Come Teach The Arts For The Solstice Parade!

Each year the FAC offers workshops in a variety of performance art skills, like mask making. Would you like to teach a class this parade building season? Photo by K. Lindsay, Jun '10 — Each year the FAC offers workshops in a variety of performance art skills, like mask making. Would you like to teach a class this parade building season? Photo by K. Lindsay, Jun ’10

The Fremont Arts Council (FAC) is inviting all teachers, or passionate people, interested in leading a Solstice Parade workshop. If you have a special creative talent you can share, effectively, particularly one that might make the Solstice Parade (on June 21^st) more visually interesting, please consider volunteering to teach a workshop in May or June at the FAC Powerhouse.

Right now, workshops will be offered in:

Ensembles 101
Batik
Papier-mâché
Silk screening
Puppet Building on Bikes
Stilt Walking

For the 2012 Solstice Parade, workshops were held to teach attendees how to make Carnaval clown hats. Photo by K. Lindsay

If you have skills to share in hula hooping, mask making, leather work, cardboard construction, float building, costuming, dance or any other performance art, please consider volunteering as an instructor.

As for policy, workshops need to be offered for free or at most a $25 fee per person (although materials can be reimbursed.) Those workshops without a minimum number of registered students can be cancelled, by the instructor, within 24 hours.

To propose a class idea, send an e-mail with all pertinent information, to parade@fremontartscouncil.org Information necessary includes a detailed description of the class, day and time preferred, and specify how many classes will be needed. Also, a short biography about experience and skills needs to be included.

Please consider giving your time and talent to make the 2014 Solstice Parade the most interesting ever – and sharing a skill with our whole community!