March 2013 - Appel Farm Arts Camp
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March 2013 - Appel Farm Arts Camp
March 2013 In This Issue Featured Alum.............................................................. 2 Sarv’s Corner................................................................. 3 Camper Artwork.......................................................... 4 Camp Reunions............................................................ 5 Appel Juice.................................................................... 6 Look Who’s Coming to Camp.................................. 7 Countdown to Camp 2013........................................ 7 School Year Blog.......................................................... 7 95 days and counting... We had so much fun with over 50 of our camp friends at the Appel Farm Spring Reunion at the Funplex earlier this month! Next, we are hoping to spread the Appel Farm love... Bring a friend from home to Earth Day at Appel Farm! Look for details about our last reunion before Camp 2013! Until then, please enjoy meeting camp alumnus, Jeremy Bloom, and learn how We Are All Nuts with Sarv. Check out our talented campers, and start dreaming about what you’ll create this summer! See who’s already signed up, and continue your countdown to Camp 2013! Have you been reading Appel Farm’s new School Year Blog? It’s really fun, and super informative! Check it out every day! We would love to hear from you as well! Let us know what you’re up to! Share news about your art, upcoming shows, college, jobs, family, and life in general! We’ll get all of your Appel Juice together, and share it in the next Appel Core! Until Camp... Jennie, Cori, and Melissa Stay in Touch! Call or visit our website to register for Camp 2013 ;; Read the Appel Core! before March 31st and receive a $300 discount off your ;; Submit Appel Juice! 4, 6, or 8-week tuition! ;; Friend us on Facebook! ;; Come to the Camp Reunions! ;; Become an Appel Farm Ambassador! ;; Take the Camper Survey on our website! (856) 358-2472 camp@appelfarm.org www.appelfarmartscamp.org Refer a Friend! If you know anyone who might be a great fit for the community at Appel Farm (and who would know better than you guys) we would love to introduce ourselves! You can refer a friend on our website, or just give us a call! FEATURED ALUM Jeremy Bloom 1.When were you at camp? party-music band in which I play the accordion. First Session, 2001-2005. Shameless plug: www. facebook.com/tipsyoxcart. 2.What was your major and what were some of your minors? 5.How do you think you were influenced by your Appel Farm experience? I was always a Technical Theater major. My minors varied.. I think some included music, sculpture, and video. 3.What was camp like when you were a camper and what are some of your favorite memories? My years at camp were just at the turning point of getting all the new facilities. Many of the dorms were still chicken coops and the new Art Barn had just been built. I very fondly remember: Jeremy, at a parade in Istanbul, Turkey Playing Balkan music and Appalachian fiddle tunes with Merrill Garbus (now of tUnE-yArDs fame). 6.What advice or suggestions do you have for present day Appel Farm campers? Reading all of Harry Potter when a massive thunderstorm struck and I was in the bunk for shelter. There was a counselor named Greg, I forget his last name, who is singularly responsible for starting my obsessive love for learning new instruments. He brought a number of mountain dulcimers one year, which I picked up quite quickly and it just all took off from there. One summer there was also a very shy Turkish guy in the bunk. I didn’t interact with him too much, but I learned my very first Turkish words from him which is quite significant because I am now fluent. I think Appel Farm was pivotal in forming who I am now. Most of all, Appel Farm really supported me in coming out as a young gay man. Because of liberal environments like Appel Farm that I was lucky enough to find myself in, I never