Title:
- Connecting to the Earth: Traditions in Action
- Connecting to the Earth: Your Yager
- The Yager Project: Earth Traditions in Action
- The Yager Connection: Bringing Earth Traditions to Life
Join The Yager Museum on April 19th from 11am to 4pm for "(insert title)," featuring Hawk Circle and a series of interactive wilderness education programs. The event will feature Native traditions, including boiling sap and flint napping on Frisbee Field, while a beaded necklace activity takes place in the Yager Museum. The event also features "Containers of Belief," a Yager special exhibit of Native American containers, uses, and craftsmanship. Refreshments, including Native foods, will be available. The event is free to all. For more information, call The Yager Museum at (607)-431-4480.
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* not to critique, but i read over the description and reworded a few things, just b/c i thought it would make it more appealing and concise...feedback/additions or changes are welcom
Description:
Join The Yager Museum on April 19th from 11am to 4pm for "(insert title)," to experience Native traditions. Special guests from Hawk Circle, a wilderness education center, will demonstrate the Native process of making maple syrup, and teach flint napping and rope making on Frisbee Field. Just down the stairs in the Yager Museum make beaded jewelry or explore "Containers of Belief," a special exhibit of Native American containers, traditions, and craftsmanship. Refreshments, featuring Native foods, will be available on the Field and in the Museum. This event is free to all. For more information, call The Yager Museum at (607)-431-4480.
Peg, I like that you mentioned our "special guests from Hawk Circle", I think it is important for the students to know that we will be having professionals who know what they are talking about doing the activities.
The title that I like the most is: The Yager Project: Earth Traditions in Practice, I like this one because it ties in Earth Day and the Yager collection without coming right out and saying those exact words. I also think that saying that this is a project will let students know that this program is purely about interactives and immersing yourself in the Native American lifestyles.
I agree with Amanda on the title, and I really like Peggy's revision to the program description. It's sad we couldn't incorporate the "contain yourself" title, but I do like "The Yager Project: Earth Traditions in Practice".
I would suggest a bit of a smoother edit for the program, including the following piece (with some of Peggy's suggestions with more detail about the overall approach to the project:
Join the Yager Museum on April 19th from 11am to 4 pm for"Connecting with the Earth: Traditions in Action (this is the title I like because there is so little enthusiasm or connection to Yager in general)"
Special guest interpreter/presenters from the Hawk Circle in Cherry Valley will conduct a series of interactive wilderness education programs. The event will feature Native traditions, including boiling maple sap, drum making and use, flint napping, and rope making on Frisbee Field, while a beaded necklace activity will take place in the Yager Museum. The event also features "Containers of Belief," a Yager Museum special exhibition exploring Native American objects made and used by Native people in their everyday lives. The exhibition also considers the spiritual dimensions of the objects from creation through use. Refreshment be served, including foods using ingredients available to Native Americans. The event is free to all.
The Hawk Circle group includes a few Native American educators as well as interpretive specialists who have experience in not just teaching and demonstrating Native American survival skills and craft making but in engaging visitors (or students) in slowing down and working closely on these traditional activities. The program will provide a sense of immersion and reality connecting visitor activity with how Native Americans used the materials at their disposal to create objects for use and beauty. Hartwick museum studies students will conduct a session about how to bead a necklace, which visitors can keep at the end of the program.
The museum's co-sponsors, once they are known, should then be mentioned.
For more information, call The Yager Msueum at 607-431-4480.
Hartwick College blurb must follow.
Just a phrase suggestion for the title, which could be combined with either the beginning or ending of the other titles already mentioned: Containing the Earth
Hi Everyone,
RIcardo here. Just had a meeting about the event on our end, and we are all really excited!
Love the descriptions as you are editing it, and would just add that flintknapping is spelled with a 'k' in it, and it is often used as one word....
Looking forward to seeing you next week on Thursday.
Take care and feel free to let us know if you need any other information from us about the event or planning.
By the way, the food looks great!
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