You are cordially invited to the C.A.M.P. CAFE
to be held at C.A.M.P. (Community Art and Media Project)
www.stlcamp.org, 3026 Cherokee St. St. Louis 63118,
314.776.1721

The CAFE is the "Capitalist Art and Food Experience."
No friends...we're not really interested in supporting capitalist
exploitation, but our first winter open has brought on sizable heating
bills, along with very large, unexpected building expenses running into
the $ thousands so to make ends meet up nicely
we have created this lovely art experience:

Featured Performers:
Na-do's Delight, performances @ 7:30 and 8:30
Fireflies, acro yoga performance troupe
Michael Franklin, spoken word
Meshe & Amelia, CAMP theme song @ 7:15
Eric Steins, spoken word

Also Featuring:
a Silent Art Action Auction
with works including: BoiBella, Fair Ophelia Designs,
Larva-Lou, Ms. Leanne Mead, Pete Stein, Karen Jones, Chris McClaren, Yasmine, Gretl Buechler and much more!
with auction proceeds being shared between
CAMP and the contributing artists.
Art bidding begins at 7:00 pm and will end promptly at 9:15 pm.

AND...
We will be serving coffee, tea, homemade kombucha and a number of other
delicious things for you to nibble on.

More info: email marta at coordinator@stlcamp.org or call at 314.776.1721

http://stlcamp.org/event2008/camp_cafe

WHAT ARE YOU SUPPORTING?

Future and recent Past happenings at C.A.M.P:
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Afterschool Program, weekly Tuesday 4:30-6pm @ CAMP.
After a 3-month hiatus, the CAMP Aftesrschool Program returns! Weekly,
self-empowering projects focused, on art, learning, and computer literacy.

Icarus Project, meetings held @ 7:00 PM, every Sunday @ CAMP.
Interested in radical mental health? Feeling lost, alone, unsupported or
crazy in a crazy world? Feeling like you have something to give or
something you need? Come join with us as we visualize an Icarus
Project-esque mutual aid group here in Saint Louis. a radical mental
health project with

Email saintlouis@theicarusproject.net for questions, directions, or
requests to change space/time of meetings

Just Seeds Art Cooperative Show, 3/29/08 7pm @ CAMP.
Just Seeds Art Cooperative will be stopping at CAMP during a small
radical print/zine tour at the end of March along with writer, Artnoose.
Prints from Just Seeds will be available to look at and to buy. Artnoose
will do readings from her letter pressed bimonthly zine, Ker-Bloom.

More on this event:
http://www.justseeds.org/
http://stlcamp.org/event2008/just_seeds_art_cooperative_show

Nonviolent Communication Group, 4/1/08 7pm @ CAMP.
1st meeting for a Non Violent Communication (NVC) Group, where we will
have 2 trained NVC facilitators on hand to help guide discussion.

From http://www.cnvc.org
"Nonviolent Communication helps connect us with what is alive in
ourselves and in others moment-to-moment, with what we or others could
do to make life more wonderful, and with an awareness of what gets in
the way of natural giving and receiving."

New Confluence Issue, due out very soon!
This issue will focus on self-healing and alternative approaches for
nurturing mental health.

More info:
http://stlconfluence.org

Here's what we've been up to during the winter:
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Boxcutter Cabaret, puppet variety show held 3/1/08 @ CAMP.
Over 60 folks came to witness an evening of sundry entertainments,
presenting by touring performers and puppeteers (with at little help
from us CAMPers). Fun, baked delights, and hand-operated zaniness filled
the evening, with all the event's proceeds going to the touring
performers.

More on this event and its performers:
http://stlcamp.org/event2007/boxcutter_cabaret_puppet_tour
http://www.myspace.com/rpmpuppetconspiracy

Diversity Awareness Partnership Art Show held 2/16/08 @ CAMP.
The Diversity Awareness Partnership of St. Louis and CAMP are proud to
work together to present art created by DAP participants. Participants
in DAP have been visiting with artists and galleries, and they presented
their art works at CAMP last month.

More on this event:
http://stlcamp.org/event2008/art_show
http://www.dapstl.org/

Bean Dinner Fundraiser held 1/17/08 at Black Bear Bakery.
We served tasty beany goodness to well over 100 folks, raised over $500,
and screened "The Take", a documentary about a worker-owned collective
that occupied an auto-parts factory in Argentina.

"May These Changes Make Us Light," a huge collaborative art show
rehearsed and performed @ CAMP 12-8-07, then @ Contemporary Art Museum
12-15-07.

Photos
http://stlcamp.org/v/maythese2007/
http://www.zooomr.com/photos/westbywest/sets/26509/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/harkstone/sets/72157603472794757/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crankyyellow/tags/contemporary/
http://www.loveoramarecords.com/photos-group-15.html

Videos
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=239026...
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/may-these-changes-make-us-light-dec-15...

More info, check out our events calendar:
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http://stlcamp.org/event