This is the web version of our October newsletter: a look back at the gathering, a million comments for the Roadless Rule, a Senate bill that needs a closer read, a new home for our gatherings, four videos that have inspired us, and an app for our volunteer portal. Want the next one in your
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This week, the Emerald Curtain Collective hosted our monthly gathering at the South Beach Community Center, and what an evening it was. Laura Buchanan led us through the wonderfully meditative art of needle felting, and our community showed up in a bigger way than ever before. This was our most attended monthly gathering to date,
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Last week, at our monthly gathering at the South Beach Community Center, Liz Fox and Beth Kattleman guided us through the art of sgraffito, an Italian word meaning “to scratch,” a centuries-old pottery decorating technique that produces stunning results through a surprisingly meditative process. Sgraffito works by applying a layer of colored slip to leather-hard
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This week, the Emerald Curtain Collective hosted our monthly gathering at the South Beach Community Center, and it was a magical evening full of gratitude and prayerful imagining- artistically fused into beautifully hand dyed fabric flags. I’m pretty sure our hearts are all more full, and the world is a better place, for having gathered,
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Our December Gathering was a humble and delicious experience. We got together and made Thai salad rolls! Everyone caught on pretty quick and had no problem devouring the new skill they had learned! We were lucky to find most of our ingredients at Mai’s Asian Market, a Newport staple. We also had some delicious contributions
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Last night at our monthly gathering, members of the Emerald Curtain Collective came together for an engaging workshop in linocut stamp-carving, taught by a local artist and founding member of ECC, Elizabeth Fox. We learned how artists begin by sketching a design, transfer it in mirror-image to a linoleum block, then carve away the negative
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