Thats right, Skillshare will be part of SXSW hijinks getting revved up and sharing skills. The press release is below, but here are a few highlights: the show is free, the beer is free, and the skills are free! Happy birthday Stem and Leaf!!
Saturday March 20th
Rainey Manor (90 I-35 South)
12-8pm
In other news, the weekend event of summer workshops is brewing. We are aiming for a weekend in May and need your help!! send me an email at charibird@gmail.com if you are interested in volunteering or facilitating a workshop.

Stem and Leaf 2010

For the past 5 years Stem and Leaf has hosted a party during SXSW featuring our friends who are part of the artist collective, and their friends they have made along the way. Every SXSW we pay homage to those who made the events and shows a great time, as well as create lasting friendships for the years to come.

This year it's bigger than ever with two stages and SIXTEEN bands total!

Free Beer and snacks all day, compliments of all of us at Stem and Leaf !!!

Skillshare Austin and The Garden Posse will be helping out with tables of hands on craft making and screen printing.

Austin's Treasure City Thrift will be there with a rack of cute clothes and TCT t-shirts for boys and girls.

Also, a Vintage Clothing Sale will be happening across the alley courtesy of Baltimore House Studio and Friends (next door to Lustre Pearl).

We're holding the party this year at Rainey Manor (90 I-35 South) which is catty corner to Lustre Pearl (Official SXSW Venue). Also directly located off of the I-35 Frontage road just past Cesar Chavez.

SHOW SCHEDULE:

outside:

12:10 - 12:40, Darling New Neighbors
1:00 - 1:30, The Distant Seconds
1:55 - 2:25, Stephanie's ID (Asheville, NC)
2:50 - 3:20, Squalor Victoria
3:20 - 3:50, Mount Righteous (Grapevine, TX)
3:50 - 4:20, News on the March (Houston, TX)
4:45 - 5:15, The Great Nostalgic
5:40 - 6:10, One Hundred Flowers
6:35 - 7:05, Dignan (McAllen, TX)
7:30 - 8:00, Cartographers (San Antonio, TX)

inside:

1:30 - 1:55, Writer (Denton, TX)
2:25 - 2:50, OK Sweetheart
4:20 - 4:45, Polar Optimist
5:15 - 5:40, Monarchs
6:10 - 6:35, Peter and the Wolf
7:05 - 7:30, The Loom (Brooklyn, NY)

Stem and Leaf is a completely DIY upstart of Austin artists. We buy our own beer for our parties. We run our own sound. We make our own snacks with our own hands (don't worry, we wash). We make our signs. We build our own stages.

We are completely DIY, free of any corporate sponsorship or funding.

Your support is always appreciated. You are always loved.

Looking forward to another year, Austin!

Love,
Stem and Leaf - ATX

This Sunday September 27th, Skillshare will be at the Art Authority helping raise money for the Garden Posse. For those who came to our summer Skillshare Weekend, you may remember the Garden Posse putting together a guerrilla garden with skillsharers.
Skillshare will have a booth with information and, most importantly, a skillswap! Feel free to bring your own quick skills and share them with us. Its an all day thing, so drop on by, 1-8.

I hope to see you all there!
-Charity

P.s. Here is the official press release along with the line up of bands!:

On Sunday, September 27, Stem & Leaf Showcases is happy to be hosting The Garden Posse of Austin Benefit Show at The United States Art Authority from 1:00 - 8:00PM.

The Garden Posse of Austin is a guerrilla gardening group in Austin, TX whose mission is to transform neglected urban space into lush and productive gardens with the help of their young, like-minded volunteers who share a love of gardening, fun, local food networks, and sustainable land use.

Garden Posse founder Lindsay Patterson worked on community gardens in Austin’s East Side. While researching how to establish and run a community garden, she started running into information about guerrilla gardening. The idea of starting a series of small gardens all over the city appealed to her, both as a way to bring people together within their community, and to make urban spaces more beautiful. Their first dig was at the end of August, 2008 and since then the Posse has gone on to establish gardens all over Austin, host seed bomb and gardening workshops, and organize Austin’s International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day, amongst other community outreach.

