Annual Holiday Bazaar this weekend [Dec 3 & 4, 2016]

Yes, it’s the Dome School’s 34th (!) annual Winter Holiday Bazaar, happening Saturday, December 3 and Sunday, December 4, at your Takilma Community Building.

Visitors can expect crafts, books, blown glass, herbals, farm products, jewelry, baked goods, note cards, dolls and dollhouses, sculptures, ceramics, knitted and crocheted good and much more. The event features live music and raffle prizes. Breakfast and lunch and other food will be available too.

Saturday hours are 10am-5pm. Sunday hours are 10am-4pm.

And please don’t forget: this is a fundraiser for the Dome School. At our Dome School table, you’ll be able to find Dome School and Takilma t-shirts, ball caps, and beanies, bumper stickers, calendars from Syracuse Cultural Workers, and also the new Takilma Common Ground Anthology (collecting the first 25 issues). Please consider supporting the school with your purchases.

We’ll hope to see you all (t)here!

Save the Date: Dome School’s 40th Nov 12 (2016)

The community is invited to celebrate 40 years of the Dome School with us!

We’ll cap the day with the return of BROTHER. They rocked our Halloween 2 years ago, and people are still talking about it. Their brand of Celtic tribal fusion rock, with bagpipes and didgeridoos, had everyone hopping about the place. But before that, we’ll have much more. Here’s the current schedule:

* 3-4pm Dome School annual meeting
* 4-8pm Silent Auction (see list below), color-your-own-party-hat, and a time capsule photo booth! (Take your photo and include with a letter to yourself in 35 years–to be included in a time capsule buried with the new TCB addition)
* 4:30pm Greg Walter presents a Takilma/Waldo/Queen of Bronze historic photo slide show
* 5-8pm Dinner available – Veggie chili, meat chili, vegan soup available ($3 cup or $5 bowl)
* 5:30-7pm Story time Open Mic – bring your tales from the past 40 years
* 7-8pm Birthday cake walk
* 8:30-11pm BROTHER in concert.

Admission is free until the concert, though note dinner, dessert, and auction are extra, plus we’ll have other items for sale (e.g. caps, shirts, Takilma Common Ground anthologies). The Brother concert is $10-20/person (sliding scale), with under 14 admitted free. If you have old photos, bring ’em! We’d love to scan and get them back to you that day (we’re hoping to put a 40-year history book together).

We’d like to thank the following people and organizations for donating to our silent auction (more items added soon–check back)

• Claire Sierra / Balch Hotel – Hotel/spa package ($175 value)
• Carol Valentine – 2 voice lessons ($80 value)
• Josephine Community Libraries – IV branch – $40 gift certificate to IV Friends bookstore and/or the December book sale
• Aquarius Books, Rocks & Gifts – amethyst geode, plus a small ruby (the ruby is the traditional 40th anniversary gemstone) ($59 value)
• Wild River Pizza – $30 gift certificate
• Gray Conway – Hand-felted Forest Edge llama fiber hat ($150 value)
• Davis Painter – Carved and painted emu egg (?? value)
• Joyce Abrams – 4 rolls pure llama yarn ($82.95 value)
• Kayla Starr – one-hour massage ($60 value)
• Left Fork Books – 3-pack of books, including The Doodle, Design, & Draw Book for Illinois Valley Kids of All Ages,  Takilma Common Ground Anthology, and Cobra Lily #1 ($39 value)
• Illinois Valley News – 1 year subscription ($43 value)
• Judy Carpenter – Stagg electric guitar, with case, signed by local bands and musicians including Ben Rice Blues Band, Colonel Mustard, and Caleb Orton ($300 value) [NOTE: Brother has agreed to sign at the event!]
• Marjorie Reynolds – 3 glass-beaded necklaces ($15 value each) and sterling pendant with stone ($45 value)
• Ashland Food Co-op – $25 gift certificate
• Bear Images – $15 gift certificate
• Nick Reynolds – signed copy of Fortunate Son by John Fogarty ($30 value)
• Mary Reynolds – knit beanie ($40 value)
• Dome School – 100+ piece glass chemistry equipment – includes test tubes, beakers, erlenmeyer flasks, schlock flasks, graduated cylinders, pipettes, droppers, petri dishes, stacking specimens containers, rubber stoppers, copper test tube clamps, a vacuum jar w/stopper, a spirit lamp, and more (?? value)

As you think about whether an item is worth your $, please don’t forget that your contribution supports the expansion of the community building. So why not consider donating $80 or $90 for that $43 IV News subscription?

Takilma Tees and Caps – a TCB fundraiser

SHIRTS - $30 each

HATS – $25

Barter Faire 8 days away: June 17-19, 2016

It’s coming!  The 14th Hope Mountain Barter Faire is only 8 days away.  This 3-day festival features some great entertainment, unique vendors selling and bartering their wares, and some very fine food. It is a family-friendly event too, with a supervised “Kid Village” playground area (look for costumes, parades, face-painting and more). If coming from far away, attendees can camp.

The Faire began in 2003 to support the Dome School, but today is sponsored by YES! (Youth Empowerment & Support), a non-profit organization created to continue this mission of support for the Dome School’s programs.

Check out the poster below (for a tentative list of bands) and be sure to check out the Barter Faire website to learn more. But we’re hopeful that our school families and the local community will come out and enjoy the Faire, while helping to support the Dome School. Thanks!

11th Annual MLK Jr. Birthday Celebration – Jan 16, 2016

The community is invited to head on over to the Dome School

Saturday, January 16

for

The Dome School’s 11th Annual

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BIRTHDAY
Celebration and Dance Benefit

presented by the Indigo Children Project

Dinner starts at 5pm, with the return of our popular CAKE WALK
At 6pm, presentations begin featuring the Dome School students, a dance performance of “Glory” from dancefarm, and also the RCC / IV Choir.
Beginning at 7:30pm, you can dance to Hot African drumming, followed by IRAE and the Bay Area’s Fire Squad Band.