even really had a chance to classically be “in the closet.” It was at Appel Farm where I figured out I was gay. Luckily in this environment there was no doubt that my peers would accept me. Jeremy, as Lugarshz, a character he and friend Ben Pine came up with, a kind of culturally confused Eastern European guy who was giving nonsensical advice 4.Where are you living now, and what are you doing for work and fun? I recently graduated from Vassar College. I moved back to my hometown of Brooklyn, NY and am now living in the sea-side neighborhood of Red Hook. I’m working as a freelance sound designer for theater and am the resident sound designer at The Flea Theater, a well-known player in NYC’s downtown theatre scene. I am also very proud to be a member of “Tipsy Oxcart,” a new funky Bulgarian\Balkan Don’t specialize: Make lots of art: It is VERY unlikely you will ever have this much time and freedom to make art without distractions for the rest of your life. Make sure you try new majors or at least minors every year — you might find something you really enjoy and never knew about. For me, that surprise was learning to work with glass at a torch. Your counselors are talented, so make sure you are proactive to learn as much as you can from them. Explore. Be subversive. Hang out with Sarv. Performers! Sarvananda Bluestone has been a college professor, published author and professional psychic. In addition he has been the Head Counselor and a Theater Director at Appel Farm for 26 summers. He originally came so that his daughter, Hira, could come as a camper, and now her daughter, his grand daughter, Lucy, can come this summer. We Are All Nuts Albert Einstein was a smart fellow. He was perhaps the smartest guy in the last two hundred years…or more. But more than smart, he was wise. Einstein gave one of the best definitions of craziness. Insanity, he said, “is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Think about. We do the same things over and over and expect that things will be different. Fact is that, according to Einstein’s definition, we are all nuts. I don’t mean homicidal maniac foaming at the mouth crazy. I mean every day, garden variety cuckoo. It comes with being human. How many times, for example, do we worry about things? I worry about the people I love. I worry about my daughter, Hira, my granddaughter, Lucy, and my son in law, Todd. I worry about being loved. I know that this worrying does nothing but make me feel crappy. I know this in my head and still I worry. If we think about it there are probably hundreds of examples every day where we do things that we have done before and get the same results. If we listen we can hear a little echo inside. It’s a kind of “I’ve been here before” feeling. I go down to Appel Farm every year in late February or early March. It’s a wonderful trip despite its length. Over time the trip has become a friendship journey. I hang out with Rena Levitt — who was Appel Farm camp director during my first thirteen years there — and her husband Stanley — two dear old friends. I hang out with Jennie and Cori who are also beloved friends. And on the way back I stop in Princeton, where my very old and dear friend, Joan Scott, lives. Joan and I were camp counselors together over fifty years ago. We did our graduate work in history at the University of Wisconsin. Joan always makes a delicious dinner — we talk about our children and grand children like good grandparents do and share our lives for the previous year. The last leg of the trip is thus warmed. This time, on my last day at Appel Farm, Jennie, Cori and I had lunch with Loren Thomas, the new executive director of Appel Farm, a position that Mark Packer had for the past quarter century. Loren is a very cool and thoughtful guy. Early on, during the lunch, he turned to me and said, “I understand you don’t like change.” I really do like it when people speak their minds. It’s a brave thing to do with strangers and the more we do it, the less scary it becomes. And it beats B.S. every