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	<title>Brush Fire Painting Workshops</title>
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	<description>Healing Hearts and Transforming Lives</description>
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		<title>Why Creativity?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can making art change our communities? We know in our bones that it does, but articulating how can be challenging. How can  creativity promote social justice? Consider this:
&#8220;You never change things by fighting the existing reality,&#8221; wrote Buckminster Fuller. &#8220;To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.&#8221;
Socrates said something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/why-creativity/</link>
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		<title>Shout Out Across the Bay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;d like to give a shout out to Habitot Children&#8217;s Museum, the East Bay&#8217;s award-winning hands-on discovery museum for young children.
Habitot&#8217;s Guide to Nurturing Creativity includes many of Brush Fire&#8217;s foundation ideas, which are applicable to any adult participation in art activities with children and youth of all ages. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the Guide:

Avoid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/shout-out-across-the-bay/</link>
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		<title>No Name Calling Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to out friends at the Togetherville Blog for this post:
The No Name Calling Week campaign kicks off today!
Since 2004, No Name Calling Week (launched by the Gay, Lesbian &#38; Straight Education Network and Simon and Schuster Publishing) has been  providing anti-bullying resources to schools and youth-serving organizations.
A hallmark of the No Name Calling Week [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/no-name-calling-week/</link>
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		<title>MLK, Art, and Social Justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I am reflecting on the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and how his work shapes my thinking about Brush Fire as a tool for social justice. Dr. King said, “Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.” I feel the truth of this quote in my heart. We all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/mlk-art-and-social-justice/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to our supporters (that’s you!) Brush Fire had a big, beautiful 2009 &#8211; reaching a record number of kids with our innovative, process-based art programs, creating new partnerships with San Mateo Juvenile Hall, Camp Kemp and 10 new schools in San Francisco, all the while providing opportunities for underserved youth express their deepest fears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/happy-new-year/</link>
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		<title>Girl Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were beyond thrilled to bring Brush Fire Panting Workshops to Camp Kemp, just down the hill from San Mateo Youth Services Center.
Opened in the fall of 2006, the Margaret J. Kemp Camp for Girls houses young women of San Mateo County between the ages of 13 and 18 who are facing current criminal charges [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/girl-power/</link>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, Brush Fire’s topic for paintings is What are you thankful for?  We’ve had a wonderful array of responses, from holiday dinners, to love of family and friends. One young painter said she is particularly happy for some time off to do her own thing.
We all need that down time in order to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/happy-thanksgiving/</link>
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		<title>Imagination Reflecting Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[J. is a soft-spoken 3rd grader at Malcolm X Academy with liquid brown eyes, round cheeks and a beautiful smile. He’s a serious, thoughtful boy, who gives a lot of attention to his paintings, so I looked forward to seeing what his painting would look like on the day’s topic: if you could be any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/imagination-reflecting-reality/</link>
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		<title>Volunteer Share</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s guest blogger was Mark Farley, volunteer at Malcolm X Academy. This week, Amanda, another Malcolm X volunteer, shares her experience painting with the kids.
One of my favorite parts of volunteering with Brush Fire was seeing how the kids&#8217; personalities always came through in their distinctive painting styles. I see this as a testament [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/blog/volunteer-share/</link>
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		<title>The Art of Living Gallery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, we were approached by a tv show called the Art of Living to participate in a segment on art as healing. Here are the results of the filming.  Let us know what you think!

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		<link>http://www.paintbrushfire.org/video/the-art-of-living-gallery/</link>
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