The group hopes that through guerrilla gardening they will encourage others to be inspired to help a garden in their area grow as it transforms formerly neglected urban space into a place rich with healthy food and community togetherness. They are happy to have had their group grow with new members over the past year and welcome all who wish to become involved and share their gardening tips over social gatherings and potlucks.

Showing our appreciation for what they do, Stem & Leaf Showcases and all the musicians involved, hope to raise funds and spread the good that the Posse has done for our community.

Included with the $5.00 suggested donation, attendees will receive a raffle ticket. The winner of the raffle will receive their very own garden; project management, planning, labor and supplies provided by The Garden Posse of Austin.

Also involved will be Skillshare Austin, raffling off their handmade Chicken Tractor and Quilombo, a community garden on the East Side, will be selling vegetable transplants for cheap!

Please see the stage schedule listed on the event to see the full line up of bands playing on both stages.

We hope you will make it out for this tremendous community event and help show your support for a group of people that have Austins best interest in mind.
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OUTSIDE STAGE

1:30 - 2:00 Boone Graham

2:45 - 3:15 Stephen's Island Wren

4:00 - 4:30 Lady Maybe & The Sometimes Friends

5:15 - 5:45 Dana Falconberry

6:30 - 6:45 Raffle Winner Drawing

6:45 - 7:15 Danny Malone

INSIDE STAGE

2:00 - 2:45 Marcus Rubio & Gospel Choir of Pillows

3:15 - 4:00 The Great Nostalgic

4:30 - 5:15 Cartographers

5:45 - 6:30 One Hundred Flowers

7:15 - 8:00 The Lovely Sparrows

Skillshare Austin Skill Swap
Barton Springs
2101 Barton Springs Rd.
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
2 to 4pm

Well folks, it looks as though summer is officially upon us! In
efforts to beat the heat we are moving our monthly skill swap to the
springs this Saturday. Come out and swap some skills in the sunshine
(made a bit more bearable by the shade of a few friendly trees and
immediate access to a refreshing spring fed pool). We’ll be bringing
out some simple skills that should be a lot of fun for everyone. Make
felt buttons, practice some easy embroidery techniques, learn a few
new magic tricks perhaps. If you feel up to bringing along your own
skill for the sharing, that’s great! If not, just come and learn cool
stuff anyway!

If all of this wasn’t enough, you can also enjoy the Qawwali music of
Austin’s own Riyazz. They’ll be playing at Barton Springs from 2 to 5
pm on Saturday. All in all, it looks to be a lovely way to spend an
afternoon.

As always, this Skillshare Austin event is free; however, Barton
Springs Pool does charge 3 dollars for admission into the pool area.
If you can swing it, we think it’ll be worth your while. We hope to
see you all out there!

And to all of those who were able to make it out to the Skillshare
Austin weekend at the beginning of the month, our unending love and
gratitude. We hope you enjoyed yourselves, we certainly did!

I've gotten quite a few emails asking where the schedule is for this weekend. It's up on the website now at www.skillshareaustin.org and it's 99% finalized...just scroll down on the front page and you'll see it.

See you tomorrow!
Cory
Skillshare Austin

Just an exciting reminder that this weekend is our 2nd Annual Skillshare weekend!! We have a finalized schedule up (scroll down for it).

Thanks to Annie Street Arts Collective and Stem and Leaf, we have an after party on Sunday may 30th at Room 710 (710 red river) starting at 9pm. There is a suggested donation of $5 and a free cupcake by SALT. Featuring performances by One Hundred Flowers, The Cartographers, The Axons and Amanda Kitchens, and DIY DJing between sets.

ALSO!! Listen out for skillshare interviewed by youth spin on koop 91.7 from 6-7 this Friday.

Hello skillsharers! We are nothing but busy little bees putting together some pretty rad things for you guys!

First, we have a skill swap at Monkey Wrench Books (110 E. North loop) tomorrow (sat may 8th) 4-6pm. The weather is looking good so we will probably be in the back yard. Pack a picnic, bring a skill, and hang out. We have rubber stamps and skrinky dinks in the mix, i might pull out my embroidery skills and dust them off as well! As always, it is a good opportunity to meet the people who bring skillshare to you! Come on by and lets talk about the future of Skillshare Austin, volunteer opportunities for our 2nd annual Skillshare Weekend, and learn something!

