Fivesparks

School Half Day Felting! The Lorax Movie Truffula Tree
2024-03-20 12:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Fivesparks Cove
Come to Fivesparks for some Dr. Seuss felting fun on your school half day! You can come for one, or both sessions in March where we’ll channel some creative energy from the movie The Lorax.
When: Wednesday 3/6 – Truffula tree with colors of your choosing
Wednesday 3/20 – Lorax creature
What time: 12:30-2pm
Who: Open to 5th-7th graders
How much: $28 for one class, $52 for both
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Private & Semi-Private Music Lessons for Kids
2024-03-18 15:45 - 18:00 | Fivesparks Movement Room, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
Private/Semi-Private lessons are offered to kids 12 yrs and under on recorder, guitar and/or keyboard. Lessons will be scheduled on Mondays or Tuesdays (after other scheduled music courses taught by Steve, generally after 5pm).
These lessons will help young beginners build a strong foundation for more advanced studies on any of these instruments.
Careful listening and musicianship skills are emphasized. Fourth and fifth-grade recorder students will gain a solid foundation that will allow for rapid progress upon selecting band instruments in sixth grade.
Lessons are reasonably-priced and conveniently located in the center of Harvard. The ability to group kids into semi-private lessons offers the opportunity for middle-low income families to participate in quality music education.
Steve Peisch has taught music at several schools, including the New England Conservatory, Deerfield Academy, Lawrence Academy, The Indian Hill Music School (now called the Groton Hill Music Center) the Bromfield School, and Hildreth Elementary School.
Most recently, he has focused on providing excellent and enjoyable music classes for the youngest elementary school age children, having learned from first-hand experience that providing a strong foundation at this level will strengthen the music programs that follow in both middle and high schools.
Peisch is committed to developing curiosity and creativity in young people, to sequencing instruction carefully and in conversation with other music teachers, to broadcasting high expectations in music and other arts classes, and to encouraging music students to make connections with other subject areas.
Peisch’s music is available on his website, http://hundredsrecords.com/index.html, and his recommendations for arts educators can be found on his company’s website, http://www.newdirectionsinartseducation.com/
Contact Peisch at stevepeisch2@gmail.com with questions, pricing information and to register.

A Multi-Sensory Experience: Sound Creation Performance & Discussion
2024-03-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Fivesparks Gallery, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
As part of the shared exhibit A Multi-Sensory Experience: Capturing the Essence of the Local Environment, Christopher Johnson will be performing and demonstrating how he uses his modular synthesizer to build his sound compositions.
His modular synth provides infinite possibilities for new interesting sounds. He will demo how he comes up with his unique sound recordings. Then he will show how he distorts and plays with them to create bizarre and wonderful new soundscapes.
Don’t miss this chance to delve into the specifics of a unique method of producing digital musical soundscapes!! Participants of all ages are welcome and will be invited to create their own sounds to be used in Chris’ synth compositions.
When: Sunday, March 17, 2024, 4-5pm
Where: Fivesparks Gallery
How Much: FREE to all!

A Multi-Sensory Experience: Capturing the Essence of the Local Environment - Through March 30th
2024-02-17 - 2024-03-30 | Fivesparks
Whether hiking through the woods or driving around town, one is enchanted by the sights AND the sounds of the local environment. Yet, most art exhibits only focus on the visual senses when recreating a particular locale. In this multi-sensory exhibition, local artists Chris Johnson and Lisa Nelson will marry sound and vision into one cohesive art experience.

On view February 17 – March 30, 2024.

Reception & Sound Demonstration (open to the public): Sunday, March 3, 2024. 3:00-5:00pm

In addition to the ‘sights and sounds’ exhibition, also on view are works by Lisa Nelson from her collections Encounters of Time and Place and The Natural World – Near and Far.

Based in Ayer, Massachusetts, Lisa Nelson has a BFA in Illustration from the Massachusetts College of Art and has participated in art shows all over the United States, as well as in Mexico and Europe. Her work combines a diverse background in fine art painting, printmaking, graphic design, and illustration with her interest in examining unique locations as well as flora and fauna to see how they fit into the world at large. Currently, she is working on a series of paintings highlighting the beautiful and unique wildlife that can be found throughout the country. As part of that project, she recently took part in a six-month artist residency at the historic Horlock House in Navasota, TX. She is also deeply committed to promoting volunteerism and environmentalism through her work and is working with the Amphibian and Reptile Conservatory in her goal to encourage wildlife preservation.

www.painterlisa.com

Christopher Johnson is a software engineer and multimedia artist based in Ayer, Massachusetts. He draws from a variety of interests to build sonic worlds that allow the listener to explore the landscape of sound. His orchestra of choice is a modular synthesizer providing infinite possibilities for new instruments. He composes music using voltage and wires, combining simple wave-forms and transforming existing sounds into an ever evolving soundscape born as much from science and math as from art.
