Membership in the Workshop
We have changed the way we define Membership.
Every family that participates in, or supports our programs, will be designated a Member. This folds membership fees into your gifts or tuition payments. Your contributions are more important than ever. Your generosity underwrites our commitment to accessibility and to lively experiments. This change will help simplify our online registration and record keeping without increasing the net cost of our workshops.
In a year of unnerving rhetoric, remember the power of play.
Children play to explore, to understand, to make things work.
Children embrace big ideas. It makes sense that even Pirates established codes to govern fairness on their adventures. It makes sense that Pirate crews accepted able sailors from many ports. it makes sense that not all Pirate captains were men.
We are not training young Pirates. We are encouraging children to play well with others, to revel in the kaleidoscopic richness of diversity, to accept that gender does not determine talent, to embrace with wonder how much the world has to share.
We write to thank you for all that children have built here with your support and to ask for your continued help, You open workshops to children regardless of their neighborhoods or nations they were born in. You help us make a long investment in the imaginations and drive of the 90 Apprentices who give the work scale and depth. Your generosity begets generosity and civility that will equip a next generation to make the world work.
Bill Brown – Sally Hill
