ECOLECLAIRE FONTAINE APRIL.II 2018
FEATURES
FONDATION LOUIS-VUIT TON OUR BLUE PLANET TAHNEE LONSDALE
APRIL - SECOND EDITION 2018 / Volume 3 / Issue 5
352 Westminster Ave. Venice 90291 (310) 314-9976 LAClairefontaine.org
CO N T EN T S Ecole Claire Fontaine
p2 Contents
p16 Our Blue Planet
p3 Calendar
p18 The Secret Sauce
p4 Bir thdays
p19 Flower of May
P6 Louis Vuitton Foundation
p20 Concer ts du Lundi
p10 Ar tist Tahnee Lonsdale
p22 Botanics Under the Sea
p13 Ar t in the After noon
p24 Adver tise with ECF
p14 What We Are Reading
p26 A WAVE to Summer Camp
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CA L EN D A R
Apr il 2018 2nd edition
Fr i, 4 May Cinco de Mayo Picnic Mon- Thu, 7- 11 May AK Parent/Teacher Conferences Mon- Thu, 7- 11 May Teacher Appreciation Week Thu, 10 May The WAVE Awards Fr i, 11 May Family Day Celebr ations CC 9:30- 11am, AK 5- 6:30pm
Sun, 13 May Mother 's Day Mon- Thu, 14- 17 May CC Parent/Teacher Conferences Thu, 24 May Bir thday Celebr ations, Children only, CC 12:30, AK 1pm Mon, 28 May Memor ial Day, School Closed 3 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
BI RT H D AYS
Joyeux anniversaire
Adelina Anya Christiane Edward Davina Gideon
Harley H Jaz Joleigh Kaliana
Children & teachers will celebrate on May 24th by sharing songs and school made treats. 4 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
Nathaniel Wilder
We celebrate the births of our beautiful children who breathe fresh life & love into our community.
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south side.
FONDATION LOUISVUITTON
The small, colored squares the children cut and glued in place represent the playful Marina Ramey's Architecture class takes on the Glass of the roof project of Daniel Louis Vuitton Foundation & the Pyramide du Louvre Buren. Gehr y Throughout the year Fr ank Gehr y was required designed the building at Ecole Claire inspired by str uctures to use the height of the Fontaine students bowling of glass such as the two- stor y study the great that had Gr and Palais and the alley buildings of the world Palmar ium in the previously been on the and the shapes that Jardin d'Acclimation. spot. Anything higher for m them. He honored the had to be made of This month the class landscape by glass, thus the iconic of the has taken on both the connecting the shape Pyr amide du Louvre building to le Jardin to Foundation's building and the Fondation the nor th and the Bois is that of sails inflated Louis- Vuitton. de Boulongne on the by the wind. Whoosh. 6 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
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Children create the Fondation Louis-Vuitton
Raising the Foundation of our spirits 7 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
LE FONDATION LOUIS-VUITTON
Gluing the sheets of color that glimmered atop Le Fondation Louis-Vuitton
Le sac iconique 8 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
M. Vuitton
PYRAMIDE DU LOUVRE Folding the 4-sided pyramid
The Pyramide du Louvre was unveiled in
The base of the Pyramide du Louvre is 116 feet wide and 70 feet 9 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
ARTIST TAHNEE LONSDALE For the month of Mother's Day we highlight artist Tahnee Lonsdale. a Figurative Colorist whose paintings border on the Surreal. Website: http://tahneelonsdale.com Instagram: @tahneelonsdale
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are the source of life and protector s of spir its. While celebr ated they are also expected to be all things within a single moment. Women cr y, laugh and create within these confines. Tahnee Lonsdale uses color s, figures and wit to embody this sense. This Ecole Claire Fontaine mother ?s paintings are vivid in both color and subject matter. Beginning with an object, Tahnee
creates a sculpture, photogr aphs it, and then paints from there. She uses greens and pinks from fleshy to flower y, and evocative reds and yellows. Tahnee's Inglewood studio is the bir thplace of figur ative paintings that border on sur real. The figures she paints are mostly women, with fur niture symbolizing their domesticity. ?I began to see discarded fur niture like women in for m, slightly
abandoned.? Tahnee descr ibes moving from London to Los Angeles as a time that clar ified the direction of her work. ?It?s getting better now that I know what I want to say. Some people know r ight away but it took me a while to figure it out.? With her work having shown in galler ies in Edinbur gh, London and New York, we at ECF are hoping to see a show in a Los Angeles location as well. Continued on page 12
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In the studio, January 2018
From the FURNISHED Collection, 2017
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Continued from page 11
With much of the hobnobbing and hustle of the ar t world frequently belonging to those available to attend evening shows, Tahnee says humorously, ?We?ve got kids; all the hustling has to be done around bath and bed.? 12 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
TAHNEE LONSDALE'S STUDIO It was being at home with her children that really brought out her centr al themes of domesticity, gender roles and feminism. While her children themselves are not often directly
por tr ayed in her paintings, they have been bor rowed from. ?I sometimes use Rudy?s old plastic food to represent maleness ? the meat and the sausages,? she adds with the wit that penetr ates her work. End
CONNECT WITH COMMUNITY Students
are coloring pages for a mural to hang at the Venice Skills Center for A Window Between Worlds "Art in the Afternoon," on Saturday, May 6th from 12-4pm. All
event
proceeds
directly support AWBW's network of transformative arts programs that empower individuals and communities impacted by violence and trauma. Admission includes art, sports, music and food.
