Keep Up with the Braintree Community Arts Center

From Braintree Community Arts Center:April 15th is World Art Day, celebrating the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci. For more info click here.

The BCAC is open to Braintree and surrounding town residents.
(We are located on RT. 37 in the Braintree highlands)
Click for our April calendar

New Four Week Kids Yoga (Ages 3+) Program starts this Friday, April 7th

This is a FUN class using imagination to combine yoga poses with songs, activities, partner yoga and games. Children will develop focus, skill, body awareness, self concept, confidence, creativity, communication skills and community through mindful movement and play. Everyone's welcome!
New 4 week session starting April 7th and runs till April 28th.
Fridays, 11:00am-11:30am. Price: $40.00 for the whole session. Register Online
See school vacation week Meditation/Yoga workshop for kids.

Thank you to everyone that came to and supported our Social to benefit the BCAC on Friday, March 24th. We had a great crowd, the entertainment, food, dessert, etc. all terrific.We are very appreciative of everyone’s generosity. It was a GREAT success!

On Thursday, April 6th, the Braintree Community Arts Center will be hosting an Art Show Opening featuring the works of students from CATS Academy. For those who may not know, the CATS Academy is located on Washington Street just after the BCAC at what was once the Norfolk County Hospital. It is an International boarding school for Grades 9-12. They are new to Braintree and we want to welcome them to our community and support the students whose families are too far away to attend. We hope you will stop by to see what these talented students have created.

Introductory Karate (ages 6+) ~ Come and give it a try!
Instructional martial arts program for children ages 6+. Students will learn basic punching, kicking and self-defense drills and develop confidence and social skills. The instructor Traci Marino is a 3rd degree black belt and has been practicing martial arts for 30 years check out her bio on our teachers page or http://anythingspossiblema.com/ Tuesday (4/18) or Thursday (4/20) of vacation week 11:00-11:30AM, $18.00 per student. Register Online at www.braintreecommunityartcenter.com. or email us at braintreecommunityartcenter@gmail.com

This Sunday, April 9th, All day long at UNO's in Braintree they will donate 15-20% of your check to the BCAC's kids programs for supplies.
All you have to do is click on image below, print and give to your server. (Good for dine in or take out)

April Classes

• Specialty Workshops & Events Writing Retreat,

Sundays, 4/9, 4/23,12:30PM-5:30PM

• Improv Quilting Support Group,

Saturday, 4/22,10:30AM- 4:30PM

• Scrapbooking, Saturday,

4/22, 5:00PM-8:00PM

Kids

• Kids Yoga 4 week session,

Fridays, 4/7-4/28, 11:00AM-11:30AM

• Intro to Kids Karate,

Tuesday 4/18, Thursday 4/20, 11:00AM-11:30AM

• Kids Mediation/Yoga Workshop,

Tuesday, 4/19, 12:30PM-2:30PM

• Guitar Jam for Beginners (10+),

Tuesday, 4/25 6:30PM-8:00PM

• Kids Knitting, Ages 10+,

Saturdays, 4/1, 4/15, 4/29, 10:00AM-11:30AM

• Creative Kids & Tots,

Saturdays, 3/4, 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 9:00AM-10:00AM

Adults 18+

• All Levels Knitting,

Mondays, 10:00AM-12:00PM

• Beginners Knitting,

Tuesday, 7:30PM-9:30PM

• Open Art Studio,

Wednesdays, 10:00AM-12:00PM

• Open Quilting,

Wednesdays, 10:00AM12:00PM

• Open Adult Knitting ,

Wednesday, 7:30PM-9:30PM

• Quilting,

Thursday, 5:00PM-8:00PM Quilting, Fridays, 10:00AM-12:00PM

Open Scrapbooking for Old and New Scrappers!

Saturday Evenings

Get out all those old and new pictures and let’s get them organized! Start getting all those pictures you have taken over the years organized and put into a book to have those memories forever to look at!

If you have never scrapbooked before, please just come and bring your pictures and we will get you started. If you need extra supplies to get you started there will be an additional fee, please contact the instructor ahead
of time to discuss. Cindy Williams (617) 590-3877 or cjwfaith@verizon.net

Please join us for one or all three Workshops
Saturdays, March 25th, April 22nd, May 27th 5:00PM-9:00PM
At the Braintree Community Arts Center 1969 Washington St, Braintree (RT. 37 near Highland Playground)
$10 per workshop Sign up in Advance Online at www.braintreecommunityartcente...

Please specify which date. Light snacks will be served

Tuesday April 25th - Guitar Jam for Beginner Guitarists! Ages 10 and up
Gain experience and confidence jamming with other guitar players! In this class, you’ll learn a song with a melody and chords then perform it with another guitarist! Participants must know the basic chords in open position. Sheet music included. Bring your acoustic or electric guitar on Tuesday April 25th, 6:30-8:00PM. Cost $35.00 (Minimum of 4 students to run this class, Max of 8). You can Register Online or you can email us: braintreecommunityartcenter@gmail.com with questions to sign up.

This class is being offered by instructor Chris J. Carter who is a 1996 graduate of UMass Lowell's music business program and has twenty years of guitar teaching experience and performs as a solo acoustic guitarist.

Once again, on Wed March 15th, we had a wonderful painting event where a group of young scouts earned their painting badge. Karla Psaros' group of 15 first graders, led by Lisa Korzec, had a great time exploring color mixing and crayon/craypas resist painting while creating images from their imagination.

Scout workshops in various art forms are available upon request.

The BCAC works with the Girl and Boy Scouts . We offer several badge programs and have had the Scout involved donating to the center. Interested leaders please call and see what we might able to do together.

Our Summer Camp information will be finalized soon!
We are happy to have instructor Debbie Coppola who ran last years SFW's back and joining her will be Courtney Wilbur.
The BCAC will be offering 4 Themed Summer Fun Weeks

• July 17th-20th
• July 24th-27th
• July 31-August 3rd
• August 7th-10th

Each Fun Week will offer different themed arts & crafts, hands-on discovery activities, games and more. You will not do the same projects if you would like to sign-up for more than one. Open to girls and boys entering grades 3-6 from Braintree and surrounding towns. Times are: Monday-Thursday, 9:00AM-3:00PM.

NEW Adventures in Space with Dave Heshion will be offered August 14th-18th, Monday-Friday, 1:15-4:15. Cost $130 pp for the week. Open to students who are presently attending grades 1-5. Space is limited to 25 students.

To future Space Explorers: we are pleased to offer the opportunity to experience a five day space odyssey right in your own community. On this journey you will: Learn about flying, both in and out of the earth's atmosphere. Find out what it is like to live and work in space. You will also design your own space station, Moon Base or Mars Base. See how rockets work from the ground up by building and launching your own model rocket. There will also be video presentations and awards during the five day program. During the week there will be different activities in place daily for students. The schedule of events will be made available on our website along with sign-up.

Images courtesy of Braintree Community Arts Center