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This Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 from 9pm till midnight at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!

Project: Crazy Holiday Origami

$2 processing fee, please!

ALSO: Ticket GIVEAWAY for “Arias with a Twist” at the RedCat! Even if you don’t win a ticket, you should go buy one, if you like drag, puppets and fiery creatures… that’s only three reasons of zillions for why you need to check it out. See this post for my previous write-up about this fabulous show!

ALSO: The “YE OLDE CRAFTNIGHTE HOLIDAY FAIRE” is coming up! Contact me if you want to sell, and for you buyers out there, get ready! December 16th! The last CraftNight of 2009!!!

Because of the very wonderful generosity of the  Keri & Joshua Esguia Origami Library Preservation Society, we’ll be folding exquisite holiday selections from “Christmas Origami Volumes 1-4” as well as non-holiday selections from “Origami Volumes 2 – 8.” Origami, or “The Kama Sutra of paper folding” involves making representations of objects OR actual objects without ANY gluing or cutting! Obviously we love glue and scissors a little too much at CraftNight to banish them from even a SINGLE Wednesday night, and rules were meant to be broken. You’re welcome to go holiday or non-holiday, and you’re welcome to glue and cut or not glue and cut: build your own zen! (Gawd, that sounds rilly cheezy, bear with me) You might come up with some crazy maniacal diabolical incredible paper creation that astounds and beguiles even the most staunch origami traditionalist! Come in and explore!

See you at the Craft Table! Eeeeee!

JP Craft Captain

CraftNight’s Site

Akbar’s Site

NO CRAFTS TONIGHT!

CraftNight has the week off, and Akbar is here to knock your yams off! Grab yer giblets and dance ’til you drop, it’s pre-turkey cardio CRAZY tonight! We’ll see you next week, here’s a little note of thanks:

THANKS:

For our neighborhood oasis, Akbar, where no matter how you’re feeling or what you’re doing, there is always a welcome spot for you among good company in tough times and good times.

For the $4 cosmos so strong that make you feel so dense, light actually bends around you.

For Crafters bold and brazen, shy and demure, ribald and wild!

Thank you for googly eyes, pipe cleaners, glue, glitter, glitter glue, scissors and all manner of sparkly doo-dads!

Thanks for you, who are reading this, because you’ve decided to read it!

And thanks for everything ELSE I’m not putting in here, because if I don’t send it out soon, there are going to be a lot of confused crafters at Akbar! Go DANCE! Cast your fate to the wind, let LOOSE!

xoxo,

See you next week at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

CraftNight’s Site

Akbar’s Site

This Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 from 9pm until 12-ish, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!

Project: Annual Hand Turkey Jam!

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You bet your bippy it’s time for HAND TURKEYS! This is that time-honored tradition where you trace your hand, cut out the shape, and make it into a lil’ turkey and decorate it to fit your personal whim. We can’t resist, it happens every year, it makes a great gift, hangs on the refrigerator perfectly, or a co-worker’s decorative station, it brightens up one’s day and provides inspiration for all that cooking that needs to go down preceding days before Thanksgiving!

May I add, there will be NO CRAFTS NEXT WEEK, as we’re opening the dance floor for some dance fever before you stuff your gourde with yams and potatoes! So come in NOW to get your paper turkey on!

See you at the Craft Table!

JP Craft Captain

CraftNight’s Site

Akbar’s Site

ALSO: We’re having a DRAWING!

We’ll be giving away ONE FREE PAIR OF NOVEMBER 25th TICKETS for the West Coast premiere of Arias with a Twist, starring Joey Arias, directed and designed by Basil Twist, presented at the REDCAT in Downtown LA!

I saw this show in NY last year, and I can’t recommend it enough, it’s a BLAST, please please PLEASE go see it! You’re gonna have a great time, and you’ll want to make puppets out of all of your socks and make prank phone calls to aliens! Here’s the official site for the show!

And here’s a video excerpt!

In this deliriously madcap fantasy, of which The New York Times wrote “Goes the distance, all the way over the rainbow,” the soaring song stylings of demented diva Joey Arias are surrounded by an eye-popping theatrical extravaganza conjured by a team of puppeteers directed by the legendary Basil Twist.

REDCAT | the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater

631 W Second Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Nov 18-Dec 13

Wednesdays–Saturdays at 8:30pm

Sundays at 7:00pm

(Added performance Tues, Nov 24; No performance Thurs, Nov 26)

Tickets: $35-40 [Students $28-32]

213-237-2800 or REDCAT.ORG

This Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 from 9pm-ish to 12-ish at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!

Project: Macaroni & Bean Mosaic Madness

$2 processing fee, please…

And now, in (VERY) loose iambic pentameter, what to expect this Wednesday:

Dear Crafter, Autumn calls to you with beans
And also plethora of pasta joins our bar
The mixture of both groups is truly keen
To help you in creations most bizarre

Behold, come one and all to our CraftNight
There will be glue and glitter gobs galore
You will be furnished with materials delight
The moment you walk into Akbar’s door

Dried macaroni, rigatoni too
Black-eyed susans red beans and some rice
As you collage while working with some glue
You may get hungry say it to suffice

Don’t dilly-dally, dither or delay
Come in come in and celebrate with us
Another week of fabulous soiree
An evening winsome, charming so far thus.

See you at the Craft Table!

JP Craft Captain

CraftNight’s Website

Akbar’s Website

CraftNight #1 – This Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 from 9 to midnight-ish, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!

Project: B.Y.O.P. & Squaredancing with LIVE MUSIC from Triple Chicken Foot, and famous square-dancing caller, Cory Marie Podielski!

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Bring Your Own Pumpkin, I may have about 3-4 courtesy pumpkins, but don’t bank on it… and I’ll have all the necessary tools you can use to carve your squash into a decorative lantern, suitable for most doorsteps, and then even adorn it with glitter and googly eyes. That’s right, against my better judgement, I’m going to give you sharp instruments while you are surrounded by cocktails, and then encourage you to Square-dance! Eeek! Square-Dancing! Don’t freak out, Square-dancing is EASY, all the dances are taught, it’s easy and FUN and it’s a great way to meet people, if you have two left feet, you’ll just be cuter, that’s how square-dancing works. It’s a Square-volution, hop on board!

CraftNight #2 – This Friday at the HAMMER MUSEUM we’re having a Halloween Hoedown starting at 7pm!

Projects: Popsicle Stick Haunted Houses OR Cut-N-Color Paper Scarecrow Dolls!

This event is FREE!!!!

There will be live bluegrass from Joshua Tree, California’s Shadow Mountain Band. You may enter your Halloween decorations in a contest for great prizes (the categories will be obscure… for sure…) I’ll will supply everything you need to make your own creepy crafts. Plus, your hostess Darlin’ will serve up drag hospitality in gingham as you enjoy the cash bar and seasonal menu at the Café Hammer.

So come find me at one of these, it’s going to be a rollicking good time!

See you at the Craft Tables,

JP Craft Captain

PS- Thank you to my beautiful pumpkin models, Mr. Johnson and Ms. Teezer, you both look good in seasonal garb, a cornucopia for the eyes!

CraftNight’s Site

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