Oh yeah, and remember that crazy weekend of free hands-on workshops we put on last summer? We are at it again!

Skillshare Austin's 2nd annual weekend of workshops!
Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 12-6pm
Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 12-6pm

Space 12
3121 E 12th Ave, Austin TX 78702

On the last weekend in May, Skillshare Austin will be hosting it’s second annual weekend skillshare with 2 full days of workshops on the themes of transportation, sustainable urban homesteading, parenting/childcare, and arts/media, along with activities for kids.

Sign up to teach a workshop, we still have a few spaces open: http://www.skillshareaustin.org/workshop-proposal-form

if you are interested in volunteering the event, email me: charibird@gmail.com

see you there!
oh, and the after party details are to arrive shortly!

****6:00 to 8:00 PM, this friday april 3rd*****

Treasure City Thrift.
1720 East 12th Street (between Comal and Chicon)
in East Austin

learn to SEW on a SERGER!
what's a serger? you know how the seams on professionally made clothes look different than what you make at home? A serger makes that nice finished edge. Come by Treasure City to learn how to use one and see what it can do. No experience or materials neccessary, although you're welcome to bring your own project to work on if you'd like.

Crafty Fridays will be an ongoing workshop (every friday evening in april) to include embroidery, crochet, knitting, weaving, felting, sewing, and clothes altering. Stay tuned for what the focus of each particular workshop will be, and contact us if you're interested in helping to teach.

Hey there darling skillsharers and skill seekers! It is spring in Austin and we have some serious plans to take advantage of the best time of the year! so get out your calenders! March 20th we will be partaking in the menagerie of SXSW-ness (see below for details), April 4th we will have a fibers workshop at Treasure City Thrift, and April 5th at Monkey Wrench Books we will be holding a meet and greet skill swap. Knowing full well that this is an overwhelming week, stay tuned for the details of the April events or come out and see us on the 20th and we will tell you all about it.

MARCH 20, 2009 12:00 - 8:00
We will be sharing the skills of quick crafts made from recyclable materials. Skrinky dinks, buttons, and more! But thats not all, seeing how it is SXSW time, there is plenty to tickle all of your senses. see bellow for the other goodies!

801 Rio Grande St.

Free! All Ages! Free BEER!
Treasures by Skillshare Austin & Luster Creations
Food by Salt
PUNK ROCK PICTIONARY!
SHOW ME TIGER! Dance Party w/ Special Guest: Jasper James (NYC)
Featuring Music Acts by:
Elaine Greer (Houston), 12:00
Wild Moccasins (Houston), 12:50
One Hundred Flowers (Austin), 1:40
Tiny Animals (NYC), 2:30
Show Me Tiger! (Austin) @ Jasper James (NYC), 3:10
The Cartographers (San Antonio), 4:20
The Bubbles (Austin), 5:10
Agent Ribbons (Sacramento), 6:00
The Unbearables (Austin), 6:50
The Theater Fire (Dallas), 7:40

as always, check out our website skillshareaustin.org for the up and coming!
and much love,
skillshare.

Come join us in a rousi​ng menag​erie of revel​ry!​!​ With local​ bands​ creat​ing the sound​track​,​ your darli​ng skill​share​rs will be: keepi​ng you guess​ing with magic​ trick​s,​ makin​g you think​ twice​ about​ what you throw​ away with butto​n makin​g,​ joini​ng you in a creat​e-​your-​own-​dance​ -​craze​ conte​st,​ and makin​g your rock star dream​s come true with an insta​nt jam sessi​on.​ Our new year'​s resol​ution​ is to give austi​n more mad skill​s than ever thoug​ht possi​ble,​

Saturday, December 20, FREE KNITTING and CROCHET WORKSHOP
Skillshare Austin will be hanging out at Treasure City for the afternoon,
sharing yarn skills. The first half will cover the basics (learn for the first
time, or help us teach if you already know how to knit or crochet) and the
second half will cover more advanced skills, so bring your questions or projects
you’d like help with, and we’ll talk about patterns, shaping, and more.
Bring your own materials or try out ours. Info at
www.treasurecityrhrift.org/woolroom