Sponsorship and ticket purchases are available: aia18eventbrite.com The Promo Code for Ecole Claire Fontaine families is ECF2018 awbw.org/aia
ART IN THE AFTERNOON
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WHAT WE ARE READING
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Les souliers usés au bal by Les Frères Gr imm Ma maman a besoin de moi by Mildred Pitts Walter
La Belle au bois dormant by Hans Chr istian Ander sen Mon chien est un éléphant by Remy Simard La vache orange by Père Castor
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OUR WORLD THE BLUE PLANET For the love of Earth
The children work to stand up for Ear th as it hosts our ver y lives. How do we do it? Clean- up the beach,. recycle and no more plastic str aws! In Philosophy class students looked at the globe and talked about the differences in the ear th and its elements 16 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
? air, land and sea. Why is the Ear th refer red to as the ?Blue Planet?? Because of the oceans! Here at Ecole Claire Fontaine we live next to the planet's lar gest ocean, containing more than half of the world's water. While the continents are vast, all of them could fit into
the 59 million square miles of the Pacific basin. In class the children placed model animals into the three categor ies based on their habitat. Among the discover ies were the compatibility of fur for land animals and how the slipper y scales of fish slide well through the water. Ear th Day ar t featured por tr aits and clay models of our beautiful blue planet.
air, land & sea
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FOR THE LOVE OF GARLIC J'adore l'ail! I love garlic! It issooo yummy! I just want a cup of Salsa please. I could take a bath in thissauce!
At
Ecole Claire Fontaine children love to eat Sauce Tomate, affectionately known at lunchtime as Salsa. It is red, spicy, war m and wonder ful. While the recipe is secret, we can share a fundamental health tip ? garlic. Studies (and life exper ience) show us that garlic can help 18 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
boost our immune systems and keep us feeling better with antioxidants, miner als and vitamins. With 11 miner als, a small clove includes calcium, iron, manganese, selenium, phosphor us and potassium. Among its 14 vitamins, garlic has B1, B6 and C. It also contains fiber, carbohydr ates, and a
little protein. The children eat it most days atop their couscous, pasta and r ice - as much as possible, as often as possible To your own secret sauce, remember to add loads of tomatoes and all the vegetables you grow and love. "Cette Sauce Tomate est très, très bonne."
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May Birth Month Flower: Hawthorn H awthor n's mystical and pr actical uses r ange histor ically fr om giving spir itual pr otection to r emedying hear t ailments.
Accor ding to the Far mer 's Almanac, in addition to the tr aditional Lily of the Valley, ther e is another May flower - the Hawthor n. It r epr esents hope and supr eme happiness. The Hawthor n says, "I want the ver y best for you."
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MUSIC TO SOOTHE OUR SOULS
The Monday Concert Series with Marina brings to light the Baroque and Classical periods.
Concertsdu Lundi 2017-2018 J.S. Bach, Bandener ie, BWV 1067, Suite 2 en si mineur J.S.Bach, Adagio. Concer to en re mineur, BWV 974
A. Vivaldi: Vedro Con Mio Diletto (Giustino) L. Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata,
Bach- Concer to for Violin and Oboe in C minor, BWV 1060a
L. Beethoven, Fur Elise
Alessandro Marcello, Oboe Concer to in D minor
J.S.Bach, Fugue en sol mineur (G minor), BWV 578
L. Beethoven Tempest
Mar in Mar ais, Le Gr and ballet
J.S.Bach, Toccata & Fugue en re mineur (D minor), BWV 565
L. Beethoven, Symphonie N.5, 1st movement
Pachelbel, Canon in D minor
A. Vivaldi, Adagio molto, L'Automne
W.A. Mozar t, Turkish March K331
A. Vivaldi, Adagio molto, L'Automne, guitare:
Philip Glass Metamor phosis 3 Philip Glass Metamor phosis 5 P. Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux ('The Nutcr acker ') Ar vo Piar t, Spiegel im Spiegel
A. Vivaldi, Winter
Yuja Wang plays Mélodie de Gluck/Or feo ed Eur idice
J.S.Bach, Toccata in D minor BWV 565
Schuber t, Ständchen
Er ic Satie, Gymnopedie 1,2,3
2 CELLOS - Ed Sheehan, Per fect
Handel, Sar abande
W.A. Mozar t, Fantasy No.3 in D minor K 397
Lang Lang)
A. Vivaldi Tr io Sonata "La Follia" en re mineur, RV63
O come, O come, Emmanuel (piano/cello) - (for Chr istmas)
Claude Debussy, Rêver ie
2 CELLOS - Viva La Vida
A. Vivaldi, Sento in seno, RV 737:
Rameau, Rondeau des Indes Galantes
Claude Debussy, La Fille aux cheveux de lin (inter prétation
2 CELLOS - Theme from Schindler 's List 20 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
Underwater Botanicals
Une étoile de mer - Star Fish Les poissons - The Fish
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A D V ERT I SE W IT H O U R CO M M U N I T Y French & English songs for children by Eitan's Mom!
Or ganic Produce Boxes
On sale for $12 in ECF office
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A Window Between Worlds awbw.org/aia 50% off for ECF families with code: ECF2018 23 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
VENICE FLYING CAROUSEL & FANTASTIC BIKE MACHINES BIKE POW ERED Venice Themed
DONATE, PARTICIPATE Adopt a Carousel
Creative Music School with ECF Teacher s Freder ic Michot & Maïwenn Ekoué
Piano, Guitar, Dr ums Ukulele & Recorder
ECFs Choir Teacher, Laure, comes to us from the French Conservatory of Music
Purchase CD:
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JoinusMay10in Congratulating EcoleClaire Fontaine's2018 WAVEAward recipient, Pierrette Shamee
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Registr ation is Open for Ecole Claire Fontaine's Inter national Summer Camp by the Sea. Flexible schedule. 27 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
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