time. New Haven is to Seattle what Death Valley is to Paris. I know they will be much happier. But my feelings were dominated by worry. I was losing something that I was familiar with. My experience has been that I have grown and flourished with change. Otherwise, I would still be toddling around and pooping in my diapers. I know that change is the essence of life, itself. Still I fear and resist it. We all probably could come up with a list of things that we do over and over again that do not serve us. These are our little nuttiness. They don’t make us bad people. They make us human. All of us bring our little craziness to Appel Farm. As the poet Gertrude Stein once said, “wherever you go, there you are.” We can’t escape from ourselves. But one of the nice things about camp is that we don’t need to escape from ourselves. We can be who we are. (After all, who else could we be?) Of course he was right. I don’t like change. It’s one of those repetitive things that I mentioned. And it usually has very little to do with what is being changed. It has to do with me. It’s always easier to see the problems with someone else rather than ourselves. I do it all the time. The challenge is humility — the recognition that everybody wants to be loved. Everybody has fears. And most of us worry that we don’t belong. Loren’s comment came at an appropriate time. After five years, my daughter, granddaughter and son in law are moving back to Seattle. For five years they have lived less than two and half hours from me. Change. I know they will be much happier in the city they love. And let’s face it At camp we have the opportunity to help ourselves and each other to go through our fears, our worries and all of the little quirkiness that make us up. We can help each other grow and truly become a community of artists, each of us our own unique work of art. Visual Arts and Photography Isabel Van den Heuvel Grace Barrett Kathryn Abbott Giulia Casiraghi Sophie Hill Cameron Pollack Jordana Schechner-Kanofsky Vanessa Roser Campsick? Campsick? We had so much fun at the Appel Farm Spring Reunion at The Funplex, and we can’t wait to see you all again for our last reunion on Sunday, April 22nd: Earth Day at Appel Farm! •Appel Farm is celebrating Earth Day, and you are invited to introduce your friends to Appel Farm and our welcoming community of tree-hugging artists! •If you have a friend from home who wants to learn more about Appel Farm, this is your chance to spend the day at the farm, gardening, making art, learning about our environment •Connect with your friends from home, your camp friends, and campers who will be coming to Appel Farm for the first time this summer! Appel Juice Camper, Staff, and Alumni News Anything interesting going on in your life? E-mail us at camp@appelfarm.org! Laura Spires (2011-12) I recently played Cinderella and the Pea Princess — yes, because one princess was not enough for me — in The Stinky Cheese Man at Columbus Children’s Theatre. Jason Lockhart (2003) I sold my first feature film as a writer/director. CASTING COUCH comes out everywhere on March 12th!!! I talk about Appel Farm all the time and cherish my memories there! THANKS SO MUCH GUYS” Adam Weiner (1991-4, 2001, 2005) So my band, Low Cut Connie, is playing the great Appel Farm Arts & Music Festival...I grew up at AF so this is a real thrill for me. In the summer of ‘91, I had two experiences that made me the man I am today: 1. I had my first kiss...and 2. I watched Albert wade through the bog in his tighty-whities. I hope that I can give the festival crowd a similar formative experience. Also, I’m hoping to see Sarv so that I can get my past lives revealed to me. I promise a stellar jolt of rock n roll for all my Appel Farm homies...we’re opening the festival at 11:30 am and we’re definitely gonna wake all the folkies up. Love you all...thanks for having me back to the Farm...aka one of my favorite places on Earth. .......... Camp Who’s ! C o ming to Look Ian Aberbach, Samantha Aberbach, Alice Adams, Kennedy