Teens Storm the Castle - Cancelled
Build your cardboard castle. Make it the funniest or the most realistic. Then use water balloons to destroy all the castles!
Build your cardboard castle. Make it the funniest or the most realistic. Then use water balloons to destroy all the castles!
Working from photos and other references, we will complete a portrait of a bird. Presenter Jim Van Gelder will do a brief demonstration and then participants will work in pencil or watercolor. Materials will be supplied, but participants are welcome to bring their own if they choose. All skill levels welcome.
Program will be held in-person, outdoors on the River Birch patio.
An outdoor workshop on capturing natural forms and light effects quickly and efficiently. Emphasis will be on massing in forms such as foliage and the use of values to indicate depth. These lessons will be useful for sketching, nature journaling and landscape painting. Materials will be supplied; all skill levels welcome.
Program will be held outdoors, and if it is raining on the day/time of the program, the program will be cancelled and rescheduled.
Professional artist Pat Foxx will guide participants in the watercolor painting of an autumn landscaped which will be sketched for each individual. All materials, paper, paints, brushes, are provided by the presenter.
Local artist, Patricia Foxx, loves working with watercolors because they allow for spontaneity and luminosity. She aims to make dynamic abstract representations of the natural world filtered through her sense of balance, color and love of nature. Her work has been exhibited in the Hudson Valley and beyond.
Donald Urmston of the Adirondack Mountain Club will discuss how to get started kayaking, including equipment, where to go and other hints. The program will be presented on Zoom; please register in order to receive the Zoom link prior to the event. Don has been kayaking for more than 25 years. He is certified by the American Canoe Association as a kayak instructor and guide, and has been guiding and teaching kayaking professionally for more than 15 years.
Albert Wisner Library presents food historian Susan McLellan Plaisted of Heart to Hearth Cookery for a demonstration & informal discussion of Lenape Native foodways. It will be held on the grounds of the Gen.
Join Melissa Shaw Smith to create crafts and decorations for a Day of Acceptance event to be held on Saturday, June 5th in Stanley-Deming Park. It is presented by the Community Center, the Warwick Gay/Straight Alliance from WVHS and Wickham Works. Please bring in any used bubble wrap mailers - e.g. Amazon Prime bags, bubble-lined yellow envelopes and everything in between, any size - for creating decorations.
Join our experienced Dungeon Master for an awesome adventure! Become an Elf, Half-Orc, Dwarf, Halfling, Dragonborn and more! Then hone your skills as a bard, ranger, cleric, rogue, paladin, sorcerer, wizard, fighter or barbarian as you travel through dangerous lands on epic quests. Beginners welcome!
Find out everything there is to know about volunteering at the Warwick Children's Book Festival, which will be held from 11am-4pm on Saturday, October 9 at Stanley-Deming Park. Pick up your t-shirt. Sign up for a shift or 2 (or 3.) Learn about what help is needed to set up, work the children's area, assist the authors and illustrators, and help us clean up and take everything down at the end. You must attend the orientation if you want to volunteer at the book festival. Attending the orientation earns you 1 hour of volunteer time!
Help us get ready for the upcoming Warwick Children's Book Festival! Welcome our authors by helping to make gift bags full of homemade goodies. Help plan a craft for the children's tent too. This year, we have over 60 visiting authors so we'll need all the help we can get. There is no commitment to come every week, however you must register for each week you are attending so we make sure we have the room to social distance. We will cancel any week it rains, This year, we'll be making rock photo/nametag holders and book cover magnets!