| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24Events on April 24, 2014 Harambe Starts: 10:00 am Yoga Share Starts: 7:30 pm
| 25Events on April 25, 2014 Songs, Stories & Puppets Starts: 10:00 am Songs, Stories & Puppets Starts: 10:00 am Nous Bloomon en Francais Starts: 5:30 pm
| 26Events on April 26, 2014 Harambee Starts: 9:30 am Harambee Starts: 10:30 am Touring Puppet Show w/Kevin Kammeraad Starts: 5:30 pm Description: Kevin performs, writes, draws, sings, make things, and wonders about possibilities. He is an award-winning artist, performer, and children's author of several books and CDs. The Cooperfly Puppet Troupe is a cast of puppet characters brought to life by Kevin and Justin. To keep things rolling along, Stephanie steps in to keep the guys focused. And that's pretty much how things work.
Read more about it: http://www.kevinkammeraad.com
Watch videos: http://www.kevinkammeraad.com/videos.html
Kevin's Bio
Kevin loves to perform, write, draw, sing, make things, and wonder about possibilities. He is an award-winning artist, performer, and children's author of many books and CDs who loves to collaborate with other artists.
Each year, Kevin brings his creativity and love of performing, writing, art, music, and reading to elementary schools, libraries, festivals, and conferences all over the state of Michigan and beyond. He performs regularly in Michigan, often throughout the Midwest, and has been as far as Canada, Hawaii, and Japan. His programs are dynamic, age appropriate, educational, and simply down right fun. Through puppetry, music, poetry, audience participation, multimedia, and humor, Kevin captivates people of all ages. Since the start of his career, Kevin has visited well over 1,000 elementary schools and offers many various presentations and shows.
Kevin has been a full time presenter/performer, artist, and children’s author since 1999, after graduating from Grand Valley State University in 1998 with a degree in Film and Video Production. He is the author and illustrator of The Tomato Collection and I Remember. He is the co-author of This is a Square and A Curious Glimpse of Michigan (a 2006 Great Lakes’ Great Books award nominee), a contributing illustrator of How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck?, and the co-producer of the music CDs The Tomato Collection: the Big Album (a 2002 Children’s Music Web Award Winner), A Curious Glimpse of Michigan: the Music, and ...and a Happy New Year (a Mom’s Choice Awards® Gold Recipient and winner of three other national awards). His newest CD,The Monkeys Go Marching (Simple Songs You Can Play Around With) is a 2012 Parents' Choice FunStuff Award Winner. In 2013, Kevin released his first "creativity book" called Can You Think It, Can You Dream It?
In the fall of 2010, Kevin was a part of an ArtPrize entry called Plan B. Headed up by the Beerhorst family, a group of artists created an imaginative, multi-medium, interactive, educational environment created entirely out of repurposed materials. Their efforts were rewarded with the 2010 Best Use of Urban Space Award.
In the fall of 2011, Kevin performed 114 shows over the span of 19 days for his 2011 entry into ArtPrize. "Puppeteer-cum-endurance-performer Kevin Kammeraad could be found day after day on the grass outside the Children’s Museum kicking, wiggling, shaking, and singing with an excited crowd of children and parents. His energy was infectious. Playful and educational, I loved what The Kevin Kammeraad and Friends Puppet Theatre added to daily life in the neighborhood of Hillside," said Nicole J. Caruth, a freelance writer and curator living in New York. She also selected Kevin's piece as one of her top 9 picks out of 1,582 entries (not directly affiliated with ArtPrize). For more information on that ambitious adventure check out this page or Kevin's entry at http://www.artprize.org.
In the fall of 2012, Kevin along with Justin Haveman performed Variety of Puppet Vignettes in G-Major for their 2012 ArtPrize entry. With this entry, Kevin and Justin pursued creating a new indoor puppet theatre including a multi-media screen and the introduction of multiple characters.
Most recently in the fall of 2013, Kevin and Justin performed eight hours a day for 19 consecutive days at ArtPrize 2013 with their entry Puppets and Pearl and Monroe.
In addition to Kevin's full touring schedule, he is currently performing regularly at Gymco's Discovery Preschool and the Grand Rapids Children's Museum. He is also one of the children's music worship leaders at Madison Square Church.
Kevin is a member of the Michigan Reading Association, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, the Detroit Puppeteers Guild, and the Puppeteers of America. His programs are included on the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association's list of Recommended Assemblies.
Kevin grew up in Holland, Michigan and currently lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, son, daughter, cousin, a friend, two cats, and even two rats (they are quite cute in fact) in a home filled with books, music, recycle bins, homeschooling calendars, games, vegetarian recipes, toys, and tortilla chips.
| 27Events on April 27, 2014 BloomScreen & Compassion Over Killing present: Vegucated Starts: 5:00 pm Description: Bloombars - 3222 11th St NW - Washington, DC 20010
Sunday, April 27th at 5:00 pm
Join BloomBars and Compassion Over Killing as we celebrate US VegWeek 2014 (April 21-27) with the presentation of…
Vegucated (2010, 76 min), by Marisa Miller Wolfson – follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers, who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks. (http://tinyurl.com/vegucated-trailer)
Vegucated is an award-winning documentary that follows our group of New Yorkers who try a six-week vegan diet. There's Brian, the bacon-loving bachelor who eats out all the time, Ellen, the single mom who prefers comedy to cooking, and Tesla, the college student who avoids vegetables and bans beans. They have no idea that so much more than steak is at stake and that the fate of the world may fall on their plates.
