Sunflower Creative Arts
Notes from the Garden

January 2013   
In This Issue
Register for Spring
Shirts for sale
Important Dates
Ice Castle 2013
Roots & Shoots News
Intern Needed
On our blog
Register for Spring Classes

Download the registration form on our website or call 561 482-3412 to register today!

 
Susan Caruso
Artistic Director 
  Jennifer Ligeti
Managing Director
Jaime Greenberg 
 Communications Director
Victoria Green
PR and Development Director
Dorota Salas
Bookkeeper
Carol Vogt
Quickbooks Consultant 
Ellen Stone 
Cultural and Environmental Consultant
 
 
Sunflower Board of Directors 

Crystal MacLean
President 
Claire Teller  
Ani Smith  
Sharon Baker
Bill Epstein
Lora McCoy
Edgar An
Russell Parker
Susan Caruso

Remember Play Shirts for Sale
 
Support Sunflower-- buy a Remember Play t-shirt!



Shirts are $16 each, $30 for two. Profits benefit our programs.

Sizes for the whole family-- kids, women's fitted t's and unisex.

Show Sunflower some love and help us spread the word about our awesome play-based programs!

Purchase shirts when you come in for class or call 561 482-3412 for more info!
2601 Saint Andrews Blvd.
Boca Raton, FL 33434

561 482-3412

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Dates to Remember

Sunflower Fundamentals Parent Toolbox
Saturday, Jan. 26, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
$10 per adult (free to Seedlings parents).
Childcare available, must RSVP: $10 per child.

Sunflower Saturday
Every Saturday, 9:30 - 10:45 am
A special class for families with babies and children up to age 5. Come play and sing with Susan!
Drop in fee, $17. Sign up for the semester in January and get a discount.

Sunflower Roots & Shoots Boca Raton Community Garden
Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, 9:00 - 11:30 am
Re-Cycos service project. Ages 12 and older are welcome to join us.
Help tend the garden and harvest veggies to donate to Boca Helping Hands. Call 561 482-3412 to register.

Ice Castle Festival & Play Day - 20th Anniversary Celebration
Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
at Patch Reef Park, 2000 West Yamato Rd., Boca Raton
Free event. All are welcome!
You're Invited: Ice Castle Day is Feb. 2, 2013

Join Sunflower as we celebrate 20 years of empowering families through play, nature and the arts and Susan's big exciting milestone 60th birthday!!! Come play with us! Obstacle course, parachute games, hula hoops, jump rope, juggling, bubbles, drawing sculpture, kazoos, Susan's birthday party fun PLUS help us build our (biggest ever!) 400-block Ice Castle and lend your voice to our vision for the next 20+ years!

 

Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, 2:00-5:00 pm

Patch Reef Park, 2000 West Yamato Rd., Boca Raton. 

Free event. All ages welcome.

 

Volunteers Needed! Contact Jennifer Ligeti for more info.  

 

**Remember to freeze your own water in different shapes and bring it in a cooler so your family can add their personal mark to the ice castle!  

 

Ice Castle Invite 2013
Drawing credits: Suzie (blue), age 8. / Dante (pink), age 6 / Aidan (yellow), age 5.

Roots & Shoots News
Roots & Shoots logo
Join us for Roots & Shoots weekly meetings! Wednesdays at 3:00 pm (Shooting Stars, ages 5-9) or 5:00 (Re-Cycos, ages 10-16), at Sunflower. No fee.

by Jaime Greenberg 

Last Saturday I woke up bright and early to visit Sunflower's Roots & Shoots Re-Cycos group at the   . Winter is our growing season down here, and it was a beautiful morning to be outside in the South Florida sunshine. Sunflower Roots & Shoots members meet the first Saturday of each month [...]...»

Intern Needed
We are looking for an intern to help out with several exciting projects. We would love to fill this position with one of our college-age Seedlings alums!

Must be available to work two 25-hr weeks. Internship is unpaid, but would be a great resume builder.

If you are interested, or you know someone who would be perfect for the job, contact Susan 561 482-3412.
On our blog
In case you missed it, here's what we've been talking about on the Sunflower blog...

by Jonathan Iris-Wilbanks 

In the weeks following the heartbreaking shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, many people in our country and around the world have been experiencing grief. I myself have had moments where the disgusting reality of what happened has brought me to tears, and I have had to work through the intense emotions [...]...»

 

Compiled by Jaime Greenberg 

Happy New Year, Sunflower blog readers! As Communications Director/blog editor I have the fun job of organizing this blog. I love reading the varied perspectives of the teachers and parents, many of whom (myself included) volunteer their time and voices as contributors-and I really hope you enjoy reading them too. Through our words, all of [...]...»

 

posted by Andy Hatcher As my wife, Van, wraps up the first semester of her Ph.D. program here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, my year as a stay-at-home dad has hit its midway point. I find the New Year is as much a time for reflecting as it is for looking forward, and I've been [...]...»

 

by Susan Caruso 

It is so hard, and maybe even useless, to try to make sense of the violence and tragedy that we face daily on this planet. When children are killed by guns, swept away by tsunamis or die of cancer in our neighbors arms we are pained to the core. The feelings of grief, anger and [...]...»
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Susan Caruso
Sunflower Creative Arts