Saturday, March 29, 2014

[HUBNEWSLETTER] Homeschool HUB News Update--March 28

 

Homeschool HUB News Update--March 28

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Editor: Andrea Bikfalvy
 
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GENERAL INTEREST

G1) Great Lakes Traditional Arts Gathering


G1) Great Lakes Traditional Arts Gathering

Registration is now open for the Great Lakes Traditional Arts Gathering; July 9-13, 2014
 
Held on the sandy secluded shore of Warners Cove on Drummond Island, MI, GLTAG is four days of hands-on learning with some of the Great Lakes region's most renowned artists, tradition bearers, naturalists, and craft specialists.

Over 60 Hands-on Workshops and Classes Include:

    Building a moose skin boat with Ferdy Goode
    Cree style woven rabbit fur blankets with Daisy Kostus
    Bison wool twined bags
    Processing wild rice
    Open fired pottery cookware
    Nine ways to make fire with Barry Keegan
    Cedar bark mat weaving
    Copper axe building, Anishinaabe star knowledge, forging the fire steel, dugout and birch bark canoe paddling, and much more

Outings - Fun and Educational Off-site Adventures:

    Foraging and preserving seasonal wild foods with Sam Thayer
    Live-fire outing at a shooting range using replica firearms of the fur trade with Larry Horrigan
    Explore the ecology and history of wild rice with a canoe tour of the Potoganassing River led by Roger LaBine
    Go sailing with Captain Hugh Covert in a 40-foot hand- built wooden New Haven Sharpie
    Paddle to Harbor Island National Wildlife Refuge in 24-foot birch bark voyageur canoes
    Locate, select, and help harvest black ash logs for both basket making and building the toboggan.

Evening Entertainment:

    Feature musical performance by The Crane Wives
    "Poetry Sweat" performance coordinated by Christine Sy

Registration is limited, so act early to reserve your spot!  If you have any questions, feel free to contact:  Erik Vosteen, Assistant Director, Great Lakes Lifeways Institute  evosteen@lifewaysinstitute.org

For more info:  http://www.islandgathering.org/islandgathering/Welcome.html



MICHIANA EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

1) Used Curriculum and Book Sale
2)  Cool Volunteer Opportunity at Fernwood
3) Myers Dinner Theatre "Annie Warbucks" auditions
4)  "Dangerous" Book Signing at Bethel College
5) Michiana Covenant Academy Open House
6) Robotics Demonstration at Barnes and Noble


1) Used Curriculum and Book Sale

IGNITE Home Educators (formerly Niles Area Christian Homeschoolers) is hosting their 3rd Annual Used Curriculum and Book Sale and they would like to invite you to participate as a seller and shopper on April 26th from 9-4
Drop off will be April 25th from 3-7
Pick Up will be April 26th from 4-6
all at Community Evangelical Free Church  120 E. Bertrand Rd. in Niles, MI

All sellers need a seller number. Please contact Trisha Emswiler tkemswiler@yahoo.com for your number. The group does keep 10% of the profits to offset costs of holding the sale as well as to help support families going to the INCH homeschool conference. Shoppers are charged $1 at the door. Children and Sellers are free.
This has been a heavily attended sale and last year was our biggest yet. Please remember that this is limited to items relating to homeschooling. You MUST use removable labels and all labels must have your seller number and price marked clearly. IGNITE is not responsible for any lost, stolen or damaged items. IGNITE has been really encouraged by the response and the many stories of how this sale has helped others to be able to afford to homeschool.


2)  Cool Volunteer Opportunity at Fernwood

In celebration of Fernwood's 50 years as a public garden, twig artist, Patrick Dougherty, will be designing and installing a large one-of-a-kind twig sculpture on Fernwood's grounds in April! Patrick has designed and assembled over 230 otherworldly twig art pieces all over the world in the past 30 years. Visit Patrick's website to learn more about his work.   http://www.stickwork.net/

Here is your opportunity to work with a true artist! Patrick will be at Fernwood the first three weeks of April. He will need many volunteers throughout the process of creating the sculpture. Opportunities include harvesting materials, acting as a docent, and weaving the sculpture under Patrick's direction.
 