Anderson, Kate Apostolacus, Victoria Appel, Isadora Barnett, Grace Barrett, Jordan Barron, Sarah Barry, Claire Baylis, Elizabeth Beall, Austin Beaulieu, Nicole Bellwoar, Emily Bloomfield, Katelin Boak, Natalie Bombeke, Nina Bombeke, Kathleen Boyles, Laura Boyman, Zachary Brookler, Sarai Brown-Alexander, Sione Brown-Alexander, Soleil BrownAlexander, Ben Brown-McMillin, Annabelle Burd, Grace Buysse, Sofia Carusone, Kaiya Case, Shayne Colomy, Allison Connors, Ashlee Cressman, Maura Cummins, Trevor D’Ambrogio, Dylan Dagenais, Katrina Dagenais, Larissa Dale, Tristen DesRosiers, Isabella DiPietro, Isabel Duncan-Huffman, Rachel Eckert, Alexis Epstein, Julia Ethan, Sarah Fichter, Megan Flanagan, Lily Forbes, Nora Foutty, Arthur Furniss, Claire Gadon, Audrey Gao, Shane Garry, Peter Gaston, John Gaynor, Morris Gelbart, Natasha Gerstmann, Jake Gess, Lucy Gilbertsen, Virginia Glynn, Claire Goldberger, Katie Goldberger, Rachel Goldman, Haley Goldstein, Julia Goldstein, Rebekah Grzywacz, Aislinn Guinee, Marley Hansen, Maxine Harkins, Nathaniel Hauser, Edith Henderson, Hazel Henderson, Charity Herndon, Olivia Herrick, Sophie Hill, Lidia Hobbs, Clayton Howard, Drew Jacobson, Tatiana James, Livia Janjigian, Nina Janjigian, Maya Jenkins, Jacqueline Jordan, Eve Jost, Tali Kamionkowski, Beth Keenan, Hugh Keenan, Dylan Kelly, Emma Kelly, Kayla Kern, Rebecca Kern, Mollie Kiel, Nomi Kligler, Rebekah Kline, Alec Kravitt, Katie Kunka, Ashley Kurtz Freilich, Emma Kurtz Freilich, Jake Kurtz Freilich, Rachel Lachaga, Isabella Lancenese, Miri Leaderman-Bray, Anna Lear, Cyrus Levy, Hannah Lewis, Talia Loeb, Miriam Ludwig, Jamison Lung, Allison Maeker, Victoria Marcune, Mia Meola, Maia Mizrahi, Mira Mookerjee, Gwendolyn Moore, Alexander Moravcsik, Corinne Mouw, Jenna Movsowitz, Aviva Nachman, Blanca Naglestad, Ally Nalibotsky, Denise Nalibotsky, Emma Neuman, Romy Neuman, Dixie O’Connell, Emily Orlich, Grace Orndorff, Phillip Otto, Lauren Outing, Summer Paris, Liza Pennington, Maggie Perlman, Jonah Perry, Serena Piervincenzi, Fiona Pollack, Sofia Pollack, Joshua Posner, Kathryn Prouse, Skylar Ricci, Madeline Ritter, Jillian Roche, Olivia Roche, Olivia Roder, Havi Rojer, Nita Rome, Rebecca Rome, Simon Rosen, Vanessa Roser, Cassie Rosin, Jonah Rubin, Eli Russell, Alexis Ryan, Aurora Ryan, Emily Sanderson, Paige Sanderson, Olivia Saporito, William Satloff, Nina Schatell, Jeanne Schmitt, Symone Sexton, Maya Seymour, Sidra Seymour, Django Sibilia, Wyatt Sibilia, Emma Singleton, Jessica Skobel, Shadiqua Smith-Spann, Kayla Sorbello, AJ Stacy, Gabriela Stahl, Tamara Stahl, Benjamin Steinwurtzel, McKenzie Stephens-Simon, Nolan Stern, Allyson Stevens, Anna Stribrny, Naomi Stuart, Sarah Sullivan, Evan Sweitzer, Chloe Tevere, Jacob Tevere, Claire Tierney, David Treatman, Hannah Treatman, Eli Troll, Lucy Vanecek, Allison Weiss, Jennifer Weiss, Meghan West, Sarah Willis, Paige Zuber Six campers from Second Session Bunk 16 (highlighted in white) are coming to camp, it’s about time you signed up too! Register today! Hurricane Sandy Our hearts go out to all of our camp families who were affected by the storm. If storm damage will prevent you from coming to camp, please get in touch with us ASAP to apply for assistance. Countdown to Camp :: 95 days until First Session! Mini Session I June 23 to July 7 Six Weeks June 23 to August 4 First Session June 23 to July 19 Full Session June 23 to August 16 123 days until Second Session! Mini Session II July 21 to August 4 Second Session July 21 to August 16 School Year Blog You’ve been reading the blog, right? We hope so! Every day campers, staff, and parents are treated to something new. Each day of the week highlights a different theme and core value, so it’s fun to read every day! We welcome guest bloggers from any member of our camp community, even parents, so get in touch if you have an idea! During the summer, we’ll turn our blog back over to Graham, our Camp Documentarian, so parents can read about the daily activities at camp. www.appelfarmartscamp. org/camp/news/blog