How's That For Wow
Simple pleasures, might be knowing fantastic opportunities or moments when we taste them.
But those of us that get lucky in the big roulette wheel plate-o-life realize the squeeze of the moment thing is unlike any other at least around the subject of food. Fresh and ripe today, picked next week fresh as often as our luscious backyard allows. The moment is food. The current currency in stone fruit alone seems to lie in and around jams. Jelly, Chutney and Jam fiends you have a friend in cheeses. The marketing brains and local-vore foodie sees the love of Jam and tah dah... Friend in Cheeses.
Please be a patron of the arts: of sorts and vote for Tabitha. Make Martha Stewart proud. After all, it is her own Mega Brand, Martha Stewartbrands Living Large.com offering 10grand in cashmoney. Wow.
Throw'n down the dishtowel and offering a chance at some big dough. The perfect accompaniment to any great baked dough product is jam.
Santa Cruz style that's deliciously packaged and tastes like jam should. How's that for a foodie endorsement. Vote early and often here: Friend in Cheeses! We can't help but share more. Voting again is encouraged and a foot up above the din of nationalized unwanted-nesse so you reward yourself by supporting what makes for an authentic experience or for those of us in the other camp: pay-ola. Local superhero homeschooler that sends our Santa Cruz Super-Osity Meter shooting off the outer edges of superhero heights. Check out this great talent
But those of us that get lucky in the big roulette wheel plate-o-life realize the squeeze of the moment thing is unlike any other at least around the subject of food. Fresh and ripe today, picked next week fresh as often as our luscious backyard allows. The moment is food. The current currency in stone fruit alone seems to lie in and around jams. Jelly, Chutney and Jam fiends you have a friend in cheeses. The marketing brains and local-vore foodie sees the love of Jam and tah dah... Friend in Cheeses.
Please be a patron of the arts: of sorts and vote for Tabitha. Make Martha Stewart proud. After all, it is her own Mega Brand, Martha Stewartbrands Living Large.com offering 10grand in cashmoney. Wow.
Throw'n down the dishtowel and offering a chance at some big dough. The perfect accompaniment to any great baked dough product is jam.
Santa Cruz style that's deliciously packaged and tastes like jam should. How's that for a foodie endorsement. Vote early and often here: Friend in Cheeses! We can't help but share more. Voting again is encouraged and a foot up above the din of nationalized unwanted-nesse so you reward yourself by supporting what makes for an authentic experience or for those of us in the other camp: pay-ola. Local superhero homeschooler that sends our Santa Cruz Super-Osity Meter shooting off the outer edges of superhero heights. Check out this great talent
Home Roasted Beans. The answer to your artistic prayers.
You can't deny the taste. It's akin to baking bread for the first time. Roasting locally sourced coffee beans is an art form for the foodie on the final frontier. Okay, we're geeky about it.
If the world knew how easy and cost effective ( tasty, delicious and oh so impressive to fellow foodies who thought they tasted it all..)
Sourcing and roasting (grinding, and imparting H2O.) The cupping notes can be more brainiac then any wine tasting gala. Sorry wine snobs, we like big adjectives too.
The results are sure to wow the serious coffee drinker. It's a new concept for us- but we embrace food as art and coffee is so friendly with so many things.
But wait- we've got a plan.. classes for those coffee curious... Christine Currie, co-founder and coffee drinker traveled to Kyoto this spring. Learning coffee culture in Kyoto Japan with fellow beta testers R.C. and Collin.
The offering of our experiences:
COFFEE APPRECIATION & HOME ROASTING 18 yrs & up 1 day
This workshop will cover coffee bean varieties, flavor profiles and
how to source sustainable, green, un-roasted coffee beans. We will
discuss roasting methods, as well as grinding beans and how to
store them. You will learn how to roast coffee beans in class and
at home and how to craft the perfect cup of coffee!
C'mon, wake up and smell the coffee. Register today under classes. Need more stimulation: Sweet maria's newsletter.
