CRAFTNIGHT!

This Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 from 9pm until 12-ish, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!

Project: Ornaments

$2 processing fee, please!

We’re having our annual Ye Olde CraftNighte Craft Faire, where you can support some of your favorite local artists and makers of awesome things, and select unique items for the season. Come in and get some cool stuff! This is also the LAST CraftNight of 2009, so if anything, just pop in to say hello before our double zeros are done and 2010 begins.

It is the holiday season, many of you are dashing from party to party, eating lots of exotic and dynamic appetizers, making enough small talk to form an advanced masters degree in peppy quotidian frivolity. Last but not least, some of you will be fabricating love tokens for those close to you. It is here that I will share the most important craft knowledge I have, in order to help you save energy and give yourself the gift of sanity this year. Are you ready? When all else fails and the stress and pressure of social-function-family-freakout crawls into your cerebral cortex, here’s how to fight the doubt and cold sweats:

Step 1 – Add macaroni

Step 2 – Spray paint gold

Step 3 – Roll in glitter

You cannot go wrong with this holiday formula, it is fool-proof. It seems too simple to be true, but trust me. This advanced schematic has everything to do with finding the lost paradise within and offering for someone a spirited home made creation that is part of the heart, not WalMart.

See you at the Craft Table! And if not, see you next YEAR!

JP Craft Captain (who wrote/directed/is starring in a puppet show you should see this weekend…)

CraftNight’s Site

Akbar’s Site

There will be no CraftNight this week, as I’m preparing for the upcoming

SPARKLY WINTER CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY HANUKKAH NOGSTYLE CHRISTMAS SHOW!!!

I know I know! I thought about having a substitute, but I’m being super selfish because I want you all to myself next week for making ornaments, it’s just too fun. We’ll  be back next week, but please come see my show that I’ve produced and procured for the holiday season.

Get tickets HERE

Find out about our lovely venue, the Velaslavasay Panorama, HERE.

And now for our exciting show description:

Take advantage of festive holiday value and attend The Sparkly Winter Christmas Holiday Hanukkah Nogstyle Christmas Show! This spirited spectacle will bring immediate pleasure and years of fond memories to all!

This all ages show is a fast-paced, high-intensity, heart-warming experience involving two messiahs, corny jokes, glitter, spontaneous songs, live music, puppets, eggnog, goldfish crackers and who knows what the heck else, don’t say we didn’t warn you!

Written and directed by Moira MacDonald and Julianna (JP) Parr and performed by a motley crew of notorious ne’re-do-wells, the adventure begins with the Los Angeles DASH bus and concludes with a stupendous cataclysmic show-stopping seasonal scenario that defies all reasoning. We really think you should see it.

Friday, December 11 – 8  pm
Saturday, December 12 – 8 pm & 10 pm
Sunday, December 13 – 7 pm

Friday, December 18 – 8 pm & 10 pm
Saturday, December 19 – 8 pm & 10 pm
Sunday, December 20 – 7 pm
-at-
THE VELASLAVASAY PANORAMA
1122 WEST 24TH STREET
Los Angeles, California 90007
(213) 746-2166

See you next week at the Craft Table!

JP Craft Captain

Craftnight’s Site

Akbar’s Site

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!

$2 processing fee please

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