Joel Sackett will present a series of photographs from his forthcoming book on farming in the area, titled “Air, Water, and Soil: Local Farmers on a Changing Environment.” An opening reception will be held at Bainbridge Performing Arts on April 1, and the photographs will be available for viewing in the gallery all month long.
Email-a-tree is a program by Elisabeth Robson and Olaf Ribeiro, in conjunction with the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District.
Along with Olaf’s presentation about trees (April 23), you will be able to email special trees around the island during April. Each tree has been assigned an email address and will be receiving emails all month long. You might even get a reply!
To see which trees will be receiving emails and where they are located, check out the Email-a-tree page.
To get the email address of a tree, you must visit the tree in person. Please don’t forget to say hello to the tree while you are there.
We will be gathering emails sent to the trees and featuring them on the web site during and after April. If you would like to organize a walking tour of the trees, please contact Olaf Ribeiro.
April is National Poetry Month! In 2016 Arts & Humanities Bainbridge is partnering with Earth Art Bainbridge to explore the theme
Art + Climate = Change. Amateur, student, and professional poets are encouraged to submit their poems for the annual Poetry Corners displays.
The month-long festival is inspiring artists from all genres contribute and encourages residents to participate in and attend events across the island throughout the month of April.
The final selections from the juried poetry competition will be displayed in public windows throughout Bainbridge Island during the month of April and shared aloud at a celebration reading, Poetry Corners LIVE!
A Call for Poets
2016 Poetry Corners Displays
Submission Deadline: 5p.m. Friday, February 19, 2016
For complete eligibility and submission guidelines visit AHbainbridge.org
For more information on Earth Art Bainbridge visit artforclimatechange.org
The Bainbridge Island Photo Club presents images by Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Selgado in the main hall of the BI Community Center during the month of April. Selgado documents the human condition around the world. His high contrast black and white images are rich in the powerful stories they tell, their textural qualities and their composition. The club will discuss how this photographer explores man’s impact on the environment, the raw beauty of our planet, and tells his personal journey in support of healing the planet through his art.
The Photo Club will be showing The Salt of the Earth: The Photo Work of Brazilian Sabastiao Selgado, an Academy Award nominated film about Selgado, on April 27.
EARTH ART BAINBRIDGE Sculpture: EARTHEART
at the BI Farmer’s Market Site
Bainbridge Island
Beginning on Friday, April 1 and continuing through the month, visitors to the site of the Bainbridge Farmers’ Market will have the opportunity to participate in a special interactive sculpture created as part of the EarthArt Bainbridge project. The Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN) collaborated with the City of Bainbridge Island and local designers Leo and Lishu Rodriguez of El Dot Designs to produce the public sculpture. The resulting EARTHEART piece explores the issue of climate change and environmental sustainability.
Artists’ statement:
In recognition of climate change and the immediate need to act upon it by way of changing individual and communal actions, the EARTHEART sculpture designed for BARN invites participants to walk through it to discover and share ways that we can change our mindsets and hearts, thereby changing our actions towards a more symbiotic relationship with our common home, Planet Earth.
BARN project manager Lousana Campagna enlisted El Dot to design the sculpture. Once the design was complete, El Dot worked with craftsman David Whitacre, who heads Community Service projects for the woodworkers at BARN, to build the sculpture at the BARN woodshop and install it on site. The materials used to create the sculpture will be up-cycled for future BARN projects.
An opening reception will be held on First Friday Art Walk on April 1 from 5:00-6:30pm on site at the Farmer’s Market location, in front of Bainbridge Performing Arts. BARN volunteers will be present then and during Farmers’ Market open hours to provide information about BARN, the new community artisan center in Bainbridge Island. In addition, Renee Jameson and Deborah Milton have organized prayer flag workshops at BARN and will display the flags and hold workshops for the general public at the Farmer’s Market near the EARTHEART sculpture.
We will meet at Bloedel Reserve and talk briefly about how climate change is affecting us and our environment before we split up to contemplate the life and beauty around us and create art. The focus is on photography and poetry. Please bring a camera, pen, notebook, and be prepared in case of rain. Each participant will receive a copy of Bainbridge resident Richard Stine’s The World of Richard Stine.
Please be at the gate right at 10am and let the gate person know you are with Earth Art Bainbridge. We will meet at the parking lot at the gatehouse, and get going by 10:15am.
Registration is free, but tickets are required. Sign up for this event here: http://earthartatbloedel.eventbrite.com
April is Earth Art Bainbridge month – an ongoing community effort to learn about climate change through art. Join Nature Nuts during spring break as we piece together a great puzzle – What is happening to our climate? By working together to create a collaborative masterpiece, making individual craft projects, and connecting with nature during our daily adventures, we will learn what our planet needs to stay healthy. If you love the Earth, then this is the camp for you!
On Monday mornings in April, KiDiMu invites families to celebrate Earth through art. Children and their grown-ups will enjoy a new eco-themed art project each week. Messy experimentation and sensory exploration will not only be allowed but also encouraged. Drop by anytime between 10:30 and 11:30 a.m.
This program is presented in partnership with the island-wide Earth Art Bainbridge event. No registration necessary. Free with admission or membership. Info: (206)855-4650 or www.kidimu.org.
Mondays, April 4, 11, 18, 25, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
The Trashion show will feature couture designs, hats, and accessories made entirely from trash and recycled items. Designs will be presented project runway style.
Advance tickets are available online at http://trashion.eventbrite.com, and at the door (cash only).
On Monday mornings in April, KiDiMu invites families to celebrate Earth through art. Children and their grown-ups will enjoy a new eco-themed art project each week. Messy experimentation and sensory exploration will not only be allowed but also encouraged. Drop by anytime between 10:30 and 11:30 a.m.
This program is presented in partnership with the island-wide Earth Art Bainbridge event. No registration necessary. Free with admission or membership. Info: (206)855-4650 or www.kidimu.org.
Mondays, April 4, 11, 18, 25, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
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