If the world knew how easy and cost effective ( tasty, delicious and oh so impressive to fellow foodies who thought they tasted it all..)
Sourcing and roasting (grinding, and imparting H2O.) The cupping notes can be more brainiac then any wine tasting gala. Sorry wine snobs, we like big adjectives too.
The results are sure to wow the serious coffee drinker. It's a new concept for us- but we embrace food as art and coffee is so friendly with so many things.
But wait- we've got a plan.. classes for those coffee curious... Christine Currie, co-founder and coffee drinker traveled to Kyoto this spring. Learning coffee culture in Kyoto Japan with fellow beta testers R.C. and Collin.
The offering of our experiences:
COFFEE APPRECIATION & HOME ROASTING 18 yrs & up 1 day
This workshop will cover coffee bean varieties, flavor profiles and
how to source sustainable, green, un-roasted coffee beans. We will
discuss roasting methods, as well as grinding beans and how to
store them. You will learn how to roast coffee beans in class and
at home and how to craft the perfect cup of coffee!
C'mon, wake up and smell the coffee. Register today under classes. Need more stimulation: Sweet maria's newsletter.
Fairy Tales Do Come True
The idea of creating something magical appeals to us. Our recent artistic endeavors flesh this out, as intentions seem to find a way of taking root with a sprinkle of ideas, watered with creative intent. Our fave-orite local example is Fairytale Farms. Gardening, cooking and canning classes with a keen eye on fun might be the sound byte I'd offer to anyone seeking out an escape that's educational, beautiful and local.
Fairy Tales do come true. We're so lucky to have a community that embraces the ideals that Fairytale Farms creatively offers up. Fridays will be especially delightful as the opportunity to experience this fantastically styled family is available for you to experience. If you need a ride, perhaps the Pumpkin Pedicab can offer you a lift ( how can we possibly resist such cuteness and stealth orange wheels? )
A Special Thanks: Fairytale Farms added such style to the Fringe Festival kick off.
Fairy Tales do come true. We're so lucky to have a community that embraces the ideals that Fairytale Farms creatively offers up. Fridays will be especially delightful as the opportunity to experience this fantastically styled family is available for you to experience. If you need a ride, perhaps the Pumpkin Pedicab can offer you a lift ( how can we possibly resist such cuteness and stealth orange wheels? )
A Special Thanks: Fairytale Farms added such style to the Fringe Festival kick off.
Big Visuals. Small Venue. Delicious Experience.
We had so much fun hosting the 2nd Annual Fringe Festival Hub. It was the mix of talent, music and dance that made the magic, it was the community support that made it successful. We'd like to Thank the staff, Board and community members that made this great creative endeavor happen. It was a fun fly on the wall experience.
7 Squid Row is a magical space. When the stage was built a few months ago we could not have imagined how much fun it would be. In addition to the comedy, dance and music we also had a few other performances grace the Petite stage- all spectacular, and all free! We appreciate the community support.
Thank-you one and all for the experience. It's what makes our community so spectacular.
7 Squid Row is a magical space. When the stage was built a few months ago we could not have imagined how much fun it would be. In addition to the comedy, dance and music we also had a few other performances grace the Petite stage- all spectacular, and all free! We appreciate the community support.
Thank-you one and all for the experience. It's what makes our community so spectacular.
7 Squid Row Hosts The Santa Cruz Fringe Festival Hub.
Please join us in a big round of applause, The second annual Santa Cruz Fringe Festival is coming up July 11-20. Fringe Hub-Headquarters at 7 Squid Row. More details can be found here.
We're delighted to be part of the fun. It's your opportunity to visit the space, pick up your pass or tickets here at the Fringe Hub starting July 10th. Join in the fun as Fringe Foreplay First Friday is July 5th.
Great performances, local venues, and Summer in Santa Cruz. Enjoy!
