Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Monday, June 4, 2012

Soaring on a Sunday

Splash


It's a beautiful Sunday in San Diego and summer feels like it's upon us already! Warm temps, blue skies, beach days, and pool time! Lots of great ways to cool off and lots of fun summer activities coming up soon.

Here's a few of them;

June 8th. World Oceans Day. Happening "All Over", and Birch Aquarium in La Jolla is celebrating on June 8th & 9th, 11am-3pm. Explore the aquarium in Seussian style as you spot fish with zany names and odd shapes. Learn about fish diversity as you peer through microscopes, touch shark skin, and observe swimming fish. Enjoy a fishy scavenger hunt and story times throughout the day. Included with admission.


June 8th. World Oceans Day Beach Clean-up with San Diego Coastkeeper. For all beach cleanups, please wear comfortable clothes, closed-toed shoes and sunscreen. All volunteers (individuals as well as groups) are welcome to participate and must sign a liability waiver. Volunteers under the age of 18 must have a parent or guardian present at the beginning of the cleanup to sign a liability waiver before the minor can participate. Registration is not required unless a group is larger than 25 people – to register please contact beachcleanup@sdcoastkeeper.org. We will have supplies on hand, but volunteers should bring their own reusable gloves, reusable bag/bucket and/or reusable water bottle to reduce waste. As a volunteer, you play an active role in determining the sources of trash on our beaches. After all beach cleanups, please be prepared to fill out a data card detailing the types of trash that you collected. We post this data on our website and track trends over time, then communicate it to your community leaders.


Month of June. North County Arts & Culture in June. If you are looking for something fun to do this June, then take a drive up the coast and experience arts and culture in North County. Six North County San Diego institutions are presenting the second annual North County Arts & Culture in June, a month-long opportunity for the public to enjoy half-off admission at the following six participating museums: California Surf Museum Lux Art Institute Museum of Making Music Oceanside Museum of Art San Diego Botanic Garden San Diego Children's Discovery Museum


June 6th, 4 and 7pm. WOW First Wednesdays, free performances at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido. This month is the Too Much Fun Band,Born from a desire to make audiences smile, Too Much Fun pours out a toe-tapping, hand-clapping sound that resonates with the American heart, performing Old Rock to Country Rock to Country to Blue Grass.


June 9th, Carlsbad Beach Fest. The festival features competitive sporting events, live music on multiple stages, food, green product vendors, kite-flying, sand-sculpting, a health and safety expo, opportunity drawings and prizes, a massive beach cleanup, and much more.


Through September 3rd, Washed Ashore exhibit at the Chula Vista Nature Center. Washed Ashore: Plastics, Sea Life & Art is a nationally acclaimed, environmental art exhibit featuring massive sculptures and other art pieces made entirely of marine debris collected from beaches, such as plastic ropes, nets, toys, cigarette lighters, flip-flops, Frisbees and more. The community art project brings attention to the global crisis of ocean pollution and the impact of “disposable” plastics that threaten marine animals and habitats. The vision of Oregon-based artist Angela Haseltine Pozzi, Washed Ashore is designed to educate, entertain and inspire guests of all ages. This interactive art experience runs through September 3rd, 2012 at the Chula Vista Nature Center before beginning its worldwide tour.


June 9th, 1pm-4pm.  Second Saturday Workshop: Fiber Arts at the Museum Art School at the San Diego Museum of Art.


Summer Camps coming up....


Summer Art Camp at the San Diego Zoo


Summer Camp at Safari Park


San Diego Junior Theatre Summer Camps at Balboa Park and Village of La Jolla


Surf Camp with Ocean Experience Surf School - Sign on San Diego currently has an online deal.


Mad Science Summer Camps


Summer Camp at the Nat


San Diego Air & Space Museum summer camp


San Diego Museum of Art


The New Children's Museum, San Diego


San Diego Children's Discovery Museum, Escondido


Chula Vista Nature Center Summer Camps


If you don't see what you like here, there's a wonderful Summer Camp Guide at the Patch, here.


Have a great week!






Keep Soaring and Landing Safely,

In Beautiful, Sunny

San Diego!

Your Soaring Mama,

Mandy

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Soaring on a Sunday

From 2011-11-14

Happy Sunday and hope you're enjoying the first weekend of 2012!  And, what a beautiful one it's been. Blue skies, wonderful temps, couldn't be any better than this!

It's a wonderful time of year to be outdoors. There's many activities and opportunities to do just that and here are just a few.

Through April 15th, Whale Watching with Scripps Birch Aquarium's Education Program. Naturalist guided programs are available for daily tours with the San Diego Harbor Excursions. See site for details and costs.

Hawk Watch in the Ramona Grasslands with the Wildlife Research Institute. Every Saturday 9am - noon in January.  FREE.


January 21st, 11am-3pm.  Free for the Family Big Bay Whale Festival at the Port Pavillion on the Broadway Pier.


Lots of great indoors activities and music and art to enjoy as well!

January 14th, Saturday Science Club for Girls "Amusement Park Physics" at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center.

January 14th, Family Science Saturdays in the "Tinkering Studio" at the RH Fleet Science Center.
Fridays at the Fleet, weekly discounted IMAX film festival at the IMAX theater at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center.

Saturday, January 14th 1pm, Rack of Bones Ensemble, Museum of Making Music, Carlsbad.

January 4th - 28th. Watercolor Exhibit "Starting Fresh" at the NTC Liberty Station. FREE.


Ending:
Through January 20th, Interwoven Traditions: Chinese Minority Costume and Jewelry at the SD Chinese Historical Museum.

Coming Up:
Saturday, January 28th and Sunday January 29th, 10am-5pm, The 30th Annual 2012 San Diego Chinese New Year Food and Cultural Fair. Year of the Dragon. FREE.

Thursday, January 26th, Free Family Arts and Literacy Connection Night. FREE. "Quest" performed by the SDSU Performing Arts troup combines music, storytelling and theater.






Keep Soaring and landing safely

in beautiful, sunny

San Diego!

Your Soaring Mama,

Mandy

Monday, January 24, 2011

Collaborative Art on Canvas with Nature of Arts Kids

Here at Oh, the Places we go, we like to feature and support our local, small businesses and Nature of Art is definately one business we should be supporting. Spramani, owner and artist, has a line of non-toxic paints and eco-friendly art supplies that fit right into our families creative lifestyles. She also has art classes for kids and workshops and can often be found at street fairs and all the major street vendor events going on throughout the year. Her products can also be found at some of the local childrens museums as well as on her website.


Collaborative Art on Canvas



The girls and I had a really great time with our friends down at the Center for Healthy Lifestyle/Boys & Girls Club in Solana Beach this weekend where Nature of Arts Kids was featuring a collaborative art project for Kids M-Power, a non-profit organization in which kids create art and sell it for charity.


painting together


Spramani had two available projects going on, both included painting on canvas using her non-toxic paint products. One was very free-flowing with the artists creating art, painting over existing art, to create an ever-evolving piece which will later be sold at one of Kids M-Powers events for charity. The other one had sections, each individually painted by different (kid) artists. Adults had fun contributing as well....




Collaborative art



It was such a lovely place to create, outdoors in the beautiful sunshine under a patio adjacent to a vegetable garden, bunny hutch, in the small oceanside town of Encinitas. In the front area kids were making some really nice jewelry earrings, bracelets, also to be sold at the M-Powers events.



Visit Nature of Art for more information about children's art classes, her great art products, and other special projects going on. You can also visit Nature of Art on Facebook.



Have a great week!


Mandy