If you would like to volunteer to work with Patrick in April to weave his magic, please email Volunteer Coordinator Judi Jason jjason@fernwoodbotanical.org, or call 269.695.6491.
 
Watch video of the building process:  http://www.ourstate.com/videos/stickbuilt/

Contact Us:
269.695.6491
jjason@fernwoodbotanical.org


3) Myers Dinner Theatre "Annie Warbucks" auditions

Director Linnéa Leatherman will hold auditions for the Myers Dinner Theatre production of "Annie Warbucks" on April 6 from 2-5, and April 7 from 6-9, in the rehearsal studio above the MDT office at Main and Water streets in Hillsboro.    Enter through the white side door on Water Street and go up the stairs into the studio.  The show opens May 30 and runs through June 21, with Wednesday and Saturday afternoon matinees, and Friday and Saturday evening performances.  Auditioners should prepare a song which highlights your voice, and bring an accompaniment track CD (or cassette!).  It does not have to be professionally produced.  There is no piano in the studio.  Please wear shoes appropriate for a brief dance audition.

Children's Roles:

Annie Warbucks:  10-13, strong singer/actor/dancer
Orphan Pepper:  12-14, strong singer/actor
Orphan Tessie:  9-12, strong singer/actor
Orphan Molly:  7-9, strong singer/actor
Orphan Peaches:  10-12, strong singer/actor
Christine Grace Paterson:  9-12, sweet daughter of Tennessee sharecropper farmers, strong singer/actor

Adult Roles:

Drake:  Warbucks' butler, any adult age (possible double as Republican Senator Vandenberg), strong singer
Mrs. Pugh:  Warbucks' housekeeper, any adult age (doubles as White House secretary Gladys), strong singer
Harriet Doyle:  45-60, scheming bureaucrat, strong singer/actor required
Miss Clark:  any adult age, head of the orphanage
Mrs. Kelly:  25-45, conniving daughter of Doyle, strong singer/actor required
Dr. Margaret Whittleby:  30-ish, Oliver's lunch date, psychologist (doubles as Ella Paterson)
Alvin Paterson:  young adult, Tennessee sharecropper farmer
Ella Paterson:  young adult, motherly, Tennessee sharecropper farmer (doubles as Dr. Margaret Whittleby), strong singer
Gladys:  White House secretary (doubles as Mrs. Pugh)
Senator Vandenberg:  Republican from Michigan (doubles with either Drake or Simon Whitehead)

The action of the show starts during the last scene of "Annie," as Oliver and Annie are signing the adoption papers.  Mrs. Doyle arrives to announce that Warbucks cannot legally adopt Annie because he is not married.  However, she gives him 60 days to find a "suitable" wife, and thus ensues a frenzied dating life for Oliver, Annie running away to Tennessee with Sandy, a search headed by President Roosevelt's staff and the FBI, and the foiling by Grace and Warbucks' staff of a dastardly plot on Oliver's life planned by Mrs. Doyle and her daughter, Mrs. Kelly.  With a surprise ending, wonderful songs, and colorful characters, this show is a terrific sequel to the always-popular "Annie."

All roles are available except for Oliver Warbucks, Grace Farrell, Simon Whitehead, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Please contact Director Linnéa Leatherman if you have any questions, or if you want to audition but cannot be present on either of the listed audition dates.  Email her at cat2act@yahoo.com or call her MDT office phone at 765-798-4902, ext. 7.


4)  "Dangerous" Book Signing at Bethel College

The Bethel College Campus Store will host a book signing with alumnus Caleb Bislow, author of "Dangerous: Engaging the People and Places No One Else Will." Bislow's book is endorsed by Bear Grylls, host of Discovery Chanel's "Man vs. Wild" and NBC's "Get Out Alive," who says it is "a book for aspiring heroes, about real heroes, by a quiet hero." The signing will be on Wednesday, April 2 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Sufficient Grounds Campus Store.