We're delighted to be part of the fun. It's your opportunity to visit the space, pick up your pass or tickets here at the Fringe Hub starting July 10th. Join in the fun as Fringe Foreplay First Friday is July 5th.
Great performances, local venues, and Summer in Santa Cruz. Enjoy!
7 Squid Row The New Space.
Our time spent on Cedar St comes to an end as we celebrate our new artistically dialed space and invite you to join us in toasting the change June 7th. The new address of 7 Squid Row will function as an event space that will host private parties, art educational workshops, and food/wine/coffee and tea educational opportunities. Music lessons will again be offered this summer- with piano added to the roster. Welcome to our new home. We look forward to sharing it with you.
World Book Night 2013
The beauty of reading can be shared with a simple gesture. Giving away books!
Art duJour Loves 2 Share.
Our involvement with the amazing World Book Night is a natural since our love of literature leads us in the direction of sharing. The sharing part is what transforms April 23rd from a normal Tuesday to a true expression of community.
Look for these two book loving Mission Hill Middle School 7th graders giving away copies of the James Patterson book " Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life." (Pictured L to R: Fez worn by Robert Currie and Megan Marr.)
We look forward to sharing this fun read with Santa Cruz. We would like to Thank the fine folks of World Book Night for making this magical event happen, and for Bookshop Santa Cruz for partnering.
Art duJour Loves 2 Share.
Our involvement with the amazing World Book Night is a natural since our love of literature leads us in the direction of sharing. The sharing part is what transforms April 23rd from a normal Tuesday to a true expression of community.
Look for these two book loving Mission Hill Middle School 7th graders giving away copies of the James Patterson book " Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life." (Pictured L to R: Fez worn by Robert Currie and Megan Marr.)
We look forward to sharing this fun read with Santa Cruz. We would like to Thank the fine folks of World Book Night for making this magical event happen, and for Bookshop Santa Cruz for partnering.
Lance Brown Featured
Moss Landing Marine Laboratory is featuring our Board member Lance Brown series of Photographs.
Elkhorn Slough Series is a body of photography featuring the wildlife & views from the deck of the Marine Laboratory building. Open House hours on Sat. & Sun. April 20 & 21. 9-5. Lance has donated the photos for the San Jose State University scholarship fund.
Please support this great venue, the important work they do and the fund raiser celebrating their beautiful new deck & boardwalk area.
Elkhorn Slough Series is a body of photography featuring the wildlife & views from the deck of the Marine Laboratory building. Open House hours on Sat. & Sun. April 20 & 21. 9-5. Lance has donated the photos for the San Jose State University scholarship fund.
Please support this great venue, the important work they do and the fund raiser celebrating their beautiful new deck & boardwalk area.
Rana Satori Fashion Design
Rana Satori design is unique, colorful dancewear/casualwear handmade in Santa Cruz.
Rana, pictured here, is a creative force of fashionista. Experience her elegant yet playful line of fashion.
Her clothing is a way to raise your personal frequency, light up the room, and have even more fun in your dances. Even wearing my designs at work or in your everyday life will make every moment a special moment. I make clothes with the intention to inspire you to be more expressive in your dance and to feel your own essence brighten. So go on, let your spirit shine in Rana Satori Designs!
Where might you Wear your new Dance Clothing?
The Santa Cruz freestyle Dance Community is growing at record speeds and we want YOU to join the fun. Everynight in Santa Cruz, there is a different opportunity for you to come out and dance and Art Du Jour will transform into a hub for all that information this upcoming April First Friday.
Come visit, have a dance, meet the facilitators and find out more about how you can participate.
Rana, pictured here, is a creative force of fashionista. Experience her elegant yet playful line of fashion.
Her clothing is a way to raise your personal frequency, light up the room, and have even more fun in your dances. Even wearing my designs at work or in your everyday life will make every moment a special moment. I make clothes with the intention to inspire you to be more expressive in your dance and to feel your own essence brighten. So go on, let your spirit shine in Rana Satori Designs!
Where might you Wear your new Dance Clothing?
