working on now?  Can you bring  some knitting or collage materials and enjoy making art in nature?  And  pack a lunch too!





Here are more details from Laura:



A Multidisciplinary Performing Arts Festival

Art in Nature / the Nature of Art



1st annual FREE  multidisciplinary performing arts Festival conceived for the Stream Trail of Redwood Regional Park, Oakland, California.



It will be held on October 3rd, 2010 from 12pm to 4pm as a site-specific performance

organized by SAMAVESHA, an international multidisciplinary performing arts collective,

and directed by renowned Italian composer and artistic director Laura Inserra.



Stroll along the nearly 1 mile Stream Trail of Redwood Regional Park

and be entertained by nearly 100 different artists and performers

tucked among the meadows, redwoods and oaks in this brand new family friendly (and bicycles & dog friendly) Festival.



Enjoy roaming performances and 12 different areas of live music, dance, martial arts, poetry, henna tattoo,

circus arts, theater, painting, storytelling, arts, crafts and kids events put on from Noon to 4pm.



www.ArtinNatureFestival.com

new fun!!!

hey all, i've just created a new website - it's to help get us together and make stuff!!!

check it out, it's over here!

{gold!} a cute find

summer day from jeana sohn on Vimeo.

this makes me happy.  enjoying a summer day via this video while i'm in the san francisco fog.

oh, i finally found it!!!

my favorite (unknown) song!  all i could remember was the dual drumming and rotating cage of lights...  and that's not much for google to go on...



White Rabbits "Percussion Gun" Music Video from White Rabbits on Vimeo.

i typed "rabbit band" into wikipedia and found it!  i love the interwebs!  <3

(thanks for the inspiration pittsburgh perambulations!  join us for the 30-day blog challenge!)

{sunday's bouquet} summer is happening

yes, mark twain is quoted as saying the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in san francisco.

{*grace* by a life through the lens}

i just got back from the east coast where air conditioning is mandatory and the first day of summer passed two days after my cousin got married.  it's was a gorgeous outdoor reception, no sweater needed.

yesterday was foggy and a bit gloomy in the city.  this bouquet helps me remember the brightness and lightness of summer.  i'll soon be camping up in the sierras, so i'll get plenty of that daytime sunshine.

i'll soak it all in.

{datenight} let's go bowling!

hey, it's a standard datenight option.  hitting the lanes and striking out - but not striking out on love!

{if you'd like to find the source of the item, just type the shop name in the search box at etsy!}

happy weekend, my lovelies!

xoxo, rootmix

p.s.  to get into a relaxing day before a night out, check out the live sarah mclachlan concert at noon, pdt!

{gold!} a modern twist!

i'm loving the change in outlook a little paint can create!  just applying a different approach to painting a figurine adds freedom, possibility, and relevance.

check these out!

this collaborative, limited edition project can be found here.

i've seen 70's style vintage wall hangings and figurines spray painted a modern pink or aqua.  i just picked up a couple items to paint on my trip back east.  perhaps some dots are in order as well...

what's your crafty project for the day?

xoxo,
rootmix

{eco find} guess who's coming to dinner?

here's a gorgeous way to reuse old wooden pallets and create space for friends!  a table out of old pallets!

find step-by-step directions over at readymade.

it'd make a great statement as a dining room table or a no-fuss option for outdoor furniture this summer!

{eco find} re-upholster

here's a lovely video made by two of the upholster-ers of spruce. ah, the sprucettes!



they find chairs to update with (ironically) vintage fabrics. they also offer green options when reupholstering chairs; like natural and organic padding materials and fabrics.

i love how the two sprucettes work together, side-by-side, completing this chair make-over in the video.

and what an important component of their business, to pass on the lost art of upholstery by offering classes in their austin, texas storefront. here's a great link to student before-and-afters!

and guess what's getting added to my maker list...  actually, re-upholstery has been on my list, in the form of two chairs in my parents' garage... ever since i saw this posting at sea of shoes (and found two chairs at the side of the road).

happy monday!

{sunday's bouquet}