LOCATION: CONTACT:
Lagunitas School Gym Lot
Lori Ramirez, lramirez@sgvcc.org *Minimum of 6 students; Maximum 12 students Scholarships available upon request
By learning to cook from scratch with fresh ingredients, students become healthy eating advocates and are empowered to control their long term health. Scholarship available upon request. SPRING SESSION DATES: 3/26/2024 - 5/21/2024 (8 weeks) No classes on 4/9 FEES: $240 DAYS/TIMES: Tuesday; 4:00pm- 5:00pm AGES: 4th-8th grade LOCATION: LOFT HOLIDAY CAMP Holiday Camp is held when school is closed and offers parents a safe place for children to play, do art activities, eat healthy snacks and have some gym time. Holiday Camp will be held in The LOFT above the gym for ages K-6th grades. FEE: $50/Day DAYS/TIME: Spring Break: April 8th - 10th; 9 - 5pm AGES/GRADE: K-6th LOCATION: LOFT - Above Lagunitas Community Gym CONTACT: Lori Ramirez, lramirez@sgvcc.org *Scholarships available upon request “MARIN IT TOGETHER” “Marin it Together”, Friday Night Events at The LOFT brings together Middle School aged youth from the San Geronimo Valley and Nicasio, Marin City, San Rafael, and Coastal West Marin through food and fun activities. These events are brought to you by the West Marin Coalition for Healthy Youth and serve as a platform for building bridges between communities and creating West Marin as a safe, welcoming, and diverse place for youth engagement and activities. These events will be held every 3rd Friday of the month ( 3/22, 4/19, 5/17) excluding June, July & August FINDING YOUR VOICE FOR KIDS with Essence Goldman Essence will ignite or rekindle your child’s inner music star, using breakthrough tools from a lifetime of singing, songwriting, recording and performing on stage. Your child will learn healthy vocal and performance techniques. They will play their favorite songs on ukulele or guitar, even if they are beginners or haven’t touched an instrument in years. Your child will unlock their creativity to write their own original songs. We will sing, laugh and share. This class is an opportu- nity to meet new friends and collaborators and watch stage fright vanish and bar- riers fall! SPRING SESSION DATES: 3/26/2024-5/28/2024 (9 weeks) No class on 4/9 FEE: $252 DAYS/TIME: Tuesdays, 4:00 - 5:00pm AGES: 7-17 LOCATION: Valley Room CONTACT: Essence Goldman, essence music live <missessence@gmail.com
ABADÁ-CAPOEIRA MARIN FOR KIDS Youth & Adult classes are being offered at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center starting in Spring 2024. Our mission is to provide the very best capoeira program in Marin County and enrich our students’ lives through culture and diversity. By incorporating these values, we hope to help our students become good citizens in our local and global community. Our program is based on encouragement, truth, trust, active listen- ing, and personal effort. Scholarship available upon request. SPRING SESSION DATES: 3/25/2024 - 5/27/2024 (9 weeks) No classes on 4/8 FEES: $225 DAYS/TIMES: Mondays; 3:15pm-4:15pm AGES: K-7th LOCATION: Valley Room CONTACT: Lori Ramirez, lramires@sgvcc.org KIDS COOKING FOR LIFE Youth classes being offered at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center start- ing in Spring 2024. Our lessons are hands-on and students quickly learn that cooking is FUN. Students learn to chop, mince, measure, stir, sauté and simmer together to pro- duce a meal that is shared at the end of the class. We start with a nutrition lesson followed up by a student-led, instructor sup- ported cooking experience. Our kid approved recipes are developed by our recipe team and test kitchen. We want students to eat the rainbow and be introduced to a range of new foods and tastes they may never have tried before. Our aim is for them to deepen their appreciation of food and learn to think of creative ways to combine different ingredients and flavors. Climate Fest is Coming! by Amanda Gilbert Greenstitch and Fibershed join forces to support youth and community education We are excited to have formalized the collaboration between Greenstitch and Fibershed (“a nonprofit organization based in West Marin that supports regionally based fiber and textile production, processing, manufacturing and use in a way that builds community and ecosystem health”) mentors and interns. Greenstitch mentor Cory VanGelder and Fibershed’s Heather Podoll have offered a safe, local, hands-on space to amplify youth’s ability to engage in climate action. Being a member of Greenstitch for the past three years has been a way for me to face climate anxiety by having a positive effect on the community. It has taught me hands-on skills I may not have otherwise been able to learn at this age, such as being able to write this article. In addition, having opportunities to interact with members of the public has allowed me to adapt my facilitation of conversations about an intense subject in order to engage people of all ages and backgrounds. We are incredibly lucky to collaborate with Fibershed, which is located in Point Reyes. An example of what they have achieved: “In 2023, Fibershed and 5 part- nering organizations received a Climate-Smart Commodities grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to expand Fibershed’s Climate Beneficial program into several regions across the U.S. The land stewardship practices that will be supported and funded as part of that grant are expected to draw down 3 million metric tons of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) from the atmosphere into the soil over 20 years”. Greenstitch and Fibershed interns will create an inviting and uplifting experience at the Second Annual Climate Fest on Saturday, April 20th from 12pm-3pm. This
*Minimum of 5 students
will include a climate art installation for the month of April at the Community Center entitled “Entanglement”. It will be inspired by our conversations about how consumerism has had such a large impact on climate and social justice. The installation will continue Greenstitch’s theme of engaging with creativity to create a fresh perspective on this overwhelming subject. Art allows us to feel vulnerable and then engage with the reality of what is happening to the Earth. Simultaneously as we prepare for the Climate Fest, we will be hosting a mending bar and clothing swap on Friday, March 1st as an opportunity not only to open up a community space for teens and young adults to interact, but also to share mend- ing skills and take an action which has significance within the textile industry, which contributes significantly to global carbon emissions. This has been inspired by Fibershed’s Learning Center, which is located just outside Point Reyes Station. It is a demonstration and teaching site that hosts community classes and events.
We hope you come and experience one of our upcoming events!
Greenstitch interns at the 2023 Holiday Arts Faire
SGV Community Center Stone Soup Page 7
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