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Marshmallow Snow Person on a S’More • February 22nd, 2017

February 21

This Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017 from 9pm until midnight (or later) it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Marshmallow Snow Person on a S’More! 
$3 Donation Please 
$4 Drink specials! Akbar: Promise them Everything, But Give them Akbar. 

Can you FEEL the California winter? Jack Frost is having a field day, and all those who scoffed at El Niño’s 2016 tardiness are are like “Okay OKAY you made you’re point!” The clouds are doing their part, and the wind has been so very uppity, flipping the trees every which way, it would be charming if it wasn’t so pushy. So what do you do with all this nippy weather? Well, you brave the cold, go do things you have to do, and then come to CraftNight and enjoy a delicious cocktail that’ll warm your tootsies and your heart.

Our craft this week is an action figure of sorts, a marshmallow character that wears a winter hat with a pom-pom, posed upon a graham cracker chocolate sled, ready to slide down a hill of fresh powdery snow. It’s a kit that you assemble, put together, and gaze at endearingly. It’s darn tootin’ cute! It makes a great gift, or a favor to place on a winter birthday gift, or just to have for yourself when you need to experience winter cheer. After all, who is your winter self? Are you ready to slide down a hill at a moment’s notice like this marshmallow character? Or are you more apt to hang out at the ski lodge sipping cocoa and reading a book by the fire? I’ll have some extra foam pieces and bits for you to decide if you want to follow the kit’s directions, or build your own scenario/wardrobe for this ornamental tableau.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

Upcoming CraftNights and Bingo: 

FEBRUARY 27th: Bet Yer Bottom BINGO!!!! 8pm to 10pm • Akbar • 50 Cents a Card • WIN!!!!

March 1st – Snow Bobble Photo Holder – It bobbles, it holds photos, it’ll keep those snapshots organized!

CRAFTIVISM MARCH 22nd: Say it with stickers! Stickers you color, or stickers you make yourself, we’re havin’ it all, the dissonance is adhesive!

MORE Things in Your Town: 

FEBRUARY 23rd: sSISTERSs: An Experimental Musical – A new punk musical about three sisters who may or may not be witches. Trapped in the drawing room of an old Victorian house, they take on famous triads in a psychedelic, stream-of-consciousness trip through time that explores shifting ideas of sisterhood. Who gets to be seen as a sister, and why? With a live band, haunting three-part harmonies, and throwbacks to the secret rituals of girlhood, sSISTERSs explores memory, family, mortality, queer feminist identity, and the struggles of being a woman artist.
Written and Directed by Gina Young • Facebook Link! 

 

 

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Snowflake Necklaces • February 15th, 2017

February 14

This Wednesday, February 15th, 2017 from 9pm until midnight (or later) it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Snowflake Necklaces
$3 Donation Please 
$4 Drink specials! Akbar: Witty. Confident. Devastatingly Queer. 

Snowflakes!

Snowflakes are delicate, they melt easily, every snowflake is different! Snowflakes make snow! If you have enough snowflakes, you can make an AVALANCHE! It’s easy for a bully to make fun of one snowflake, it’s a cheap shot, and it’s based on the moment, not the future. Takes a long time for enough snowflakes to get together to form a strong and cohesive slab of mighty icy matter that is just waiting for the right moment to descent rapidly down a mountainside.

A bully may tread very carefully if threatened with the possibility of an avalanche that’s been building for weeks/months/years. If someone tries to insult you by calling you a snowflake, just think about that.

Anyway, I do like to keep with a theme, and it is winter, so here’s our project for this week.

I have snowflake jewelry. It’s not Nordstrom quality, it’s not even Nordstrom Rack quality… it’s not even Toy’s R’ Us quality! It’s some seriously basic snowflake accoutrement, it’s going to be up to you how ostentatious it is, because the kit I give you is just the start. From drab beginnings comes greatness, and then you’ll be wearing your winter bead regalia like a snowflake BOSS.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

Upcoming CraftNights and Bingo: 

Feb 22nd – Snow Person Action Figure – Shredding down the mountainside on a melty S’more, no less!

FEBRUARY 27th: Bet Yer Bottom BINGO!!!! 8pm to 10pm • Akbar • 50 Cents a Card • WIN!!!!

March 1st – Snow Bobble Photo Holder – It bobbles, it holds photos, it’ll keep those snapshots organized!

CRAFTIVISM MARCH 22nd: Say it with stickers! Stickers you color, or stickers you make yourself, we’re havin’ it all, the dissonance is adhesive!

