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Metalsmithing Bugs and Flowers
Learn how to make bugs and flowers in this metalsmithing course. Utilize your own design or reference a specific form. Tools for shaping, cutting and drilling will be available as well as guidance and collaborative opportunities! Please bring your own pliers. Open to all skill levels.
Find out more »Metalsmithing Bugs and Flowers
Learn how to make bugs and flowers in this metalsmithing course. Utilize your own design or reference a specific form. Tools for shaping, cutting and drilling will be available as well as guidance and collaborative opportunities! Please bring your own pliers. Open to all skill levels
Find out more »Healthy Living Photo Contest
CELEBRATE HEALTHY LIVING PHOTO CONTEST Submit a photo showing participation in a healthy physical activity or send us your favorite healthy food recipe and win a spot in our Calendar 2019! Photo size: 11”x 8.5” (jpg or pdf) - Landscape Minimum Resolution: 300 DPI Submit online: prevent@mpnn.state.va.us Photo Submission Date: 8/31/18 Questions? (804) 642.5402 or 1.888.PREV.550 MPNN CSB Prevention, Health & Wellness Division
Find out more »Explorations in Nature: Hand-building Plant Inspired Wall Sconces
Join Saraya Cheney in exploring the natural world through clay. In this class we’ll take our inspiration from the local flora as you learn to hand-build a set of ceramic wall sconces. You’ll learn tips on creating texture and patterns as well as basic glazing techniques to create beautiful, functional works of art that will hang on your wall. No prior experience working with clay is necessary to attend this class, as it is geared toward beginners. This class is…
Find out more »Bay School Community Arts Center Children’s Art Show and Reception
August 10 – 18 Reception Friday, August 10 3:30-6pm We love the Kids' Art Show! What can be better than showing off the next generation of artistic creativity in our community? Seeing both joy and focus on children's faces while they make art always brings a smile to ours and we are excited to share that with you! Please join us, the children, and their families to celebrate their masterpieces. We will show exciting art created in our summer camps.
Find out more »Brown Park Throwdown
Triangle Skateboard Alliance and Park Park Partners, Inc will team up again on August 18 to host the 2nd Brown Park Throwdown, a skate competition and community service event held at Brown Park. Area skaters can compete for prizes and bragging rights in street or half-pipe at all levels. Skater entry and public admission to the event will be school supplies to be donated to Gloucester County Schools. The groups’ inaugural event in April hosted around 70 people and collected…
Find out more »FLOW ART CAMPS for KIDS @ Arts on Main
Flow Art or Fluid Acrylics is part art and part science! By mixing water based paint and various oils, fun bubbles or cells will form into a joyous, magical, and colorful mix onto your canvas. Join Ms. Smith, a former Gloucester elementary teacher, to create an exciting and always surprising painting without using a paintbrush! $15, all supplies included 10:00am – 11:00am – Elementary 11:00am – 12:00pm – Middle School & Up
Find out more »Paper Bag Scrapbook ages 7+
Let’s use some paper bags and craft papers to create a memory book. Bring photos and other paper items you would like to include in your book.
Find out more »Youth Mental Health First Aid Training
We will be offering the Youth Mental Health First Aid Training that is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing mental health or addiction challenges or is in crisis. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, substance…
Find out more »Book Club – Afternoon
Book Clubs Afternoon - Third Tuesdays @ 1pm May 15 - The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King June 19 - Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain July 17 - The Spymistress by Jennifer Chiaverini August 21 - Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Meet new friends, engage in lively conversations, and sink your nose into great books. Newcomers are always welcome to these sessions...feel free to attend regularly or just for titles of interest! One of the great advantages…
Find out more »Family Trees
Family Trees Tuesdays 1-5pm, August 7 & 21, September 4 & 18, October 2 & 23 Thursdays 1-5pm, August 9 & 23, September 6 & 20, October 4 & 25 Discover family history! A representative from the Gloucester Genealogical Association offers one-on-one help to ensure accurate, complete and well-documented research. FREE. No registration required.
Find out more »Discovery Lab at VIMS – Feeding Frenzy
Discovery Labs are free, family-friendly programs provided each month by the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (CBNERR) at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Gloucester Point. Designed with elementary-aged youth and their parents in mind, each lab focuses on a different topic related to the Chesapeake Bay and our local environment and includes exhibits, demonstrations, and hands-on activities as well as a short presentation by a VIMS scientist. On Tuesday, August 21st, Discovery Lab participants will explore…
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