This is a family event–please no guns, alcohol, drugs, or dogs.
Proceeds benefit the Dome School and Nhimbe for Progress.

Admission is sliding scale $10-20 with KIDS FREE
(dinner and cake walk are extra)

Please come out, enjoy some home cooking, along with great performances and music.

We’ll hope to see ya (t)here!

33rd (!) Annual Winter Holiday Bazaar – Dec 5 & 6 (2015)

Yes, it’s the Dome School’s 33rd annual Winter Holiday Bazaar, happening Saturday, December 5 and Sunday, December 6, at your Takilma Community Building.

Visitors can expect crafts, books, blown glass, herbals, farm products, jewelry, baked goods, note cards, dolls and dollhouses, sculptures, ceramics, knitted and crocheted good and much more. The event features live music and raffle prizes. Breakfast and lunch and other food will be available.

Saturday hours are 10am-5pm. Sunday hours are 10am-4pm.

This is a fundraiser for the Dome School. We’ll hope to see you (t)here!

Annual Meeting – November 11 (2015)

A quick reminder that the annual gathering/meeting for the Dome School is Wednesday night, November 11.

This is a time for the entire Dome School family- students, parents, staff, community members- to come together. We’ll provide dinner at 6pm, and the meeting will follow at 7pm.

Come on out to learn about what’s been happening at the school, as well as to help us select new members for the school board. Please join us!

Dome of the Dead Halloween & Day of Dead celebration (coming October 30, 2015)

It’s our annual Halloween Party / Day of the Dead Celebration!

This year features none other than Frankie Hernandez & the Old Soul Parade, live in person at your Takilma Community Building!

Note well: this event takes place on Friday the 30th–not Halloween–so that come Oct 31st you can be trick or treating, getting spooked at IV Haunt, or checking out the other parties around the Valley.

We’ll have a delectable tamale dinner available starting at 6pm (until sold out). Your choice of 2 of 3 available tamales (Black Bean-Eggplant-Goat & Gorganzola Cheese; Jalapeño-Pesto-Potato; and Sweet Potato-Onion-Red & Beaver Dam Pepper) plus salad and side of black beans. [A la carte tamales $3]  Sweets and drinks will be available all night.

From 8-10pm, enjoy family friendly boogie time with Gold Miner spinning the tunes (including Halloween fare like Ghostbusters, Monster Mash). Expect breaks for costume contests, raffle, and more

Then the main event gets going around 10:30pm, with Frankie Hernandez & The Old Soul Parade. Frankie rocked the Halloween dance a few years back and it was a great time–we’re eagerly awaiting the return!

Most years if the event falls before Halloween, we call it a Halloween party and if it’s after, we call it a Day of the Dead event. This year we’re celebrating both–so feel free to bring items for an altar.

By the way, this is one of the biggest fundraisers for our Dome School kids, so we’re hopeful the community will come out and support it. We’d really appreciate help in the form of volunteering at the event (working the kitchen, for example), or help in the days leading up (we’re planning a tamale-making party the Sunday before). Donations of food/veggies for the dinner would likewise be very much appreciated, as would donations for prizes (we’re thinking either a silent auction or a raffle, but we’d like to have prizes for costume contests as well). If you’re able to help with either your time or with a donation of produce or art or a gift certificate (or ??), please call the school. Thanks!

We’ve also set up a Facebook event page—If you do Facebook, we’d appreciate if you could share widely and invite your friends to join: https://www.facebook.com/events/1638086033130511/

Please plan to come on out and support our kids. Thank you!

MaMuse CD release event at Dome School! (coming August 17, 2015)

MaMuse, makers of harmonious and uplifting acoustic music, celebrate their latest CD release with a performance at the Dome School!

With their roots in the folk and gospel traditions and their hearts rooted in the present moment, MaMuse crafts music for the next seven generations to thrive on. Their newest release, Heart Nouveau, is a masterful mix of exquisitely blended heartfelt harmonies lifted with purpose and reverence above sultry strings, and deep percussion. What sets this album apart from their previous creations is the budding collaboration with singer songwriter Molly Hartwell adding in a third harmony on five of the 13 songs, as well as a tasteful and spunky horn section, keys, violin, and guitar which give new breadth to the well loved sound the duo is known for. Heart Nouveau is a truly moving musical offering of “New Heart.”

Visit mamuse.org to learn more and hear samples of this beautiful and ethereal music.

This is a fundraiser for the Dome School building expansion. Dinner available at 7pm with show at 8pm.

Building Campaign Update (10 July 2015)

First, the not-as-good news: As many of you know by now, we did not reach our goal on our IndieGoGo.com campaign. So we’re still a bit short of our goal of 50% of project costs (to apply for matching funds and to start construction).

Now the good news: We surpassed $20,000 from 97 incredible donors! Plus, we had an outpouring of support from numerous people who didn’t want to have to go to a website and use credit cards, but chose to donate with cash or checks. So beyond the $20k raised on IndieGoGo, we raised more than $11,000 off the website! And on top of that, our 4th of July raised an additional $1000–so thank you to everyone who bought a root beer float, lemonade, popsicle, cookie, and more–or just dropped something in the donation jar.

Yes, we’re approximately $20k short of our $120k goal, but we’ve still been writing grants, talking to interested community members, getting the word out, scheduling benefit events, fine-tuning the building design, and much more. It’s too late to help us on IndieGoGo, but it’s not too late to pass the word to family and friends that we are ploughing ahead with our plans, and donations can still be sent to the school. Thank you all for your continued support!