May 18, 2012
Issue 50

Sitka Fine Arts Camp Newsletter 

We Can Do It, If We All Work Together! 
 
 
Greetings!
This was a big week for us on the campus! Brand new flooring, mirrors and ballet bars were delivered for the Allen Hall Dance Studios.  On Monday, a group of volunteers did some heavy lifting to get the materials to the upstairs classrooms.

On Sunday, workers from Ketchikan and Fairbanks arrived to install the elevator in Allen. They will keep working all week until it's ready to ride!
Adult Fine Arts Camp: Now available!
You are never too old to have the summer camp experience of your life! Sign up for Adult Fine Arts Camp June 11 - 15! A variety of classes offering everything from salsa to ceramics, African drumming to acrobatics and more will be available. Convenient evening classes allow you to be an adult by day and camper by night! Call Sitka Fine Arts Camp office for details at 747-3085! Follow your art!

Register now at our Camp Website (www.fineartscamp.org)

 

You're making a difference!
Thank you to everyone that came to volunteer for 100+ Volunteer Day on May 5. We had 120 volunteers working all over the campus. Volunteers were cleaning bathrooms, washing windows, vacuuming, and filling holes in Whitmore and Sweetland, going through the last of inherited materials in Yaw, landscaping and installing sheetrock in Allen.

Another huge thank you to everyone that helped us launch our Save the Campus Video!  Since last Wednesday, 5,489 people have watched the video.  Keep sending it to those you want to share in our story and become part of this project.

Haven't seen the video yet? Watch it here!
Save the Campus

Native Jazz Kick-start
The Native Jazz Quartet performed in Sitka during its breakout tour in October. Now the group will be offering a Native Jazz workshop.

"Last year's tour was amazing for the Quartet and the audiences, and we were all very excited by the power of the Native/Jazz fusion." The Quartet will encourage workshop participants to bring melodies of their own native background, and we will give instruction on arranging and composing them in the Jazz idiom. As an audience member put it, "It's an amazing way of re-discovering your own music."

The Quartet has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help bring this workshop to Sitka. Check it out here:

 Native Jazz: Kickstarter

The Native Jazz Workshop will be on the SJ Campus from August 14-18.
Elevator Update

Workers are in Allen now, installing the elevator! Thank you to EVERYONE that has contributed.  

 

$1,135 will cover the remaining cost. Help us finish the job!

 

Capital Campaign Close-out! 

$7,648 will put us over the top of this thermometer: 

 

 

All of these donations have been given by individuals.  Thank you to all of the friends, volunteers, alumni, former campers, families and other contributors for your on-going support. 

   

Or checks to Alaska Arts SE

PO Box 3086, Sitka, AK 99835

 

Upcoming Events
May 19, 9:00am
Allen Work Party

May 27, 7:00pm
Bands, Beer & Barnraising

June 11-15
Adult Fine Art Camp
 
Bands, Beer and Barnraising
Help us kick-off summer festivities on the SJ Campus with local bands, local beer and an inside look at Allen Hall! This party and fundraiser will feature beer from Baranof Island Brewing Co. and show off all of the work done by dedicated Sitka Fine Arts Camp volunteers and workers.

Come celebrate with us: Sunday May 27th
7pm at Allen Hall,Cover is $10
Tickets are available at Old Harbor Books
This will be a 21+ event 
Questions? Call 747-3085


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Thanks for the ongoing support,
Cassi Olson, Development Coordinator
Laura Schmidt and Wendy Alderson, Volunteer Coordinators