Brookdale's got Street Style & Dream Seams

We've started the award winning premier Fashiuon Program at Brookdale Recreation Center! Youth ages 14-25 are welcome to attend every Friday from 4-6 pm for $2.00 a class or $20.00 a session. Youth under 14 can participate from 3:50-4:20 for $1.00 a class.

Come on in to start on Friday

Grubbed out at the picnic!

This past Saturday we me on top of the hill at Brookdale park.

We all ate food from the BBQ, La Farine donations, tossed around some football, and most importantly met some of our neighbors.

We raised $35 from our cookbook sales to go to groceries for the Healthy Eats Cooking Class.

Thanks ALL!

Come Join our Picnic in Brookdale Park.

Located at 2535 High Street Brookdale is a gem-of-a-rec-center surrounded by lush green space. Come join us this Saturday from 11-3.

Healthy Eats cooking class will be selling cookbooks from our recipes. Books with simple recipes will be on a sliding scale. Proceeds will go to benefit groceries for our program.

Double Dutch Performance at the African American Museum

African American Museum Zhannelle, Shahiya, and Shawn showcased their Double Dutch talents.

Shawn with the Ball. He also won the Michael Jackson Dance Contest.

Zhanelle shown above.

Shahiya in the advanced group. We are going to use some of these pictures for reference for our mural at Brookdale Recreation Center.

Some of our Favorite Games at Brookdale

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Serebii Game Click Here

Neil LeDoux at Brookdale

Artist Neil Ledoux has been working on an Art Project with the youth at Brookdale. Some community interactions have been facilitated by resident artist Kristi Holohan with assistance from center director Alaina Fuglstad. The collaborative piece is based on drawing and painting dreams. We have all worked together in a sort of correspondence with the 6 yard long canvas at the center on Wednesdays and then the piece returns with Neil to his home in San Francisco for him to work on. The final works will be displayed at Oakland's First Friday at Keys that Fit.

First Cooking Class

Our First Cooking Class was a complete success! We had about 8 participants in the teeny tiny kitchen at Brookdale.

But before the class started we assembled 10 grocery bags with donations from the Corte Madera Farmer's Market (collection courtesy of La Farine-Thanks Stan!) La Farine donated many delicious loaves for the grocery give-away. We checked out all of the new and distinct fruits and veggies from yams and turnips, cabbages, melons, to blue potatoes, purple peppers, and white onions. It certainly was an assortment.

Here's Devonte stirring up our tomato and cucumber salad.

We made red pasta sauce from scratch and smoothered our pasta shells in it. About 25 folks surrounded our table that was set oh so perfectly by the class participants.

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Kristi (volunteer chef facilitator) and Shawn (our local foodee/master sauce man). Her we are chowing down. About 25 folks-kids and adults enjoyed the fruits of our labor.

After dinner we cleaned up and sent everyone home with a grocery bag filled with fantastic fresh food!

Can't wait until the next Third Thursday cooking class!  Come by, meet your community, it's totally FREE!

Just to note in addition to La Farine, we now have the Food Mill on board as a sponsor!

Ideally we'd like to have the class and grocery give away every week so if you'd like to donate or volunteer please contact ACE.arts.eastbay@gmail.com.

In addition, we're looking for proper plates cups napkins and silverware so we don't have to be so wasteful with the paper.