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  • Home >> July, 2008

    Garden Walk on August 2, 2008

    Posted on: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 in: Uncategorized

    UAR has been invited to become a part of the garden walk that takes place on August 2.
    We are very excited and busy getting ready for the garden walk. We are creating a new patio surface with the help of Pete the neighbor. The kids and Pete dug out a large space and poured [...]

    FREE Art Program on Saturdays!

    Posted on: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 in: Uncategorized

    UAR offers art studio time and art classes for adults on Saturdays from 11-2 p.m.
    Adults with or without experience can come here and learn about art-making and art materials. It is free to try it out. We hope you will like it and want to continue.
    It is only $20.00 oer month to join our art [...]

    Youth and Adults learn dancing and theatre!

    Posted on: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 in: Uncategorized

    On Thursdays from 2-5:30 we offer a dance lesson, kids writing their own play and then performing in the play too. Acting class and comedy practice and dance practice will lead to a performance on August 30 at the Back to School block party that will take place here right in front of the [...]

    Volunteers help kids w/ reading, writing, math, and art

    Posted on: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 in: Uncategorized

    Each Wednesday, volunteers at UAR are here and ready to help youth stay in touch with their school subjects. They provide lessons and support to kids in a variety of subjects including reading, writing, math, science, and art.
    During July and August, we will be writing a book about the neighborhood. We will include things [...]

    Pumpkin Patch Kids!

    Posted on: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 in: Uncategorized

    This spring we began a new program for children called Pumpkin Patch Kids. Children come on Fridays from 2-5:30 and plant pumpkins, create a structure to protect the pumpkins and give them additional space to grow on the overhead twig web. They call the web of twigs tied to together- Obama’s Pumpkin Web.
    Each week kids [...]