Enchanted
Forest Children’s Area
Workshop Descriptions
Caterpillar
Hunt with the Butterfly Lady
Tammy
Vicente
Go
into the wild wild woods of Apeiron to identify
egg, larvae and adult butterflies, and then collect
materials to make your own butterfly habitat
for them.
Tammy
Vicente, a.k.a. the Butterfly Lady has been working
with children and presenting butterfly workshops
for over 8 years.
Eco
Magic Mania with Billy Boston
Will
Hunter
A
magic class for children of all ages, even ones
with beards, using household trash and other
magical materials. Learn magic, save the planet
and make your friends “green” with envy over
your newfound balloon animal skills.
Will
Hunter a.k.a. Billy Boston has been seen in dozens
of cities as Billy Boston and “Will the Wizard”
doing his unique balloon magic act, ‘mind reading’
shows, and children’s magic. He is a Special
Education Teacher, lives with his wife in Providence,
and IS available for event entertainment and
educational presentation featuring magic..
Giant
Climate Creature Creations with Big Nazo & Parade to Follow*
Ermnio
Pinque & Freaky Friends
Artistic
Director Erminio Pinque and staff of Providence’s
BIG NAZ0 LAB will demonstrate various techniques
of fabricating and performing large scale creature
puppets for use in parades, carnivals and demonstrations.
Cardboard, fabric, tempra paint and a variety
of materials will be combined with experimental
theatre games and performance techniques to create
a parade of unusual and fantastic characters
that will interact and improvise with audiences
at the Sustainable Living Festival.
Erminio
Pinque conducts mask-making, mural and video
Artist-in-residency workshops throughout New
England and is part-time faculty at Rhode Island
School of Design Film/Video Department where
he teaches a course in CREATURE-CREATION. Erminio
and the BIG NAZ0 troupe have designed, constructed
and animated original characters for countless
stage productions, parades, TV projects, and
family extravaganzas throughout the US and overseas.
*This
workshop is open to grown ups and children will
be held in N3 the Back North Room of the Nickerson
building.
Recycle
Relay Races with Max Man
The
Big Blue Guy
Join
Max Man the recycling super hero in beating global
warming to the finish line through relay races,
costume making and other “garbage art.”
Max
Man emerged from the murky depths of the Central
landfill in Johnston to alert Rhode Islanders
(especially short and unbearded ones) that the
landfill is filling up at an alarming rate. Help
Max man by learning all you can to keep our state
clean and green for the future.
Mr.
World Spins around the Earth
Bill
Fritzmeier
Did
you know that long ago people in Nigeria could
pluck food from the sky? – Until they became
greedy and wasteful. Join National Geographic
Society’s “Mr. World” on a storytelling adventure
to far away places that might even sound frighteningly
like home…
Bill
Fritzmeier crisscrossed the country for three
years as "Mr. World," sharing folk tales to support geography education for the National Geographic
Society. A math teacher by trade, Bill continues
to share traditional and original tales with
children and adults in schools, libraries, and
festivals around RI. His favorite holiday is
Halloween, when stories can get a little bit
spoooooky. Recently, Bill started a new career
helping to build roads in developing countries,
where he's certain to pick up new yarns.
Earth
Honoring Ceremony for Kids**
Bekah
Greenwald
Sometimes
we enjoy ourselves in nature so much we forget
to say thank you. This usually happens at the
Sustainable Living Festival too, but not this
year! Say thank you to the earth and all living
things by making and burning a symbol of what
you hold dear in the natural world.
Rebekah
Greenwald, Apeiron Director of Education, has
a background in writing, TESOL, international
affairs/human rights and Shamanic healing. She
designs, teaches and coordinates after school
and field programs for children, and adult programs
that enable individuals to become more involved
with the heart of ecological transformation.
Bekah speaks 5 languages, is a published writer,
mother to 3 children, an aspiring actress and
film buff, and runs, bikes and practices yoga
to keep her life in balance.
**This
workshop will be held in C1 the first
campsite on the nature trail that begins
behind the eco-house.