The Santa Cruz freestyle Dance Community is growing at record speeds and we want YOU to join the fun. Everynight in Santa Cruz, there is a different opportunity for you to come out and dance and Art Du Jour will transform into a hub for all that information this upcoming April First Friday.
Come visit, have a dance, meet the facilitators and find out more about how you can participate.
Join Us First Friday: March 1 Hosts Local Food Artisans
Think artisan foods like honey and chutneys. Sustainable sourced green coffee beans with an educational roasting opportunity. Jams and local foods that bring to mind all that is delicious here in our own backyard.
Patricia Indries, of the Greatful Garden returns to duJour with her educational series for Backyard beekeeping and the Top bar hive system pictured at the left, with a bronze bee. We look forward to seeing you Friday!
Patricia Indries, of the Greatful Garden returns to duJour with her educational series for Backyard beekeeping and the Top bar hive system pictured at the left, with a bronze bee. We look forward to seeing you Friday!
Art du Jour Chosen As a World Book Night Hub.
We've been chosen! Look for more details coming as soon as we learn which book we shall be giving to the community at large.
World Book Night U.S. is dedicated to spreading the love of reading, person to person.
Volunteer book givers are vital to World Book Night U.S. Last year on April 23rd, they personally handed out a total of half a million books to light and non-readers in 5,800 towns and cities across the country! They became part of an international effort to celebrate reading on one special night by sharing their love of books within their communities.
World Book Night U.S. is dedicated to spreading the love of reading, person to person.
Volunteer book givers are vital to World Book Night U.S. Last year on April 23rd, they personally handed out a total of half a million books to light and non-readers in 5,800 towns and cities across the country! They became part of an international effort to celebrate reading on one special night by sharing their love of books within their communities.
Smitten With Roasting
The opportunity to share this new love of roasting coffee beans has presented itself in the form of educational workshops.
Proximity to such terrific roasted coffee leads many of my friends to ask why bother to home roast?
My answer, there's nothing as great as this newly roasted bean in your cup as the experience lends itself to the personality of quality control. But the price of roasted beans from cafes is for me a real eye opener. Roasting and grinding beans seems like the final frontier for those foodies that seek the higher ground of understanding.
We seek an experience. Curiosity of taste texture and smell as roasting beans is a multi sensory exercise in fun. I'm smitten with the process and at our new location on Squid Row will offer a full educational component in and around our new favorite seed. Look for classes later today that will include backyard beekeeping and the ability to turn local fruits into jams and jellies. Greet spring with a new skill set that's fun and delicious. You'll have a great experience, learn a bunch and take home your work to enjoy. The full schedule of spring classes will also be on the 7 Squid Row website as we make the transition with a new food and event friendly location that features roasted beans, a stage for spoken word and music, pop-up dinners and much much more.
Proximity to such terrific roasted coffee leads many of my friends to ask why bother to home roast?
My answer, there's nothing as great as this newly roasted bean in your cup as the experience lends itself to the personality of quality control. But the price of roasted beans from cafes is for me a real eye opener. Roasting and grinding beans seems like the final frontier for those foodies that seek the higher ground of understanding.
We seek an experience. Curiosity of taste texture and smell as roasting beans is a multi sensory exercise in fun. I'm smitten with the process and at our new location on Squid Row will offer a full educational component in and around our new favorite seed. Look for classes later today that will include backyard beekeeping and the ability to turn local fruits into jams and jellies. Greet spring with a new skill set that's fun and delicious. You'll have a great experience, learn a bunch and take home your work to enjoy. The full schedule of spring classes will also be on the 7 Squid Row website as we make the transition with a new food and event friendly location that features roasted beans, a stage for spoken word and music, pop-up dinners and much much more.
Food As The Medium
The delicious art form pictured here is the work of local chef and food artiste Michelle Betaudier. Her marshmellows were a big hit for the First Friday Crowd.
