Some of you may remember Melissa Dahl. Early in the growth of our Art Program, Melissa, then only 5 years old, was our first “Star”. Her images, drawn on a computer with Microsoft Paint, were charming, colorful, and filled with honest emotion. Here is one of her best sellers. I called it “Baby Horse Gets […]
Category: KindTree Stories
These are stories about KindTree participants, programs, and events that demonstrate KindTree’s effectiveness, uniqueness and positive impact on our community
Lane Arts Council Workshops for Artists, funding available
Lane Arts Council Artist Workshops KindTree-Autism Rocks received funding to pay for artists to attend the following workshops. If interested please contact Molly Elliott at MElliott@kindtree.org The workshops are held in the Maurie Jacobs Community Room at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts.. For more information please visit Lane Arts Council at http://lanearts.org/workshops/ […]
Spirit Mountain awards grant to KindTree’s STiLE
KindTree Productions, Inc. announces a grant awarded by Spirit Mountain Community Foundation in the amount of $12,000 for STiLE’s “Learning for Success” project. Thank You Spirit Mountain Community Foundation Fund! This project will expand STiLE Trainings (small group instructional skill trainings) to youth on the autism spectrum and others with developmental disabilities ages 14-21. Submitted […]
Camp 2018 Photo Album
Here are photos from Camp 2018. Thanks Steve Hansen for being our photographer for so many years! More photos can be found on Facebook HERE. ” template=”default” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]
I Am Autism – My Date with Autism
“My Date With Autism”, a performance monologue by Alisa McLaughlin I found him late in life when I was tired of it all, I had no job, never been in love. Few friends and no income. The only relationship I had was with depression and it was not healthy. Maybe I could get disability. Depression […]
Sue Scott is Eugene Weekly’s HAPPENING PEOPLE
Copied from the Eugene Weekly, 5/17/2018 “Volunteering brings wonderful things into your life that you may not expect,” says Sue Scott, who first volunteered at age 14 in Dayton, Ohio, giving up her recess to watch a classroom for a teacher who needed a lunch break. “In high school, I tutored junior high kids in […]
You “Danced Like Nobody’s Watching!” Thanks!
the Annual KindTree – Autism Rocks Dance and Fundraiser, 7pm–11pm May 19th, Vets Club Ballroom, Vets Club, Eugene. All ages. YES, WE ALL HAD FUN!! WITH MOOD AREA 52 and CINNAMON’S LATE NIGHT DANCE PARTY! AND we raised a bunch of money…including almost $2,000 for the Riley Campbell Memorial Scholarship Fund for our Friends & Family […]
My Path of Fire Part 3 Mary-Minn Sirag 2013
Part 1 HERE, Part 2 HERE When I arrived in San Francisco, on January 14th, 1979, I decreed to myself that my waitressing days were over. I had gone from a conceited college student, who made decent grades fairly effortlessly, to a barely competent waitress, who knocked herself out trying to please, barely making ends […]
Update: TR Kelley performs at PLAYA March 14
PLAYA Launches New Alger Theatre Performances in Lakeview on March 14 Guitar performance by TR Kelley and Dana Halferty benefits Alger Theatre This is story updates TR Kelley is chosen for artist residency at PLAYA Summer Lake, Ore.—March 6, 2018. PLAYA is expanding its outreach with the addition of performances by PLAYA residents at the […]
My Path of Fire, Part 2 March 2013
My Path of Fire, Part 2 Mary-Minn Sirag March 2013 Part 1 HERE, Part 3 HERE In 1976, during the second recession of the ‘70’s, I graduated from college, armed unimpressively with majors in Classics and Art, and no marketable skills. For the following year, I lived with my college roommate, whose last parent had […]