| Greetings! | An official count-down will tell you how close camp actually is: on June 6 (3 days!) elementary-age students will begin classes, and June 12 (9 days!) middle-school age students will arrive and begin their stay in the dorms on campus.
This week we had help from locals and visitors to tackle the challenges of classroom and dorm-room set-up.
On Monday, a dedicated crew of volunteers continued to put the final touches on North Pacific Hall to ready it for the first faculty arrivals this coming weekend. Jeanine Holzman is lending 35 handmade quilts, one to decorate each room. Historic photographs of the school, as well as Sitka Fine Arts Camp students and faculty now adorn the walls and there is plush bedding and mattresses to ensure a good night's sleep for our hardworking artists in residence.
On Tuesday, a group of Volunteers in Mission (VIM's), arrived and started working almost right away. Many of them have spent significant time and effort on the SJ campus in the past. They will be here for almost two weeks, re-visiting a place that many of them knew very well, and lending their help getting ready for camp. This week they set up furniture in Sweetland Hall, moved mattresses, and made beds.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we asked this summer's campers to help set-up classrooms. We spent time sorting supplies and organizing paper, paints, tools and equipment in classrooms.
Our computers arrived for our digital arts classes arrived! Now we will be able to set-up classrooms for Photoshop, Video Art and Animation and let the creativity of our campers (and teachers) run wild!
There is plenty of work left to do, so if you didn't get a chance to come out this week, we need your help this weekend and anytime you have a free moment next week! We need to finish setting up classroom furniture, assemble a stage in the Hames Center, set up our camp store and sort t-shirts, finish last minute construction jobs, sort keys, run errands, and all manner of small tasks that really make a big difference for our students, staff, and volunteers.
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Count-down to Camp
We have 3 days until elementary camp starts and 9 days until Middle School start spending their days and nights on campus.
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Tomorrow, Saturday June 4:
Join a work party dedicated toward pulling classrooms together! Check out what's happening in your favorite building or meet at Sweetland at 9am for direction.
This week:
Come out and help with all of the final preparations! Call us at 747-3085, or show up on the campus to see what you can do.
This week, volunteers put in 308 hours toward revitalizing the SJ Campus and setting up for Camp!
A special Thank you to all of the SFAC students that came out. We hope to see more of you this week!
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Thank you to all contributing businesses! | |
Alaska Airlines, Alaska Marine Lines, Allen Marine, Anthony's Flooring, Aurora Business Supplies, Backdoor, Baranof Chiropractic, Belly Meat, Birch Equipment, CBC Construction, Chocolate Moose, Craft Homes, ConocoPhilips, Crane Construction, Crow's Nest Art Works, Dumag Roofing, EagleWolf Electric, Fairweather Prints, Fishermen's Eye, Fisherman's Quay, Foreign Automotive, F/V Coral Lee, Garden Ventures, GCI, Gordon's Mechanics, Greater Sitka Arts Council, Gurdy Docs, Heating Concepts, Home Plus, Howard Pitts Enterprises, Jay's Tree Service, Jet Steam, Juneau Electric, KD Painting, KIFW, Larkspur Cafe, Local Machine, Ludvig's Bistro, MacIntyre Construction, Mike's Floors, Modus, Mt. Edgecumbe High School, Petro Marine, Porky's Equipment and Sales, Pizza Express, Precision Boatworks, Pundit Productions, Raven Radio, Reif Hammers and Pipes, Roy's Electric, Russell's, S & S Construction, Saline Services, SeaMart, Sealaska, Shelter Cove Publishing, Sitka Bottling Company, Sitka Counseling and Prevention, Sitka Electric, Sitka Monthly Grind, Sitka Ready-Mix and Rental Equipment, Sitka Sentinel, Sitka Physical Therapy, Sitka Total Fitness, Schmolck Mechanical Contractors, Southeast Fire Protection, Southeast Herring Conservation Alliance, Spenards Builders Supply, Tisher Construction, the United States Coast Guard, Weiland Construction, Wells Fargo, Welsh Enterprises, Westmark, White's Pharmacy, Wilderness Woodworks |
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$200,000 by June?
| The answer is YES! Thank you to everyone who has donated this month for a total of $55,197.
Donate this week toward materials and supplies:
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Send Checks to Alaska Arts SE
PO Box 3086 Sitka, AK 99835
Please make a note if you would like to remain anonymous
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100-year Celebration and Open-House at NPH
| Join us for an open house TONIGHT from 6-7pm.
Help celebrate the 100 year birthday of the campus' core buildings and check out the amazing transformations in North Pacific Hall and the Ceramics Building.
Cake and coffee will be provided. BYOC (bring your own champagne, if you want!)
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Focus on Elementary School Camp
| | We have 118 students coming to the elementary school camp session this year. The students range in age from just finishing kindergarten to just finishing 5th grade. Campers will have full mornings with 4 classes. We have 8 incredible and experienced faculty members coming in from all over the US to teach classes in in music, theater, dance and visual arts. |
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Dove Island
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A fundraising dinner at Dove Island brought in $2,750 toward the Capital Campaign A huge thank you for this contribution!
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Comedian Dick Hardwick
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Thank you to Dick Hardwick, local performers and former SFAC students, Judson Rusk, Kale Vilandre and Calvin Drake, SFAC Board Member and event organizer, Mary Hames, and everyone that attended this event and made it a success.
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