Several people have stepped up to the plate and organized some great workshops. Below you will find a list describing them as well as the scheduled time. I will also have a schedule in your cabin when you arrive.
All workshops are voluntary and do not require signing up.
Sometime after you arrive at The Electric Glow Show Bungalow
Cabin Sign Customizing
Description: Get with your cabin mates and design a sign to park out front of your cabin.
To Bring: Your calligraphic abilities and anything you want to decorate your sign. Basic wooden signs with stakes provided.
7pm at the Swimming Hole
Floating for Non-floaters
Jimbobazooka
Description: How to stay afloat.
To Bring: swimsuit, towel
Special Notes: This is for beginners to advanced aquatic students. There must be at least three to four feet of water for this to work
11pm at The Wimply’s (Lucy’s Cabin)
Stargazing
with Lucy Lenoir
Description: Learn to identify the directional stars, find and share constellations and stories. Discuss the possibilities of colonization on Mars, Marfa Lights, and intelligent life at McKinney Falls.
Bring: flashlight, binoculars, something to sit on, questions about the universe, etc.
Notes: Weather Permitting
8am at the Group Facility
Kundalini Yoga for Creativity
with Christina, Registered Yoga Teacher
Description: Juice up your creativity with yoga. We’re going to stretch, breathe and shift our awareness until we’re high as kites with the creative force of the Universe. This is an intro yoga class for anyone who wants to try it out.
To Bring: A blanket, towel or yoga mat to sit on.
9:30am at the Group Facility Grill
Campfire Snack Cooking
with Jillp, Professional Snacker
Description: When I was a child, some dude showed me how to make a campfire cake out of an orange, some cake mix and foil. I might use muffin mix, since it’ll be closer to breakfast time… yum.
To Bring: A morning beverage - I will provide the ingredients.
Notes: Learn how to weave with Karen while you’re waiting for your cakes to cook! (see below)
9:45am Outside Tables at the Group Facility
Weaving On Your Fingers... It’s That Easy!
with Karen Brooks
Description: Learn how to weave with and on your fingers with this crafty campy classic quickly. Looks like you crocheted it but, OH YOU DIDN’T! A scarf? A belt? A headband? A guitar strap? It’s up to you what you do with what you make. Instant gratification! Fast results!
Special Notes: I will provide a variety of yarn for campers to use. If campers want to use a “special” yarn other than what I’m bringing (Like 100% cotton, or that really fuzzy fraggle rock kind of yarn, or a special color) they should bring their own. I will also provide scissors and embellishments (beads and feathers) for the ambitious!
11am at The Electric Glow Show Bungalow (Carolyn’s Cabin)
Introduction to Chinese Medicine
with Carolyn Porter
Description: An introduction of the principles of Chinese Medicine, with a focus on the needs of artists who work with their hands.
To Bring: towel, portable chair, water.
Note: You will meet at Carolyn’s cabin and head to a location of her choosing.
Midnite at Mark’s Cabin (Sugar Shack)
‘Hunting Sasquatch’
with Mark P. Hensel
Description: I will give a short speech and then we will hunt Sasquatch in the middle of the night.
To Bring: Everyone should bring a stick of their choosing (the bigger and sturdier the better!) and a flashlight.
Special Note: Warning! Hunting Sasquatch in the middle of the night may be dangerous. I am not responsible for any injuries or enlightenments that may occur. If you choose to attend this workshop you have already accepted the risk and cannot hold me responsible for anything that may happen to you.
9:00am at The Best Little Armadillo House in Texas Cabin (Grandma’s Cabin)
How to Make a Tree Sweater
with Your Grandma
Description: I will be teaching people the basics of how to crochet, and then show them how to go about measuring, designing and crocheting a sweater for a tree.
To Bring: if necessary they should bring something to sit on. I will provide yarn and crochet hooks, and copies of simple crochet instructions. If they would like to take the yarn and crochet hooks home with them, they should bring $4.
9:30am Outside Tables at the Group Shelter
Refrigerator Snowglobes
with The JoJo
Description: Learn to make snowglobes from stuff you’ve had in your fridge! Okay, well, really, you’ll learn how to make snowglobes out of empty salsa jars and such. It’s easy cheesy and so much fun. Doooo it!
To Bring: Beverages and snicky-snacks for themselves would make things lovely, I’m sure, but they don’t really need anything unless they have a special something they would like to put in a snowglobe, but it will have to be kinda small.
