CCAE Jewelry Students at work at Holly Fair

Laurie Savage keeps her jewelry-making classes full at CCAE.  For nine years, she’s been watching students come and go at the Cambridge Center.

But she’s not at all upset about it:

“I had a proud moment back in May of this year when I watched one of my former students graduate from the Metals Program at MassArt.  She started with me about 6 years ago and I saw potential in her and encouraged her to apply to MassArt and she did very well there.”

This year, Laurie’s students will be crafting jewelry and other wearable art in real time at the Holly Fair!  Don’t forget to check them out in the basement studios of 42 Brattle Street!

More than 70 vendors will be featured at this year’s event, including, but not limited to:  sweaters for dogs, hand-crafted theater masks, fleece outerwear, antique maps, photographs, custom crafted jewelry and soaps.

CCAE faculty will also be part of the festivities, including a workshop of students making and selling their wares on site at 42 Brattle Street.  And in keeping with the ethos of CCAE, teams of staff and board members will be seen both days in the kitchen serving up comfort foods, sweets, and wassail.  As an additional treat, a cappella group Random Chants (http://www.randomchants.com) will perform Saturday afternoon.

Holly Fair Vendor in the Boston Globe

Keyse Angelo in the Boston Globe (photo: Essdras M Suarez/Globe Staff)

Keyse Angelo – one of our very own Holly Fair vendors has been mentioned in this week’s Globe as one of Boston’s 25 Most Stylish of 2008!

Check out her mention here, and stop by the Cambridge Center for Adult Education on December 13 and 14 to see her work, and the work of over 60 other just as stylish and fabulous vendors at the Holly Fair!

Are you interested in being one of these fashionable vendors?  Please call 617-547-6789 or email info@ccae.org for more information!

Winetasting Benefit – Recap

Were you at the Winetasting Benefit?

Or did you miss out?

Check out the photos from a great night of music, dancing and celebration and don’t miss our next event – Holly Fair!

Photos by Elizabeth Stewart, Communications Director

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CCAE Winetasting Benefit

From Guest Blogger, Will McMillian, Assistant Director:

Our annual Winetasting Benefit party is coming up on Saturday night, and I am ready to CELEBRATE.

Not only am I feeling stunned, joyful waves of energy from our recent, paradigm-shifting presidential election, I am also delighted that our new Brattle Street neighbor, The Upper Crust Pizzeria is donating a bunch of their delicious pizzas to the event.  Hurrah!  So in addition to our usual trays of cheese, crackers and grapes, we will have delicious bite-sized chunks of gourmet pizza to fuel our merry-making.

For the past 23 years ANOTHER generous neighbor, Crate&Barrel, has lent us their Brattle Street store PLUS a stellar team of staff volunteers to host our annual winetasting celebration.  There are wine tasting stations set up all over the store, and a great R&B band, Downtime, gets everyone dancing on the lower level.  I always feel like I am in some sort of dream or movie because it is such a surreal setting for a party. Outside the glass walls, life goes on as usual. Inside the glass walls a bacchanal unfolds…

And even though there can be hundreds of people packed into the store, very few things (like glasses, plates, vases, etc.) ever get broken.

Tickets for this singular evening of wine, music, and dancing (all proceeds of which benefit the Cambridge Center’s scholarship fund), can be bought in person at 42 Brattle Street, over the phone (617-547-6789 x1) or via our web site.

It’s a really fun way to get together with friends, drink responsibly, dance wildly, and raise some money to help keep CCAE’s courses accessible to everyone.