The goal of Bislow's book is to mobilize followers of Christ to engage the people and the places that no one else will. Bislow is a full-time missionary and founder of Unusual Soldiers, a ministry committed to taking the hope of Christ to the dark, dangerous and despised corners of the world. The book shares stories of his extreme missions to places such as remote, "forbidden" tribes, prisons, brothels and war zones.

"The heart of the book is to mobilize people," Bislow says. "My hope is to raise up unusual soldiers who can multiply disciples."

 One story tells of a trip to a remote part of Africa to minister to the Maasai Tribe. He made the trip alone, as fighting in the region made it too risky to bring a team. With the help of a translator he met online, he saw 300 people respond to the gospel. In taking a radical risk for Christ, Bislow found his calling. "I saw God move in a powerful way, and found a cause worth living for – a cause worth dying for," Bislow says.

Always an adventure seeker, Bislow is an extreme sports enthusiast and avid outdoorsman which is what led him to attend a survival training camp in Scotland, where he met Grylls. Bislow now runs his own survival training camp called "Stranded" from his hometown in Nebraska. Known as the "Basic Training" for Unusual Soldiers, it tests endurance, character and mental fortitude in a simulated mission trip to a treacherous or threatening region.

To learn more about Bislow's organization, visit UnusualSoldiers.com. To learn more about his book, visit TheDangerousBook.com.

Bislow is available for interviews and guest appearances while he is in town. He is scheduled to be a guest on WFRN's morning show on Monday, March 31, and on the Harvest Show on Wednesday, April 2. To inquire about an interview, contact Erin Kinzel, 574.807.7382 or Erin.Kinzel@BethelCollege.edu.


5) Michiana Covenant Academy Open House

Dear Friends of Michiana Covenant Academy

Please make plans to attend our annual Open House on Thursday, April 24.
We will showcase our students' work, and you will be able to visit with
their teachers and families of their friends.  Please invite your friends
who are interested in using the Academy to assist in their own
homeschooling.  We open the doors at 7:00 p.m.  Cookies and punch will be
served until 8:30 p.m.


6) Robotics Demonstration at Barnes and Noble

You are cordially invited to join us on Wednesday, April 2nd from 5-7:30PM as we celebrate National Robotics Week! Our special guests will be the FRC Robotics team from Penn Harris Madison High School! They will be doing interactive demonstrations in our Reader's Lounge and at all Mall Entrance. Help us celebrate their victory at the Regional Championship competition! Thank you and we look forward to having you with us!

Sincerely,
Jim Emmons
Community Relations Manager
Barnes & Noble , Inc.
6501 N. Grape Rd., Suite 200
Mishawaka, IN 46545
o (574) 247-0864  f (574) 247-1156


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The Homeschool HUB is collecting used textbooks.  Contact Andrea homeschoolhub@yahoo.com or 269-240-6094

The Homeschool HUB is continuing to collect Campbell Soup labels, Campbell's Chunky Soup labels, Campbell's Healthy Request labels, Campbell's Select harvest, Franco-American, Pepperidge Farm, Spaghettios, Swanson, V-8 Beverages, V-8 Fusion, Prego Italian Sauces and Campbell's Food Service.   Give your labels to any board member or bring them to our homeschool functions.

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We are still accepting Boxtops for education labels.  You can find these on many products.

Go to Boxtops for Education.org for more info, and then SAVE SAVE SAVE  those labels.  Each one nets 10 cents and every 10 cents adds up. You can give them to any HUB board member or bring them to any functions that we have.  Thank-you!

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DISCLAIMERS:

While the Homeschool HUB believes that these events or opportunities may be of value to home educators, announcements do not constitute an endorsement by the Homeschool HUB, or its Board of Directors. It is the responsibility of individual parents to determine the appropriateness of any event or opportunity for their children.

Participation in any event is voluntary and the participant assumes complete responsibility and liability for themselves, their family, anyone accompanying them, and their personal property.

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