Caroline Collective

Craft Night’s triumphant return for 2009 begins on January 20th, 2009. Join your community and Diverseworks to create objects that will be included in the upcoming installation, House of Mind. In addition to contributing to building Houston’s biggest button waterfall, book room, high heel tower, but you will be able to be a part of DiverseWorks history as your work will be part of DW’s largest production/installation to date, House of Mind!

You’ll also get the chance to make your own memory books for the installation. Feel free to bring magazines, pictures, maps, to use for your memory book. Diverseworks also needs 4,000 books, buttons and high heels for the exhibit. If you have any you would like to donate, please bring them to Caroline Collective on Craft Night.

Make sure to wear something you don’t mind getting dirty! We are busting out the spray paint and hot glue gun.

The first Craft Night of the 2009 marks the beginning of one of Caroline Collective’s 2009 initiatives to log hours of volunteers who donate their time. Reported hours will be used for submission to regional and national service awards.

WHAT: Craft Night with Diverseworks for House of Mind

WHERE: Caroline Collective, 4820 Caroline, Houston TX

WHEN: January 20th, 2009, 7-10pm

WHY: Help Diverseworks create works for their largest installation to date

More information about House of Mind is available below or on the Diverseworks site:

Pat Graney
House of Mind
Installation on View: Jan. 30- Feb. 21, 2009
Performances: Jan. 30 & 31, Feb. 5 – 7, 2009
7:30 pm
Commissioned by DiverseWorks with Dance Theater Workshop and NPN
DiverseWorks Main Gallery, Project Space, and Theater

Internationally renowned choreographer, Pat Graney, makes a grand return to Houston as she takes over DiverseWorks’ entire building with her latest exhibition and performance House of Mind. In an amalgamation of female memory, collective unconscious, and family and cultural histories, Graney creates an expansive kinesthetic sense of her work that takes the audience on an intense and thought-provoking journey through her past, her mother’s battles with Alzheimer’s and the quirky imagination that Houstonians saw in The Vivian Girls (2005) and Sleep (1998). The public is invited to tour the installation, a multi-sensory experience that physically manifests aspects her mind, and then experience a choreographed performance, in which each viewer’s experience will be as unique as memory itself.

The installation for House of Mind will be on view during gallery hours. Admission is free and open to the public.

If you would like to purchase tickets to the House of Mind performances, go to www.diverseworks.org. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for DiverseWorks members and $8.00 for students and seniors. Seating is EXTREMELY LIMITED, so please reserve your tickets NOW!

About Craft Night

Craft Night was, in its 2008 inception, an after work hours event to come and share your craft project with other crafty people in Houston. Later, it evolved into crafters teaching a specific skill or a non-profit visiting Caroline, providing food and drink and enlisting the help of the community for one of their own projects.

In 2009 Craft Night will continue to provide crafty manpower to non-profits/orgs but will additionally expand to teaching creative skills while making items and goods which benefit service based organizations, creating such usable items such as clothing or household goods. As an effort to give back to our members, several of the craft nights for ’09 will relate to healthy living or making functional objects.

Additionally, we plan to begin to logging volunteer hours at Craft Night and other service based Caroline events for submission to local and national service based awards.

Beverages are encouraged (we have a refridgerator), ipods loaded with music are always welcome and your attendance is requested.