MORE Things in Your Town: 

FEBRUARY 20th: PLANET QUEER: RISE UP! Now is the time to RISE UP and be heard! Art IS activism! Its a SPECIAL EVENING of interstellar QUEER performance hosted by gay centered performance activist IAN MACKINNON. Facebook Link!

FEBRUARY 23rd: sSISTERSs: An Experimental Musical – A new punk musical about three sisters who may or may not be witches. Trapped in the drawing room of an old Victorian house, they take on famous triads in a psychedelic, stream-of-consciousness trip through time that explores shifting ideas of sisterhood. Who gets to be seen as a sister, and why? With a live band, haunting three-part harmonies, and throwbacks to the secret rituals of girlhood, sSISTERSs explores memory, family, mortality, queer feminist identity, and the struggles of being a woman artist.
Written and Directed by Gina Young • Facebook Link! 

 

 

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Conversation Heart Caterpillars • February 1st, 2017

February 01

This Wednesday, February 1st, 2017 from 9pm until midnight (or later) it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Sno S’more Character! 
$3 Donation Please 
$4 Drink specials! Akbar: Living Unboring! 

Today I’m just gonna write something that CNN, The NY Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, NPR, or the Wall Street Journal didn’t. You can read this, and know that it’s got nothing to do with all those other things you might’ve been scrolling with red worried eyeballs for the last week and a half. Far from sticking my head in the sand about current events, there is such a thing as burnout, so last week and this week, we’re having mellow self care craft projects for our CraftNights.

It’s going to be Valentines Day soon, and on the 8th (see below) we’re going to do some political Craftivism, so I thought you might want this week for some mellow “Conversation Caterpillar” time. It comes with conversation hearts, hence it’s provocative name. Whether it’s fake or real or invented by Hallmark or wolves or corporations or nuns, Valentine’s Day is a holiday about LOVE so who cares where it came from! Get out of your own way and make a keepsake for someone cool, like the hat-wearing burrito lady, or the polite mumbly dude who always sells you your daily coffee beverage.

I don’t care if they think you’re in love with them when you’re not, just skip away emphatically if they try to smooch you. There are people suffering from far more things than drudgery in this world, if you can make just one person feel special, treated with respect, and like they matter… that’s just the thing that can fuel the momentum to help a person gain the vim and vigor to go do the things they’ve got to do.

A Conversation Caterpillar, (though it may fill you with anxiety for fear of causing inundation with a human being that might try to become your life partner after receiving one from you) is an opportunity to let other people sharing the earth with you know that they are valued and appreciated. We need more of that, and less selfish churlish bloviating.

This craft may have parts that are a genuine pain-in-the-ass to glue together, it might take awhile for parts to dry. This is good, because your irritation will be about that and not about other external factors swirling around in your periphery. Working out frustrations on a craft will enable you to focus on getting a good night’s sleep, and then you’ll wake up, and go kick some ass the next day.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

Upcoming Craftivism:

February 8th: The Annual CraftNIght Love-In!!! Help send valentines to Jerry Brown and other politicians fighting for the issues we care about, and also help us send Mike Pence some really kinky sexy valentines that are really glittery and queer!

April: Protest Poster Painting Party #2 where we prepare for the TAX DAY MARCH.

MORE Things: 

FEBRUARY 8th: CRUISE at The Eagle – Just down the street from Akbar and CraftNight is another watering hole you’ll want to visit! There’ll be lip-syncing contest hosted by Tony Soto • Spankings and play from Backroom Mistresses, Bootblackers, DJ tunes, maybe take your bartender a Conversation Caterpillar made at CraftNight!  >>>Facebook Link

FEBRUARY 10th: QUEER PROM at the Sweat Spot! – We could all use a little more LOVE right about now given the current political climate and walking into an unknown future. Join us at Queer Prom to raise spirits, glasses & money for a local charity we will choose as a community. $15 Tickets
Tickets available at: http://queerpromla.brownpapertickets.com/

FEBRUARY 23rd: sSISTERSs: An Experimental Musical – A new punk musical about three sisters who may or may not be witches. Trapped in the drawing room of an old Victorian house, they take on famous triads in a psychedelic, stream-of-consciousness trip through time that explores shifting ideas of sisterhood. Who gets to be seen as a sister, and why? With a live band, haunting three-part harmonies, and throwbacks to the secret rituals of girlhood, sSISTERSs explores memory, family, mortality, queer feminist identity, and the struggles of being a woman artist.
Written and Directed by Gina Young • Facebook Link! 

 

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3-D Haunted House Craft! • Oct. 19th, 2016

October 19

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TONIGHT! Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 from 9pm until midnight (or later) it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: 3-D Haunted House Craft! 
$3 Donation Please 
$4 Drink specials! Akbar: Rise Up, Move Ahead! 

