make Soap Box Racers for the Soap Box Derby
Soap box Derby: August 7th, 2010
Kids: 12 Noon, Adults: 1 pm
17th Street between 5th and 6th Ave, South Slope
Everybody is welcome to participate!
Summer Camp for kids age 7-12
You can always stop by and get some ideas between 9-12am. That is when the Open Source Summer Camp is happening. Children aged 7-12 are learning to construct functional soap box racers out of recycled material. The artists Hubert Dobler and Monika Wuhrer are conducting the workshop following last year’s rave reviews: [Daily News (2-page spread!!!), Popular Mechanics, Park Slope Courier, Brooklyn Paper, among others].
We will introduce the campers to a variety of tools and supervise them closely while they build their contraptions with hammers, nails, handsaws, screws, etc. ALL TOOL USE UNDER STRICT ADULT SUPERVISION. We will encourage the kids to plan on paper, sketch images, make drawings of their invention, and think out of the box. We will also spend time outside, collecting found objects and materials, and testing our designs at each stage. We will also take breaks to play ball and have free play at the park/playground: (the time spent will depend on the different kids and their needs).
We have access to an outdoor space with a slight incline one half block away that we will be using in addition to the Gallery. This will serve as the perfect test track for our soap boxes in their different building stages. The culmination of the camp will be the 2nd annual 17th street soap box derby.
All participants, families, and friends are welcome to be part of the derby on August 7th.
http://open-source-gallery.org
please email to sign up. We will send you the registration form.
church of monika
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saturday events
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summer camps
One Big Windmill: July 5th - July 16th
Soap Box Summer Camp: July 19 - August 13
fuseworks
Our partnership with Fuseworks means they will have a presence at all events and openings with a range of their wares available for purchase.
Cordula Volkening Gallery
15 paintings were still left in Cordula Volkening's estate that are now put up for sale. Cordula, a German immigrant who lived in Brooklyn, died of brain cancer in May 2009, a few months after she showed at Open Source Gallery, at age 52. In the last two years of her life, she made dozens of works of art. The paintings in the blog's gallery were left unsold in her estate and will be sold thru this on-line gallery on behalf of her teenage children and their father.