Friday, April 26 City Nature Challenge Kick-Off and Volunteer Drive
March 20, 2019 | Posted in Uncategorized | By Alexandria Searls
Friday, April 26, 5-6:30 PM, come learn about the City Nature Challenge 2019! We’re going to lead hikes and teach guests how to use iNaturalist, the app that records your observations for the challenge. (The more observations, the more your city meets the challenge! And it just happens to be Arbor Day, so trees will be part of the festivities!) The event is free and a way to learn about how to participate in other free events that weekend.
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2019-charlottesville-va
We’re also introducing ourselves to potential volunteers for 2019. If you’re a Master Naturalist, a Master Gardener, and/or someone with a love of the outdoors and/or gardening, please drop by to learn about us! Refreshments provided!
Photo: Great Blue Heron tracks at the Center!
Save the Date! April 11th at the Tom Tom Festival
March 16, 2019 | Posted in Uncategorized | By Alexandria Searls
The Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center is participating in the Tom Tom Festival this year! Here is the write-up for our event with our partner Chroma Projects.
Immersion / Inversion: A Rivanna River Sensory Encounter is a projected environment where visitors are invited to enter and lay on the floor to experience a gauzy, fish-eye view of the river, gazing up through Alexandria Searls’ award-winning underwater film footage. Alexandria threads in footage captured by children in the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center’s video journaling workshops. It is a transporting dream-like audiovisual environment enhanced by Morgan McLeod’s sonic water composition.
A Weekend of Films
February 11, 2019 | Posted in Uncategorized | By Alexandria Searls
This past weekend the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center programs showed up in short films in Richmond, Virginia and in Brisbane, Australia! “Getting Ready for FLOW,” which tells the story of making wooden boats to enter into the Charlottesville River Renaissance FLOW event, was featured in the Australian Wooden Boat Film Festival Friday through Sunday nights.
And closer to home, “A Portrait in Water,” part of the Rivanna River Diaries project, won second prize in the RVA Environmental Film Festival. “A Portrait in Water” is an underwater film we show to participants in our udnerwater filming and photography workshops.
Video for Kids! and Mapmaking
January 9, 2019 | Posted in Uncategorized | By Alexandria Searls
This Saturday! Video for Kids! Your child and you will take a guided hike out in nature and learn to make a movie about your explorations! Bring your cell phone, but there will be a couple of cameras available for people without video capability. We start with a brief explanation of video making, and then head out to take specific types of shots that the guide will tell you about. Afterwards there will be a demonstration on how to cut the footage into a short film. One Hour. Ages 6 and up.
Offered for children and adults at 10:30, 1:00, and 2:45 Adults without children are also welcome. Center admission $7 per person. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Mapmaking from Project Calm… We’re using Calm magazine as our inspiration for making art maps. A perfect companion to Video for Kids!, because you can create a bird’s eye view of what you saw ground-level while you made your video.
Saturday, January 5, Beading, Calligraphy, and a Winter River Walk…
January 1, 2019 | Posted in Uncategorized | By Alexandria Searls
Come learn how to make a New Year’s bracelet with wire, seed beads, and a clasp! Open to adults and to children. Then try your hand at calligraphy for your New Year’s resolutions! We’re using the Calm magazine calligraphy guide (Mindfulness through Making) (also for both adults and children). Finish up with a hike by the river, weather permitting… $7 per person (includes lessons and all materials for two bracelets and calligraphy). More bracelets available at additional cost.