The theme of Edible Art has given us a nutritional stance with the fine food craft of local artisan chefs showcased, leading a great wave of Cottage Industry cooks with the inception of AB1616. We applaud this important part of the creative community here in Santa Cruz by offering workshops on AB1616, backyard beekeeping, Hands-on how-to classes around making and preserving Jams, coffee culture: Home roasting beans for flawless brew coming out on the new spring schedule this week. Thank-you for supporting us this past Friday. Spectacular food talent and a great embrace for the new direction of food and farmsteading styled classes and workshops. p.s. We've begun booking events for the new space around the corner, email us if you have a date in mind.
The theme of Edible Art has given us a nutritional stance with the fine food craft of local artisan chefs showcased, leading a great wave of Cottage Industry cooks with the inception of AB1616. We applaud this important part of the creative community here in Santa Cruz by offering workshops on AB1616, backyard beekeeping, Hands-on how-to classes around making and preserving Jams, coffee culture: Home roasting beans for flawless brew coming out on the new spring schedule this week. Thank-you for supporting us this past Friday. Spectacular food talent and a great embrace for the new direction of food and farmsteading styled classes and workshops. p.s. We've begun booking events for the new space around the corner, email us if you have a date in mind.
The Creative Purview
This month just keeps getting better and better. Just when you thought a deep breath was in order, blam!
Superhero like developments in all things 831 artcentric, elements of fun and all things delicious are coming soon to an Alley near you. Remember, an Alley not so much a street, much more intimate than a road. Squid Row.
At the high end of the media food chain: Aljazeera television is now stateside. One of the best news source gobbling that turkey of a stiff wanna bee news channel called Current tv ( what did you expect, this was Al Gores' progeny.) All stateside.
Welcome artistic bent of stiff medium format.
The best news of all is always the juicy with-in ear shot byte: Go Pro has a new poster child, and he's a local.
We like to seek out the juicy nuggets of the best and brightest hear in Central Coaster ville. The GoPro is about as amazing as any camera I've ever laid my hands on, but what do I know? That local guy parading around as a poster child from PBS (he's that too) has created something so creatively dialed, it's beyond Make Magazine.
No one tells a better story than David Hoffman. Filmmaker David Hoffman shares a great video on his amazing piece of do it your self technology.
Check out this amazing rig for his camera. The only thing I might suggest as I morph my own rig is this link.
Have a happy week creative creatures, enjoy this new news source now with stain fighting oxyclean.
Two items go beautifully hand in hand (or hotfoot to manfrotto grip) Enjoy this local genius and stay tuned for. More interesting developments.. Photographers and gopro gruppies pls Send us any snaps if you take his rig and run with it...
Superhero like developments in all things 831 artcentric, elements of fun and all things delicious are coming soon to an Alley near you. Remember, an Alley not so much a street, much more intimate than a road. Squid Row.
At the high end of the media food chain: Aljazeera television is now stateside. One of the best news source gobbling that turkey of a stiff wanna bee news channel called Current tv ( what did you expect, this was Al Gores' progeny.) All stateside.
Welcome artistic bent of stiff medium format.
The best news of all is always the juicy with-in ear shot byte: Go Pro has a new poster child, and he's a local.
We like to seek out the juicy nuggets of the best and brightest hear in Central Coaster ville. The GoPro is about as amazing as any camera I've ever laid my hands on, but what do I know? That local guy parading around as a poster child from PBS (he's that too) has created something so creatively dialed, it's beyond Make Magazine.
No one tells a better story than David Hoffman. Filmmaker David Hoffman shares a great video on his amazing piece of do it your self technology.
Check out this amazing rig for his camera. The only thing I might suggest as I morph my own rig is this link.
Have a happy week creative creatures, enjoy this new news source now with stain fighting oxyclean.
Two items go beautifully hand in hand (or hotfoot to manfrotto grip) Enjoy this local genius and stay tuned for. More interesting developments.. Photographers and gopro gruppies pls Send us any snaps if you take his rig and run with it...
