BallardGuy July 13th, 2009
This just in:
Free Class at the Ballard Library.
Name of Class: Creating Meaningful Success
Time: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM July 19th
Location: Ballard Library
Success in the 21st Century often comes with a high price tag – disease, dissatisfaction and a feeling of never enough. Explore the cultural scripts that keep you chasing after someone else’s dreams and start to unravel the fears and self limiting beliefs that keep you stuck. This interactive class will look at the relationship between success and personal fulfillment and get you started on the path to meaningful success in your own life. Perfect for anyone who has been affected by the recent economic crisis as well as those just looking for more in their lives!
Students can register for these and other classes by going to www.seattlefreeschool.org
Dan October 4th, 2008
Take a Sunday morning dance class with the best drummers and teacher in town at the old Crown Hill Elementary School. The old school lunchroom has been revitalized and is now a spacious and light filled room for activities such as dance. Class movement is deceptively simple and a pleasurable way to get a great workout in a community of other adults seriously intent on having a good time in a non-verbal venue. Leading the group is the amazing Lara McIntosh who is a knowledgeable and intuitive teacher with an accessible teaching style. After class you’ll feel better, stronger, and happier.
Class is Sunday mornings 10 to 11:30
at the old Crown Hill Elementary School
9250 14th Ave NW
Check out Lara’s website for more details
http://www.wassadance.com/
BallardGuy September 12th, 2008
Come celebrate fifty years of academic excellence at North Beach Elementary! The event program features the Superintendent of Seattle Public Schools, Maria Goodloe-Johnson, alumni reflections, time capsule, and student performances. The afternoon features tours of the school, student artwork, commemorative displays and slide shows. They will also have bouncies for the kids, live music (Recess Monkeys), food and much more. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet up with old classmates and teachers — please help spread the word!
North Beach Elementary 50th Anniversary Celebration
North Beach Elementary
9018 24th Avenue NW
252-1510
Saturday, September 20, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., Program at 11:30 a.m.
Cameron June 25th, 2008
Ballard has opulent resources and programs for the creative arts, even for little brats. That’s right, brats. B.R.A.T., Ballard Resource For Artistic Talent, is a local program specifically geared for art-curious kids, 8-18 years old. BRAT creator, Jason Arne Lien, MFA and long-time educator in the Seattle art community, provides coaching for kids for both drop in studio sessions and week long camps (9-4pm) this summer. Lien considers the best way to foster a young person’s blossoming creative mind is to challenge them by “letting them do their own thing but also working closely with each artist to help them decide what is really important.”
Drop-in sessions are moderately priced but the summer camps are the best bargain. So if you have a brat whose interested in advancing their artistic skill set or preparing a portfolio for college– or if you’re just interested in keeping them out of JUV Hall– BRAT is a positive and productive environment in which to creatively develop.
Unfortunately, BRAT is leaving Market Street in September in search of a bigger space, but you can still catch the camps all this summer. Check out www.BratPrograms.com.
(photo from BratPrograms.com)
Cameron June 20th, 2008
In my last article, Make Room For Some Fashion, not everyone agreed that Dolce Vita, the newest clothing boutique to hit Ballard Avenue, actually “fits in”; that’s fine. But believe this—the New York Fashion Academy is bonafide Ballard.
I first learned about the school when a distant friend of mine, who works as an assistant to a real estate entrepreneur, mentioned that his boss was trying to purchase a 100-year-old historic building on the corner of Ballard Ave and 24th to turn it into who-knows-what. The investor apparently met some resistance by the current host of the building—the New York Fashion Academy. When I learned that a) an independent fashion school exists in Seattle and b) its owner is a badass and won’t be pushed outta Ballard, I was intrigued.
Since it’s inception in 1979, the New York Fashion Academy is the only independent fashion school in the Pacific Northwest. Right now, certifiable education in fashion is dominated by cookie cutter, corporate-owned universities: Art Institutes, International Academy of Design and other universities that advertise on non-primetime TV. The parent company of the Art Institutes, Education Management Corporation (www.edmc.com) is the most prevalent provider of private education in North America, with student enrollment at about 70,000 a year. EDMC has 67 primary campus locations in 24 states and two Canadian provinces. So for students seeking an education in couture fashion and textiles without …
