Also:  Please, we need donations to support our Kickstarter.com fund raising appeal!

We still need to raise over $600 to achieve our goal, and we are offering handmade tie-dye t-shirts & socks and illustrations as rewards for pledges any level, from $1 to $100!

Check out our video at our Kickstarter page and find out more!

Please help if you can & tell anyone who may be interested & THANK YOU

SOOOO much to those who have ALREADY pledged or donated directly!!!!

Dream Seeding for Changing Realities is on exhibition in the Michigan Union (530 S. State) in Ann Arbor until March 31st at 4pm!

We have over 120 works of creative expression from children, teens and adults open to the public from early morning until late in the evening daily!

Thank you very much to all the artists, teachers and parents who have come together to create this unique community art event!

We have launched a funding appeal for Dream Seeding for Changing Realities All Ages Art Show on the innovative arts funding website Kickstarter!!

We have 29 days to find  contributions totalling $708 (to pay for printing, postage, art supplies, & food for our reception),  or else our project WON’T be funded at all!

We have rewards available to anyone who pledges $1 or more, including:

Dream Seeding is ENTIRELY made possible through volunteer labor and donated funding, PLEASE, if you feel that what we are doing is at all worthwhile, contribute to the manifestation of this very special event!!

There is a lot more info on our Kickstarter page, plus check out tons more amazing art, music, film, and more projects that you can help to happen with a few clicks of a mouse (and a few bucks for which you will be rewarded)!

Thanks!!

UPDATE!!

The Ann Arbor Reskilling Festival was big hit, with lots of folks out for a great arrays of classes, activities, and interesting info booths!

We had a lot of fun playing with homemade play dough, decorating clouds, and telling folks about Dream Seeding!

For more photos from the Reskilling Festival here!

We are working on more “dream clouds” at the Ann Arbor Learning Community, and seeking others who may wish to decorate their own “dream” for a more beautiful world!

Please get in touch for more info!

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¡Hola Friends!

We are still looking far & wide for artists and teachers who can contribute their creative work for Dream Seeding for Changing Realities All Ages Art Show in March.

I also just wanted to let folks know about our forming community art, project a series of “dream clouds,” large, medium, & small paper clouds that we will be collaging and decorating to be “dreams” of a more compassionate culture & beautiful world.

We still be starting this multi-piece project at the fun, free Ann Arbor Reskilling Festival, an all day festival of classes on such things as sewing, cooking, puppetry, permaculture, & more, on this Saturday February 5th from 12-3. See http://a2reskill.blogspot.com/ for all the details of the Festival!

After this, the “dream clouds” project will be continued by a group of young artists at the Ann Arbor Learning Community, an alternative K-8 school before we show it in our Dream Seeding for Changing Realities All Ages Art Show in March. And maybe elsewhere as well…

We welcome co-creators at any stage of this project, including this Friday evening February 4th, where we will be preparing the clouds for the

Festival (and maybe addressing postcards & making home made play dough) while enjoying refreshments at our house in Ann Arbor!

Please get in touch, if you are interested/able!

More to come!

Thanks a lot!

Christopher Bednash, Dream Seeding Lead Organizer

Dream Seeding for Compassionate Communities All Ages Art Show ran in the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor, Michigan in March 2010!

We had over 70 works of art from children, teens & adults from around the state.

Twins Mandala by 2nd grade students from Brighton, Mich., courtesy of teacher Tracey Flanigan.

“Goat on Cochane Street” by artist Dennis Sabatowich, made from scrap metal he finds around Detroit.

Ann Arbor teacher Marissa Kowalczuk had her middle school students make diptychs envisioning collective problems, and their ideas for solutions.

“Growing Teachers” is an ode to school gardens springing up around the state, created by Christopher Bednash & the lovable rascals of Dream Seeding co-sponsor, Debs Co-op.

“Cry Yourself Awake” woodblock print by Sarah Ross.

On the first day of Spring, we held a reception with food, storytelling, music from Laz of the longtime children’s folk duo Gemini & friends, and a lot of dancing!

We hope to show the rest of Dream Seeding for Compassionate Communities in a virtual gallery like we have for 2009′s show, but have encountered technical glitches, so far….

In the meantime, almost the entire show is viewable on our Dream Seeding for a Better World page on Facebook.

Many thanks to everyone who helped make Dream Seeding happen again!!

More to come!

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