This Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 from 9-ish till midnight, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: Postcards and Letters
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I read something extremely distressing: The POST OFFICE IS IN TROUBLE!!! The postal service has reportedly lost an astonishing SEVEN POINT NINE BILLION DOLLARS in the past 2 years! Postmaster General John Potter says there was more than a 4% decline in mail volume last year. It hasn’t been this bad since 1775, the service asked Congress last week to cut down its delivery days from six to five days a week.
It’s true that we don’t need paper for everything anymore, which is great for trees and fuel and your pocketbook… but there is still a place for traditional mail in the electronic world, and in our hearts.
The handwritten letter is a dying art, it has the power to make someone’s day, it’s a treasure for the recipient, letters are by nature romantic, poetic, sensual and epicurean.
I just got a postcard from Montreal the other day, and I loved seeing the frayed edges from its travels, the expertly scrawled sentences from the friends I miss, and their obvervations, and the COOL stamp from Canada! It was at once this amazing time-warp-like exotic item that had indeed traveled through snow and sleet and gloom of night, from my postal carrier’s swift completion of his appointed round! And I thought “Gee, let’s tell the post office we love it, and make letters to people we love at CraftNight!”
One of the coolest things about the United States of America is our postal service, it lets you send love tokens to your kin for pennies on the dollar, an extraordinary value in today’s economy!
So that’s what we’re doing, making drawings, doodles, notes, letters, poems, pictures, bits of esoteric ephemera, etc. putting them in envelopes and SENDING THEM!
I will bring postcards, envelopes and paper. Bring your addresses, send correspondence to the homes of friends and relatives, people you know and love who want to see your handwriting.
And as of now, we’re starting a special snail mail campaign!
If you would like to receive a special letter from CraftNight and crafters, send your snail mail address to:
CRAFTNIGHT AT AKBAR
4356 Sunset Blvd.
Silverlake, CA.
90029
Got a sick friend? Need a cheer-up? Relatives overseas or in the service? CraftNight and/or crafters will send a postcard(s), all you have to do is tell us where to send it.
DO NOT e-mail me your address, ONLY requests made via post or in person will be honored, we’re being all ol’ fashioned about this.
See you at the Craft Table!
JP Craft Captain
ps- Though I am feeling fine and not contagious, I have laryngitis, so I won’t be able to talk much. I’ll have an instructional hand-out explaining the evening’s activities.
pps- We were going to be doing kaleidescopes this week, and for the last-minute change, apologies… but CraftNight is having some economic difficulties itself! Don’t worry, CraftNight won’t be going anywhere, but certain projects will be subject to change based on availability of materials, thank you for your understanding.
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