Human Rights Art Festival
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     Silver Spring, Maryland, April 23-25, 2010
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Saturday, April 24th


9 am-3 pm Fenton Street Market

Come browse and enjoy in this old-style street bazaar for international and human rights art, as well as delicious foods, music and frivolity. Fun for the whole family! (Fenton Street Market)


10am – 9:30pm Cupcakes for Human Rights

Cake Love is going to donate $.75 of each "Dip" cupcake sold during the duration of the festival to Amnesty International. "Dip" cupcake = vanilla and chocolate cake dipped in dark chocolate ganache. Diversity never tasted so good! (Cake Love)


Noon-2 pm Traditional Music and Dialogue

The Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County brings Montgomery Traditions, a lively, informative, accessible and interactive program featuring traditional musical performances and dialogue with two of Montgomery County’s outstanding folk and traditional artists.  Listen and learn about traditional Hindustani vocal music with Samia Mahbub Ahmad and listen to Latin American folk music of El Salvador with Lilo Gonzalez. (McGinty’s)


Noon-6 pm KidsFest Home Base

Stop by for our KidsFest home base for face painting, to turn in or pick up your scavenger hunt form, frost your own cupcakes and enjoy some of the other activities. (Photo Group)


Noon-6 pm Killer Fashion Revolution

Bring an old t-shirt by to transform into a human rights statement with the help of Finnish Artist Linda Kronman. (City Place Mall Sculpture Garden)


Noon-6 pm Mural Painting

Stop by to watch mural artists Joel Bergner and David Amoroso work their magic, as they turn an untreated painting support into a bona-fide mural. (Ellsworth Plaza)


1-1:30 pm The Black Sparks

This rock and roll band of kids ages 10-12 puts on a high energy 30-minute show of their own material and is going to rock the house in support of human rights. (Photo Group)


1-3 pm Sculpture Making (limit 20 people)

Parents and children will proclaim the rights of all children everywhere through the sculptures they build together. Create Arts Center will provide the materials and the teachers. Space is limited, first come first serve. Please register with Create Arts Center at 301.588.2787, or via email: create@createartscenter.org. (CREATE Arts Center)


2-4 pm Drum Circle

Kids will love the outdoor drum circle, where they can join in and bang along on anything they can get their hands on – including their parents (international human rights conventions will be waived in this one instance). (Strawberry Field)


2-5 pm Cupcakes for Human Rights

Decorate cupcakes with the Amnesty International logo – $3 per cupcake, and all proceeds go to Amnesty International. Explore other human rights frosting themes with our kid-volunteers! (Photo Group)


3-4 pm Willow Street Yoga

This well-known local yoga studio will introduce kids of any age to the gentle practice. (Photo Group)


3-4 pm Needlework Workshop

Needlework workshop for children and families with Empowered Women International artists, exploring the personal narrative in healing art. (Montgomery College PAC Lobby)


Sunday, April 25


10am – Noon Cupcakes for Human Rights

Decorate cupcakes with the Amnesty International logo – $3 per cupcake, and all proceeds go to Amnesty International. Explore other human rights frosting themes with our kid-volunteers! (Pyramid Atlantic)


11am – 8 pm Cupcakes for Human Rights

Cake Love is going to donate $.75 of each "Dip" cupcake sold during the duration of the festival to Amnesty International. "Dip" cupcake = vanilla and chocolate cake dipped in dark chocolate ganache. Diversity never tasted so good!

(Cake Love)


Noon-6 pm Mural Painting

Stop by to watch mural artists Joel Bergner and David Amoroso work their magic, as they turn an untreated piece of plywood into a bona-fide mural.

(Ellsworth Plaza)


Noon-6 pm KidsFest Home Base

Stop by for our KidsFest home base for face painting, to turn in or pick up your scavenger hunt form, frost your own cupcakes and enjoy some of the other activities. (Photo Group)


Noon-6 pm Killer Fashion Revolution

Bring an old t-shirt by to transform into a human rights statement with the help of Finnish Artist Linda Kronman. (City Place Mall Sculpture Garden)


1-1:30 pm The Black Sparks

This rock and roll band of kids ages 10-12 puts on a high energy 30-minute show of their own material and is going to rock the house in support of human rights. (Photo Group)


1-3 pm Sculpture making (limit 40 people)

Parents and children will proclaim the rights of all children everywhere through the sculptures they build together. Create Arts Center will provide the materials and the teachers. Space is limited, first come first serve. Please register with Create Arts Center at 301.588.2787, or via email: create@createartscenter.org. (Silver Spring Library)


2-4 pm Drum Circle

Kids will love the outdoor drum circle, where they can join in and bang along on anything they can get their hands on – including their parents (international human rights conventions will be waived in this one instance). (Strawberry Field)


3-3:30 pm PULSE Multi-media Theater

PULSE's performance of Know Ye Not draws the audience's attention to the reality that there is only the one human race and that we are a single people, inhabiting the planet Earth, one human family bound together in a common destiny. Performed by kids 8-16 years old. (Photo Group)


2:30-5 Puppet, Sign and Stencil Making

Kids will love working with activist artist Nadine Bloch (and her 10 year-old daughter Margo) on a series of art activities to expand their visual skills. Workshop will include screen-printing, stencil making, puppet building and sign creation. Come for some or all of the workshop. (Pyramid Atlantic)






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