After our screening, we’ll have a Q&A discussion with Katie Legomsky, DC Volunteer with Compassion Over Killing. She’ll talk about the film, her organization and the benefits of a Vegan lifestyle.
RSVP at: http://tinyurl.com/vegucated-rsvp3
Trailer at: http://tinyurl.com/vegucated-trailer
*Suggested Donation: $10. Proceeds support BloomBars. Free organic popcorn.
Compassion Over Killing (COK) is a DC-based, nonprofit animal protection organization, working to end animal abuse by focusing on cruelty to animals in agriculture and promoting vegetarian eating.
Kicking off on April 21, US VegWeek celebrates the many benefits and flavors of vegetarian foods. Take the 7-Day VegPledge: http://USVegWeek.com/
BloomScreen Indie Film Night is a weekly series of independent and foreign films, accompanied by discussions with filmmakers, experts and other guests.
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28Events on April 28, 2014 Harambee Starts: 9:30 am Folkloric Dance Fusion (Belly Dance) Starts: 6:45 pm The Garden Open Mic feat. Hari Vasan (hosted by Gowri K.) Starts: 8:30 pm Description: Join us for DC's only weekly variety open mic (poetry, music, comedy, storytelling, etc-ing) where the show is appropriate for all ages (please and thank you to performers).
Sign-up list opens at 8:30 pm
Show starts at 9:00 pm
$7 donation
Featuring: HARI VASAN
Hari Vasan is a singer songwriter who was raised in the Washington, DC area. Hari mixes vocals reminiscent of alternative vocalists from a previous era with intricate and pulsating guitar riffs in order to create an ensemble of songs that range from hard rock to soft ballads. Hari is currently in the studio recording for his debut EP, which will feature four to five tracks of original work. He was also one of the featured artists at the recent "Becoming Desi" event organized by Subcontinental Drift and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in conjunction with its Beyond Bollywood exhibit.
https://www.facebook.com/harivasanmusic
Hosted by: GOWRI K.
Gowri K. is a Sri Lankan Tamil American poet and lawyer. Her advocacy has addressed animal welfare, the environment, and the rights of prisoners and the criminally accused. She has co-authored two peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and her poetry has been published in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Bourgeon, and Lantern Review. Gowri was a member of the 2010 DC Southern Fried Slam team and has performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. She hosts open mics at Busboys and Poets and BloomBars, where she serves as poetry coordinator, and is the senior poetry editor at Jaggery: A DesiLit Arts and Literature Journal. Gowri tweets on-the-spot haiku @gowricurry.
| 29Events on April 29, 2014 BloomScreen and TransAfrica present: Zulu Love Letter Starts: 7:00 pm Description: Bloombars - 3222 11th St NW - Washington, DC 20010
Tuesday, April 29th at 7:00 pm
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of South Africa’s first non-racial democratic election, TransAfrica and BloomScreen present the film ZULU LOVE LETTER by Ramadan Suleman (2004, 100 min, in English and Zulu with English subtitles) -- a film that begins to recognize “the sacrifice made by so many, not just the deaths and torture, but the loss of personal lives, education, careers and innocence.” (http://tinyurl.com/zulu-love-letter-trailer)
Thandeka, a young black journalist, lives in fear of Johannesburg’s past. She’s so troubled that she can’t work, and her relationship with Mangi, her 13-year-old deaf daughter, goes from bad to worse. One day Me’Tau, an elderly woman, arrives at the newspaper’s office. Ten years earlier, Thandeka witnessed the murder of Me’Tau’s daughter, Dineo, by the secret police. Me’Tau wants Thandeka to find the murderers and Dineo’s body so that the girl can be buried in accordance with tradition. What Me’Tau couldn’t know is that Thandeka has already paid for her knowledge, for having dared stand up to the apartheid system run by the whites. Meanwhile, Mangi secretly prepares a Zulu love letter, four embroidered images representing solitude, loss, hope, and love, as a final gesture towards her mother so that she won’t give up the fight. (In English and Zulu with English subtitles).
Our screening will be followed by a discussion hosted by Mwiza Munthali, the Public Outreach Director of TransAfrica.
RSVP at: http://tinyurl.com/zulu-love-letter-rsvp
Trailer at: http://tinyurl.com/zulu-love-letter-trailer
*Suggested Donation: $10. Proceeds support both TransAfrica and BloomBars. Free organic popcorn.
This film presentation was made possible thanks to our collaboration with TransAfrica – the oldest and largest African American human rights and social justice advocacy organization.
BloomScreen Indie Film Night is a weekly series of independent and foreign films, accompanied by discussions with filmmakers, experts and other guests.
| 30Events on April 30, 2014 Uno Dos Tres con Andres Starts: 5:30 pm Samba Class Starts: 9:00 pm
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BloomBars is located at 3222 11th Street NW in Washington, DC’s historic Columbia Heights neighborhood.