Special Notes: I’ll be providing the jars and the aquarium glue and floaty things and the things to put inside the snowglobe. Peeps just need to bring themselves. I’ve got maybe a dozen or dozen and a half jars, so that kinda limits the number of folks – people can double up if so.
10am at The Electric Glow Show Bungalow (Laura’s Cabin)
Camera-less Photographs
with Laura Turner
Description: Cyanotypes are one of the oldest photographic processes, characterized by their blue-ish (cyan) tint. They are also one of the most accessible alternative photographic processes. We will be making “photograms” with cyanotype material, using various natural and artificial materials, using only the sun as a light source. You will take home 4x4 inch prints from the workshop. Easy and super fun.
Note: You will meet at Laura’s cabin and head to a location of her choosing.
4pm at the Group Facility Grill
Mastering the Grill
with Aron Johnson
Description: I’ll be a discuss’n and a displa’n on the where’s, the when’s, and the why’s of it all. Possibly a moistened and hopefully flavorful history of BBQ. We might expound on some of the great debates of the grill’n world: coals vs. chips, natural pit grill vs. the slick stainless steel provider, (yes we have issues to wrestle with even in our most relaxed state of chill’n and grill’n) I might go into a few do’s & maybe a don’t or two as well. My demo will be about as long as it take to start a fire, at which time I will over-see the methods used to prep, prime and present the meats and veggies to be sizzled. I might dive into the proper use of foil at that time, as well as how to cook a fish (if one is brought) without screw’n up the grill’n.
To Bring: Your appetite and a dedication to grilling.
5pm at the Group Facility
Mastering the Grillz.
with Alison O'Daniel
I'll lead a craft session on making the perfect grill with reeses peanut butter cup wrappers, rhinestones, and sequins, and gold leaf. Then I'd like to direct an out in the woods music video inspired by Nelly once everyone's grillz are perfect.
6pm at the Group Facility Grill
Sausage Carving Demo
with Hana Hillerova
Description: Behold the mysteries of the now legendary “Czech Sausage Carving”. Hana will create beautiful objects out of sausage with only a knife and a campfire. Incredible.
6pm at the Group Facility
Polaroid Family Portaiture
with Anna Krachey-Boehl
Description: It’s family portrait time! Have a sit down with your “family” during the Sunday night BBQ action for a memorable family portrait, Polaroid style. Props & Costumes will be provided, but definitely bring your own if you have somethin’ special.
6:30pm at the Group Facility
Summer Camp Slasher Make-up Special! (getting gory, but not killed)
with Jamie and Kurt
Description: It is summer camp summertime: arts and crafts, campfires, making out in the boathouse, and getting slashed by a homicidal maniac running loose on the grounds. Skipping to the good parts, we will show you how to inflict fake, horror-movie-style wounds on yourselves and others for a shrilling close-up death scene at the hands of Jason, Freddy, Michael, Chuckie, Jamie or Kurt.
To Bring: Fake-blood-friendly clothes.
8:00pm at The Electric Glow Show Bungalow (Jill’s Cabin)
“Meatballs” Screening
1979. Bill Murray is Tripper, a goofy, puerile camp counselor who tries to lure a shy camper (Chris Makepeace) out of his shell. Hilarious and surprisingly sentimental at times, Meatballs remains a cult classic.
6 - 10pm off site at CRL (6 - 9pm), OK Mountain (7 - 10pm) & Lora Reynolds (6 - 8pm)
Field Trips to openings
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~crlab/
http://okaymountain.com/exhibitions/active-disappearance/
http://www.lorareynolds.com/
We will launch a mass carpooling’ exodus off camp grounds to go check out these hot openings. Be sure to look for art by your fellow Noheganers: Aron Johnston, Jules Buck Jones, Kurt Dominick Meuller and Virginia Yount at CRL and Anna Krachey-Boehl at OK Mountain.
SPECIAL NOTE: If you come back to camp after 10pm, you have to have a special entry code to get in the front gate.
4pm - 9pm Group Facility
Visiting Critics BBQ
Please note: I will be collecting a small sum ($3 - $5) from everyone for this BBQ. I’ll shop. Vegetarians accommodated. Critics will be announced sometime this week.
7:30 in the Group Facility
“Little Darlings” Screening
Two 15-year old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp. With Kristy McNichol, Tatum O’Neal, Matt Dillion (at his finest!) and Cynthia Nixon as “Sunshine” the hippie girl.