Build your own little purple piece of real estate at CraftNight tonight, it’s 3-D Haunted Houses!!! Assemble it yourself, lots of foam pieces AND lots of EXTRA foam pieces I’ve gathered from craft travels. I’ve got eyeballs, witches, cats, bats, ghosts and MORE! You can really dress this up, makes a great table centerpiece or place to hide your hide-a-key, or part of the fascinator you’ve always wanted, or throw it in the city fountain and watch it float!

Halloween is on the horizon, don’t be caught without decorations, most notably, the aforementioned one above that is a LOT of fun to make! Halloween decor is the best, because it’s not smarmy, overly sentimental, too scrumply, or outrageously expensive. Some of it comes with complicated wiring, electronics, fog, or lights. It’s the time of year where green scaly hands and snot are in fashion! The more discombobulated you can make your guests with frightful accents, the better! This is also the time for weirdo food items, stuff’s allowed to be atrocious and delicious at the same time. What’s more, at the end of this month, you can basically knock on ANYONE’S door at night, say “Trick or Treat” and they give you candy… or a rock… or cough drops… hopefully candy. Tonight we’ll have some candy in a candy dish that, if you want, we can teach you how to make at CraftNight LAB next week on the 26th. It’s special. Read below for more info.

Also next week at 9pm it’s BYOPumpkin carving, so get ready for that, get your pumpkins together, and come on over where we’ll have knives, tarps and candles! Who let’s you get drunk and play with knives? CraftNight!!!

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

 

NOW AND COMING SOON:

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Visit www.gothtober.com which is our way of sharing the Autumn season with you! We host 31 days of online art treats, a new one revealed with each day! You don’t have to go anywhere or do anything, it’s viewable on your phone, your desktop, your tablet, YAY!

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October 26th 7pm – 9pm @Akbar – CRAFTNIGHT LAB!!! Ticketed Event Craft Workshop with Food and Special Treats! Project: Lighted Fright House Candy Dish >>> Learn More Here!

9pm – Midnight or later @Akbar – B.Y.O.P. Pumpkin Carving! (We supply the tools, you supply the squash, or you can order one from us and we’ll have it ready for you)

 

 

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3-D Halloween Lanterns! • Oct. 5th, 2016

October 12

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TONIGHT! Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 from 9pm until midnight (or later) it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Halloween Lanterns with Optional battery candle for purchase! 
$3 Donation Please (if you want a battery-operated tea light, that’s another buck!) 
$4 Drink specials! Akbar: Solutions for a Small Planet 

screen-shot-2016-10-12-at-3-22-23-pmThe light begins to wane ever slowly every fall. Though we are quite a few weeks away from Daylight Savings, here could be they way for you to avoid the Headless Horseman while making your way through the darkened thicket on your way home.

Make yourself a 3-D Halloween Tissue LANTERN! It’s a luminous and darling craft for your Halloween decor collection 2016!!! I have battery-operated tea lights for sale that you can put inside your DIY Halloween decoration to create a colorful and eerie glow.

Your kit features cardboard frames, tissue paper sheets in autumn colors and sheets of acetate to make them sturdy and stable. These lanterns are perfect for hanging from the porch on fright night or for using as party centerpieces for your evening dinner soiree.

Includes tissue paper squares and acetate sheets, and I’ll have all kinds of foam decorations, gems and other goodies for you to embellish your lantern to your heart’s content.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

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Visit www.gothtober.com which is our way of sharing the Autumn season with you! We host 31 days of online art treats, a new one revealed with each day! You don’t have to go anywhere or do anything, it’s viewable on your phone, your desktop, your tablet, YAY!

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October 17th at Akbar it’s BET YER BOTTOM BINGO HALLOWEEN STYLE!!!! >>> 8pm to 10pm at Akbar • Creepies, Crawlies, Drinkies, Prizies, Numbers, Balls, Cuties, Crazies, you don’t want to miss this one, it’s oh so sinister, bone-chilling, spine-tingling FUN!!!

October 19th 9pm Akbar – 3-D Foam Haunted Houses – A Fan favorite!

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October 26th 7pm – 9pm @Akbar – CRAFTNIGHT LAB!!! Ticketed Event Craft Workshop with Food and Special Treats! Project: Lighted Fright House Candy Dish >>> Learn More Here!

9pm – Midnight or later @Akbar – B.Y.O.P. Pumpkin Carving! (We supply the tools, you supply the squash, or you can order one from us and we’ll have it ready for you)

 

 

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